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Shifty Pony posted:universal service for broadband internet now. *broadband defined as 1Mbps
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computer parts posted:*broadband defined as 1Mbps 25/3 according to the FCC. but even an initial requirement of an always on 512/128kbps connection would be a giant leap for massive swaths of the country.
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Shifty Pony posted:25/3 according to the FCC. something like 80% of the country (or population?) already has access to 10Mbit iirc we're actually one of the highest countries in that regard
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computer parts posted:something like 80% of the country (or population?) already has access to 10Mbit iirc coincidentally, 80% of americans live in urban areas
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coffeetable posted:coincidentally, 80% of americans live in urban areas and yet many don't use it
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farmr: timeshare your fields! edit: also sharecroppr to pick the produce!
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nah actually uber and airbnb are about 2 get teh poo poo kicked out of them in court so the vc shitbird swarm is probably going to move on to some other dumb thing
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FCKGW posted:here's an actual picture I found holy poo poo are you for real what is the city????
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Smythe posted:futrure sound of london - ISDN is good, but lifeforms is even better imo
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omg it is eastvale you cant even see it from google streetview because the applebees is in the way
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city council meeting http://www.eastvaleca.gov/index.aspx?page=44  apparently damascus, oregon also has their city hall in a strip mall 
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somebody register stripmallcityhalls.com, these need to be catalogued
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computer parts posted:something like 80% of the country (or population?) already has access to 10Mbit iirc you misremember, near 100% of "urban" (cities and suburbs) have access to that and that's 81% of the population and then about 80% of rural population has access as well. so it's like 95% of the population has it
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kwinkles posted:omg it is eastvale you cant even see it from google streetview because the applebees is in the way
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Phoenixan posted:nestled in the middle of applebees and a chipotle
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Zen99, a San Francisco startup that provides tax, financial-management and insurance tools for freelancers, will shut down Aug. 25. “Unfortunately, we’ve made the hard decision to close the doors on Zen99 and return remaining capital to investors,” CEO and co-founder Tristan Zier wrote in a post on Medium. Zen99 received $2.6 million in total funding, according to Crunchbase. Backers included startup accelerator Y Combinator, where it was incubated a year ago. The company aimed for the surging market of independent contractors, who now account for a third of the U.S. workforce, and are projected to hit 40 percent by 2020. It took its name from the 1099 tax form used to pay such workers. While its services were free, Zen99 made money as an insurance broker, collecting a commission when users bought a product through its website. As a CPA, Zier saw the need to help freelancers, he said in an inteview last year. The company reached out to the growing workforce of on-demand workers such as Uber drivers and TaskRabbit taskers, but also served “traditional” freelancers, such as Pilates instructors, he said.
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qirex posted:but also served “traditional” freelancers, such as Pilates instructors,
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a business plan that takes "uber drivers with extra money to spend" as a given
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coffeetable posted:san_francisco.txt all you kooky californains with your exercise san_francisco.txt is being a weed yoga instructor
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i'm really surprised no one has posted about zirtual in this thread. they are (were) a virtual assistant company, employing 4-500 real people as assistants, and they even paid them as real employees, not 1099 contractors! on monday, just after doing a podcast and bragging about their $11 million revenue, with investor jason calacanis talking them up as the next uber, they promptly imploded and laid off all their assistants with no warning: http://www.businessinsider.com/zirtual-suddenly-laid-off-400-employees-via-email-2015-8 they tried to spin this as "pausing" their operations: http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/10/zirtual-pause/ but someone posted the letter that was actually sent to employees: http://www.brandoneley.com/zirtual-shut-its-doors-what-does-this-mean-for-outsourcing/ quote:Q: What is happening? so they ran out of money. investor jason was apparently unaware: https://twitter.com/Jason/status/630784204964433920 after a day of complete silence, zirtual ceo maren made this awful, out-of-touch medium post, explaining absolutely nothing about HOW they managed to burn through all their cash so quickly and without warning, but explaining that she found a last-minute buyer for the company (after firing everyone, of course): https://medium.com/@marenkate/zirtual-what-happened-and-what-s-next-f9bd493ecc49 due especially to her use of the phrase "I cry like someone whose child has been ripped from her arms", this post did not go over well: https://medium.com/@vegalightsmyway/to-maren-and-the-rest-of-the-zirtual-management-team-14878f0649bf this morning, maren finally confirmed to fortune the rumor that she had outsourced money management to an external firm, and she is claiming this firm hosed up the numbers: http://fortune.com/2015/08/13/zirtual-maren-kate-donovan-2/ while maren didn't name the firm, they evidently disagree, enough to give their OWN interview to fortune just this afternoon: http://fortune.com/2015/08/13/zirtuals-outsourced-cfo-gives-his-side-of-the-shutdown-story/ the incompetence is palpable
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qirex posted:the surging market of independent contractors, who now account for a third of the U.S. workforce, and are projected to hit 40 percent by 2020. so by 2020 half of all americans will be unemployed
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Nintendo Kid posted:yeah and you're going to point that dish where exactly same CO you're pulling those bonded ISDN lines from
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like don't get me wrong i'm sure there's places where your option would be ISDN, 56k over POTS, or satellite, and the local provider would just go "huh?" at the mention of wireless or microwave but it seems to me like both potential customer and local provider would get more out of a wireless setup than stringing cables and loving around with ISDN bonding
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:same CO you're pulling those bonded ISDN lines from the kinds of places i'm thinking of, you ain't gonna get line of sight to the CO unless someone's building towers, and maybe even some relays. and if you're rich enough to pay for that kind of infrastructure you can probably pay for a fiber line to be brought out instead of bonding some ISDN too.
