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JawnV6: Jul 4, 2004; So hot ...

FMguru posted:

that americas endpoint is essentially 'north brazil' has been apparent for about 20 years

no, we're going to claim to have invented it

# ? Oct 9, 2014 15:46

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H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

EMILY BLUNTS posted:

trying to remember what it was people here didnt like you for

unironic anime avhavin

# ? Oct 9, 2014 15:51

24-7 Urkel Cosplay: Feb 12, 2003

JawnV6 posted:

no, we're going to claim to have invented it

our artisinal tin roof shacks are just so much more authentic

# ? Oct 9, 2014 15:52

theflyingexecutive: Apr 22, 2007

Citizen Tayne posted:

I was looking at a typical US city in twenty years.

Detroit, buffalo, and Kansas City already exist tho :confused:

# ? Oct 9, 2014 16:35

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

PokeJoe posted:

the solution to city parking woes? it isn't alternative transportation, it's a valet app.

http://zirx.com/

wonder if their business plan is to use your car for uber while you're "parked" if it's nice

# ? Oct 9, 2014 16:58

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Citizen Tayne posted:

Bizarre Foods had an episode in Rio last night. The wealthy good-looking people lived down by the beach in veritable palaces while the vast majority of people lived in shacks on the hillside that were choked with garbage because they had no city services. I was looking at a typical US city in twenty years.

I thought you lived in Pittsburgh, which certainly looked like that in parts when I lived there

or don't you ever notice Oakland?

# ? Oct 9, 2014 17:02

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

eschaton posted:

I thought you lived in Pittsburgh, which certainly looked like that in parts when I lived there

or don't you ever notice Oakland?

Oakland is a student ghetto. they're like that across the county.

Also I've been to Oakland maybe four times this year.

# ? Oct 9, 2014 17:08

JawnV6: Jul 4, 2004; So hot ...

eschaton posted:

wonder if their business plan is to use your car for uber while you're "parked" if it's nice

wow, that'd be great! you'd have 3 different insurance companies (personal, parker, uber) covering any accident!

# ? Oct 9, 2014 17:16

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

PokeJoe posted:

the solution to city parking woes? it isn't alternative transportation, it's a valet app.

http://zirx.com/

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# ? Oct 9, 2014 17:18

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

Luigi Thirty posted:

we need LF more than ever

agreed

# ? Oct 9, 2014 17:45

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004; Can't post for 4 hours!

Luigi Thirty posted:

we need LF more than ever

# ? Oct 9, 2014 18:01

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

YLFPOS (Your LFing is Pretty Opinionated, Sir)

# ? Oct 9, 2014 18:03

maniacdevnull: Apr 18, 2007; FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Luigi Thirty posted:

we need LF more than ever

Demand Full Capitalism Now

# ? Oct 9, 2014 18:11

maniacdevnull: Apr 18, 2007; FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Your Orwellian Society is a Probable Outcome for States

# ? Oct 9, 2014 18:13

Necc0: Jun 30, 2005; by exmarx; Broken Cake

maniacdevnull posted:

Your Orwellian Society is a Probable Outcome for States

*Predictable

# ? Oct 9, 2014 18:41

maniacdevnull: Apr 18, 2007; FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Necc0 posted:

*Predictable

oh snap, ty

# ? Oct 9, 2014 18:42

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

quote:

A fast-forward through the onstage conversation, which might serve as a primer of Silicon Valley political opinions:

Rand Paul, U.S. Republican senator from Kentucky, on student-teacher ratios: �I think we should go a million to one! Ten million to one!�

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, seemed to agree with this, but added: �Gamify the lessons. � As jobs get automated away, the only thing we can do is have smarter people.�

The panel agreed that we need more education entrepreneurs, and less regulation and less centralized authority around schools.

Paul called out the Internet as a good model: �No one�s in charge of the Internet, and look how good the Internet�s going.�

......

