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UnknownTarget posted:Ok, so use cabs and plan your life around "between 1 and 15 minutes, if no one's there call us" wait times. Yes? I've lived my entire life without calling a single Uber or similar, I don't get what the big deal is unless you happen to get out of parties at 3AM in the middle of nowhere and no one can give you a lift, every single week of your life, or something like that
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UnknownTarget posted:Ok, so use cabs and plan your life around "between 1 and 15 minutes, if no one's there call us" wait times. Luckily, we have more options than just "drivers ground into paste under the boot of tech" and "someone will get there eventually." Having said that, even if we managed to have robust public transportation systems and app-based hailing for cab companies, it would likely still mean more waiting. The easy (from the consumer's point of view) transportation that Uber offers encourages an unsustainable lifestyle. Should it be convenient, fast, and cheap to visit a specialty bar halfway across the city in the dead of winter? Probably not, but Uber/Lyft make it so.
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Helsing posted:Their inability to operate at a loss is presumably linked to uber successfully locking up investor capital and convincing enough people that its early entry into the market would allow it to gain a monopolistic position that would one day lead to profitability. The fact other firms cannot reproduce uber's approach is probably at least in part because uber beat them to it. well, the other issue is that other firms may not be able to reproduce uber's approach because uber's approach is a dumb approach funded by (a) softbanc being dumb as poo poo; (b) heavily hinting to investors they'll get a monopoly and jack prices up to the stratosphere when, in fact, there are no barriers to entry in this market (which their investors did not realize) and (c) selling bullshit dreams of self-driving cars your point is basically (b) and you're correct once uber exists it looks dumb to try to fund a small startup to become the monopolist, but the real issue there is that you can't maintain a monopoly in this space
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NeuralSpark posted:
naming your app after a device that violently spins apart wasnt a good idea in hindsight
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UnknownTarget posted:Ok, so use cabs and plan your life around "between 1 and 15 minutes, if no one's there call us" wait times. That describes Uber perfectly too, though, except with nobody to call except the driver 15 min away.
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If you company is named "FlyWheel", you should be forced by law to operate buses (yes, those existed) or cars powered by a flywheel.
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Latest Starlink Plans Unveiled By Elon Musk And SpaceX Could Create An Astronomical Emergencyquote:the big lie came when Shotwell claimed that nobody in the company or the astronomy community could have possibly anticipated the problems that Starlink satellite would pose for astronomy. In her own words, Shotwell asserted:
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Musk's failed pasts efforts have already increased the serious problem of garbage in orbit around earth, and putting tons of satellites up won't make things any better.
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my loving god at this late capitalism hellhole ground wire/cables/fiber/whatever is a non option AND we let billionaires and VC assholes risk kessler syn. because BIGGER NUMBERS IN MY FIN PORTFOLIO (also the musk stanners coming to defend their fake Tony Stak god against ATUAL real scienetist) PhazonLink fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Dec 12, 2019 |
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Lambert posted:If you company is named "FlyWheel", you should be forced by law to operate buses (yes, those existed) or cars powered by a flywheel. 
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Platystemon posted:Latest Starlink Plans Unveiled By Elon Musk And SpaceX Could Create An Astronomical Emergency Seeing the Musk stans on twitter when scientists were posting actual photos of this bullshit was really something else. Oh man, you can't forget this!
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Entertainment is literally the most wasteful and worthless application for the technology, my god.
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Oh no, not people having fun VR games and movies are fine, jesus christ
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Cicero posted:Oh no, not people having fun Don't engage with Kerning, he literally believes (or pretends to believe) the world was a better place when humans were still in the Stone Age. He's anti-techology and anti-civilization for the most part.
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Kerning Chameleon posted:Entertainment is literally the most wasteful and worthless application for the technology, my god. counterpoint: technology is used for your posts
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evilweasel posted:counterpoint: technology is used for your posts i wasn't aware a vr headset was in the chain between my phone and SA's servers
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Turns out all law enforcement needed to turn America into a panopticon society was to just sell some of the cameras to anxious white people and they'll happily turn their neighborhoods into digital snitches for you.
