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quote:...[W]here private ride options such as UberX and Lyft have failed on promises to cut down on personal driving and car ownership — both of which are trending up — pooled ride services have lured a different market that directly competes with subway and bus systems, while failing to achieve significantly better efficiency than their solo alternatives. The result: more driving overall. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.998db18035b9
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Some public libraries have 3D printers now, and makerspace memberships are not necessarily prohibitive. And those end up being useless for constructing a lot of things, due to the fact you end up needing quite a lot of time, accuracy, and alternate materials for many things. It's like saying since a barebones color inkjet printer can be had for $20 (before you start counting frequent expensive ink refills, natch), everyone can print a highway banner at home, basically.
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welp uber is in a death spiral now if they can't afford to keep all the vain hail mary programs afloat and have to start consolidating
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luxury handset posted:welp uber is in a death spiral now if they can't afford to keep all the vain hail mary programs afloat and have to start consolidating Isn't Uber still burning massive piles of cash to stay competitive? I remember Naked Capitalism had a good multi part article on Uber that came out in the winter I think. Any more contemporary articles on how they're doing now?
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Kommienzuspadt posted:Isn't Uber still burning massive piles of cash to stay competitive? I remember Naked Capitalism had a good multi part article on Uber that came out in the winter I think. Any more contemporary articles on how they're doing now? nothing's changed. uber's basic problem is that they spent billions building a huge market and customer base, except the service uber provides is extremely easy to replicate. except uber has higher overhead costs from trying to force a monopoly basically. and their only path to short term profitability is to raise fares, potentially pushing that customer base to any number of competitors and triggering the final death spiral giving up on self driving trucks (a stupid idea for now) could be a sign of wiser, less frivolous spending, or a sign that the company is headed towards a severe contraction
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luxury handset posted:nothing's changed. uber's basic problem is that they spent billions building a huge market and customer base, except the service uber provides is extremely easy to replicate. except uber has higher overhead costs from trying to force a monopoly basically. and their only path to short term profitability is to raise fares, potentially pushing that customer base to any number of competitors and triggering the final death spiral Yeah that was more or less the takeaway I got out of this series. Looks like they last updated in Feb and they aren't doing a whole lot better... quote:Uber released new financial data this week, showing full year 2017 GAAP operating losses of $4.5 billion, and an operating margin of negative 61%.
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Aug 1, 2018 05:36
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Had this thread covered WeWork yet? How's that for burning cash?
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Dinosaurtrain posted:Had this thread covered WeWork yet? How's that for burning cash? Are they public?
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Kommienzuspadt posted:Are they public? https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/04/24/1524606395000/More-on-WeWork-and-its-bond-offering/ Oh better than that. They're issuing high yield bonds backed by hoped and dreams.
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luxury handset posted:nothing's changed. uber's basic problem is that they spent billions building a huge market and customer base, except the service uber provides is extremely easy to replicate. except uber has higher overhead costs from trying to force a monopoly basically. and their only path to short term profitability is to raise fares, potentially pushing that customer base to any number of competitors and triggering the final death spiral Lyft has a self driving car program too.
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Spazzle posted:Lyft has a self driving car program too. lyft is using self driving cars developed by a third party company, they aren't trying to do it in house because lyft doesn't have a shitload of investors to impress https://www.aptiv.com/media/article/aptiv-launches-fleet-of-autonomous-vehicles-on-the-lyft-network
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WeWork bond loses appeal days after debuthttps://www.ft.com/content/0ee5ddb6-4d9a-11e8-97e4-13afc22d86d4quote:A growing number of people are joining the trendy co-working spaces that WeWork leases and operates, but its appeal to the US high-yield bond market is rapidly fading. That's ok I'm sure it's only a matter of time before everyone buys into the concept of "community adjusted EBITDA".
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I just want to say as a PhD chemistry student, owlofcreamcheese is a loving moron, and no one should try to DIY insulin in your basement meth lab
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I would take a chance on Heisenberg's artisanal blue insulin.
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luxury handset posted:lyft is using self driving cars developed by a third party company, they aren't trying to do it in house because lyft doesn't have a shitload of investors to impress semi-related question for the thread: my sister's husband is moving to a larger city for a few months to student-teach and since not only are they not paying him to do so, but he has to pay tuition to his university (yay capitalism!!!), he was thinking of taking up ride-share driving temporarily for some quick cash. I know Uber is a terrible shitpile and that Lyft is a less terrible shitpile but that both have labor issues. Is Uber really genuinely so much worse to work that it would be worth telling him he should probably do Lyft? I lean towards yes but if it's temporary and Uber has a larger customer base i'm not so sure
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Artisanal insulin, pssh, where's the artisanal snake oil? What happened to go big or go home disruption?