Doerr, a Democratic donor and venture capitalist with Kleiner Perkins, said politicians and teachers tried to bring tech into schools, but it was the students and free market who really succeeded in it. He waved his smartphone to indicate how. He then talked about how 30 percent of teachers are now texting with their students.

......

�So is the solution here to make the federal government into a big giant venture capital firm?� Woodward asked.

�Partially, that is the answer,� Paul concurred.

Yes and yes, Doerr said.

�What I would like to see is more entrepreneurs. More entrepreneurs everywhere. I�m just in awe of entrepreneurs,� Doerr said.

# ? Oct 9, 2014 20:13

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

literally just saying words and praying people like them

# ? Oct 9, 2014 20:16

Mr. Apollo: Nov 8, 2000

http://online.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-open-first-store-1412879124

quote:

Amazon to Open First Brick-and-Mortar Site

The New York City Location to Handle Same-Day-Delivery Inventory, Product Returns

Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. plans to open its first brick-and-mortar store, according to people familiar with the plans.

The site, set to open in time for the holiday-shopping season on Manhattan�s busy 34th Street, would mark an experiment by Amazon to connect with customers in the physical world. Amazon has built its business on competitive pricing and fast shipping. Until now, though, it couldn�t compete with the immediacy of a traditional store.

Amazon�s space at 7 West 34th St., across from the Empire State Building in Midtown, would function as a mini-warehouse, with limited inventory for same-day delivery within New York, product returns and exchanges, and pickups of online orders.

Opening a physical location is �about marketing the Amazon brand,� said Matt Nemer, a Wells Fargo analyst. �Same-day delivery, ordering online and picking up in store are ideas that are really catching on. Amazon needs to be at the center of that.�

Amazon also may consider using the space to showcase inventory, particularly its devices like the Kindle e-readers, Fire smartphone or Fire TV set-top box, according to people familiar with the company�s thinking.

Operating stores also carries risks. Until now, Amazon has largely avoided some costs associated with retailing, including leases, paying employees and managing inventory in hundreds of stores. Those expenses could imperil the company�s already thin profit margins.

Some details about the New York store couldn't be learned immediately, including the size, length of the lease or amount of inventory that would be housed there. People familiar with the matter cautioned that Amazon�s plans could change, and that the store is an experiment and could be deemed unsuccessful.

If it is successful, however, the New York location could presage a rollout to other U.S. cities, according to the people familiar with the company�s thinking.

Amazon has studied opening a brick-and-mortar outlet for years, even scouting locations in its hometown Seattle about two years ago before scrapping the idea, said another person familiar with the effort. Amazon once sold Kindles in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp. outlets, but those retailers pulled the devices from shelves two years ago in an apparent nod to Amazon�s growing power in retailing.

The 12-story building on 34th Street, owned by Vornado Realty Trust, once housed an Ohrbach�s department store and now has Mango and Express stores at street level. There are two loading docks at the back of the building.

The Amazon store will be in the shadow of the Empire State Building, which last year attracted 4.3 million visitors to its observatory. It is a block east of Herald Square, where Macy�s Inc. flagship store draws more than 20 million annual visitors, according to the 34th Street Partnership, a business-improvement district.

�Foot traffic on 34th Street is unparalleled,� said Chase Welles, executive vice president at SCG Retail, a real-estate service company.

The streetscape of 34th Street has changed dramatically since the 1990s, when it was populated by low-end retailers. Since then, the business-improvement district and area companies have spent about $2 billion on upgrades to the neighborhood and individual properties, according to the 34th Street Partnership. Global and national retailers such as Zara, Uniqlo and Vince Camuto have opened stores on the street.

Vornado Chief Financial Officer Stephen Theriot hailed the 34th Street building on a recent conference call with analysts. �As a former department store, it�s got very high ceilings, it is got big, open floor plates, and that�s the type of property that a lot of the creative class tenants� favor, he said.

Ordering online with the option to pick up in stores has proved popular; retailers including Wal-Mart, Home Depot Inc. and Macy�s, offer the service. Others employ delivery services such as Google Inc., eBay Inc. or startup Deliv Inc. to fetch orders from stores, rather than warehouses, and bring them to customers.

