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MikeCrotch posted:At least you can buy drugs from Juggalos, a DE fucker will just try and sell you Urbit licences or something gently caress buying, that elevator is gonna end up hotboxed.
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Sundae posted:I could go on forever on this topic. Going to keep it short because otherwise, three hours will pass and fifty pages of effortpost will appear. Primary sources here are my own experiences and the experiences of the writing community, plus articles and observations over the past few years. What you wrote, as well as the sources you used, was very interesting. Thank you very much! EDIT: Theranos withdrew the request for emergency clearance of their Zika test. http://fortune.com/2016/08/31/theranos-zika-test-application/ Redrum and Coke fucked around with this message at 11:37 on Sep 1, 2016 |
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This isn't aimed at you specifically, but isn't market 'efficiency' great?
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Non Serviam posted:What you wrote, as well as the sources you used, was very interesting. Thank you very much! Good. There's pretty much no company I trust with emergency approvals, let alone Theranos.
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# ? Sep 1, 2016 15:40 |
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Another day, another startup, WrkRiot (!) crashes in fraud.quote:While WrkRiot is not widely known, the start-up’s collapse has gripped Silicon Valley. Mr. Choi’s situation may be extreme, but the company’s implosion has a familiar ring to many who came west to be the next Mark Zuckerberg — but ended up instead at the next WrkRiot. Silicon Valley is always eager to celebrate its success stories, but the reality is that numerous tiny start-ups that few ever hear about form the tech industry’s dysfunctional underbelly. quote:I took the initial phone screen in Los Angeles where I happened to be, and he asked me to fly out the next day to meet in Santa Clara. The responsibility of the less-than-24-hours flight wasn’t addressed, so I asked who would be covering it. When the CTO asked me to book it and told me it would be reimbursed later, I was hesitant and skeptical but followed through with blind faith. There’s no way a startup I found on Angel.co is going to screw me over, I thought.
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MickeyFinn posted:This isn't aimed at you specifically, but isn't market 'efficiency' great? Oh yes, I love it ever so much. I especially love how the new-found efficiency never seems to make its way back into my wallet. Honestly, it's a weird love-hate relationship right now. I absolutely despise Amazon, but I also have to acknowledge that they effectively created the market I used to pay off my entire family's student loans. It's also not like trad-pubs treated the majority of authors any better, in the old days, than Amazon does now. quote:Around this time, Bruce and I were sharing personal concerns and he confided in me that he had let Michael borrow $50,000 from his personal savings Jesus loving Christ.
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# ? Sep 1, 2016 16:51 |
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I work at an early stage startup and if my CEO ever asked me for a loan my rear end would be out the door. People really should not work at these places if they do not have some sort of non technical business experience that lets them detect bullshitters and red flags. I got to review our entire financial model and business plan upfront and anyone not willing to offer that transparency to a prospective senior exec is highly suspect.
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Gail Wynand posted:People really should not work at these places if they do not have some sort of non technical business experience that lets them detect bullshitters and red flags.
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Gail Wynand posted:I work at an early stage startup and if my CEO ever asked me for a loan my rear end would be out the door. i used to work at a place where the CEO built the business on the back of massive credit card debt i approached him for a raise one day with some figures from glassdoor and my increased workload and he offered me a loan instead yeah 2.5 weeks later i had a new job. but jobs are hard enough to come by especially if you're first starting out that people are willing to put up with this crap. the only way to learn not to get burned is to get burned
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Popular Thug Drink posted:yeah 2.5 weeks later i had a new job. but jobs are hard enough to come by especially if you're first starting out that people are willing to put up with this crap. the only way to learn not to get burned is to get burned
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Non Serviam posted:EDIT: Theranos withdrew the request for emergency clearance of their Zika test. I thought Theranos was basically done for?
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CommieGIR posted:I thought Theranos was basically done for?
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The Groper posted:Ford and GM are going to crush Uber in the transition to self-driving cars if their current plans pan out, there's no way Uber can compete with a service that builds, maintains, and dispatches it's own fleet via ecosystem apps that work for both owner and non-owner users. Sorry that this is a few pages old, but assuming the cars actually work, wouldn't the manufacturers have to divest their business? It feels really close to Boeing running their own airline. Am I missing something there? That being said, I think you're right - even the spun off companies would have a huge advantage over Uber.
