WrenP-Complete posted:An app that scans USB codes and allows you to make a charitable donation to offset your guilt. Scanfree. Helpscan. No, wait Sixr.
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An app that lets you store and share photos. If you send a photo to someone without the app, it comes with an easy link to get the app, which the recipient will do because they want to see the picture. Families will use it to share pictures, making it very likely for the app to go "viral." Groups of photos can be grouped into album-like sequences we call "Narratives."
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TheScott2K posted:An app that lets you store and share photos. If you send a photo to someone without the app, it comes with an easy link to get the app, which the recipient will do because they want to see the picture. Families will use it to share pictures, making it very likely for the app to go "viral." Groups of photos can be grouped into album-like sequences we call "Narratives." Narratr: Tell Your Own Story New idea: A plug in wifi access point that backlinks over powerline ethernet WrenP-Complete fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Mar 8, 2017 |
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Mar 8, 2017 19:55
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RandomPauI posted:An app that sends an escort to listen to you with the option of buying friendly, non-gropy hug. And that's it. No review can refer to anything beyond the talk session/hug session and anything that happens after that is independent of the terms of use of the app. This is completely legitimate and not a front for prostitutes. 1) A lot of stripper booking agencies are run by organized crime or similarly shady people. 2) In some areas, phone-order prostitution services pretend to be stripper services. Both these workers and their customers would need to be actively kept off the service, unless it was also explicitly a prostitution app somewhere that was legal. 3) In some areas private shows have legal issues that are probably going under the radar with private bookings. 4) Strippers are much more frequently targeted by stalkers than cab drivers, so privacy is super important as well. To this day I'm pretty sure there doesn't exist a "high tech" stripper service, and there probably won't for a long time. Especially not after Uber's tailspin. One other stripper fact I learned: Almost all the strippers have stage names and profiles on an agency booking website, and all the ages are of course lies. 95% of women list their age in their early 20s; most are older. 95% of men listed their age as exactly 25; most are younger. I'm sure some jackass is running those photos through facial recognition.
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Mar 9, 2017 02:14
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Discendo Vox posted:You don't understand why it's a bad idea to give technical visas solely to the companies with the most money to spend on them? If the problem is the price for skilled labor getting too high, just give out more visas. Or just set a high salary floor and give out as many visas as people can be hired at that rate. If the problem is that certain special kinds of low-paying employers have to compete (nonprofits maybe), then split the pools and give them a separate process.
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Mar 9, 2017 11:54
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ShadowHawk posted:I investigated if "strippers as an app" was a thing a few years back after talking to a couple trainers at the gym that were moonlighting. The answer is no, there is no "uber for strippers", and this area faces similar challenges to Uber itself: There were a few interesting web services to help people find sex workers (or to help sex workers advertise/screen clients), but they've all been shutdown by the government long before they could become an app. MyRedBook and Rentboy.com were the most famous.
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Mar 9, 2017 14:23
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A bunch of alternatives to lyft and uber have popped up in Austin and things are going just finequote:"There's no secret sauce," Joe Deshotel, spokesman for Ride Austin told CNNTech. "The technology is becoming easier to replicate. It's really about culture. Do riders and drivers like what you're doing? Do they feel like they're a part of it?"
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Mar 9, 2017 14:51
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nachos posted:A bunch of alternatives to lyft and uber have popped up in Austin and things are going just fine he can't stay stuff like that. uber's valuation is way too high for a company with nothing preventing its market from jumping to a competitor
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Mar 9, 2017 14:53
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ShadowHawk posted:When the higher-salary businesses scoop up the best citizen employees we don't seem to think it's a problem. What better signal do we have that an immigrant would add productively to the economy than having a sponsor willing to pay more? The amount a company will pay for an employee has never been a good measure of their economic multiplier effect, and there's a whole range of negative externalities when the scope of the h-1b immigrant population is set by the highest bidder. Again, Discendo Vox posted:Different visas have different goals, and the goals of the h-1b visas, which aren't for immigrant or permanent employees, are not the same as those intended to attract "top-notch talent". While they are intended to have indirect positive economic effects, they aren't meant to guarantee those benefits to the companies or groups that can afford to outbid all the others.
