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Feinne posted:Wait the description of that wasn't like a satirical parody thing? gently caress me. I know, right! Hey boss, your friend was murdered 10 years ago and we still don't have a lead, maybe we should focus our resources on other cases? And lol at the tech guy being the one controlling the drone. As if american police, specially in a city like Chicago would be completely flabbergasted by such a mythical technology. And the female cop being "pfff, technology? Cops solve cases dude"
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May 17, 2016 16:40
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No mention of police unions? Tech billionaire is going to hit a few bumps with his "disruption" on that one.
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May 17, 2016 16:45
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It's a procedural with Weeds and Under The Dome alumni as the main characters, its destiny was to be exactly what it'll be.
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May 17, 2016 17:05
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Automatic Slim posted:No mention of police unions? Tech billionaire is going to hit a few bumps with his "disruption" on that one. Not if he's giving them what they want.
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duz posted:Not if he's giving them what they want. Captains of industry hate having checks placed on their vision but this show has already crossed the line of complete bullshit anyway.
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May 17, 2016 17:20
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I kind of like the idea of a show about a police force who are all members of the peerage, like some sort of inverse pirates of penzance.
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OwlFancier posted:I kind of like the idea of a show about a police force who are all members of the peerage, like some sort of inverse pirates of penzance. With the cops beating the poo poo out of some random civilian because he addressed one of them as "my lord" when the proper style would be "your grace".
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May 17, 2016 19:26
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I don't know anything about SpoonRocket or what the company's stupid operating premise was, but isn't this basically the end stage of capitalism? Once most of the efficiency in a system is baked in, it becomes harder and harder to wring more profit out of it.
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I don't know anything about SpoonRocket or what the company's stupid operating premise was, but isn't this basically the end stage of capitalism? Once most of the efficiency in a system is baked in, it becomes harder and harder to wring more profit out of it. [/quote] correct it also shows that worrying about slight inefficiencies is actually stupid
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May 17, 2016 19:36
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Unkempt posted:It has a trailer! The real test of whether or not we're watching the culture decline in real time will be whether or not this show survives more than a season and/or gets reamed by critics. Granted, it's on Fox, so one can already guess the answers to that
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SpaceDrake posted:The real test of whether or not we're watching the culture decline in real time will be whether or not this show survives more than a season and/or gets reamed by critics. If the show doesn't do too well, who knows? Maybe a tech billionaire will step in and buy up Fox to keep it running?
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May 17, 2016 19:52
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Speaking of squeezing the last drop of profit, Amazon is opening a second (the first was in Sunnyvale) drive-through grocery store. By drive-through, they mean you do the shopping on Amazon, then drive to the grocery warehouse to pick up your order. Assuming they apply their warehouse-running skills, this should reduce the labor costs and wastage of running a grocery store substantially. I hate the idea of letting another person pick out my meats and produce, but I'd be perfectly happy to call in an order for toilet paper, canned goods, and other identical stuff. The grocery business is cutthroat low-margins anyway; I can easily see this replacing Safeway.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Speaking of squeezing the last drop of profit, Amazon is opening a second (the first was in Sunnyvale) drive-through grocery store. By drive-through, they mean you do the shopping on Amazon, then drive to the grocery warehouse to pick up your order. Assuming they apply their warehouse-running skills, this should reduce the labor costs and wastage of running a grocery store substantially. I hate the idea of letting another person pick out my meats and produce, but I'd be perfectly happy to call in an order for toilet paper, canned goods, and other identical stuff. The grocery business is cutthroat low-margins anyway; I can easily see this replacing Safeway. I don't think the first ever opened. Boot and Rally fucked around with this message at 20:14 on May 17, 2016 |
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May 17, 2016 20:11
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Speaking of squeezing the last drop of profit, Amazon is opening a second (the first was in Sunnyvale) drive-through grocery store. By drive-through, they mean you do the shopping on Amazon, then drive to the grocery warehouse to pick up your order. Assuming they apply their warehouse-running skills, this should reduce the labor costs and wastage of running a grocery store substantially. I hate the idea of letting another person pick out my meats and produce, but I'd be perfectly happy to call in an order for toilet paper, canned goods, and other identical stuff. The grocery business is cutthroat low-margins anyway; I can easily see this replacing Safeway. So, amazon has apparently invented click and collect? Bit late.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Speaking of squeezing the last drop of profit, Amazon is opening a second (the first was in Sunnyvale) drive-through grocery store. By drive-through, they mean you do the shopping on Amazon, then drive to the grocery warehouse to pick up your order. Assuming they apply their warehouse-running skills, this should reduce the labor costs and wastage of running a grocery store substantially. I hate the idea of letting another person pick out my meats and produce, but I'd be perfectly happy to call in an order for toilet paper, canned goods, and other identical stuff. The grocery business is cutthroat low-margins anyway; I can easily see this replacing Safeway. This isn't exactly a disruptive tech breakthrough. My local Stop&Shop has a program that does the same thing and allows for either pickup or home delivery, and it's been around for a few years at least.