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Gail Wynand posted:I work at an early stage startup and if my CEO ever asked me for a loan my rear end would be out the door. My friend did this for way too long for some specious "marketing" company in Toronto. She'd always be telling me, "Oh, yeah I haven't got paid in like, 2 months." Yikes. You really can't be giving anyone more than maybe a week to get a proper cheque to you.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:They aren't dead until they've formally filed for Chapter 7. The only tests for signs of life were conducted on Theranos hardware, so can we even say for sure it was ever truly alive? E: peter banana posted:My friend did this for way too long for some specious "marketing" company in Toronto. She'd always be telling me, "Oh, yeah I haven't got paid in like, 2 months." Yikes. You really can't be giving anyone more than maybe a week to get a proper cheque to you. No, as soon as a check is late, any time you have to spend in the office to maintain appearances goes to updating resumes, speaking to recruiters and making a spreadsheet of everything you're going to steal on the way out. Munkeymon fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Sep 1, 2016 |
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It must be really fraught to be working at Theranos now, especially as an engineer.
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Edit: wrong thread
SoSimpleABeginning fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Sep 1, 2016 |
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CommieGIR posted:I thought Theranos was basically done for? They're fighting that status. They had a big conference with scientists, where they were going to put all doubts to rest. ... Then they didn't answer any question about their bullshit tech, and used their conference to shill their NEW AND IMPROVED tests for, among others, zika virus. Now they back pedaled on that. It's beautiful
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Solkanar512 posted:Sorry that this is a few pages old, but assuming the cars actually work, wouldn't the manufacturers have to divest their business? It feels really close to Boeing running their own airline. Am I missing something there? Not that Boeing refused to sell aircraft to other, but Boeing did found and own it until a manufacturer owning an airline was banned in 1934.
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I like how you can read the entire article and still not be sure exactly what WrkRiot (!) did. The author drops only the tiniest of hints in the middle.
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nm posted:Are you familar with a small airline known as United? Pretty sure that was his exact point Ford owning an uber like service is probably a little too vertical
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Non Serviam posted:They're fighting that status. I guess the real question is how many actual Scientists and Engineers they can actually keep now? I doubt many are not spit shining their resumes and getting interviews.
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CommieGIR posted:I guess the real question is how many actual Scientists and Engineers they can actually keep now? I doubt many are not spit shining their resumes and getting interviews. withak posted:I like how you can read the entire article and still not be sure exactly what WrkRiot (!) did. The author drops only the tiniest of hints in the middle.
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nm posted:Are you familar with a small airline known as United? Yes, I just forgot if it was United or American. Replace "plane" with "car" and "airline" with "autonomous taxi service" and it seems like you have the exact same situation. Are there any important differences? Otherwise it seems like these companies might be putting their investments at a serious risk.
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The United/Boeing split came at a time when we had a government regulatory culture that wasn't completely toothless following decades of Republican budget cuts. I doubt they'd get serious anti-trust attention these days.
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Sundae posted:It's also not like trad-pubs treated the majority of authors any better, in the old days, than Amazon does now. Man, I got to watch them (the trad publishers) bully the public libraries when Amazon/Bertelsmann ate their lunch, not a pretty sight.
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IndustrialApe posted:Man, I got to watch them (the trad publishers) bully the public libraries when Amazon/Bertelsmann ate their lunch, not a pretty sight. the poo poo libraries were and are forced to eat over ebooks pisses me off so bad ebooks are exactly what libraries need to realize their mission but nope gotta make sure that those files are treated just like real books for checking them out and wearing them out
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# ? Sep 1, 2016 22:25 |
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Books should just be free and nobody should get paid for them.
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IndustrialApe posted:Man, I got to watch them (the trad publishers) bully the public libraries when Amazon/Bertelsmann ate their lunch, not a pretty sight. Yeah, that whole ebook 'wear and tear' thing was atrocious, and it's part of why I don't exactly feel bad for the trad-pubs either. They'd do (and did) everything they could to be Amazon in the absence of Amazon. But gently caress Amazon anyway, because there are more than enough fucks to go around in that industry. quote:Books should just be free and nobody should get paid for them. Sure. You can write them. Vaguely on topic: http://weputachipinit.tumblr.com/ quote:It was just a dumb thing. Then we put a chip in it. Now it's a smart thing. Sadly, even as lovely as these things are, at least some of them represent real (useless) products, which is still more than 99% of the current SV startups will ever accomplish.
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Sundae posted:Sadly, even as lovely as these things are, at least some of them represent real (useless) products, which is still more than 99% of the current SV startups will ever accomplish. https://twitter.com/monteiro/status/768189205428043777 E: Seen from this Twitter account, which is also pretty funny: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
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sarehu posted:Books should just be free and nobody should get paid for them. Feel free to read all the free books out there on the Internet. There are enough that you'd never run out of reading material. Hope you like 19th c literature and My Little Pony porn.