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:I just want to say as a PhD chemistry student, owlofcreamcheese is a loving moron, and no one should try to DIY insulin in your basement meth lab I really wanna know what kind of yields they are getting in their ball-jar home chemistry sets.
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Kommienzuspadt posted:I really wanna know what kind of yields they are getting in their ball-jar home chemistry sets. Getting a high yield is easy if you don't test/care if the thing you got is actually the substance you tried to synthesize
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luxury handset posted:lyft is using self driving cars developed by a third party company, they aren't trying to do it in house because lyft doesn't have a shitload of investors to impress Ok dude, I've met some of them and there are 20+ job openings on their website for it. https://www.lyft.com/jobs.
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DC Murderverse posted:semi-related question for the thread: my sister's husband is moving to a larger city for a few months to student-teach and since not only are they not paying him to do so, but he has to pay tuition to his university (yay capitalism!!!), he was thinking of taking up ride-share driving temporarily for some quick cash. I know Uber is a terrible shitpile and that Lyft is a less terrible shitpile but that both have labor issues. Is Uber really genuinely so much worse to work that it would be worth telling him he should probably do Lyft? I lean towards yes but if it's temporary and Uber has a larger customer base i'm not so sure it's fine to pick up some quick cash but i wouldn't rely on it as a career Spazzle posted:Ok dude, I've met some of them and there are 20+ job openings on their website for it. https://www.lyft.com/jobs. oh ugh you're right, they do have some of it in house https://medium.com/@lvincent/introducing-level-5-and-our-self-driving-team-705ef8989f03 why, this is such a boondoggle (i know the answer is investor storytime). at least they're talking about partnering with other firms rather than keeping it all in house quote:This is what drives us at Lyft — to build a future where shared, self-driving cars make transportation cheaper and more efficient for everyone. It’s a future where there are fewer cars on the road and less traffic. A future where we can devote less of our space to roads, concrete, and parking lots — and more to parks, playgrounds, homes and local businesses. It is a future where cars no longer contribute meaningfully to greenhouse gas emissions, and with less pollution to cloud our blue skies. It’s a future, in short, where we build our communities and our world around people, not cars. i just hate this wide eyed futurism poo poo. you may as well be talking about o'neil cylinders. minimum parking requirement standards in 16,000 jurisdictions across the US laugh at your pathetic dreams. for anything to do with parking in the united states, Shoup is the man to read http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/Trouble.pdf Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Aug 1, 2018 |
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DC Murderverse posted:semi-related question for the thread: my sister's husband is moving to a larger city for a few months to student-teach and since not only are they not paying him to do so, but he has to pay tuition to his university (yay capitalism!!!), he was thinking of taking up ride-share driving temporarily for some quick cash. I know Uber is a terrible shitpile and that Lyft is a less terrible shitpile but that both have labor issues. Is Uber really genuinely so much worse to work that it would be worth telling him he should probably do Lyft? I lean towards yes but if it's temporary and Uber has a larger customer base i'm not so sure Pretty much everyone trying to make more than walking around money does both at the same time.
