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Necc0 posted:almost a full page discussion of brooding electronic sub-genres and no post-ironic mentions of sea punk being washed-up i thought this was loving yospos guess that one slipped through the net
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as did that snypportunity < >
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Necc0 posted:almost a full page discussion of brooding electronic sub-genres and no post-ironic mentions of sea punk being washed-up i thought this was loving yospos that's because it's sunk m8
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shore glad we arent talking about new wave
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hobbesmaster posted:they are only valued at 800k-1.2m each because they are never on the market qirex posted:I refuse to feel bad for anyone whose business plan starts with "assume the value of thing X will increase forever" ...but with bitcoin.
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Luigi Thirty posted:there is one true genre of music and it's 1970s FM hard rock stations as interpreted by people in Norway when the signal that bounced off the moon finally reached them thus making them culturally backward isnt this just turbonegro?
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Moist von Lipwig posted:isnt this just turbonegro? TURBONEGRO BUTTON would be pretty yosposey
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Jonny 290 posted:grime is so very different grime is awful poo poo, like footwork OldAlias posted:hahah nothings worse than coming across a white american saying 'i like this hip gahhrahhhhggjje' actually there are lots of things worse but sayin
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nah i feel you. it's just funny cause it didn't exactly originate in the uk, the paradise garage was in new york
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OldAlias posted:nah i feel you. it's just funny cause it didn't exactly originate in the uk, the paradise garage was in new york erm these are two completely different things
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UNLESS YOU'RE TRICKING ME
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its called garage because the originally used samples of garage doors opening
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graph posted:UNLESS YOU'RE TRICKING ME  e. i'm going to sleep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUiA0UOKIlc
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uncurable mlady posted:http://rideleap.com/ this is unironically a good thing today's public transit buses came out of private for-profit bus services that were so useful to the public they came to be considered a public good, long after they stopped being profitable if private buses are profitable again, that's a sign that demand for mass (if not rapid) transit is high.
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Cardboard Box A posted:http://nypost.com/2015/03/16/taxi-kingpin-in-debt-thanks-to-uber/ lol this idiot built a cardboard empire on cheap money and lies, and now he's shocked, shocked that his volatile, illiquid investments made with borrowed money aren't magical tickets to wealth
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im the ad for a college
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:this is unironically a good thing they will never be profitable again when their gimmick is to have like 20 seats available for a full run also: private bus lines have remained a thing in like the nyc suburbs. but they run normal buses with charter-bus level seating, still pack in a good 50-60 people per run, and have long standing agreements with public bus authority terminals in the city and sharing arrangements with transit authority park and ride centers, using the relatively less congested out of the city road network. there's no room to succeed within a city really, especially if you're trying to match the exact same route the public authority has been servicing for 50 years. you can maybe eke out an in-city working situation if you connect areas that otherwise need a lot of connections to get between, but surprise surprise there tends to be little actual demand there Nintendo Kid fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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Nintendo Kid posted:they will never be profitable again when their gimmick is to have like 20 seats available for a full run unprofitability is also a choice
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here's an example of an actual profitable private bus service: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/realestate/28comm.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1426656343-A15OUL0/A/5aXMTFTY6QKA it solely exists for the idiots who moved 90 miles away from the city on the promises that the passenger rail discontinued int he 60s would be reactivated as commuter rail "soon" ever since like 1980. now since driving 90 miles every day sucks poo poo, and the state of nj adamantly refuses to expand the width of I-80 in the western part of the state to discourage car commutes, the private bus operator has a captive audience of dunces who pretty much have it as their only option. the train will eventually come, but it won't be til 2016 when service returns to the first station on the out-of-service section, which will be 46 miles away from the place the people live in pa. current plans, which have no funding mind you, have the first station in pennslyvania and only 18 miles away from where people live going live sometime around 2025-2030. stations in nj but closer than the first station to open have varying levels of funding and opening horizons, assuming no delays, of the early 2020s. once that happens, the bus line will probably quickly shut down. -------------------- incidentally you may ask "wait, why did they move the whole 90 miles out, why not something more sane like 50?". well the answer to that is that development to the west from manhattan within new jersey is kept within roughly 30 miles of the hudson, for the most part. past then you get increasing state regulations on development making it way harder for your random developer to whip up a subdivision of 100 mcmansions. past about 45 miles out this control gets pretty tight and as such development density drops drastically, but Pennslyvania doesn't give a gently caress and lets you develop as much as you want once you cross the border after 80 miles out or so. the result is a pseudo greenbelt 35-40 miles deep which is really quite nice, even though little of it is formal parkland, and the much increased density of development of the inner suburbs. there's also free reign to develop towards philadelphia in the southwest from manhattan but for some reason these people insist on going way further away so they have to leave for their commute at 5 am to be sure they're in by 9, lol Nintendo Kid fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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rjmccall posted:oh, but the leap bus picks up until 10am inbound and 8pm outbound, whereas the 30X stops picking up at 9am and 