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Feinne posted:New rules for food that let them skullfuck someone for not being really careful about allergens among other things are in fact already passed and go into effect in September. I love how the FDA's own publication about it drives it home by saying "No one wants to ship a large container of fish oil all the way from China to the United States only to have it held up in customs due to inadequate procedures and registrations." There's nothing in there empowering the FDA to crack down on the supplement manufacturers filling a pill with corn starch and selling it as Herb X, but that corn starch had better be compliant or everything it is in is possibly facing a mandatory recall.
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Shifty Pony posted:I love how the FDA's own publication about it drives it home by saying "No one wants to ship a large container of fish oil all the way from China to the United States only to have it held up in customs due to inadequate procedures and registrations." Yeah as long as nothing you're putting in there is hazardous and it's got whatever labels are required they're fine for now (I'm sure they WANT authority to gently caress up supplement people but they don't have it yet). Those Soylent fuckers are going to have a hell of a time proving there aren't any chemical hazards in their poo poo given their history.
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Jet packs are finally here!!!!! http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-jetpack-movement-finally-taking-off-1465221130?mod=e2tw quote:An entrepreneur and aviation buff from Sydney, Mayman retired early to dedicate himself to flying with nothing but the pack on his back. His company, JetPack Aviation Corp., has spent about 10 years and $10 million on this latest version: an 85-pound aluminum and carbon-fiber contraption that burns 11 gallons of jet fuel for a 10-minute flight. The nine-person firm is now seeking $2 million to $5 million to add rocket-propelled parachutes—in case of unscheduled landings—and bring its jetpack to market for about $250,000 a pop. Hm, yes, jet fuel is only 9 dollars a gallon and I only need to refill my ear-damaging super slow mode of personal transport every 10 minutes this is a good idea that i am glad we spent money on.
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Wherein we find out what happens when the disrupters are them selves disrupted! spoiler: they're big whiny babies 
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Everblight posted:Wherein we find out what happens when the disrupters are them selves disrupted! Uber are whiny babies, Urbanhail seem to think Terms of Use don't apply to them, it's all a big shitshow. 
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Uber seem to think the TOS of society (laws) don't apply to them so I can't really feel sorry for them when people ignore their TOS.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Urbanhail seem to think Terms of Use don't apply to them How the hell do you think ~~disruption~~ happens?
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Urbanhail seem to think Terms of Use don't apply to them, it's all a big shitshow. Considering a lot of Terms of Use are unenforceable legaloblabber, I'd not be surprised if Urbanhail were actually correct in this regard.
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Randler posted:Considering a lot of Terms of Use are unenforceable legaloblabber, I'd not be surprised if Urbanhail were actually correct in this regard. Seems like it was pretty easy to enforce them this time.  I do wonder whether Urbanhail could sue them for breaching fair use, though. You'd think "being allowed to do comparison shopping" is a fundamental right in commerce.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Seems like it was pretty easy to enforce them this time. All Uber has stopped doing is giving them that information for free. If Urbanhail finds a non-API reliant way of doing it there's nothing Uber can do.
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As someone in a union, it's disappointing to hear about all these innovative ideas that are ultimately at the expense of full time employment. The whole 'disruption ' seems very oblivious to creating safer working conditions. Not surprisingly I don't see many jobs that seem to disrupt the challenges of having a steady safe and livable job, they all want to just go back to the halcyon days of the Robber barons  I'm surprised they haven't gotten around to disrupting child labor laws.
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MiddleOne posted:All Uber has stopped doing is giving them that information for free. If Urbanhail finds a non-API reliant way of doing it there's nothing Uber can do. Sounds easy enough. Write a background in-between app or something and package it along with? Uberfarechecker or whatever gets its poo poo from Uber, then Urbanhail gets its poo poo from that. note: I don't know about any of this stuff
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Panfilo posted:As someone in a union, it's disappointing to hear about all these innovative ideas that are ultimately at the expense of full time employment. The whole 'disruption ' seems very oblivious to creating safer working conditions. Not surprisingly I don't see many jobs that seem to disrupt the challenges of having a steady safe and livable job, they all want to just go back to the halcyon days of the Robber barons Funny you should mention that, one of the SF based "artisanal kitchen uber but for food" apps Josephine actually has teamed up with a middle school to have the kids make food for them and help raise some cash for the school! Here's a fluffy piece written by a literal child about how cool it is. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/05/19/476492503/why-one-startup-is-offering-meals-made-by-home-cooks-and-middle-schoolers Here's the local health regulators shutting them down, whoops! http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/05/11/food-startup-josephine-pauses-east-bay-operations/ Scumbag CEO posted:U.S. regulations do not allow for the exchange of food for money without commercial food facilities, business permits, and the resources required to navigate these complex processes (read: lots of spare time and thousands of dollars). These factors are extremely prohibitive for most people, especially stay-at-home parents, immigrants, and others who are not only the most disadvantaged members of the work force, but who are also the most practiced home cooks. The people who nourish our families and communities are both prohibited from benefiting from their skills, they are also actively denied the education, safety training, and pooled resources that could help them be safer, more accountable, and more successful in their cooking. 
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Randler posted:Considering a lot of Terms of Use are unenforceable legaloblabber, I'd not be surprised if Urbanhail were actually correct in this regard. Uber strike me as so full of themselves they would put something in their ToS like "your vehicle's value is part of our companies value and by using our service we now own your car" in some little subsection no one has read.
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My high school shut me and a friend down for going to McDonald's and taco bell and poo poo and buying like $50 worth of shot off the dollar menu to resell for a 100% profit because of stuff like food safety laws, I guess I was ahead of my time
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https://wype.com/ It's a startup that comes and washes your car wherever it is after you order it with an app. Unfortunately there is a waiting list.
