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Don Gato posted:How much can I invest in your bridge and what's the return on investment looking like? Is there an app? It's called CROSSR, and subscribers to the Platinum Suspension Club can make the bridge lift at the tap of a button to make room for their yacht whenever they need it. They also get 25% more Span Points at every toll crossing!
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JawnV6 posted:VC's also manage to muck up hardware. There's a few trying to make it work, but the plug-n-chug model of a software startup breaks down. I think we've already got a very good example of how this funding model plays out with hardware. Get some engineers with zero experience in a real business where cost optimization matters, they contract out an over engineered thing that while beautifully and robustly engineered misses the mark on the right way to solve the problem at hand in very basic ways and then bolt on wifi and a subscription model. I'm sure you all remember Jucero.
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I must remind you that the "problem at hand" with Juicero had always been "make a magical woo machine for people who believe fruit needs to be 'alive' when you squeeze it or else you get bad ghosts in you". No matter how you went about doing the thing it was a stupid goal from the start.
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fishmech posted:I must remind you that the "problem at hand" with Juicero had always been "make a magical woo machine for people who believe fruit needs to be 'alive' when you squeeze it or else you get bad ghosts in you". No matter how you went about doing the thing it was a stupid goal from the start. Yes but the hardware could've been half as expensive for the same result.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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wendy liu has a great piece on the instacart tip skimming, and how it's phrased as a victory for consumer activism https://dellsystem.me/posts/fragments-38 quote:This sort of framing is bullshit. For one, the idea that lawmakers need to swoop in and “rescue” these workers out of the goodness of their hearts is mistaken - it gets the order wrong. Laws change primarily because the affected groups build power that can no longer be ignored, not through the valiant efforts of lone heroes acting out of charity instead of solidarity. For another, consumers were only relevant to this incident to the extent that some of them supported the complaints of workers. It wasn’t consumers who surfaced these demands in the first place, as they wouldn’t have known about the tipping policy on their own anyway. It was workers who organised, and whose actions made the difference here.
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Old Grasshopper posted:It's the never ending cycle of people expecting year on year growth to happen, literally, forever. Not just year on year growth. Double digit percentages of year on year growth.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I remember a YOSPOS joke or something about how if you let an engineer design a toaster it'll be a giant concrete cube that only accepts one kind of bread or something.
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HootTheOwl posted:Why would I let lovely users foul up my toaster with their lovely beads? Wheat is what we have in the office, and anything else is incredibly niche. I mean it's pretty easy to ruin a toaster with beads. Don't want your bread to taste like melted plastic
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Moatman posted:I mean it's pretty easy to ruin a toaster with beads. Don't want your bread to taste like melted plastic BEES??!!
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suck my woke dick posted:Yes but the hardware could've been half as expensive for the same result. Exactly. Something as simple as a roller that goes down the juice packet would have changed the amount of force, and therefore all kinds of other parts, by a HUGE factor. Instead they designed a what.... 6"x 4"?...press for no good reason which required an insanely overengineered frame to handle the forces involved, plus the parts to generate those forces. It wasn't even a speed advantage. It was just a stupid way to "solve" the "problem".
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might have already been discussed but in holmes's deposition she still does the fake voice lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87SWZ0Pna8k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvznWSEKoEE
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Kobayashi posted:Check out Full Story for the web, there are plenty of services for native apps. They all let whoever has access replay any session they want, often targeted by location, profile ID, device, scenario, etc. It’s creepy and pervasive.
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I wonder if Jennifer Lawrence will net a second Oscar playing Holmes. Maybe there'll be a scene where she practices that stupid voice. It will probably age better than The Social Network, because since that movie Mark Zuckerberg has committed so much worse actions that the film seems quaint, while Holmes is definitely a villain throughout.
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Motronic posted:Exactly. Something as simple as a roller that goes down the juice packet would have changed the amount of force, and therefore all kinds of other parts, by a HUGE factor. Instead they designed a what.... 6"x 4"?...press for no good reason which required an insanely overengineered frame to handle the forces involved, plus the parts to generate those forces. It wasn't even a speed advantage. It was just a stupid way to "solve" the "problem". The problem with rollers is that they push all the bag's contents towards the back that hasn't been rolled over yet. So the back end of the bag has to be strong enough to force the bag's contents through the rollers. Whereas with a flat press you just have to handle press out as the contents flatten, and over a larger bag perimeter. I'd guess that bags that would work for the the rollers would be much, much more expensive and harder to fill than the flat press bags. Since the whole point was to sell the subscription, minimizing the recurring costs of sending bags of fruit was likely the reason they went with a flat press. Full disclosure: I have never a seen a Juicero and I'm going off your description.
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MickeyFinn posted:The problem with rollers is that they push all the bag's contents towards the back that hasn't been rolled over yet. So the back end of the bag has to be strong enough to force the bag's contents through the rollers. Whereas with a flat press you just have to handle press out as the contents flatten, and over a larger bag perimeter. I'd guess that bags that would work for the the rollers would be much, much more expensive and harder to fill than the flat press bags. Since the whole point was to sell the subscription, minimizing the recurring costs of sending bags of fruit was likely the reason they went with a flat press. Yeah that wasn't the problem. There are plenty of videos around of people rolling the bags up by hand and getting just as much juice out of them as when they put it in their Jucero. The bags weren't like, whole fruit or anything. It was basically mashed up already.
