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Chinese bicycle graveyards, but with scooters
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Jan 14, 2019 19:03
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qirex posted:if you think this is bad wait until you see daycare prices we pay just under $2k for one unit of babby works out to like $90/day
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Jan 14, 2019 19:04
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hobbesmaster posted:isn't the thinking that theres some sort of money laundering going on there? iirc at least some of the scooter schemes were purported to be a way of getting money out of china, at least
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Jan 14, 2019 19:05
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qirex posted:pretty sure they're run by one of those captain planet villains who is all like "muahahaha I love trash!" I think it was more likely because some of our more enterprising electrical engineering and computer science students started making, using, and selling kits for turning their scooters into YOUR scooters One of my student workers has like 4 ex-Bird scooters in his apartment he converted
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Jan 14, 2019 19:06
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Sagebrush posted:iirc at least some of the scooter schemes were purported to be a way of getting money out of china, at least a few months back there was a big article about how a company that makes the scooters for most of these companies is basically dumping them to the rental places to get volume up in anticipation of their ipo in china
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Jan 14, 2019 19:17
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i kinda wanna get a Bird scooter to make into my own. do any of the police auctions around the bay area regularly have them for sale?
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Jan 14, 2019 19:18
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Xaris posted:not including pickup/chjarging costs. this is handled by incentivizing gig industry serfs to do it for you Sagebrush posted:i kinda wanna get a Bird scooter to make into my own. do any of the police auctions around the bay area regularly have them for sale? grab one off the street and snip it I visited baltimore recently and these things were everywhere. I wanted to get one to yell at me about how it was calling the cops but apparently poking the buttons and briefly standing on it isn't enough, didn't dare to try more
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Jan 14, 2019 19:19
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This is my scooter. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My scooter is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My scooter, without me, is useless. Without my scooter, I am useless.
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Jan 14, 2019 19:21
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:we pay just under $2k for one unit of babby who dat who dat gonna pay for the babby
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Jan 14, 2019 19:25
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Sagebrush posted:i kinda wanna get a Bird scooter to make into my own. do any of the police auctions around the bay area regularly have them for sale? Students would grab a bunch of dead scooters and store them somewhere because the amount of money you get for charging them and dropping them back off went up the longer they went uncharged
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Jan 14, 2019 19:29
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Fabricated posted:Students would grab a bunch of dead scooters and store them somewhere because the amount of money you get for charging them and dropping them back off went up the longer they went uncharged haha seriously? they're encouraging people to stockpile scooters and keep them off the street for as long as possible?
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Jan 14, 2019 19:30
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the smooth, resistive touch, of coby kyros graph fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Jan 14, 2019 |
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Jan 14, 2019 19:33
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well it was supposed to encourage people to go and get the ones left in hard-to-reach locations by paying more the longer they go unattended but of course if you make a box that says "press this button to get money," people will find the quickest and easiest way of pressing that button
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Jan 14, 2019 19:33
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I assume someone is working on how to discharge them without having to put them back on the street
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Jan 14, 2019 19:35
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haveblue posted:haha seriously? they're encouraging people to stockpile scooters and keep them off the street for as long as possible? yah it's a sliding scale based on state of charge and location. the mythical "12.80 per Lime scooter charge payout" actually works out to be like 1-3 bucks most of the time.
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Jan 14, 2019 19:43
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must be a pretty sweet deal for dorm kids that don't pay their own electricity
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Jan 14, 2019 20:08
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:must be a pretty sweet deal for dorm kids that don't pay their own electricity yeah i'm sure dorm kids are out there hustling to earn three bucks
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Jan 14, 2019 20:12
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:must be a pretty sweet deal for dorm kids that don't pay their own electricity But there are people who can just barely afford to go here and people on scholarship money The kids doing the hustling are the ones renting an apartment or house with like 6 other people to afford it
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Jan 14, 2019 20:16
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:when i was looking for a place to board my doggo i ran across this operation in santa clara is this wag hotels? our dogges stay at one of their locations (it's a national chain) and we like it because they let our dogs share a larger room and they have specialized handlers for our anxiety boy. they showed us the luxury suites and it's some guillotine poo poo though. it legit looks like a nice room at an above average holiday in. for a dog. our boys just stay in a largish room with two dog beds and a petcam.
