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Hasters posted:loving idiot Greg Muender had a bad week. This chucklefuck rented his car out through a "sharing" service and the renter left it on the side of the road, tank empty, tires worn smooth, and full of sand. Now a sane person might say "I guess that's the reason that car rental companies exist." and take it as a lesson learned; but this is Silicon Valley so his proposed solution to abuses like this is for someone, Google, to build a service that gathers information from all the "sharing" and social media sites and tracks people to make sure they are trustworthy. What could go possibly go wrong with a pervasive, privately run, unaccountable surveillance apparatus with the ability to limit your purchase of goods and services? every single word of this article is comedy loving gold
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Dolomite posted:that forehead is way above the tree line, that dome never had hair 
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Hasters posted:loving idiot Greg Muender had a bad week. This chucklefuck rented his car out through a "sharing" service and the renter left it on the side of the road, tank empty, tires worn smooth, and full of sand. Now a sane person might say "I guess that's the reason that car rental companies exist." and take it as a lesson learned; but this is Silicon Valley so his proposed solution to abuses like this is for someone, Google, to build a service that gathers information from all the "sharing" and social media sites and tracks people to make sure they are trustworthy. What could go possibly go wrong with a pervasive, privately run, unaccountable surveillance apparatus with the ability to limit your purchase of goods and services? Let me be clear, I’m extremely supportive of collaborative consumption and this story is not a oh-my-god-the-sharing-economy-is-not-going-to-work rant. I’ve been a host on airbnb for over 200 nights. I’ve racked up more than 1,000 rides behind the wheel with Lyft. I even shipped my sister’s Honda off to FlightCar indefinitely. he's written on medium about the last 3
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he somehow managed to rent his apartment out on airbnb for 120 days in 2 months to support his startup edit: quote:I’m exactly five weeks into launching my startup, and my cofounder and I are still very much bootstrapping. My auto lender and landlord don’t accept equity, bitcoin, or high-fives as currency, so I’ve got to bring in cash in creative ways. Lyft driving in San Francisco is my interim solution, and I’ve racked up over 1,000 rides thus far.
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ayn rand hand job posted:he somehow managed to rent his apartment out on airbnb for 120 days in 2 months to support his startup so he has a landlord, yet he's renting out an apartment on AirBnB? So he complains that the limits to the 'sharing economy' are when "Owners will be in it for the income, and renters will use it for the cost savings," while making money off of an apartment he rents and a car he doesn't own so he can run a startup without having to get an actual job? bassguitarhero fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Jul 19, 2015 |
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Jul 19, 2015 22:36
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no it is, I know of 3 separate people running SF weed delivery startups in stealth mode. the kind with apps and everything. you can customize your own weed truffles!!! and get them delivered via courier!! the future is now there are no regulatory issues surrounding that, I'm sure.
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Hasters posted:loving idiot Greg Muender had a bad week. This chucklefuck rented his car out through a "sharing" service and the renter left it on the side of the road, tank empty, tires worn smooth, and full of sand. the first few times this got quoted i kept wondering how they got sand in the tires
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bassguitarhero posted:so he has a landlord, yet he's renting out an apartment on AirBnB? lol yeah
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did that guy literally rent out a 2014 ~45k infinity coup to multiple people to make $500 before someone destroyed it? why is everything so wonderful
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i've been using Uber, or 'Ubes' as the kids call it these days for like 3 years now here in SF. back when i started it was mostly black cars picking up people in between their main jobs, then it was like exclusively priuses and camrys, the last 3 months though, it has been older people in high end luxury cars. i've gotten rides in several new-model $100k+ cars and a bunch of really inappropriate cars. mercedes s-class (posted a pic in this thread), bmw x5 , 2 different range rovers (non-sport), a WRX STi, an M5 and couple other ones. who the gently caress are the people with an M5 going "ah i know, I'll make $4/hr after fees to livery people around SF and put a ton of miles on my car at the same time!"
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Beast of Bourbon posted:i've been using Uber, or 'Ubes' as the kids call it these days for like 3 years now here in SF. back when i started it was mostly black cars picking up people in between their main jobs, then it was like exclusively priuses and camrys, the last 3 months though, it has been older people in high end luxury cars. i've gotten rides in several new-model $100k+ cars and a bunch of really inappropriate cars. mercedes s-class (posted a pic in this thread), bmw x5 , 2 different range rovers (non-sport), a WRX STi, an M5 and couple other ones. I got a Lyft ride from a mom who's kids were in school. The car was nice and she was really friendly. I have no idea why anyone else would do it, but getting rides from bored moms makes sense.
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apart from the danger of the bored mom being robbed or raped or worse
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Celexi posted:apart from the danger of the bored mom being robbed or raped or worse She has nothing to fear. I am looking out for her best interests, and also keeping her surgically tightened pussy completely filled with my swollen, diseased tongue.
