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Adventure Pigeon posted:Of course. There's even evidence that the gut microbiome can affect mood and behavior. There's just enough science to add a veneer of respectability. 
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"Theranos but for shi...uhhh, I mean, but for weight-loss." Juicero got 100 million from Google Ventures, I'm sure you could at least match that.
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Randler posted:Once upon a time, there was a young man in Germany who was registered on Facebook. One day this young man wanted to check his Facebook only to see that his account had been deactivated by Facebook. He was surprised and sent an e-mail to Facebook's support. They told him, they had nothing to say to him, because for reasons of security they do not give details on why they block accounts. I love you, Randler
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May 30, 2017 06:42
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https://twitter.com/JohnCarreyrou/status/869542319422418944
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Ars Technica has an overview of the WSJ article that isn't paywalled.quote:When former US Secretary of State George Shultz underwent a Theranos blood test, it involved a standard vein draw—not the company’s proprietary finger prick blood collection. Though at the time Theranos claimed to only use its proprietary testing, the discrepancy didn’t bother Shultz, then a member of the company’s board of directors. In fact, according to newly unsealed court documents reported by The Wall Street Journal, he continued to believe that the company could and did use its own technology for all blood testing.
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In the latest Waymo lawsuit drama new, Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/technology/uber-anthony-levandowski.html?_r=1 quote:SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology and the star engineer leading the company’s self-driving automobile efforts, according to an internal email sent to employees on Tuesday.
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It would be wonderful if Uber was undone by somebody taking their 'it's not illegal if you get away with it' philosophy too much to heart.
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May 30, 2017 20:41
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Guess who's birthday it is? That's right, thread mascot Marissa Mayer!  https://twitter.com/marissamayer/status/869612334297210881
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May 31, 2017 02:33
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Surprised there are enough Yahoo employees left to blow up all those balloons.
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May 31, 2017 07:47
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Baby Babbeh posted:Surprised there are enough Yahoo employees left to blow up all those balloons. They're paid in Alibaba stocks.
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May 31, 2017 08:08
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Goat rentals on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Hire-a-Goat-Grazer/dp/B00UBYDXXQ Not sure this is the appropriate thread for this but not sure it isn't. Edit: Whoopsie daisy, was trying to find the retail thread. WrenP-Complete fucked around with this message at 19:32 on May 31, 2017 |
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The fall of unicorns: The rental of goats
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speaking of germany and facebook (loved the post btw Randler) http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/dead-girl-s-parents-blocked-from-accessing-her-facebook-account-1.3102731 quote:Facebook was correct to block, on data protection grounds, a German woman’s access to the account of her dead daughter, a Berlin court has ruled.
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Somewhere, forums user VendaGoat is sulking about IP theft.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:speaking of germany and facebook (loved the post btw Randler) That's weird. I mean, it might be for the best, but it seems weird. If you send me letters, and I die, wouldn't you expect the post office to deliver them to my next of kin?
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Doc Hawkins posted:That's weird. I mean, it might be for the best, but it seems weird. Chatlogs are a bit different to letters though. They're more comparable to having an in-person conversation in their casualness (and expectation to be recorded, for most people). If I have a conversation with someone while they're alive I'm not going to censor what I say under the expectation that 5 years later their parents will be reading it - I'm going to assume the person in the conversation is the only one whos going to be reading it.
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Doc Hawkins posted:That's weird. I mean, it might be for the best, but it seems weird. I have not read the verdict yet, but according to the official press release it is a secrecy of correspondence issue. Everything else aside (and there is a lot of other legal problems touched upon in the press release), it would be a breach o the constitutionally guaranteed secrecy of correspondence because you'd grant a third party access to correspondence that is still covered by secrecy of correspondence. With regards to letter it might be a different thing, due to differences in how the secrey of letters for physical objects works compared to the secrecy of correspondence to electronically transmitted communications. But I can't speak on secrecy of letters vs. possible inheritance claims with authority. Also, this can still go to a higher court and thinks might change from 2018 or whenver else the new EU privacy regulation comes into force.
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Uber: when it rains, it poursquote:In summer 2015, about a year after Uber launched its Pool ride-sharing service, the company was betting big on it. In order to beat out Lyft and cement its ride-hail supremacy, Uber needed to get droves of riders and drivers into Pool — and fast.
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According to leaked documents, back in 2015 Uber was burning over $1 million a week to subsidize their Uber Pool service in an attempt to prevent users from switching to Lyft in San Francisco. EDIT: At least my post has a picture. 
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But wait, there's more! Uber’s head of finance has left the company quote:Gupta will be the third executive to either step down or be fired from the company just this week. On Monday, both the company’s New York General Manager Josh Mohrer and one of the top self-driving engineers Anthony Levandowski left the company — under completely different circumstances. While Mohrer was leaving to pursue a role at Tusk Ventures, Levandowski was fired for not cooperating with the lawsuit Alphabet has brought against it.
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If Uber needed to burn cash on subsidies to compete with Lyft, how exactly was Lyft delivering rides so much cheaper?
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How the gently caress do they not know that loss-leading your main product is a terrible strategy if you ever want to raise the price?