6:20pm respectively and you'd have to walk a block to catch the 30 a few hundred thousand per investor is chump change, and investors will throw a few pennies at everything they see, no matter how dumb it looks, for fear of missing out on the next uber sure, uber's long-term prospects are dismal, but its valuation has skyrocketed and it's now worth about 1/3rd as much as cisco and a bit under 1/4th as much as amazon and oracle. i don't really understand how valuations and venture capital and all that poo poo work, but if there's a way to convert that value into cash, and it's carried out before uber's inevitable demise, early uber investors are going to climb a couple of rungs on the richness hierarchy. according to fortune, someone who put 20 grand (pocket change, essentially, for these people) into uber's very first funding round now owns 40 million bucks worth of uber value, and i'm guessing there will eventually be a way to convert that paper value to real value. so now multimillionaires with money to burn are chucking a couple dozen grand at every tech startup that knocks on their door, because even if most of them are huge failures, just one or two big successes will more than pay for all the money wasted on the failed companies
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Nintendo Kid posted:also: private bus lines have remained a thing in like the nyc suburbs. but they run normal buses with charter-bus level seating, still pack in a good 50-60 people per run, and have long standing agreements with public bus authority terminals in the city and sharing arrangements with transit authority park and ride centers, using the relatively less congested out of the city road network. there's no room to succeed within a city really, especially if you're trying to match the exact same route the public authority has been servicing for 50 years. commuter buses have remained profitable for decades. it surprises no one when express service from the suburbs to transit hubs in major job centers is profitable. this lovely startup bus line is a local bus operating inside a very tiny area, catering to an audience that has historically refused to ride public transit. it's hugely encouraging p.s. your edit was super dirty
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:commuter buses have remained profitable for decades. it surprises no one when express service from the suburbs to transit hubs in major job centers is profitable. they don't tend to offer particularly express service compared to the other express public buses. they just sometimes have better times/places to board, especially towards the poncier areas. hell a few of them even became operators for public transit services in recent times because they started losing their edge this lovely startup bus line has already failed once before, in 2013, i don't see any reason to consider it to be a success in 2015, especially when they seem to have gone een more whole hog on wasteful bus decorations. it's not hugely encouraging in the least.
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Nintendo Kid posted:they don't tend to offer particularly express service compared to the other express public buses. Nintendo Kid posted:this lovely startup bus line has already failed once before, in 2013, i don't see any reason to consider it to be a success in 2015, especially when they seem to have gone een more whole hog on wasteful bus decorations. it's not hugely encouraging in the least. failure is always an option it is cool and good that they even imagine there's a market, much less that they could find those conditions twice
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Nintendo Kid posted:they will never be profitable again when their gimmick is to have like 20 seats available for a full run hampton jitney has always been my favorite thing. bunch of rich kids on a charter bus going to visit mommy/daddy because they're too good to ride the LIR.
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i thought the proper way to visit the hamptons was to take that uber-but-for-helicopters service
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FMguru posted:i thought the proper way to visit the hamptons was to take that uber-but-for-helicopters service the proper way to visit the Hamptons is waving a cowboy hat and yelling while straddling an armed nuclear bomb plummeting the last few miles to earth
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Cocoa Crispies posted:the proper way to visit the Hamptons is waving a cowboy hat and yelling while straddling an armed nuclear bomb plummeting the last few miles to earth since kurt vonnegut died, yes
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uncurable mlady posted:http://rideleap.com/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/03/a-6-commute-with-wi-fi-usb-ports-and-coconut-water/ 
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"Leap is providing a technological solution to an age-old problem: the commute," Billy Draper, of Draper Associates, an investor in Leap, told Ars by e-mail. that technological solution is motorized transport you rear end, making an ios app for it isn't any better than what we've had for over a century
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/03/a-6-commute-with-wi-fi-usb-ports-and-coconut-water/ lol at trying to sit on those stools in traffic
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quote:Sitting along the wooden counter felt more like being on a train than a bus—it sure was comfortable, but it was hard to imagine actually doing real work (in our case, writing) while stopping, starting, and going up and down the hills of San Francisco. empathy.txt right here
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/03/a-6-commute-with-wi-fi-usb-ports-and-coconut-water/ it's not even a coach bus?? the casinos let you ride theirs for free
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the bus thing is loving stupid and is a solution to something that isn't a problem, unless your problem is that you're rich + white and don't want to be around poor minorities
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Shaggar posted:public or private doesn't matter, busses always suck busses can be fine if you can somehow limit the amount of traffic around them and/or have many short but frequently run routes
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French police have raided the offices of Uber in Paris as the taxi service continues to operate in the city despite officials claiming that it breaks national laws. Hot on the heels of charges being made against Uber employees in South Korea over allegations of operating illegal taxi rings, Le Monde is now reporting that French Police have raided Uber's offices in Paris. The newspaper reports that 25 policemen raided the building, seizing documents and electronic hardware. http://gizmodo.com/police-have-raided-ubers-parisian-hq-1692102556 
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:French police have raided the offices of Uber in Paris as the taxi service continues to operate in the city despite officials claiming that it breaks national laws. 
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