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wateroverfire posted:We should get together and launch iComplain, a service that crowdsources your noise complaints so you can outsource your mildly unpleasant social interactions. Based on my friends who bought a house before I did (p. much all of them), my #1 fear was having an awful neighbor. Leverage, no leverage, try to be reasonable or not; it's awful. Not arguing against mixed zoning or even Air BnB or talking with not-bad or even semi-bad neighbors or anything else.
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wateroverfire posted:If you really feel like you need leverage and people are consistently being really loud in the unit you can always go to the landlord and say "I'd hate to bring the building management into this" or "Hey does the zoning board know you're running a hotel in this building?". Isn't the bolded what you were just complaining about? That zoning laws were banning hotels in residential areas?
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I don't think that this thread is served by this US/international housing policy derail. Quoting myself for the new page.
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AirBnB is so stone-age http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/SF-startup-seeks-to-auction-off-rental-apartments-7467415.php quote:Rentberry initially intends to charge tenants a flat fee of $25 when the agreement is signed. But after the business is established in six months or so, it will instead require tenants to make monthly payments of one quarter of the extra rental income that the service generated for landlords.
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Aliquid posted:AirBnB is so stone-age Now that's what I call capitalism. Although basically it's just a normal letting agency that has really high fees.
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America is an awesome place.
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So, do the renters have to pay if they underbid as well?
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Randler posted:So, do the renters have to pay if they underbid as well? As if underbidding would be allowed. e: Wait no it says it is. I'd say that's more of a bug than a feature though. Probably there's a fee floor or something. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 20:47 on May 16, 2016 |
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Unkempt posted:I heard you guys liked tech geniuses so here's some TV to watch! Holy poo poo these are fantastic, repackaging police and medical shows but somehow introducing a tech guy to run it. "We've got to DISRUPT and be the UBER of medicine, where we'll use cutting edge ALGRORITHMS to deliver UNCONVENTIONAL treatment when YOU need it." Cue lengthy legal battles with the FDA, American Medical Association, etc.
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On topic : Rocket Internet isn't doing too well, with a 50% fall in share price amidst reports that they are slashing two thirds off the valuation of their most important company. For those that don't know, Rocket Internet is a German company founded by brothers who managed to make big bucks off VCs & selling their companies to eBay and VeriSign. They've made millions from copying US startups in Europe and selling the copycat companies once the major US player decides to "go international".
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Aliquid posted:AirBnB is so stone-age There is a real need for a service better than Craigslist but not as exclusive as the MLS but all these companies just have to tack on stupid extra bullshit and ruin their offerings. Craigslist without Nigerian scams and bait and switch listings would be wonderful. Also what are the odds they include arbitration in their user agreement so when the landlords mysteriously always reject the black guy's bid in favor of the lower bid from the less qualified white male they are SOL?
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Aliquid posted:AirBnB is so stone-age quote:But its stock has sagged, as shareholders worry whether any of the start-ups in its portfolio will ever make money.  Unkempt posted:APB cheese fucked around with this message at 00:45 on May 17, 2016 |
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I laughed out loud at the idea of "purchasing a police precinct." It's so adorably network TV, like that time on NCIS when they were "hacked" and fought back by having 2 people type at the same keyboard.
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MC Nietzche posted:I laughed out loud at the idea of "purchasing a police precinct." It's so adorably network TV, like that time on NCIS when they were "hacked" and fought back by having 2 people type at the same keyboard.
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If it's possible, Bruce Wayne should do that. Then Batman wouldn't have to worry about the police getting in his way.
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I don't think Batman would want to deal with the administration of a police force, it would interrupt his valuable posing, brooding, driving, and beating up victims of institutionalized violence time.
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It has a trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsbVnrOkcr8 Surprise, it's loving disgusting
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It's as absurd as I'd hoped!
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That is the worst idea I've ever seen, even by police procedural standards.
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It's ok for a capitalist to buy the police as long as it's the right capitalist and not some swarthy italians/jews/russians/etc
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cheese posted:How does one purchase a police precinct and am I the only one who recoiled in horror upon reading that sentence? Pretty sure that was the premise behind Robocop 2 - Eternal Blue.
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It was better when it was call Knight Rider.