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Mar 9, 2017 15:28
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The Daimler owed mytaxi app seems to currently be expanding rapidly in Europe. They're currently gobbling up regional competitors, with Hailo being fully re-branded this week. To quote their own site:quote:With over 10 million downloads and more than 45,000 participating taxis, mytaxi is the leading taxi booking app in Europe. mytaxi users can book and pay for taxis in more than 40 cities in 6 countries. Still small change compared to uber, but I wonder if they have a more sustainable model with regard to profitability/employee treatment.
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Mar 9, 2017 16:50
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Blut posted:The Daimler owed mytaxi app seems to currently be expanding rapidly in Europe. They're currently gobbling up regional competitors, with Hailo being fully re-branded this week. To quote their own site: I can't tell if they recognize their employees as employees or not. I'm not getting why folks don't just try to monopolize a middleware hailing app.
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Mar 9, 2017 19:10
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Uber will stop greyballing ... someday.quote:In a statement on Wednesday, Joe Sullivan, Uber’s chief security officer, said the company was conducting a review of how the technology had been used.
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Mar 9, 2017 19:45
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Uber will stop greyballing ... someday. I'm sure there were no controls/oversight/auditing functionality built into it, so all you can say is "I'm super serious guys, don't do that anymore!"
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Mar 9, 2017 23:55
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Discendo Vox posted:The amount a company will pay for an employee has never been a good measure of their economic multiplier effect, and there's a whole range of negative externalities when the scope of the h-1b immigrant population is set by the highest bidder. Again, It's like, here we have this company Infosys that everyone agrees is abusing and underpaying their workers, and we have Facebook and Google saying they can't import all the people they want to pay 150k+ a year to. And we have two reforms that would directly prevent Infosys from competing while letting Facebook and Google import the people they want and pay them a big salary. Why on earth can't we agree that's an improvement?
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Mar 10, 2017 09:31
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Anything that forces wage up is a improvement
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ShadowHawk posted:The biggest enablers of abuse seem to be either underpaying or importing a class of worker that you can abuse because they can't easily find another job. Raising salaries (by either auction or floor) targets those two problems directly. Because it's causing harm to other areas- in particular, it lets a small set of companies control the H-1b supply and restricts the scope of the workers that can be imported. Again, the goal is a combination of factors. Again, it would be helpful to ask why they weren't just letting people buy visas at top prices in the first place.
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Mar 10, 2017 17:31
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I mean, we want to destroy a system where bodyshops like Infosys monopolize spots because they flood the zone with low-skilled technical workers they can use to undercut wages, but we also don't want to create a system where Facebook and Google monopolize the spots because they're the only ones who can pay to bring in $200K unicorn engineers in bulk.
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Mar 10, 2017 21:15
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Alphabet’s Waymo asks judge to block Uber from using self-driving car secrets Uber can't help but to hire the most fine, upstanding
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Mar 10, 2017 21:19
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Cckld: an app to find a local bull to gently caress your wife
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Mar 10, 2017 21:56
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Nude Bog Lurker posted:Cckld: an app to find a local bull to gently caress your wife So you can have a minotaur baby?
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Mar 10, 2017 22:16
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Baby Babbeh posted:I mean, we want to destroy a system where bodyshops like Infosys monopolize spots because they flood the zone with low-skilled technical workers they can use to undercut wages, but we also don't want to create a system where Facebook and Google monopolize the spots because they're the only ones who can pay to bring in $200K unicorn engineers in bulk. Infosys can't fully flood the zone because there's a lottery. And as previously mentioned, Discendo Vox posted:The answer to the problems of displacement, fraud and abuse don't have to do with replacing the lottery system. You're choosing the single worst part of the entire apparatus to target. There are existing labor protection provisions on the visa program, the problem is they aren't enforced strongly enough.
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Mar 10, 2017 22:33
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Baby Babbeh posted:I mean, we want to destroy a system where bodyshops like Infosys monopolize spots because they flood the zone with low-skilled technical workers they can use to undercut wages, but we also don't want to create a system where Facebook and Google monopolize the spots because they're the only ones who can pay to bring in $200K unicorn engineers in bulk. Why? If they're hiring these people, there's still the other people on the market they didn't hire, which maybe they would've, but them being too stupid/unproductive for Facebook and Google doesn't mean they're too stupid/unproductive for other employers. So now other employers hire people smarter than they otherwise would have hired.
