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"Human empathy for others has less effect if you practice!" 
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I’m sure there are tons of techbros jerking off while watching this.
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Aug 13, 2019 04:40
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Yeah, it's less about letting the victims down nicely, and more about dulling the emotional impact of layoffs on management by making them feel formulaic and routine, by gamifying the process.
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Aug 13, 2019 04:50
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If that succeeds, I bet they're going to have version for ICE agents separating children from their parents.
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Aug 13, 2019 04:54
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"You killed my father!" > Yeah, RIP > No Juanito, your father passed away in a bullet-related incident involving one of our guards > *Renegade option*
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Aug 13, 2019 07:50
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For a minute I read that as "shooting someone" and thought "how is this news?"
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Aug 13, 2019 14:15
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Lately when I use Facebook these advertisements keep popping up from Yahoo telling me to get a job at a burglary company or change my career to Mike Ehrmantraut or something.
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Aug 13, 2019 14:27
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Neo Rasa posted:Lately when I use Facebook these advertisements keep popping up from Yahoo telling me to get a job at a burglary company or change my career to Mike Ehrmantraut or something. Yahoo is just getting ahead of the curve on the upcoming global collapse.
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Aug 13, 2019 14:30
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Neo Rasa posted:Lately when I use Facebook these advertisements keep popping up from Yahoo telling me to get a job at a burglary company or change my career to Mike Ehrmantraut or something. The imminent collapse of civilisation opens up exciting new opportunities in being a Work From Home Druid!
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Aug 13, 2019 19:01
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https://twitter.com/sarahfrier/status/1161355378858135552
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Aug 13, 2019 21:35
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https://twitter.com/kateleth/status/1161050656532094977 IIRC the founder walked away with nine digits in cash. e: Facial recognition is totally ready for prime time Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Aug 13, 2019 |
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Aug 13, 2019 23:08
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In all seriousness I think this is a good illustration of how "unicorns" getting bought out for billions has never really made business sense. It's almost more about bringing prestige to the brand who performed the buyout by showing off how they can spend a billion plus on another site, build that reputation of being the sort of company to work for that's so important that they can toss the cash around. I mean poo poo, Yahoo itself was cut down to $4.5 billion or so as the purchase price for everything Verizon got just 2 years ago, after being able to toss $1 billion at Tumblr in 2013.
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Aug 13, 2019 23:21
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This child is going to go far.quote:A surly teenager has taken the rise of increasingly powerful smart home devices to its logical conclusion – tweeting from her family’s smart fridge after her mother confiscated her phone. Ah, yes, IoT.
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Aug 14, 2019 00:08
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To be fair, most politicians should get flagged as criminals based on hundreds of years of history.
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Aug 14, 2019 00:09
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Yahoo was GINORMOUS for what felt like a year but was probably almost a decade.(?) I forget, because I grew up with Google search and Gmail. Ive always thought Yahoo's products sucked and were hard to use.
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Aug 14, 2019 00:09
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fishmech posted:In all seriousness I think this is a good illustration of how "unicorns" getting bought out for billions has never really made business sense. It's almost more about bringing prestige to the brand who performed the buyout by showing off how they can spend a billion plus on another site, build that reputation of being the sort of company to work for that's so important that they can toss the cash around. I have been employed at, and am bitter, about many, many buyout disasters, but Google buying Youtube turned out to be good for corporations, if not for the rest of the world.
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Aug 14, 2019 00:09
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anonumos posted:Yahoo was GINORMOUS for what felt like a year but was probably almost a decade.(?) I forget, because I grew up with Google search and Gmail. Ive always thought Yahoo's products sucked and were hard to use. I.e. they provided a free email, free user interest groups, and their webcrawler/search thing made it so they could position their Yahoo brands well (Yahoo Autos).
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Aug 14, 2019 00:13
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Arsenic Lupin posted:This child is going to go far. #CantSilenceUs
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Aug 14, 2019 00:14
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anonumos posted:Yahoo was GINORMOUS for what felt like a year but was probably almost a decade.(?) I forget, because I grew up with Google search and Gmail. Ive always thought Yahoo's products sucked and were hard to use. yah google didn't hit until I was in high school, prior to that web searches were insanely hard to do it was way way more useful to go to Yahoo or Altavista's human-curated yellow-pages style index of websites when you were looking for information on any topic I did Science Olympiad in high school, and before google one of the events was called "Search the Web", where you were given a list of obscure questions and had to find the answers. The hardest question on the test was always something like "What's the name of [test preparer's] dog?", and you had to find some dude's obscure .edu/~username/ website the last year they did it was the first year that Google was public- because there were scads of like ten-way ties of people who just plugged the questions right from the test into goog and got the correct answer on the first page
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Aug 14, 2019 00:27
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Arsenic Lupin posted:https://twitter.com/kateleth/status/1161050656532094977 Sure. "Misidentified".