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I was wondering what part of the country would have deployed environmental investigators to shut down a glorified bake sale. Imagine my lack of surprise when it was California.
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Angular Landbury posted:I was wondering what part of the country would have deployed environmental investigators to shut down a glorified bake sale. And you know it's in the US of A because they didn't think to shut it down due to child labor laws. 
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Jun 7, 2016 00:55
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Coolness Averted posted:Funny you should mention that, one of the SF based "artisanal kitchen uber but for food" apps Josephine actually has teamed up with a middle school to have the kids make food for them and help raise some cash for the school! Hahaha this is seriously some good rear end poo poo
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Jumpingmanjim posted:https://wype.com/ I'd pay someone to deice and clean my car after a snowstorm, but I somehow doubt the people running this have ever lived in a place with serious winter weather.
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Subjunctive posted:As regards an ad recruiting new drivers to Uber: This is some America's Army level bullshit.
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What do you the Satirical version of Uber will be called in the next GTA game?
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Jumpingmanjim posted:What do you the Satirical version of Uber will be called in the next GTA game? TaxiHeil Absurd Alhazred fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Jun 7, 2016 |
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Angular Landbury posted:I was wondering what part of the country would have deployed environmental investigators to shut down a glorified bake sale. This isn't a glorified bake sale though. If you wanted to use this service to bake cookies and brownies and rice crispy treats and someone wanted to use the service to buy cookies and brownies and rice crispy treats they'd be in the clear. California has exemptions for baked goods, candies, pastas, and other dry foods that don't require refrigeration once they're cooked. The reason why the company isn't in the clear is because they sold commercial-quality foods without following any of the laws that apply to commercial-quality food preparers. The company can say they vetted the chefs and checked out the kitchens but you can bet the county health agencies haven't.
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They'll just use one of the founders' own coinage: boober
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RandomPauI posted:This isn't a glorified bake sale though. If you wanted to use this service to bake cookies and brownies and rice crispy treats and someone wanted to use the service to buy cookies and brownies and rice crispy treats they'd be in the clear. California has exemptions for baked goods, candies, pastas, and other dry foods that don't require refrigeration once they're cooked. States generally also have exceptions for things like "cottage industries" where people are just running something small out of their kitchen. It varies by state but "industrial scale commercial food production done in schools by students" is absolutely not one of those either.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:What do you the Satirical version of Uber will be called in the next GTA game? Whatever it is, it has to have a dick joke.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:What do you the Satirical version of Uber will be called in the next GTA game? Puber had daniel tosh not taken it
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The laws on commercial kitchens aren't THAT intense anyway and are usually easy to work with. Even up here in communist Canuckistan having a home kitchen certified isn't outside of the realm of possibility and I can rent a fully licensed gigantic kitchen for like $20 / hr. Here's an idea - maybe the company profiting off of literal child labour and the poor disenfranchised home cooks should foot the bill or provide the facilities to prepare food safely? "Thousands" of dollars is for sure not a minor amount for a poor grandma who wants to cook, but it's routine for any business. Especially when California already specifically has relaxed regulations for home-based food operations (that Josephine readily admits it's cooks don't meet)
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MiddleOne posted:All Uber has stopped doing is giving them that information for free. If Urbanhail finds a non-API reliant way of doing it there's nothing Uber can do. They should do it the Silicon Valley way - with algorithms. For example, take the highest fare of the services that allow you to get data, add 50%, and put that down for Uber with an asterisk. It would be interesting to see who blinks first at that point. * estimated cost, actual cost may vary.
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Credit Karma but for uber
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When do we get The Uber for Hilarious Online Comedy Discussion Forums Lowtax? 
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Switzerland posted:Luber
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Jumpingmanjim posted:https://wype.com/ This poo poo is just terrible. They're basically crowding into spaces previously occupied by kids and homeless people now. There's a homeless guy in my neighborhood (where most people have to park on the street) who, in the winter, a lot of people pay to clear the snow off their cars in the early AM before they have to go to work. I don't know how it originally started, but he has a brush and a small shovel and a lot of people give him 5-10 bucks to clear their car off as he sweeps through the neighborhood. It seems to work really great because he's fuckin homeless so it's not like he has anywhere to be at 3am and he told me he makes enough from one snow to rent a hotel room to stay warm for as long as a week, and the hotel he usually goes to doesn't mind if he lets a bunch of other homeless folks stay with him. If somebody app-ifies that kind of thing someone else is going to start doing that poo poo cheaper and this guy is going to be stuck freezing all winter because lol if society is actually going to do anything about his homelessness. At least the way it was before he could sleep inside during the coldest times by being a bit entrepreneurial.
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Eh, I feel like the kind of people that will turn to some app to get their car washed probably weren't patronizing some homeless guy or some kids to begin with. On the other hand, if someone set up the same business, only with a phone number you call and they dispatch a carwasher to you instead of by an app, it would be rightfully unnoteworthy as this should be. So it's still dumb to treat any of these as something more than any other small business.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:This poo poo is just terrible. They're basically crowding into spaces previously occupied by kids and homeless people now. This part of the tech bubble is basically where everyone has ran out of ideas so theyre running around going "we'll build a platform for doing x, but with an app" and that's it. I'm at a relatively small non-profit in SF, and at least a couple times a week i get cold calls from some developers who've built "a platform that connects donors with non-profits" and all we have to do is pump their platform full of content and then the dollars will start rolling in! It's obvious these folks have never worked at non-profits or seen anything about the digital/directmail divide, they just think you need to build a platform, get a bunch of content & users on it ... And profit! It's not even worth researching the market you want to get into or have any experience, just build a platform and an app and expect money to come rolling in.
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