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MickeyFinn posted:The problem with rollers is that they push all the bag's contents towards the back that hasn't been rolled over yet. So the back end of the bag has to be strong enough to force the bag's contents through the rollers. Whereas with a flat press you just have to handle press out as the contents flatten, and over a larger bag perimeter. I'd guess that bags that would work for the the rollers would be much, much more expensive and harder to fill than the flat press bags. Since the whole point was to sell the subscription, minimizing the recurring costs of sending bags of fruit was likely the reason they went with a flat press. they were sending pulped bags of raw fruit to be squeezed
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Motronic posted:Exactly. Something as simple as a roller that goes down the juice packet would have changed the amount of force, and therefore all kinds of other parts, by a HUGE factor. Instead they designed a what.... 6"x 4"?...press for no good reason which required an insanely overengineered frame to handle the forces involved, plus the parts to generate those forces. It wasn't even a speed advantage. It was just a stupid way to "solve" the "problem". Giving advice on the basis that juicero customers were people who just wanted juice is missing the point in a huge way.
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fishmech posted:You're not getting it. These people, they believe that using a roller is evil and hurts the life force. That's why it's a flat plate pressing down all at once. Because the flat plate is supposed to help the literal fuckin magic ritual you are doing with fruit to make this gimmick scam juice in the first place. You have to have the fruit chopped up in a special way, never have any preservatives added, never seal it to prevent spoilage, never do anything sensible. Because you're trying to preserve "life force" so that your juice will be the most alive possible when you drink it. Is there any citation for this or are you just making poo poo up?
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Jose Valasquez posted:Is there any citation for this or are you just making poo poo up? Check who you're responding to and decide for yourself.
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Jose Valasquez posted:Is there any citation for this or are you just making poo poo up? the juicero founder was definitely a health woo guy who was all about the vital essence of raw foods (he also was into "living water" aka only drinking untreated spring water directly from the earth) but my interpretation of the overengineering of the thing is that you're not gonna sell an expensive subscription juicer service to rich health nuts if the juicer only costs a piddly few hundred bucks. when people are paying for what is ostensibly super premium product they feel ripped off if they don't pay an extreme amount. this is the whole foods business model, or why ionic purifying water filters to add the correct reiki frequencies to your tap water are at least a grand a pop if processed human kibble food is super cheap, then it follows that the perfect, organic pears harvested by hand in the garden of eden itself must be at least $10 a piece, right?
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Jose Valasquez posted:Is there any citation for this or are you just making poo poo up? Juicebro literally claimed this was the reason for the flat press. It is, however, doubtful that they couldn't also have found a similarly ridiculous reason to go with a slightly modified roller.
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good on the mechanical engineering team who got the request for a "kitchen appliance sized press, but you have a per unit parts budget of $500" and just set out to make the strongest, most impressive press possible within those lavish constraints i remember some dude did a teardown on the juicero and was marveling at the insanely high build quality
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luxury handset posted:good on the mechanical engineering team who got the request for a "kitchen appliance sized press, but you have a per unit parts budget of $500" and just set out to make the strongest, most impressive press possible within those lavish constraints AVE is the man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
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Jose Valasquez posted:Is there any citation for this or are you just making poo poo up? It's the entire premise of the variant of cold pressed juice the Juicero company is for. What are you asking to be cited? It's a "health food" variant that's been around for a couple of decades.
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Motronic posted:Check who you're responding to and decide for yourself. Nah, he’s right. Their CEO was super-big into the whole ~*~living fruit’s vital energies~*~ nonsense.
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Motronic posted:I think we've already got a very good example of how this funding model plays out with hardware. Get some engineers with zero experience in a real business where cost optimization matters, they contract out an over engineered thing that while beautifully and robustly engineered misses the mark on the right way to solve the problem at hand in very basic ways and then bolt on wifi and a subscription model. Software seeds can be like $10k. HW is orders of magnitude higher to hit the same user count.
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Liquid Communism posted:Not just year on year growth. Double digit percentages of year on year growth. Any startup with "double digit" yearly growth is an abject failure in the eyes of a VC. VCs usually consider a startup struggling unless it has 10%-20% month-on-month growth. One saying is "triple triple double double double", which means you should triple your revenue in years 1 and 2, and double your revenue for the next 3 years. That's considered a baseline to be on an IPO path. This was on Hacker News this week: https://medium.com/@shl/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-a-billion-dollar-company-b0c31d7db0e7 tl;dr: Company goes through a rough patch, has layoffs, and still afterwards manages to double their revenue over a year (and turns into a profitable company). This is a poor enough outcome that VCs insist that the company buys their stock back. The whole VC game makes sense for VCs and VCs only. If you're a founder who's taking VC money, you're a sucker who's essentially being scammed into putting all your money towards a lottery ticket. enki42 fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Feb 10, 2019 |
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enki42 posted:Any startup with "double digit" yearly growth is an abject failure in the eyes of a VC. VCs usually consider a startup struggling unless it has 10%-20% month-on-month growth. One saying is "triple triple double double double", which means you should triple your revenue in years 1 and 2, and double your revenue for the next 3 years. That's considered a baseline to be on an IPO path. You omitted the part where the dude started right off the bat with the goal of building a billion dollar company, which is pretty important context and certainly impacted funding rounds and resulting investor expectations.
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I always thought this summed it up pretty well. https://youtu.be/BzAdXyPYKQo
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The perfect juicer is one that just dissolves all the cell walls in the fruit.
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https://twitter.com/mashable/status/1061122781297999872 Pince-nez. You've invented Pince-nez.
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Easy Diff posted:https://twitter.com/mashable/status/1061122781297999872 Somehow I can't imagine those being comfortable
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