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May 17, 2016 20:17
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Yeah Kroger is rolling out the same thing at their stores which is a little different than having on giant central warehouse for a city or w/e like Amazon is attempting
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May 17, 2016 20:28
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We've had it in the UK for a while, what happens is you place your order, they get a bunch of store workers to go around every morning and do your shopping and put it in a tray, then they have a drive thru where you press a button and they bring it out to you.
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May 17, 2016 20:31
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:There is a solution: Sadly they would just get replaced with the next set of 1%ers. Human nature is a bitch.
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May 17, 2016 20:53
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Reminds me of grocery shopping in the early 20th century, you would go in, tell the clerk what you wanted, and they would get it for you. This isn't a new concept, it was abandoned the first time due to the amount of labor it required, as well as a massive increase in selection.
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May 17, 2016 20:56
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It isn't "not wanting to deal with humans" as a general thing it's wanting to divide the world into us and them. This is the biggest issue; white people with money want those people to kindly gently caress off and not ruin their neighborhoods. This is why the suburban hellscape is designed the way it is; to keep those people out. They are deliberately made not walkable and suburbanites hate mass transit for the same reason. If you wanted to be able to get anywhere you'd work hard enough to have a car you disgusting filth. Actually the first suburbs in US were in New York and Boston because of street cars and rail ways that took people right into the city. No denying the mass migration of southern blacks into the cities labor markets led to white flight, but another reason was cheap mass produced housing for all the veterans coming home post WWII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown,_New_York At its peak they were producing something like 30 houses per day. And it gave people large affordable homes at a time when housing was needed the most. But youre right they were also segregated and all owners basically signed in blood not to rent or sell to blacks and FHA mortgages were only given to whites.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:This isn't exactly a disruptive tech breakthrough. My local Stop&Shop has a program that does the same thing and allows for either pickup or home delivery, and it's been around for a few years at least. Yeah, there are several grocery stores around here that do this and have been for years. I've actually been making use of it for a while and the pickers generally do a really, really excellent job with selecting meats and produce. If I wasn't already using it out of laziness and my general hatred of grocery shopping, I might still use it just for that.
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MickeyFinn posted:I don't know anything about SpoonRocket or what the company's stupid operating premise was, but isn't this basically the end stage of capitalism? Once most of the efficiency in a system is baked in, it becomes harder and harder to wring more profit out of it. In the article itself it actually mentioned that the $0.50 to $1  profit margin is actually a cooked number, since it is generated using a metric that doesn't include a lot the companies expenses. They were still losing money on every order, and the fabricated number that they cut corners to generate still caused their investors to balk.
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May 17, 2016 23:17
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Contribution margin isn't a cooked number, it's actually an incredibly relevant profit metric for that business and the circumstances it was in. This isn't an uncommon or unusual profitability measurement.
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mike- posted:Contribution margin isn't a cooked number, it's actually an incredibly relevant profit metric for that business and the circumstances it was in. This isn't an uncommon or unusual profitability measurement. Yeah but what I think he's saying is their version of it was cooked. Yeah contribution margins matter, but when they were putting it together say they decided not to include operations costs or something else that when you bake in really brings down that margin or left them in the red.
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Coolness Averted posted:Yeah but what I think he's saying is their version of it was cooked. Yeah contribution margins matter, but when they were putting it together say they decided not to include operations costs or something else that when you bake in really brings down that margin or left them in the red. The article says what costs were excluded, and it makes sense to exclude those costs when calculating the contribution margin.
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Xoidanor posted:It's a procedural with Weeds and Under The Dome alumni as the main characters, its destiny was to be exactly what it'll be. Surprisingly good for a little bit, and then spiraling out of control?
