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I posted a thread once, it was about disco. 
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RuanGacho posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3656583
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Aug 14, 2014 19:54
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Majorian posted:I'm in Santa Barbara now, but I am from Napa. There are definitely some terrible people that live there. Do your relatives work in the wine biz? I've been in SB a bunch of times, same type of awful people, just slightly less rich.
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Aug 14, 2014 19:58
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Zeitgueist posted:I've been in SB a bunch of times, same type of awful people, just slightly less rich. Eh, try talking to the less-rich people. They do exist here, and they're pretty cool. That said, I don't think I'd characterize Santa Barbara as less-rich than Napa.
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Aug 14, 2014 20:11
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zoux posted:Oh gently caress someone started a circumcision thread. Lowtax will eat well tonight. *charges credit card*
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Aug 14, 2014 20:14
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Majorian posted:Eh, try talking to the less-rich people. They do exist here, and they're pretty cool. Yeah the less rich are the the people I visit but poo poo's expensive as hell.
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Aug 14, 2014 20:14
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Zeitgueist posted:Yeah the less rich are the the people I visit but poo poo's expensive as hell. Yeah, no kidding. I live out in Goleta, which is certainly a less-fashionable suburb of town, but life's a lot more affordable there. Also has a good gym right next to my apartment complex, so yay.
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Aug 14, 2014 20:21
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R. Mute posted:a friend of mine recently started working at an app start-up and even through all her relentless optimism and denial, it sounds pretty horrible. it was a two-man deal when she came on, with one guy being The Money and one guy being Actually Useful and it's all falling apart already. the Money keeps making promises to customers they can't keep, skips meetings at random, doesn't actually know the value of money and fucks everything up. like how they're getting a visit from a process server this week because they ended their contract with a particular company a year ago... but they forgot to actually tell that company and now they own like a lot of money. or how they forgot to extend their application for subsidies and now have to pretend like the application got lost in the mail or go bankrupt. now they're even borrowing money from another start-up those two guys are involved with, just to stay afloat. Every one of these stories makes me go 'oh thank god my startup isn't that hosed up, relatively speaking.' Then I go 'god I wish I had one of those money guys.' Then I go 'maybe I don't.'
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Aug 14, 2014 20:24
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Zeitgueist posted:still unable to have a feminist thread without massive trolling so it's kinda fitting what is "the internet"
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Aug 14, 2014 20:29
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Warcabbit posted:Every one of these stories makes me go 'oh thank god my startup isn't that hosed up, relatively speaking.' Then I go 'god I wish I had one of those money guys.' Then I go 'maybe I don't.' From my interactions with startups you want a money man who is the right amount of uninvovled and yet engaged enough to keep funneling you their parent's cash.
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Aug 14, 2014 20:29
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Majorian posted:Yeah, no kidding. I live out in Goleta, which is certainly a less-fashionable suburb of town, but life's a lot more affordable there. Also has a good gym right next to my apartment complex, so yay. all I really know Goleta for is "place where I mailed my UCEAP application to"
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Aug 14, 2014 20:29
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nutranurse posted:From my interactions with startups you want a money man who is the right amount of uninvovled and yet engaged enough to keep funneling you their parent's cash.
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Aug 14, 2014 20:30
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zoux posted:Oh gently caress someone started a circumcision thread. I am no longer answering any bioethics questions or offering bioethics advice. Circumcision is one of the third rail topics of bioethics.
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Aug 14, 2014 20:32
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I think it's waaaaaay not a big deal either way.
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Aug 14, 2014 20:35
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:all I really know Goleta for is "place where I mailed my UCEAP application to" My nonprofit works out of the same building as their office, actually. 
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Aug 14, 2014 20:37
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R. Mute posted:preferably one that isn't actually your friend I've seen more than a few friendships ruined by bad startups. Always at a distance, though, because being in marketing means I can be mercenary as gently caress and bounce from project to project. It's heartbreaking, though, to watch a group of people who've been friends for years, some of them from middle/highschool, learn to hate each other because of bad applications of money.