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They should make a TV show about Mark Zuckerberg's Newark fiasco. Can one Tech billionaire's hubris and hypocrisy allow him to destroy America's schools one purchase at a time? Tune in to find out.
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They've started dumping a bunch of money into the Summit charter schools in the bay area now
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Uber has a new pilot program where you can get paid with a debit card. Would you be surprised to learn that this might not result in the best deal for the driver? https://twitter.com/groditi/status/732417874627678210
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Unguided posted:That is the worst idea I've ever seen, even by police procedural standards. Cop Rock is slightly worse, but only by execution. Concept on this one is worse.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:If this is a parody, I would watch it. As long as all the "blue-blooded veterans" tell the "enigmatic tech billionaire" stuff like "I'm too old for this poo poo." constantly. Not that that would make the show much stranger than it is already, I guess.
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Flash Gordon posted:Uber has a new pilot program where you can get paid with a debit card. Would you be surprised to learn that this might not result in the best deal for the driver? Haha oh god this is awful.
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cheese posted:I mean, the implementation of realistic technology on TV/movies is its own subject and in some ways more forgivable. Most people don't know what "hacking" looks like it and you could throw up an HTML editor of this browser page and most people would believe that you were haxing some poo poo. But a billionaire buying a police precinct? What the gently caress does that even mean? We may have transitioned to the age of Private Security Contractors, but I think the average viewer is going to squint a little when some tech rich wierdo purchases the local police force. "And law enforcement in [Chicago] was privatized and farmed out to..." "WORLD MARSHAL! Yes! So what?" That being said, I'd be totally okay with this show if the villain was a cyborg ninja who cut cops in half with a samurai sword 
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inkblot posted:"And law enforcement in [Chicago] was privatized and farmed out to..." Kung Fury is already out you know.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Zephro posted:Does "blue-blooded" mean something different in America? Because that reads like the police are all slumming aristocrats for some reason.
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It's a cop thing, they "bleed blue" you know, like the uniform. I'm fully assuming that APB show will completely ignore that the reason the precinct was under budget in the first place is because of companies like the main character's not paying their taxes.
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muscles like this? posted:It's a cop thing, they "bleed blue" you know, like the uniform. I'm fully assuming that APB show will completely ignore that the reason the precinct was under budget in the first place is because of companies like the main character's not paying their taxes. Obviously. Public services sprout from the fertile fields of Small Government, watered by the efficiency of private contractors. suck my woke dick fucked around with this message at 12:54 on May 17, 2016 |
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Hey is your tech startup unprofitable? No problem. Just disrupt the generally accepted definition of profitable. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-16/tech-startups-come-up-with-some-creative-definitions-for-profitable
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Unkempt posted:It has a trailer! Holy poo poo, those weren't joke TV show premises? They are honest to god plots? That trailer is amazing. "The app", "I'm an engineer." Are americans really okay with the concept of someone buying a police precinct? Is this thing trying to be self aware or something?
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Mr. Nemo posted:Holy poo poo, those weren't joke TV show premises? They are honest to god plots? Man, this is a Kelly comic waiting to happen.
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quote:After all that careful math, SpoonRocket's contribution margin was 50 cents to $1 per order, Tsui said. The founders prepared a new pitch for investors highlighting this milestone. "We showed them, and they were just like, 'Oh my goodness, you guys spent $13 million to squeeze a $1 margin out of every order?'" Tsui recalled. SpoonRocket shut down in March and sold some assets to a food delivery company in Brazil. 
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Huh. I didn't even notice when SpoonRocket died. There are a *lot* of meal-delivery and ingredient-delivery services sprawling around at the moment.
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MC Nietzche posted:I laughed out loud at the idea of "purchasing a police precinct." It's so adorably network TV, like that time on NCIS when they were "hacked" and fought back by having 2 people type at the same keyboard. It was one of the non-terrible elements of The Cape that the psychotic billionaire villain (well, one of his personalities) was running a private takeover of the police force. Non-terrible only in the context of a superhero show, let's not confuse it with actually good writing. The other not-terrible element being the Carnival of Crime. I just love the Carnival of Crime, doubly so with the smooth voice of Keith Baker leading the crew.
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Unkempt posted:It has a trailer! Wait the description of that wasn't like a satirical parody thing? gently caress me.
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