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Klyith posted:If Uber needed to burn cash on subsidies to compete with Lyft, how exactly was Lyft delivering rides so much cheaper? Lyft is setting money on fire too, and as far as their core business is concerned their margins are probably worse because their network is smaller. On the other hand they probably light less money on fire in R&D/China/international markets than Uber, so they've at least got that going for them.
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Klyith posted:If Uber needed to burn cash on subsidies to compete with Lyft, how exactly was Lyft delivering rides so much cheaper? uber (sort of) makes money in it's core markets like san francisco, new york, chicago, los angeles, toronto... lyft competes in these markets at about the same price and offers about the same service uber burns billions trying to expand/compete in markets where it's less clear it can be profitable (like china, india, eastern europe, south east asia, south america...) lyft is only burning millions trying to expand/compete in a far smaller number of markets
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uber also has a bunch of dumb assed extensions like uber pool, uber freight, the self driving car program collapsing on itself (why? what purpose does this serve other than fooling more investors into giving you their money?)
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boner confessor posted:uber also has a bunch of dumb assed extensions like uber pool, uber freight, the self driving car program collapsing on itself (why? what purpose does this serve other than fooling more investors into giving you their money?) Which executives skim.
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Klyith posted:If Uber needed to burn cash on subsidies to compete with Lyft, how exactly was Lyft delivering rides so much cheaper? They were trying not only to compete with Lyft but hopefully drive them out of business before they established any foothold. Given Lyft was also playing "burn to grow" games with their capital, Uber apparently decided they were going to burn even more in hopes of effectively loss-leading the competitors off the field entirely. I will gladly clap and laugh at both companies as they loss-lead themselves straight off the map. Stupid loving sharing-economy bullshit...
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boner confessor posted:uber also has a bunch of dumb assed extensions like uber pool, uber freight, the self driving car program collapsing on itself (why? what purpose does this serve other than fooling more investors into giving you their money?) Uber Pool, Uber Eats, etc are actually pretty sensible extensions if you view a lot of the value of Uber as being derived from the network and think about how that can be leveraged (I've also heard from some Uber employees that Uber Eats in particular has ridiculously high margins). Some of the other ones feel like complete boondoggles that are pretty far detached from their core business though. Sundae posted:I will gladly clap and laugh at both companies as they loss-lead themselves straight off the map. Stupid loving sharing-economy bullshit... Actually I'd prefer to continue having my non-car-owning lifestyle heavily subsidized by VCs and large institutional investors, thank you very much.
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Baby Babbeh posted:Surprised there are enough Yahoo employees left to blow up all those balloons. ...I'm trying to get a job at Yahoo. Hopefully they'll have one more next year.
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Feel this probably appeared in the thread already, but: https://backchannel.com/how-the-trendiest-grilled-cheese-venture-got-burnt-aa627b0c7ae1 quote:The Melt had cash, technology, and some of Silicon Valley’s finest minds — yet it failed to disrupt the humble sandwich.
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outlier posted:Feel this probably appeared in the thread already, but: There are so many great quotes in this article: “I didn’t know anything about the video camera ten years ago,” he boasted in a 2011 interview with Forbes, “and I don’t know that much about grilled cheese sandwiches or soup.” “I think if you’re looking for the angle of, like, what went wrong, I would say that nothing went wrong,” Kaplan told me when we last spoke. “But what we did learn is that the quality of the food is the most important reason why someone comes to a restaurant.”
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Did the accusations that Uber has been charging customers at a higher rate than what drivers are told (and then pocketing the difference) ever come to anything? Because that just sounds like fraud.
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super sweet best pal posted:...I'm trying to get a job at Yahoo. Hopefully they'll have one more next year. That's an interesting choice (and may even have people raising their eyebrows at your resume once you move on from Yahoo, to be honest).
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super sweet best pal posted:...I'm trying to get a job at Yahoo. Hopefully they'll have one more next year. So do you mean you're lookin to work at Verizon or you're looking to work at the remaining shell company that holds Yahoo debt and alibaba shares?
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Sundae posted:They were trying not only to compete with Lyft but hopefully drive them out of business before they established any foothold. Even if they accomplished that, I don't see how it works after Lyft leaves SF. They're going to have to raise prices eventually and once they do another startup will emerge with lower prices and all the assholes in the Bay Area will happily change apps.
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So, Uber's plan is to lose so much money that other people cannot keep up with them in shoveling money hand over fist into a fire so that they can gain a monopoly. Do I have this right?
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MiddleOne posted:How the hell is Yahoo stock back at pre-Alibaba IPO valuation. Well now we know that most of Yahoo is to be sold to Verizon at a guaranteed price, and then the remaining yahoo stock should mostly end up being a proxy for holding Alibaba investment as "Altaba Inc". So it makes sense that some value has been gained back in the stock now that it's clear exactly what it'll get you as an investor. Night10194 posted:So, Uber's plan is to lose so much money that other people cannot keep up with them in shoveling money hand over fist into a fire so that they can gain a monopoly. To meet their current valuations, they need to do this until they gain a monopoly over basically all land transport globally, so keep that in mind too.
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