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Jan 14, 2019 20:20
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Sagebrush posted:i kinda wanna get a Bird scooter to make into my own. do any of the police auctions around the bay area regularly have them for sale? if only these things were just sitting all over the place waiting to be picked up.
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Jan 14, 2019 20:22
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:must be a pretty sweet deal for dorm kids that don't pay their own electricity it only becomes remotely profitable if you're ambling around all night in a full sized ford pickup. Lime scooters are literally gasoline fueled
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Jan 14, 2019 20:37
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qirex posted:a few months back there was a big article about how a company that makes the scooters for most of these companies is basically dumping them to the rental places to get volume up in anticipation of their ipo in china yeah its this -- i think a lot of the scooter rental companies that are popping up are actually financed by the manufacturers, with a few layers of separation
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Jan 14, 2019 20:46
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https://twitter.com/jonny290/status/1084899739143888896
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Jan 14, 2019 20:57
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Saw ones of those where they encased the scooter into the trash with a roll of packaging with an embedded note telling bird to gently caress off
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Jan 14, 2019 21:02
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Jonny 290 posted:it only becomes remotely profitable if you're ambling around all night in a full sized ford pickup. Lime scooters are literally gasoline fueled
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Jan 14, 2019 21:05
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it's 3-6 cents of electricity to fully charge one, the only real cost is labor/transport
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Jan 14, 2019 21:56
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Dylan16807 posted:it's 3-6 cents of electricity to fully charge one, the only real cost is labor/transport yeah I'm saying find a way to eliminate the labor/transport cost. charge the scooter. get paid. immediately discharge it. let it mark itself as needing a charge. charge it again. get paid. permanent scooter farm in your basement
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Jan 14, 2019 22:22
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haveblue posted:what's a dog supposed to do with a TV messed up colors that are more 'real' to a dog, content that follows a cycle of calm, activity, alertness (e.g. vacuum cleaning or w/e) that quickly goes away like... are you not monetizing your #content cross-species? leavin money on the table
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Jan 14, 2019 22:25
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JawnV6 posted:comcast has an entire dog channel so its animal fox news
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Jan 14, 2019 22:31
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haveblue posted:yeah I'm saying find a way to eliminate the labor/transport cost. charge the scooter. get paid. immediately discharge it. let it mark itself as needing a charge. charge it again. get paid. permanent scooter farm in your basement Capitalism working as intended
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Jan 14, 2019 22:31
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haveblue posted:yeah I'm saying find a way to eliminate the labor/transport cost. charge the scooter. get paid. immediately discharge it. let it mark itself as needing a charge. charge it again. get paid. permanent scooter farm in your basement p. sure you have to deposit the scooters at a drop off point
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Jan 14, 2019 22:39
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dropoff point is probably a rpi you can steal and reverse engineer in an afternoon 
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Jan 14, 2019 22:41
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or find a way to mess with their GPS
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Jan 14, 2019 22:43
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I think they require you take a picture too
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Jan 14, 2019 22:45
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3rd party site that coordinates people that want to scam scooter charge gigs and distributes payout, all while taking a 15% cut
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Jan 14, 2019 22:49
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scooter charge deepfake is your 2019 catchphrase
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Jan 14, 2019 22:49
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of all the moving parts in the business model "offload scooter hardware from china" i'd think the gig economy parts would have the screws on the tightest
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Jan 14, 2019 22:50
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They don't actually care if the business succeeds, it's a VC grift like everything else
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Jan 14, 2019 22:51
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:must be a pretty sweet deal for dorm kids that don't pay their own electricity there was a kid on bestoflegaladvice who had gathered up a mess of them and was charging them in a music practice room in his midwestern dorm basement parking enforcement heard about this and got the dorm manager to let them in and confiscated them but the app still thought they were in his possession so he was on the hook for them he wanted to sue the U
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Jan 14, 2019 23:01
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So... Is the speedometer also locked up, or is it correctly holding speed at 72?
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