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qirex posted:Zen99, a San Francisco startup that provides tax, financial-management and insurance tools for freelancers, will shut down Aug. 25. lol, didn't this guy get the memo? disruption is about ignoring every law you can find. a firm dedicated to helping these people follow the law was doomed to failure
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JewKiller 3000 posted:i'm really surprised no one has posted about zirtual in this thread. they are (were) a virtual assistant company, employing 4-500 real people as assistants, and they even paid them as real employees, not 1099 contractors! on monday, just after doing a podcast and bragging about their $11 million revenue, with investor jason calacanis talking them up as the next uber, they promptly imploded and laid off all their assistants with no warning: http://www.businessinsider.com/zirtual-suddenly-laid-off-400-employees-via-email-2015-8 quote:First, Donovan chose to transition the company’s employees over from independent contractors (i.e., the Uber model) to fulltime employees (complete with benefits). At the same time, however, she continued to insist that each of the virtual assistants — or ZAs, as Zirtual called them — be U.S.-based and college-educated, so as to provide a superior service to clients. lovin this new economy where a college degree is worth $23k a year
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Nintendo Kid posted:you misremember, near 100% of "urban" (cities and suburbs) have access to that and that's 81% of the population and then about 80% of rural population has access as well. does that include satellite and 4g cellular like verizon? imo anything but wired, fiber, or a dedicated WISP using wimax or the like shouldn't count.
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quote:To Keating, the real culprit here might have been a business model that no longer made sense. First, Donovan chose to transition the company’s employees over from independent contractors (i.e., the Uber model) to fulltime employees (complete with benefits). At the same time, however, she continued to insist that each of the virtual assistants — or ZAs, as Zirtual called them — be U.S.-based and college-educated, so as to provide a superior service to clients. there's a reason even upper east side richies have foreign au pairs
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Shifty Pony posted:does that include satellite and 4g cellular like verizon? it's wireline and fixed wireless, but its not a measurement of "are they actually paying for it" but "could you get it, as a residential customer". for obvious reasons there's tons of people out there doing poo poo like paying for 3 megabit dsl despite cable being available etc if you count poo poo like satellite and cellular then rural is also near-100%, which is why they don't count 'em
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Mr Dog posted:nah actually uber and airbnb are about 2 get teh poo poo kicked out of them in court so the vc shitbird swarm is probably going to move on to some other dumb thing lol no the legal system moves slow, especially when the defense is a very wealthy company that can afford an army of lawyers to delay the process uber will lose eventually, but it'll take years and be appealed repeatedly
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Aug 13, 2015 22:49
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kwinkles posted:omg it is eastvale you cant even see it from google streetview because the applebees is in the way the city is 5 years old in october. before it was just endless dairy farms in unincorporated riverside county. census data in 2000 was around 5k, 2010 was 52k. do you like endless suburbs? 
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Aug 13, 2015 23:03
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startup darling jet.com is carving its first customers names into their corporate wall. I ordered some diapers last week. 
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JewKiller 3000 posted:i'm really surprised no one has posted about zirtual in this thread. they are (were) a virtual assistant company, employing 4-500 real people as assistants, and they even paid them as real employees, not 1099 contractors! on monday, just after doing a podcast and bragging about their $11 million revenue, with investor jason calacanis talking them up as the next uber, they promptly imploded and laid off all their assistants with no warning: http://www.businessinsider.com/zirtual-suddenly-laid-off-400-employees-via-email-2015-8 wow holy poo poo. i know someone who jumped ship a month or so ago, i'm gonna have to text him.
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FCKGW posted:startup darling jet.com is carving its first customers names into their corporate wall. I ordered some diapers last week. And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is WEEDLORD BONER HITLER, king of kings: Look on my startup, ye Mighty, and despair!'
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ultramiraculous posted:wow holy poo poo. do you know one of the remote ZAs or an employee in their actual office? i'm curious to hear what's happening to the non-ZA employees, whether they were all immediately terminated as well or what
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triple sulk posted:jet's decent but their delivery times are a little slow actually, the jets are very bad
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I was reading about zirtual but I was under the impression no one was fired. the articles said that the company ran out of money but then was saved at the last minute because startups.co bought them. why am I not surprised that the "saving" only referred to c level personnel.
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