Amazon has experimented with physical stores before, including pop-up shops and locations run by subsidiaries. Last November, Kindle-brand pop-ups appeared in U.S. malls, selling e-readers and tablets from vending machines. Its Zappos unit has a store near its Kentucky distribution center and once operated a few outlets in its hometown Las Vegas; and its Quidsi unit runs a cosmetics store in Manhasset, N.Y.

Amazon also has set up large metal lockers in convenience stores and parking garages around the country, to accommodate deliveries and returns. The lockers don�t offer same-day delivery, however. The lockers have been a popular option and Amazon has expanded them to a number of cities, including overseas, after initially just offering them in Seattle.

Amazon took some inspiration from a trial by the U.K.�s Home Retail Group PLC, allowing customers to order eBay goods online and pick them up in its Argos stores, said one person familiar with Amazon�s thinking. By year�s end Argos expects to provide the service at 650 stores from 65,000 eBay sellers.

Other primarily online retailers have opened physical storefronts, including clothier Bonobos Inc., eyeglasses purveyor Warby Parker, and subscription beauty-products service Birchbox.

New York-based Bonobos opened its first of 10 retail stores in 2011; it plans 40 by 2016, said Chief Executive Andy Dunn. The stores offer limited inventory so customers can determine their size and choose styles and patterns; the merchandise is then shipped to their home from a warehouse, or can be collected later in-store.

Mr. Dunn said customers who order clothing from Bonobos brick-and-mortar stores spend roughly twice as much as online shoppers.

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hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

i guess if best buys are going out of business someone is going to have to pick up the slack as an internet showroom

# ? Oct 9, 2014 20:28

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012; ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

so i guess that store is just going to carry like the 1000 most popular items on all of amazon? let's see what the current best sellers are in various departments

toys: cards against humanity
electronics: google chromecast
video games: super smash brothers
photography: fuji polaroid film
clothing: tommy hilfiger wallet
personal care: baby wipes
home improvement: cheap stanley toolbox

ok, so it's literally one of those liquidation marts you see in strip malls

# ? Oct 9, 2014 20:33

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

anyone have that big article about Bill Gates wasting a billion dollars redoing a bunch of high schools because disruption and them ending up worse than before

# ? Oct 9, 2014 20:59

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Luigi Thirty posted:

anyone have that big article about Bill Gates wasting a billion dollars redoing a bunch of high schools because disruption and them ending up worse than before

i know he threw around some money to set up hs bridge clubs

# ? Oct 9, 2014 21:01

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Luigi Thirty posted:

anyone have that big article about Bill Gates wasting a billion dollars redoing a bunch of high schools because disruption and them ending up worse than before

that was zuckerberg I think

# ? Oct 9, 2014 21:02

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

rotor posted:

that was zuckerberg I think

no bill gates funded a bunch of high schools to break into smaller high schools on one campus and it backfired pretty badly

of course people were more pissed than anything that the football teams started sucking

# ? Oct 9, 2014 21:07

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Luigi Thirty posted:

no bill gates funded a bunch of high schools to break into smaller high schools on one campus and it backfired pretty badly

of course people were more pissed than anything that the football teams started sucking

that would be the dumbest loving thing. like "sorry floor 1 hs offers ap biology but up here in floor 2 we just have ap euro history" or some poo poo

# ? Oct 9, 2014 21:15

Munkeymon: Aug 14, 2003; Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.

Luigi Thirty posted:

no bill gates funded a bunch of high schools to break into smaller high schools on one campus and it backfired pretty badly

of course people were more pissed than anything that the football teams started sucking

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/the-plot-against-public-education-111630.html ?

E: I'll just quote the trigger bomb here:

quote:

From 2000 to 2009, he spent $2 billion and disrupted 8 percent of the nation�s public high schools before acknowledging that his experiment was a flop.

Munkeymon fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Oct 9, 2014

# ? Oct 9, 2014 21:23