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i wish there were more urban planning people itt who could yell about how you're not going to get rid of cars by making robot cars like there were enough chemists to yell about how you're not going to get rid of diabetes by throwing crap into a blender
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[That picture that shows how much space you need to transport the same amount of people, except with autonomous cars taking double the space since half of them will be empty]
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Has anyone here yet posted about the Tesla lawsuit against former tech, Martin Tripp? It's a bizarre loving story and the text of the lawsuit is pretty damning if even half true. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/man-accused-of-sabotage-at-tesla-brings-his-own-lawsuit-over-defamation/ quote:Martin Tripp, an ex-Tesla technician the company has accused of hacking and sabotage, has now countersued his former employer and claimed that Tesla defamed him. Here is some text from the suit itself ( https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4623512-Gov-Uscourts-Nvd-131279-25-0.html#document/p13/a443994) quote:Later in the afternoon on May 16, 2018, Mr. Tripp's Manufacturing Engineer Manager asked Mr. Tripp to "forward" him the "email to Elon so that I can avoid getting fired tonight." After Mr. Tripp asked why the Manufacturing Engineer Manager would get fired, the Manufacturing Engineer Manager explained: "because I'm the guy showing him the line and our problems like yield, the guy standing in front of him is the guy who gets fired, and tonight I’m the guy in front of him." It also sounds very likely that Tesla tried to "SWAT" him (from the ArsTechnica article) quote:In yet another bizarre turn in this twisted tale, in the immediate wake of the June 2018 lawsuit filed against Tripp, a woman at the Gigafactory said she received a call from an anonymous caller claiming that Tripp had threatened to "shoot the place up." Kommienzuspadt fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Aug 1, 2018 |
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Wow, holy poo poo:
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Kommienzuspadt posted:Wow, holy poo poo: https://twitter.com/marycmccormack/status/1007831286176571394
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The Elon Musk Thread is live-commenting the earnings call right now Elon is very underslept and not very coherent, but the stock is way up in after-hours trading, so he's appeasing hte gods
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I can't wait until Tesla ousts Musk as CEO and Chairman. Only question is if it's before or after they file Ch11
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Kommienzuspadt posted:I can't wait until Tesla ousts Musk as CEO and Chairman. Only question is if it's before or after they file Ch11 There's no way they'll oust him. He's the only thing letting them print money for basically nothing. Without him and his space and drilling adventures acting as an electric hypeman, they're done.
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a foolish pianist posted:There's no way they'll oust him. He's the only thing letting them print money for basically nothing. Without him and his space and drilling adventures acting as an electric hypeman, they're done. Elon Musk is what's making them shred money. What on Earth makes you think he's helping them gain money? Hell his freakout poo poo alone drove massivley more institutional examination of Tesla's actual financial figures and triggered all the mass distrust of the company. Without a leader who decided to get all weird in public like him for the past year or so, they'd probably have avoided major scrutiny.
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fishmech posted:Elon Musk is what's making them shred money. What on Earth makes you think he's helping them gain money? Yeah I mean after all, look how long Valeant kept going with a CEO of normal CEO level incompetence. It's vaguely a miracle that the company has gone on as long as it has.
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fishmech posted:Elon Musk is what's making them shred money. What on Earth makes you think he's helping them gain money? On the other hand, without charismatic nerd spaceman, they never would have gotten the value they have.
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a foolish pianist posted:On the other hand, without charismatic nerd spaceman, they never would have gotten the value they have. Being in business with reduced value is significantly more profitable than a temporary boost in value that gets wiped before most investors can benefit from it.
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Ratoslov posted:I gotta say, no two words in the english language makes my butthole pucker quite like 'homemade epi-pen'. Epinephrine is a hella-cheap drug and you can learn to draw and administer it with a vial and syringe in 5 minutes. Autoinjectors are pieces of plastic with a spring in the center. As far as medical tech goes, a homemade epi-pen would be pretty hard to gently caress up.
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Baronash posted:Epinephrine is a hella-cheap drug and you can learn to draw and administer it with a vial and syringe in 5 minutes. Autoinjectors are pieces of plastic with a spring in the center. As far as medical tech goes, a homemade epi-pen would be pretty hard to gently caress up. The issue is less the delivery mechanism (though the average home isn't equipped with an autoclave), and more trying to make epinephrine in a bathtub.
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You don't even really need an autoinjector if you know how to draw up and use a pre-filled syringe. Needles are also dirt cheap. You do not need a 3D printer to successfully administer epinephrine.
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Kommienzuspadt posted:You don't even really need an autoinjector if you know how to draw up and use a pre-filled syringe. Needles are also dirt cheap. You do not need a 3D printer to successfully administer epinephrine. Doesn't seem to me like you understand ~~~disruption~~~
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If you draw it up yourself, you can also get the big long needles and inject it directly into your heart. Like in The Rock.
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Midwestern Unicorn successful exit: https://www.zdnet.com/article/cisco-buys-duo-security-for-2-35-billion-adds-cloud-based-authentication-to-security-lineup/ quote:Cisco said it will acquire Duo Security, which provides security and authentication cloud services, for $2.35 billion. I'm hoping their employees had fairly generous options. That's a lot of dollars for Ann Arbor.
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Baronash posted:Autoinjectors are pieces of plastic with a spring in the center. A micropipette is a piece of plastic with a spring in the center and we pay hundreds for them and pay a vendor to calibrate them every 3 months.
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