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Aug 14, 2014 20:37
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Randler posted:Lowtax will eat well tonight. *charges credit card* Man I wish title purchases could be tracked by which post inspired the big red titles. It wouldn't surprise me if it turns out D&D is the biggest money maker outside of ads.
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Aug 14, 2014 20:45
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zoux posted:There are 911 users browsing D&D right now There's one guy that pops in every few weeks to complain about random aspects of industrial agriculture, conflates those issues with GMOs, then does this routine where he either rolls with the punches or just jumps to another issue also unrelated to GMOs.
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Aug 14, 2014 20:46
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nutranurse posted:I've seen more than a few friendships ruined by bad startups. Always at a distance, though, because being in marketing means I can be mercenary as gently caress and bounce from project to project.
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Aug 14, 2014 20:50
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R. Mute posted:the worst part is that most often, things get hosed up by sheer incompetence. i mean, yeah, starting a business is always hard and there's always a large risk of failure, but it's like half of the time they fail because someone forgot to pay the bills or didn't know you had to pay taxes. i guess maybe that's the start-up mentality? do everything yourself, don't ask for help because it costs money, rah rah rah sounds like my current boss. he refuses to hire professionals for anything, instead carrying the attitude that as a software company we should be able to organically solve any IT problem even though none of us know anything useful about networking, for example, or IP telephony. actual conversation I had with him today: "thug drink, customer isn't happy. they said you weren't able to clear that priority ticket last night?" "i didn't have time. i was sorting out the phone situation" "why were you doing that instead of fixing bugs?" "because you told me that the phones were priority over everything else" "well i didn't mean bug fixes, those are more important. (he was leaving me calls at 9pm, telling me to get the phones working) can't you assign junior engineer to do the phones?" "i don't have the authority to delegate any task to him. i'm not his boss" "well, who do we have that can fix this?" on monday i gave him a quote from a dude who would come in and fix the phones in a couple hours for $300. instead i was delegated, and the time i've burnt on this is easily higher than $300 at this point i actually enjoy working here because of how utterly chaotic and dysfunctional it is, plus they don't notice when i spend hours at a time dicking around on the internet. but drat also janet has been assigned to deal with the phones for the last few months. janet is a middle aged black woman who, though highly capable in her role as sales administrator, is open about the fact that she knows extremely little about computer driving or janitoring. the CEO (who everyone calls Our Fearless Leader behind his back) prettly clearly implied that she did not have the mental capacity for the task, rather than simply not having the appropriate skills for a task she should not have been assigned. as she was griping to me about how Dear Leader clearly has no faith in her skill to do a job that isn't hers to begin with, she asked "it's because I have boobs, right?" i had to bite my tongue. porque no los dos. the CEO has a really bad habit of hiring capable women and then assigning them demeaning, menial work - janet's sales admin office will be the front desk 
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Aug 14, 2014 21:09
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nutranurse posted:From my interactions with startups you want a money man who is the right amount of uninvovled and yet engaged enough to keep funneling you their parent's cash. Yeah, we're doing it the kickstarter + no salaries way. No money man at all. WHEEEEEEE! It's like I crammed a hundred people into a garage. Still, except for the one guy who hates everything, we're getting along pretty well, almost two years into the project.
