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qirex posted:I wonder what uber & lyft will do if they lose that "treating employees like independent contractors" case because it's pretty much their whole business model, uber has infinity lawyer dollars available but if they get a cease and desist in the meantime they'd be kind of hosed same thing that happened to aereo. a dash to try and figure something out followed swiftly by bankrupcy.
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uber not making it to an exit event [other than exiting being a working business] would give me great pleasure, especially if they managed their finances as well as everything else in their org, watching different vcs sue each other for years would be nice
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a few pages ago butCitizen Tayne posted:If any amount of money could vanish from your checking account without you noticing, you're an idiot and a gently caress-up. rule 36
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Feb 2, 2015 22:21
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lol if you don't obsessively check your accounts daily for suspicious activity
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Citizen Tayne posted:fast food is nothing like a dollar store or a check cashing place. yeah, the latter are only financially harmful, not biologically
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qirex posted:welp, looks like zombie battery retailer rat shack might finally die wonder how much the complete swath of TRS-80 intellectual property would cost at auction...
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Nintendo Kid posted:nope yeah
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that's fine, because for the most part, west coast residents are hollow golems, made by the drool of some idiot god-king mixing with the dust as he ambled up and down the San Andreas
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Feb 2, 2015 23:03
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tori is underpaid fo rhis area not just compared to bay area.
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Feb 2, 2015 23:07
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Jonny 290 posted:that's fine, because for the most part, west coast residents are hollow golems, made by the drool of some idiot god-king mixing with the dust as he ambled up and down the San Andreas yeah but fusion tacos
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Feb 2, 2015 23:09
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Sassafras posted:I think this is where the west coast people make fun of you for getting paid something like 40,000 a year in Pittsburgh and needing to worry about how much you're spending instead of having enough saved to retire before 40 "by accident". i thought tori earned 60k
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Feb 2, 2015 23:11
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born on a buy you posted:tori is underpaid fo rhis area not just compared to bay area. once the house stuff settles I'll follow up on stuff, but it's hard for me to be indignant about it when I'm not suffering or limiting my lifestyle.
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Feb 2, 2015 23:11
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Forums Terrorist posted:i thought tori earned 60k I complained and got a $4k raise
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Citizen Tayne posted:once the house stuff settles I'll follow up on stuff, but it's hard for me to be indignant about it when I'm not suffering or limiting my lifestyle. i know 0 about home loans but why can't you change jobs while applying?
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born on a buy you posted:i know 0 about home loans but why can't you change jobs while applying? looks unstable
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born on a buy you posted:i know 0 about home loans but why can't you change jobs while applying? there's a clause in just about every contract that a change in employment status before closing will terminate the financing agreement
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Feb 2, 2015 23:14
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wild. it seems like jumping jobs for a large raise would be good. lol that loans require you to stay at your job. "not only are you fixed to this job market physically. you are contractually chained to your current job"
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Feb 2, 2015 23:16
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born on a buy you posted:wild. it seems like jumping jobs for a large raise would be good. lol that loans require you to stay at your job. "not only are you fixed to this job market physically. you are contractually chained to your current job" right but mortgage is an old world legacy market. they still are thinking in terms of Careers and Pensions, they don't know 21st century job hoppin and such.
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Jonny 290 posted:that's fine, because for the most part, west coast residents are hollow golems, made by the drool of some idiot god-king mixing with the dust as he ambled up and down the San Andreas same but his ejaculate
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BONGHITZ posted:same but his ejaculate the tale of 'ol johnny spoogeseed
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Forums Terrorist posted:i thought tori earned 60k Added to YOSPOS.xlsx
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born on a buy you posted:wild. it seems like jumping jobs for a large raise would be good. lol that loans require you to stay at your job. "not only are you fixed to this job market physically. you are contractually chained to your current job" uh, you realize that this is like why FHA poo poo exists and people push a "culture of ownership" in America, right? tying working class people to physical locations is a massive benefit for capital, as it restricts the free geographic movement of labor. it's been a massive boom to the deunionization of America - consider that automakers can up and build a plant in bumfuck, al (usually with massive tax incentives) and reorient their labor costs around the new, lower, cost of living. if workers had the ability to move around as much then the highly skilled workers from northern factories could have followed the plants and attempted to command their higher wage due to greater skill if you can't afford to move you're essentially captive to whatever the local prevailing labor market decides is a fair value. your boss (and his boss and so forth) suffer none of those restrictions and can (and will) pull up stakes in a heartbeat in summary full communism now
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Nintendo Kid posted:revert to only employing their best performing uber black drivers, this time as actual employees, claim that uberx was just a testing phase that they're done with. they can't do this without angering their board (who are all invested at some ridiculous valuation that assumes literally everyone will spend all day ubering around in the near future). someone will vulture the black business but it won't be under current management
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http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/02/uber-opening-robotics-research-facility-in-pittsburgh-to-build-self-driving-cars/ will the uberbots also assault customers?