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Solkanar512 posted:Seeing the Musk stans on twitter when scientists were posting actual photos of this bullshit was really something else. I'd love to know how much kWh that 40kg wheel is storing. Is it close to LiOn battery energy density?
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VideoGameVet posted:I'd love to know how much kWh that 40kg wheel is storing. Is it close to LiOn battery energy density? The Sterling Engine will save us all. GIANT monolithic flywheels please! Chemical batteries be hosed.
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*smokes weed once* https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1205230908837523456?s=21
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Jesus christ rich people are so SMART!
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Kerning Chameleon posted:Entertainment is literally the most wasteful and worthless application for the technology, my god. VR is a tiny niche, it really doesn't matter. No one cares about VR as an entertainment product.
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aware of dog posted:*smokes weed once* i am harry posted:Jesus christ rich people are so SMART!
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Last Chance posted:whoa, shrodingers cat.. this guy knows his stuff. i should give him money and let him put his garbage into orbit Don't forget this gem: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1205232388978003968  lmfao
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I am really loving tired of Elon Musk.
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It's hilarious how quickly tweeting ruined the visionary genius reputation he was trying to cultivate for himself. Surprise! Turns out he's just an rear end in a top hat with enough money to build a car factory and hire rocket scientists.
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Yeah, I haven't seen any evidence his reputation has been ruined. He's still fawned over by millions. There's gotta be a good word english can steel for the assholes you know are stupid but everyone else fawns over as being so smart.
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ponzicar posted:It's hilarious how quickly tweeting ruined the visionary genius reputation he was trying to cultivate for himself. Surprise! Turns out he's just an rear end in a top hat with enough money to build a car factory and hire rocket scientists. You must not know many engineers because they are mostly all basically musk in some form or another.
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ponzicar posted:It's hilarious how quickly tweeting ruined the visionary genius reputation he was trying to cultivate for himself. Surprise! Turns out he's just an rear end in a top hat with enough money to build a car factory and hire rocket scientists. You mean a car Tent
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https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1205171508865310721quote:Spacious, founded in 2016 by Chris Smothers and Preston Pesek, built its business renting out tables at vacant restaurant space in the day time to people looking for coworking space. Congratulations, you've invented "bringing your laptop to the coffee shop."
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That actually sounds like a good idea, doing it for restaurants where people normally wouldn't treat it like Starbucks.
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Working in random restaurants sounds like a great idea to you? Okay.
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Cicero posted:That actually sounds like a good idea, doing it for restaurants where people normally wouldn't treat it like Starbucks. There are better ways to encourage clientele like that than to literally rent the tables.
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I don't do it much myself, but my wife generally prefers working on a laptop in a bakery or coffee shop to doing the same thing at home. She likes the more social atmosphere.
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Cicero posted:I don't do it much myself, but my wife generally prefers working on a laptop in a bakery or coffee shop to doing the same thing at home. She likes the more social atmosphere. Ya I am working from home for the first time in my life and it’s killing me, I need social stimulation
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Cicero posted:I don't do it much myself, but my wife generally prefers working on a laptop in a bakery or coffee shop to doing the same thing at home. She likes the more social atmosphere. I had a deal with a local coffee shop from 2006 through 2010 to work there in exchange for helping them with IT stuff. I mean literally from 9 to 5 or more. They had their own coffee roaster. Yum.
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ponzicar posted:It's hilarious how quickly tweeting ruined the visionary genius reputation he was trying to cultivate for himself. Surprise! Turns out he's just an rear end in a top hat with enough money to build a car factory and hire rocket scientists. He's still got a huge following sadly. They really poured out of the woodwork saying that the recent defamation ruling proved that Musky was right to call a man a pedophile and then double down by hiring a private investigator.
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