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Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

universe brain: volunteer workforce collaborating thru google docs that you use to calculate corporate value

It�s there, they have frequently stated, that the company�s unique advantage lies: in the more than 900 volunteers so enamored with the idea of a functional hyperloop that they deploy their time and expertise suggesting materials, building simulations, or developing marketing in exchange for stock options. A fawning Harvard Business Review case study published in 2017 cast conventionalities like �paying full-time salaries and being focused on traditional employment� as �substantial disadvantages.� The study praised HTT�s cost-saving strategy of collaborating over Google Docs and reported that the company�s more than 60,000 social media followers �contributed in various ways,� including alerting the CEO to new engineering research. In inventing and implementing a commercial transportation mode, the method is unorthodox, to put it mildly. Terri Griffith, a professor of management at Santa Clara University�s Leavey School of Business and one of the study�s authors, told me she thought the company�s record of patents and feasibility studies provided evidence that the system was working even in the absence of a prototype.

The company claims to be worth $100 million, though that calculation relies on the valuation of volunteer contributions and products on loan from starry-eyed partner companies like Leybold, which manufactures the vacuum pumps that might one day suck the air out of a transportation tube. La Mendola says the company now employs about 40 salaried engineers, who are charged with merely reinventing the relationship between time and distance.

are you loving kidding me, the hyperloop is being designed by the same method milo writes his books :psyboom:

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atomicthumbs: Dec 26, 2010; We're in the business of extending man's senses.

https://twitter.com/Uber/status/969250510615269376

# ? Mar 2, 2018 05:49

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
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atomicthumbs posted:

https://twitter.com/Uber/status/969250510615269376

o wow this was not satire

# ? Mar 2, 2018 05:50

The MUMPSorceress: Jan 6, 2012; ^SHTPSTS; Gary’s Answer

atomicthumbs posted:

https://twitter.com/Uber/status/969250510615269376

This is for old fucks who have disowned all their children and grandchildren for being married to a black or becoming a gay and so can't get any loved one to take them to the doctor

# ? Mar 2, 2018 05:57

Arcteryx Anarchist: Sep 15, 2007; Fun Shoe

lol they think they can get the old and enfeebled to dispatch themselves rides with a smartphone app

# ? Mar 2, 2018 06:27

Not a Children: Oct 9, 2012; Don't need a holster if you never stop shooting.

Yes this looks like the move of a healthy burgeoning company that is not desperately flinging tyedyed iterations of their core concept at the wall to see what will keep their financial situation from coming to light

getting some serious Lou Bega vibes

# ? Mar 2, 2018 07:08

UnfurledSails: Sep 1, 2011

Uber and Lyft drivers' median hourly wage is just $3.37, report finds

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/01/uber-lyft-driver-wages-median-report

# ? Mar 2, 2018 07:08

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/california-cops-using-decoy-bus-232719647.html

quote:

The California Highway Patrol has resorted to using decoy buses to catch the culprit behind a string of BB gun shootings at charter buses carrying Apple and Google employees.

The news was first reported by ABC7.

CHP officer John Fransen told Business Insider the department will be using decoy buses to draw fire from the shooter. Since January, there have at least been 20 shootings at charter buses in the Bay Area, including five used by Apple and Google employees who commute. The FBI is also helping with the case, Fransen said.
...
In addition to the decoys, Fransen said some actual Apple and Google buses will have undercover CHP investigators posing as riders. The investigators will "take appropriate action" if a bus comes under fire, but Fransen declined to go into specifics about what that could mean.

can't wait for a bus to blow a tire and cause the undercover google protection squad to pump 20 bullets into a nearby child playing with a toy gun

# ? Mar 2, 2018 07:42

Munkeymon: Aug 14, 2003; Motherfucker's got an
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SENSUAL DAD KISS posted:

lol blindsight is so good

sequel is p. good too

I need to read the Rifters books before the nukes fly :\

# ? Mar 2, 2018 07:58

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Munkeymon posted:

I need to read the Rifters books before the nukes fly :\

you really, really don't

the first book is troubling and mediocre. the second and third books are literal pornography. unless you have a real hard-on for rape and sexual abuse, you are not gonna have a good time.