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born on a buy you posted:wild. it seems like jumping jobs for a large raise would be good. lol that loans require you to stay at your job. "not only are you fixed to this job market physically. you are contractually chained to your current job" you're blurring the pretty stark line between "until closing" and "the duration of the loan" here i just know i get a really big break on my taxes because i'm paying up into a higher class of wealth than renters
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annapacketstormaya posted:http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/02/uber-opening-robotics-research-facility-in-pittsburgh-to-build-self-driving-cars/ the thing is that major automakers have already spent billions on this problem and they're making decent progrees, not sure why re-inventing the world is going to do anything for them unless it's just a way to build a patent portfolio
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idk I'll never take out a loan
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The big job cuts eBay promised last month are here. On Monday, eBay and PayPal began notifying employees who were losing their jobs as part of the cuts, multiple sources tell Re/code, as management looks to scale back initiatives that haven’t panned out ahead of the planned split of the two companies in the second half of this year.
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lol what the hell is uber's endgame here? a fleet of self-driving cars would be way more expensive than the 80% of fares they'd reclaim by eliminating drivers. every time someone pisses/shits/fucks in one of their self driving cars they gotta fix it, plus any vandalism, wear and tear, and liability in case of wrecks. i guess they're just trying real hard to get bought before their vc chickens come home to roost.
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Main Paineframe posted:playpump was an idea to replace hand-operated water pumps in africa with spinny playground equipment, with the idea that they would siphon off the kinetic energy from kids playing on them to operate the water pump. charities and aid organizations loved it and tens of millions of dollars were spent on building them all over africa foreign aid for building/installing stuff that breaks is awful and stupid no matter what it is. unless a local organization can go out to these remote places within a day or two to fix poo poo or train locals to do so then once they break they are broken forever
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Condiv posted:lol what the hell is uber's endgame the founders exiting with more money than they'll ever need. that part is probably already secured so now it's just a matter of more more more until the bubble pops.
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I was gonna say, didn't we fund porpoises to do that then I looked at the user name
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Condiv posted:lol what the hell is uber's endgame here? a fleet of self-driving cars would be way more expensive than the 80% of fares they'd reclaim by eliminating drivers. every time someone pisses/shits/fucks in one of their self driving cars they gotta fix it, plus any vandalism, wear and tear, and liability in case of wrecks. i guess they're just trying real hard to get bought before their vc chickens come home to roost. i bet uber's goal with the robot car stuff is to get an uber app installed in other people's self-driving cars, so that whenever people aren't using their self-driving car it can go drive for uber and in return the car's owner gets paid some percentage of the fares their car picks up that way all liability, maintenance, repair, and cleaning still falls to the car's owner, but uber gets more vehicle availability and fewer rapes since there doesn't have to be a driver in the car to do the ubering
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all of mankind's great advances have come with rapes
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Main Paineframe posted:i bet uber's goal with the robot car stuff is to get an uber app installed in other people's self-driving cars, so that whenever people aren't using their self-driving car it can go drive for uber and in return the car's owner gets paid some percentage of the fares their car picks up robouber: a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, which is a solution that hasn't been invented yet to another problem that doesn't exist
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Main Paineframe posted:i bet uber's goal with the robot car stuff is to get an uber app installed in other people's self-driving cars, so that whenever people aren't using their self-driving car it can go drive for uber and in return the car's owner gets paid some percentage of the fares their car picks up 
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Phoning It In posted:robouber: a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, which is a solution that hasn't been invented yet to another problem that doesn't exist
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qirex posted:well I don't think google's going to be giving them much more help Earlier today it came out that Google is developing an Uber competitor. The two companies clearly had a falling out and I can't wait for the juicy details to emerge. Bloomberg posted:Google is preparing to offer its own ride-hailing service, most likely in conjunction with its long-in-development driverless car project. Drummond has informed Uber's board of this possibility, according to a person close to the Uber board, and Uber executives have seen screenshots of what appears to be a Google ride-sharing app that is currently being used by Google employees. This person, who requested not to be named because the talks are private, said the Uber board is now weighing whether to ask Drummond to resign his position as an Uber board member.
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holy lol uber's about to get disrupted by google, who's been drinking their mapping/usage data through a straw this is awesome, because i'd give it a year, maybe two before google gets bored of trying to make their self driving bullshit actually work and gives up on the whole thing just long enough to starve out uber
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