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May 18, 2016 02:06
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Unkempt posted:It has a trailer! Mind boggling, truly mind boggling. You know, this could actually be a good show if the first half of the season is him introducing all his new toys, and getting the cops on board, and the second half is the dawning realization that all the technology and good intention in the world won't solve poverty and drug addiction. I mean, they already made The Wire, but still.
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cheese posted:Holy poo poo it really is as bad as I thought it would be. Of COURSE its a middle aged white man, riding in to save a precinct full of black/brown cops, vanquishing centuries of crippling socioeconomic reality with his sweet new app and drones. Because, you know, the reason Cops couldn't find his friends killer is they struggle so much in foot pursuits... Or they could just lock up all the criminals, and show how if you actually enforced the law people would be safe.
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cheese posted:Holy poo poo it really is as bad as I thought it would be. Of COURSE its a middle aged white man, riding in to save a precinct full of black/brown cops, vanquishing centuries of crippling socioeconomic reality with his sweet new app and drones. Because, you know, the reason Cops couldn't find his friends killer is they struggle so much in foot pursuits... So the last episode is literally "Turns out rich guy did it buy all the drones + ARgunz + PolizR App can't touch him because of Directive Riche"
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May 18, 2016 06:23
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Haha oh god this is awful. Sums up the tech sector in general pretty splendidly.
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May 18, 2016 06:28
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cheese posted:Holy poo poo it really is as bad as I thought it would be. Of COURSE its a middle aged white man, riding in to save a precinct full of black/brown cops, vanquishing centuries of crippling socioeconomic reality with his sweet new app and drones. Because, you know, the reason Cops couldn't find his friends killer is they struggle so much in foot pursuits... I could buy into this show if it followed Daenerys plot arc from Game of Thrones. Or the guy slowly turns the precinct into his own personal warlord fief, and halfway through the show the protagonist switches to the guy who is given the task of taking this guy down.
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'W.. who are you?' 'I'm Appman.'
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Mozi posted:'W.. who are you?' I am venture capital. I am right. I. AM. AnCapMan.
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May 18, 2016 16:22
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I think TEDx in the thread title would be more appropriate given the CEOs I've seen in action
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Looks like Tesla is disrupting the labor market now! http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_29892463/hidden-workforce-expanding-teslas-fremont-factory Also man I remember when the San Jose Mercury News wasn't poo poo, I figured their link would be better than the piece from the fluffy radio show I heard it on., but nope! But summing it up: Tesla needed a new painting facility constructed, so rather than hire workers themselves, hired a German firm that in turn hired a Slovakian labor contractor to import workers promised 12-15 an hour or so from Europe, along with room and board. The workers were paid the 12-15x40 but worked for 60+ hours a week to get their wages down to 5 bucks an hour and housed in an apt/shuttled to the facility. Naturally they were not given OT They almost got away with it quietly but then a dude got seriously injured (he fell through a roofing tile breaking both legs/winding up in hospital with a concussion.) The contractors moved to quietly export the guy back to his home country but he lawyered up, and so far in addition to those conditions coming up other juicy details like the visas used to import the workers were supervisor/non-labor visas specifically used when someone wouldn't replace an American job -so like if he'd been brought out as an engineer to audit plans, or was here on conference have come to light. Naturally when caught with his pants down Musk has vowed to do the right thing and pay the workers fairly. Also from a California labor perspective Tesla is gonna be on the hook since they'd issued badges and did training for the contractors, so I hope this hurts them a lot. The more hosed up thing is the same firm that brought the labor does business in a bunch of other states that are far less aggressive than California with labor protection. Coolness Averted fucked around with this message at 21:45 on May 18, 2016 |
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I've been seeing a lot of articles in my feed lately about "how the bubble isn't about to burst" "the unicorn problem will fix itself" "how this bubble is different" and it's coming off like denial for some reason. I don't really know a lot about the valley or poo poo, I was just curious if something had changed from a few months ago.
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Coolness Averted posted:Looks like Tesla is disrupting the labor market now! Wow. It costs almost 20x as much to employ union welders in Alameda county as it does to hire Slovenians. 
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A. Beaverhausen posted:I've been seeing a lot of articles in my feed lately about "how the bubble isn't about to burst" "the unicorn problem will fix itself" "how this bubble is different" and it's coming off like denial for some reason. I don't really know a lot about the valley or poo poo, I was just curious if something had changed from a few months ago. What's changed is a bunch of hedge funds and VCs withdrawing their money because these companies aren't ever going to be profitable.
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