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Mar 10, 2017 22:46
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it's still insanely dumb google made a holding company or whatever and called it alphabet. you're google you dumbasses. remember when uber changed their icon that made sense to some dumb poo poo that still don't make any sense.
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Mar 10, 2017 22:55
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sarehu posted:Why? If they're hiring these people, there's still the other people on the market they didn't hire, which maybe they would've, but them being too stupid/unproductive for Facebook and Google doesn't mean they're too stupid/unproductive for other employers. So now other employers hire people smarter than they otherwise would have hired. haha literally a more money = better than argument, nice
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Mar 10, 2017 23:02
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boner confessor posted:haha literally a more money = better than argument, nice Yes, this is generally true. It's a fluid labor market, you see.
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Mar 10, 2017 23:20
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App idea! It looks at a set of documents and it tells you the priority the person (or group) described should have in immigration. Twist: you don't know what it bases the decision on. It's a neural network, but for immigration!
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Mar 10, 2017 23:28
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sarehu posted:Yes, this is generally true. It's a fluid labor market, you see. i mean it makes sense, given that women are at least 17% less intelligent and productive than men and you don't even want to get in to gauging how productive black people aren't, hoo boy. their long finger bones prevent them from writing code efficiently
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WrenP-Complete posted:App idea! It looks at a set of documents and it tells you the priority the person (or group) described should have in immigration. Twist: you don't know what it bases the decision on. RandList. It works on multiple levels.
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Discendo Vox posted:RandList. It works on multiple levels. An app that gives you the location of crying children near you.
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WrenP-Complete posted:An app that gives you the location of crying children near you. Pacifindr.
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boner confessor posted:i mean it makes sense, given that women are at least 17% less intelligent and productive than men I don't know how you score intelligence -- it's pretty dumb to act like you have an amount of it like that -- but less than half as many girls as boys get 800 on the SAT Math. As you get to higher standards than that, the proportion gets lower and lower. What is this 17% from?
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Was 17% too low for you to describe how stupid women are?
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sarehu posted:I don't know how you score intelligence -- it's pretty dumb to act like you have an amount of it like that -- but less than half as many girls as boys get 800 on the SAT Math. As you get to higher standards than that, the proportion gets lower and lower. What is this 17% from? Way to miss the forest for the flaming dumpster fire.
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Mar 11, 2017 00:29
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Dirk the Average posted:Way to miss the forest for the flaming dumpster fire. iDerailr?
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Mar 11, 2017 00:30
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sarehu is and has been trolling, hth
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WrenP-Complete posted:App idea! It looks at a set of documents and it tells you the priority the person (or group) described should have in immigration. Twist: you don't know what it bases the decision on. Yeah but then inherent biases will probably get into the training data and then you end up with "well it's only admitting rich white Europeans, but it can't be biased, it's a machine!"
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A Man With A Plan posted:Yeah but then inherent biases will probably get into the training data and then you end up with "well it's only admitting rich white Europeans, but it can't be biased, it's a machine!" This was the joke I was hoping to make, ha!
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Because all people are created equal, it's perfectly fine to reject one person from immigration and accept another in their place. The only measure of morality there is the total number you let in. It makes a lot of sense to make an algorithm that chooses immigrants based on externalities of their intake, if it actually works, and if there are externalities that are valuable to you. For example you might model the probability of them getting on welfare, or whether they're likely to have both spouses in the workforce, or likelihood of being a drug addict, based on country of origin, religion, DNA, or facial appearance. There was a neat study done in China that shows you can predict criminality from the latter.
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sarehu posted:There was a neat study done in China that shows you can predict criminality from the latter. Too obvious. Try again.
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Baby Babbeh posted:but we also don't want to create a system where Facebook and Google monopolize the spots because they're the only ones who can pay to bring in $200K unicorn engineers in bulk. There were 85000 H1Bs granted last year and Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon had about 13000 applications in total. To contextualize that, the market cap of the S&P 500 is around 21 trillion dollars and the market caps of Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon combined are approximately 2.5 trillion. Even if every single one of their H1B applications was approved it would be only slightly disproportionate to their share of the economy. This doesn't even address the separate (wrong) assumption that people seem to be making, where these companies outbid the entire market across all 13000 applications, including higher paying fields like law and medicine, as well as their entry-level employees versus senior and executive levels elsewhere.
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