# ? Mar 2, 2018 08:26

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

starfish is very good. his second-best novel, after blindsight.

the other two are...not great. they still have a lot of cool ideas but there is some super gross violent sex stuff that pervades both of them and it's hard to get past.

# ? Mar 2, 2018 08:28

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

the rifters sequels were so bad that peter watts was blacklisted by his publisher and his agent

blindsight, one of the greatest-ever works of science fiction, was self-published on a website because no one would even talk to peter watts. (we are lucky to have it, at all! it could have just as easily disappeared into a drawer!)

that is how unpspeakably bad the 2nd and 3rd books of the rifter trilogy are. important people severed contact with watts after seeing them. he was persona non grata, industry-wide. folks passed up millions of dollars to avoid looking him in the eye

"pornography" isn't even my word -- that was what watts' own publisher called the work, and watts republished their comments on his blog. the rifter sequels are obscene in the most literal sense of the word: they have no literary merit. they appeal only to a prurient interest. if you don't have a paraphilia centered on rape and abuse, they are unreadable.

Notorious b.s.d. fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Mar 2, 2018

# ? Mar 2, 2018 08:28

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

it's funny how often that seems to happen. an artist who creates one of the greatest works in his/her medium also creates some of the worst. they have brilliant ideas and they have horrifying ones, in the same mind at the same time.

it's like the truth is in the middle, or something

# ? Mar 2, 2018 08:33

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

Sagebrush posted:

it's funny how often that seems to happen. an artist who creates one of the greatest works in his/her medium also creates some of the worst. they have brilliant ideas and they have horrifying ones, in the same mind at the same time.

it's like the truth is in the middle, or something

maybe scifi writers are all just gross nerds

# ? Mar 2, 2018 08:45

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

ate all the Oreos posted:

maybe scifi writers are all just gross nerds

# ? Mar 2, 2018 08:47

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Sagebrush posted:

starfish is very good. his second-best novel, after blindsight.

this is not even close to true. starfish might be worth reading, for a truly devoted watts fan, but it is not "very good"

blindsight is truly amazing, one of the greatest scifi works in the past century, something that will make watts' name live for all time. echopraxia is merely excellent. it is a fine novel that "merely" ranks among the best written this decade. it followed on a hard fuckin intro, what can i say.

but that ain't starfish.

starfish is, at best, an interesting early exercise from an author who later developed into a much greater talent. read it after reading watts' best work, if you read it at all.

(and, of course, the latter "rifters" novels are pornographic trash that are not worth reading at all. seriously. I mean that in the worst way. friends don't let friends pick up behemoth.)

# ? Mar 2, 2018 08:53

Munkeymon: Aug 14, 2003; Motherfucker's got an
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

that ain't starfish.

starfish is, at best, an interesting early exercise from an author who later developed into a much greater talent. read it after reading watts' best work, if you read it at all.

(and, of course, the latter "rifters" novels are pornographic trash that are not worth reading at all. seriously. I mean that in the worst way. friends don't let friends pick up behemoth.)

then I guess I'm good to go because I read the good ones first (found Blindsight on a free books list and figured why not) and I read the Dune prequels before I read the real thing so I've probably seen worse

# ? Mar 2, 2018 09:02

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

sorry i thought this was the robe and wizard hat thread

# ? Mar 2, 2018 09:04

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Munkeymon posted:

I read the Dune prequels before I read the real thing so I've probably seen worse

lol nothing can prepare you for the latter part of the rifters trilogy

# ? Mar 2, 2018 09:05

Arcteryx Anarchist: Sep 15, 2007; Fun Shoe