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bassguitarhero posted:so he has a landlord, yet he's renting out an apartment on AirBnB? also he prostitutes his sisters car when she was in thailand please don't insult the founder of whittlr which I can't find out what it actually does
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ayn rand hand job posted:also he prostitutes his sisters car when she was in thailand slowly carves a meager profit using the bloated husk of personal ownership. each sharing moment another gouge in the surface of a valuable. another step toward the perfect form of a car attaining maximum profitability with minimum work
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Beast of Bourbon posted:i've been using Uber, or 'Ubes' as the kids call it these days for like 3 years now here in SF. back when i started it was mostly black cars picking up people in between their main jobs, then it was like exclusively priuses and camrys, the last 3 months though, it has been older people in high end luxury cars. i've gotten rides in several new-model $100k+ cars and a bunch of really inappropriate cars. mercedes s-class (posted a pic in this thread), bmw x5 , 2 different range rovers (non-sport), a WRX STi, an M5 and couple other ones. bored old people who's kids don't call them as often as they should
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Beast of Bourbon posted:who the gently caress are the people with an M5 going "ah i know, I'll make $4/hr after fees to livery people around SF and put a ton of miles on my car at the same time!" uber drivers are reportedly getting laid or, failing that, networking
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lol verge
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carry on then posted:lol verge 
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by stoya, for stoya
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carry on then posted:lol verge lorf
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instacart is disrupting the gig economy.quote:Instacart, the fast-growing grocery delivery service, is growing its presence in Austin by converting potentially dozens of its contract workers to part-time employees, the company announced Monday. trying to get out ahead of the class action lawsuits i wager.
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Beast of Bourbon posted:i've been using Uber, or 'Ubes' as the kids call it these days for like 3 years now here in SF. back when i started it was mostly black cars picking up people in between their main jobs, then it was like exclusively priuses and camrys, the last 3 months though, it has been older people in high end luxury cars. i've gotten rides in several new-model $100k+ cars and a bunch of really inappropriate cars. mercedes s-class (posted a pic in this thread), bmw x5 , 2 different range rovers (non-sport), a WRX STi, an M5 and couple other ones. bored old people with money to spare and no one to talk to. they don't care at all about the high costs or the low pay, they just like being presented with a wide variety of strangers to talk to one-on-one whenever they please
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Shifty Pony posted:instacart is disrupting the gig economy. yeah came here to post this, i wonder how many of these companies are prepared to fight lawsuits about this. i'm sure uber is but they're terrible. i wonder if other companies will eventually give up on pretending employees aren't actually employees.
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kwinkles posted:yeah came here to post this, i wonder how many of these companies are prepared to fight lawsuits about this. i'm sure uber is but they're terrible. i wonder if other companies will eventually give up on pretending employees aren't actually employees. i imagine it will depend on how healthy the underlying business model is. there is probably enough margin in the grocery courier market (especially targeting whole foods customers) that instacart can handle paying employees. uber, handy, and the like on the other hand are royally hosed because they aren't going to be able to pay wage + mileage at the rates they use and the value they add is insufficient to command a premium and still retain their present market share/growth.
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Shifty Pony posted:i imagine it will depend on how healthy the underlying business model is. there is probably enough margin in the grocery courier market (especially targeting whole foods customers) that instacart can handle paying employees. uber, handy, and the like on the other hand are royally hosed because they aren't going to be able to pay wage + mileage at the rates they use and the value they add is insufficient to command a premium and still retain their present market share/growth. Peapod has been around doing grocery courier stuff since the fuckin' 80s
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I still cannot fathom how Uber convinces people to work for them.
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Rexicon1 posted:I still cannot fathom how Uber convinces people to work for them. work from home! be your own boss! make as much money as you want! has worked since time immemorial or the Corinthian college commercials that were a guy yelling at you to stop watching daytime TV and pay $50,000 for a nursing degree
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two gawker chief editors just resigned over the lack of ethics in journalism btw http://gawker.com/tommy-craggs-and-max-read-are-resigning-from-gawker-1719002144
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Rexicon1 posted:I still cannot fathom how Uber convinces people to work for them. it's pretty simple. you have a $400 car payment you can't afford, and a nice car attached to that loan. so you work part time for uber to pay it. yes, you make less money than the depreciation on your car. that part is probably obvious even to the sad sack drivers. but you can exchange labor and equity in your vehicle for here and now cash it is an act of desperation
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Nintendo Kid posted:Peapod has been around doing grocery courier stuff since the fuckin' 80s im surprised schwans isn't trying to get into the game
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Shifty Pony posted:uber, handy, and the like on the other hand are royally hosed because they aren't going to be able to pay wage + mileage at the rates they use and the value they add is insufficient to command a premium and still retain their present market share/growth. and in fact their business model is almost entirely predicated on rates so low they couldn't actually pay their misclassified contractors as employees and remain competitive
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Luigi Thirty posted:two gawker chief editors just resigned over the lack of ethics in journalism btw wait is the lack of ethics the fact that their story got pulled or that they were willing to smear a non-public figure because the story was particularly salacious?
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Tatsujin posted:im surprised schwans isn't trying to get into the game schwans had a free item promo a few years ago, getting that gallon of ice cream delivered was the first and only time i've seen one of their trucks.
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