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Aug 14, 2019 00:39
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anonumos posted:Yahoo was GINORMOUS for what felt like a year but was probably almost a decade.(?) I forget, because I grew up with Google search and Gmail. Ive always thought Yahoo's products sucked and were hard to use. Yahoo was founded in 95 and already absolutely huge by 96. They also had the well deserved reputation of being one of the "we'll buy out all sorts of poo poo like AOL and Microsoft and eBay and (soon) Google. And even when they stopped being particularly cutting-edge they had a massive existing user base for all sorts of services. They were kinda expected to settle into being like IBM or Microsoft had already become - a stable mature company that doesn't get all that much growth but rakes in an absurd amount of steady income. Arsenic Lupin posted:I have been employed at, and am bitter, about many, many buyout disasters, but Google buying Youtube turned out to be good for corporations, if not for the rest of the world. It's not like any other owner or video site would have been "better for the world" when it comes to letting everyone watch a shitload of video.
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Aug 14, 2019 01:03
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fishmech posted:It's not like any other owner or video site would have been "better for the world" when it comes to letting everyone watch a shitload of video. Does YouTube actually make money for Google? I thought for a long time that YouTube was a money loser for Google, even with all the ads and tech resources to develop and optimize, because the bandwidth and server costs were so large.
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Aug 14, 2019 01:29
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Arsenic Lupin posted:https://twitter.com/kateleth/status/1161050656532094977 I'm going to invent a time machine so I can go back in time and invent Tumblr. Or Groupon and take the buyout money.
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Aug 14, 2019 02:48
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Peanut Butler posted:yah google didn't hit until I was in high school, prior to that web searches were insanely hard to do Like Kellog cereals would tell you to Go To AOL Keyword Kellogs... it wasn't until like 97 that go to https://www.kellogs.com started being more popular. I almost got roped into one of those scibowl things in middle school, pretty much as the "computer nerd". They handed me a paper that was like "Find the largest mountain in California", "What is the mascot for UC Santa Cruz" and I thought they were loving with me when I found them in like a minute and were floored.
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Aug 14, 2019 06:17
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FilthyImp posted:"Find the largest mountain in California" Mount Shasta by volume
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Aug 14, 2019 06:37
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Doggles posted:https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1161609099546701825 Doesn't this company basically just rent office space? How the hell can you screw that up so badly?
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Aug 14, 2019 15:09
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aware of dog posted:Doesn't this company basically just rent office space? How the hell can you screw that up so badly? They didn't screw it up, the founders of recent unicorns know exactly what they are doing. https://twitter.com/HarryStebbings/status/1152004880606756864
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Aug 14, 2019 15:12
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aware of dog posted:Doesn't this company basically just rent office space? How the hell can you screw that up so badly? Attempting to undercut competition, gain permanent market share, and then raise prices, except the second part never happens
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Aug 14, 2019 15:13
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Doggles posted:They didn't screw it up, the founders of recent unicorns know exactly what they are doing. Ah, of course, that makes sense. In other news, Snap is on its third try to get people to buy their stupid camera glasses
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Aug 14, 2019 15:14
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aware of dog posted:Doesn't this company basically just rent office space? How the hell can you screw that up so badly? Turns out long term liabilities and short term income is a bad business model
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Aug 14, 2019 15:42
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i wish i could come up with one of these ideas that doesn't work so i could extract tens of millions from vc ghouls. groupon not taking the buyout was stupid as hell even if they'd kept growing.
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Aug 14, 2019 15:54
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Badger of Basra posted:Turns out long term liabilities and short term income is a bad business model There are other companies that rent office space long term and take on short term renters. There is profit to be made in offering liquidity to the office rental market. The problem is, like Uber, this core idea doesn’t scale and that means the founders and initial investors will be stuck running a business for decades hoping that their investment pays off modestly. In the current environment they have the option of making ridiculous promises and trying to get out as billionaires before the scam ends. And the latter sounds way more appealing. So here we are. Creative destruction is a wonderful market force, as long as you get paid first.
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Aug 14, 2019 15:57
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My only problem with people starting businesses to scam VC investors like this is that I'm not profiting from it.
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Aug 14, 2019 15:58
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Yeah, christ even 1% of the take of any one of these bullshit scams could net me enough money to never work again in my life and live in considerable luxury.
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Aug 14, 2019 16:05
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https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1161658763771858944?s=21 This is a pretty funny article. IWG has more members, locations, space, and turns a profit but is valued at 1/10 of WeWork because TECH TECH TECH TECH
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Aug 14, 2019 16:29
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Pulcinella posted:Does YouTube actually make money for Google? I thought for a long time that YouTube was a money loser for Google, even with all the ads and tech resources to develop and optimize, because the bandwidth and server costs were so large.
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Aug 14, 2019 16:33
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ryonguy posted:Yeah, christ even 1% of the take of any one of these bullshit scams could net me enough money to never work again in my life and live in considerable luxury. Yes, there's plenty of space for literal con-artists in the tech boom! Hope you haven't been given any ideas. 
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Aug 14, 2019 16:53
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BarbarianElephant posted:Yes, there's plenty of space for literal con-artists in the tech boom! Hope you haven't been given any ideas. The people investing in this poo poo literally don't have anything better to do with their money.
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BarbarianElephant posted:Yes, there's plenty of space for literal con-artists in the tech boom! Hope you haven't been given any ideas. Sadly I'm way too dumb and also stuck in the middle of the country away from rich idiots.
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