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peter banana posted:My friend did this for way too long for some specious "marketing" company in Toronto. She'd always be telling me, "Oh, yeah I haven't got paid in like, 2 months." Yikes. You really can't be giving anyone more than maybe a week to get a proper cheque to you. If a paycheck ever bounces you leave immediately. If you don't get paid you don't do work. It's as simple as that.
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# ? Sep 2, 2016 00:40 |
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slow the gently caress down. Ebook wear and tear?
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:slow the gently caress down. Ebook wear and tear? Long story short, in order to counteract the fact that library books wear out / get damaged / whatever (thus requiring a library to buy new copies of the book) while e-books clearly don't, some major publishers built clauses into their e-book library licensing agreements that require the license to be renewed and paid for again after the e-book has been borrowed 26 times. This was put into place based on it taking approximately, by the publisher's estimation, 26 borrows before a paperback library book was damaged enough to warrant a replacement. It's a 'wear and tear' clause for e-books in order to avoid losing extra revenue due to digital book format. Oh, and then they also charge the libraries approximately six times the going rate for an e-book license. https://www.boston.com/news/technology/2014/06/27/why-its-difficult-for-your-library-to-lend-ebooks posted:Publishers put restrictions not just on which ebooks libraries can offer, but how they can offer them. Some publishers only allow for an ebook to be borrowed 26 times before the library has to purchase the license again. Others opt for the license to expire after a year. And still others instead charge libraries significantly more than they do consumers for ebooks. For example, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s best-selling “Lean In,’’ released last year by Random House, was available as an ebook to consumers at $12.99, but cost libraries $74.85 to purchase. Librarians generally find this system perplexing, considering the overhead costs for creating an ebook—without physical production—are much lower than print books. In fairness, I believe these clauses have been dying (not the pricing differences, but the wear and tear clauses) because they are so patently ridiculous and make for such terrible optics once they're in the public eye.
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Begging for cash from employees is the icing on that cake. It's just short of the work-from-home scam that says you too can have your own business if you'd only buy this starter kit from Totally Legitimate Inc. I'd already be working on my resume and hitting up alternate employment by that time assuming I hadn't had the "hire and fire fast" at the interview eat my interest in taking the job offer to begin with, but that story in addition would convince me to run screaming immediately rather than as soon as I have something else lined up; gently caress the idea that my boss might at any moment try and pressure me into loaning them cash in exchange for not trying to screw me over somehow.
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Sundae posted:Long story short, in order to counteract the fact that library books wear out / get damaged / whatever (thus requiring a library to buy new copies of the book) while e-books clearly don't, some major publishers built clauses into their e-book library licensing agreements that require the license to be renewed and paid for again after the e-book has been borrowed 26 times. This was put into place based on it taking approximately, by the publisher's estimation, 26 borrows before a paperback library book was damaged enough to warrant a replacement. It's a 'wear and tear' clause for e-books in order to avoid losing extra revenue due to digital book format. thanks! Yeah gently caress these people, you have to be pretty scummy to gently caress with libraries in my opinion, but what do I know I don't have an MBA or whatever.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_30263318/dublin-uber-lyft-partner-public-transit Looks like some bay area regions are paying Uber to provide service in lieu of bus service. It'll be interesting to see how this changes public transit in the area. Paying $3 to ride isn't too bad and costumers don't have to be in the presence of poors either. Sucks for disabled people though, paratransit services typically cost more than three times as much.
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Sundae posted:Long story short, in order to counteract the fact that library books wear out / get damaged / whatever (thus requiring a library to buy new copies of the book) while e-books clearly don't, some major publishers built clauses into their e-book library licensing agreements that require the license to be renewed and paid for again after the e-book has been borrowed 26 times. This was put into place based on it taking approximately, by the publisher's estimation, 26 borrows before a paperback library book was damaged enough to warrant a replacement. It's a 'wear and tear' clause for e-books in order to avoid losing extra revenue due to digital book format. One bit of the article you quote is actually false. The costs of setup for an e-book and a print book are very close. It is not cheap to set up an ebook. It is cheap to produce an additional copy of an ebook, but it is also cheap to produce an additional copy of a printed book. In both cases you have to amortize the setup costs against a predicted number of sales. Publishers' actual profits on those individual printed books are substantially diminished by discounts to chains, refunds to bookstores, which [i]still[/url] involve sending physical hardbacks back to the publishers, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Publishers still suck, don't get me wrong. But it's not as simple as "Gosh, it's trivial to create a document, I do it every day." (A whole bunch of publishers do ebooks very badly, but that's another rant.)
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CommieGIR posted:I guess the real question is how many actual Scientists and Engineers they can actually keep now? I doubt many are not spit shining their resumes and getting interviews. Cars are noticeably down in their parking lot but they still have a sizable amount of people showing up to work.
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