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Aug 14, 2014 21:16
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It can't be any worse than working for a family owned company that has one family member (who started the thing) that is competent and the rest are utter dead weight but are in management positions because they're family I have no loving clue how the company I work for turns a profit sometimes, oh wait yes I do, it's underpaying all the non salary employees by 25-50% and having friends from college be VPs at the company we sell all our poo poo to It's OK though my resume is getting packed with experience in everything from IT to inspection and everything else except actually running a machine. If my back wasn't hosed I'd probably know how to do that too
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Aug 14, 2014 22:43
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Nate Silver wants you to know he feels your pain, Ferguson.Nate Silver posted:6. After about an hour in jail, I'm like "sorry guys, was just stressed out and having a rough day … my bad!" http://gawker.com/nate-silver-inspired-by-events-in-ferguson-tells-idio-1621363315
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Aug 14, 2014 23:31
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well, the circumcision thread was a laugh for a while, now people are taking it seriously
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Aug 14, 2014 23:40
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R. Mute posted:well, the circumcision thread was a laugh for a while, now people are taking it seriously well the whole thing would be worse off if you took away the first bit
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Aug 15, 2014 00:06
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Zeitgueist posted:well the whole thing would be worse off if you took away the first bit I don't know, man - I think it looks better without the unnecessary, smegma-filled first bit.
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Aug 15, 2014 00:15
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R. Mute posted:there's not much up for discussion and as you said, it's not very interesting for non-Americans. i dunno, i just missed it Honest question, do you think that's because I don't know anything at all about how any foreign governments work, the nature of other government structures in other countries, their generally effectiveness or all of the above?
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Aug 15, 2014 01:35
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Majorian posted:I don't know, man - I think it looks better without the unnecessary, smegma-filled first bit. It's no skin off my dick either way-oh wait.
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Aug 15, 2014 01:39
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There's an effortpost in me somewhere about why the circumcision debate is and why it's so intractable, but, again, it's a third rail of bioethics topic- it's best from a professional standpoint to just not get involved, because the debate is so heated and useless that getting involved does you no good.
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Aug 15, 2014 01:55
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Dreylad posted:I found Silicon Valley to be disturbingly accurate. zoux posted:Oh gently caress someone started a circumcision thread.
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Aug 15, 2014 01:59
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It's not just here- Metafilter basically deletes circumcision posts on sight because it's that or a thousand posts of screaming on a site that doesn't really like the screaming.
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Aug 15, 2014 02:02
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I do think it's funny that sometimes you get people who demand that no one get circumcised ever, no matter their age. Apparently unaware of the various dick problems that can be fixed by partial or full circumcision or just not caring about those problems.
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Aug 15, 2014 02:03
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R. Mute posted:well, the circumcision thread was a laugh for a while, now people are taking it seriously Is there any point in me reading further than this post? Tiler Kiwi posted:I think it would help clarify the debate here if we could see images to compare. After careful viewing of google image results, I think I've found the best comparison set.
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Aug 15, 2014 02:05
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RuanGacho posted:Honest question, do you think that's because I don't know anything at all about how any foreign governments work, the nature of other government structures in other countries, their generally effectiveness or all of the above?
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Aug 15, 2014 02:07
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ReindeerF posted:The thing that struck me even then was, "Holy gently caress, this place is overwhelmingly MBA types and engineering grads in short sleeve button downs with badges hanging around their necks." And while I still enjoy visits every few years and always have fun and find something interesting to do, the lack of character of the area itself is staggering. I probably would've made more money if I'd made the move, but I'd probably be secretly ashamed of my collection of Prada hand cremes right now or something. I've come to realize that Mike Judge is a pretty funny dude, and anything of his that I don't find funny is usually because it's not aimed at me. Explains why he seems so hit and miss for me.
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Aug 15, 2014 02:11
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Is there any point in me reading further than this post? the thread gets worse after that. i had fun pushing a bunch of nerds on the defensive about their wang preferences, but some people are just dead set on talking about their dicks. there's some brave efforts to stop them going on, though.
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Aug 15, 2014 02:12
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Dreylad posted:I've come to realize that Mike Judge is a pretty funny dude, and anything of his that I don't find funny is usually because it's not aimed at me. Explains why he seems so hit and miss for me. youre thinking of jike mudge
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Aug 15, 2014 02:14
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Early 20th Century psychology could write volumes on circumcision chat threads. We just need a time machine.
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THS posted:youre thinking of jike mudge I liked Idiocracy because as time goes on it's becoming increasingly prophetic.
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