knox_harrington posted:

Business concept: Airbnb style movie watching app where you pay to go to someone's house and watch their TV

Filmr

LanceHunter posted:

There's a whole sub-genre of former cheer and gymnastics people on TikTok who talk about how insanely devoted they were to their programs and how is basically sucked away their entire childhood and all they got for it once they aged out (in their early-20s) was the ability to do some party tricks.

drk posted:

That was the original plan as well. Given that all the major chains have their own loyalty/ticket programs these days, I think the chance of it happening this time around is near zero.

Also my understanding is the ticket price largely goes the the studios - the theaters themselves might not have much to negotiate with even if they wanted to. Their real business is charging $5 for 5c of corn, salt, and oil (or these days, maybe fleecing internet marks buying their stock).

Humerus posted:

You joke but I saw an article about an app that's AirBnB but to swim in people's pools, which seems like a lovely way to get wrongful death lawsuits spread around.

Lol, it's called Swimply that's the dumbest poo poo ever:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/08/16/tech/swimply/index.html

SettingSun posted:

What in the world...? What a liability nightmare.

Ok guys, I have a new business idea: I have all this free space in my house, why don't I rent it out to people to store their poo poo? I could beat any self store place on price. I just need a trendy name and the VCs will come flying in.

Cyrano4747 posted:

Because that's not new, innovative, and disruptive. Plus there's not as many opportunities to "disrupt" by basically running an unregulated version of Thing.

A VC train system would probably look something like this:

SettingSun posted:

What in the world...? What a liability nightmare.

Ok guys, I have a new business idea: I have all this free space in my house, why don't I rent it out to people to store their poo poo? I could beat any self store place on price. I just need a trendy name and the VCs will come flying in.

Cyrano4747 posted:

Because that's not new, innovative, and disruptive. Plus there's not as many opportunities to "disrupt" by basically running an unregulated version of Thing.

A VC train system would probably look something like this:

1) it has four rails and runs in a 12" sunken ditch due to some weird legal loophole that defines anything under-grade as a pedestrian walkway or something. Because of this there are no safety regulations.
2) The trains Delivr Cargo Shuttles run on electricity and are recharged using extension cords run to people's houses. These Locomotion Servicing Professionals (note: independent contractors with no connection to Delivr) are paid less than the local power company charges per kilowatt-hour, but this is made up by them also receiving Delivr Grind Credits, company scrip a tokenized crypto asset that they can either hold against what will surely be rapid future growth in value or trade for amazing and valuable prizes right now (_{prizes are neither amazing nor valuable, terms and conditions subject to change}).
3) Individual trains Delivr Shuttles are owned by shell companies and suckers trusted business associates. Delivr has no responsibility or liability for injuries to third parties who wander onto the tracks.
4) To avoid needing permits or licensing the rails will be run on privately owned land. Land for the tracks is laid on land purchased privately by Delivr or its subsidiaries. As a trusted partner in local development and urban renewal, Delivr will run their tracks through economically vulnerable, majority-minority communities will work hard to ensure that economic opportunity is made available to everyone in its community.
5) Average hub-to-hub delivery time is 8 weeks
6) there is no last mile delivery once your package reaches a hub. Eventually they sign a predatory deal with the USPS for last-mile delivery of your two tons of wallnuts. Any damage or failure to deliver (and there is a lot of damage and failure to deliver) is blamed on the USPS. loving government, am I right?
7) Once the VC well runs dry the infrastructure and equipment is the subcontractors problem to deal with.

edit:

7a) Once it's clear that the finish line is looming, that the VC money is going to run dry, and the gig is up the chief players behind Delivr will buy up as many shares of FedEx as they can. Whoopsie-daisy we somehow put the incumbent rail companies out of business with our horribly run, terribly performing, but massively VC-subsidized crap product. People used the hell out of it because even if there was only a 40% chance of your poo poo getting where you were trying to send it, the freight rate was $.01 per ton with a new account sign-up.
7b) With the death of rail transport FedEx's share price quintuples overnight. Everyone involved in Delivr gets a fuckton of money from this.
7c) The only assets that Delivr actually owned were the all-important user profiles and data. Somehow the TOS gave them full access to your social media and, puzzlingly, medical records. The company founders sell this to Amazon for a few billion dollars.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Uber basically subsidizing a $16 cab fare to $7 and forcing the taxi companies to start using apps and credit cards is great, but when your whole business model is "in 10 years, we'll have self-driving cars, so we won't have staffing costs any more and we can finally make a profit," then nobody in their right mind would start that business with their own money.

drk posted:

Also my understanding is the ticket price largely goes the the studios - the theaters themselves might not have much to negotiate with even if they wanted to. Their real business is charging $5 for 5c of corn, salt, and oil (or these days, maybe fleecing internet marks buying their stock).

Dik Hz posted:

Much less demand than harpists because nobody hires bassoonists for weddings. My good friend was one of three people in a populous state who played concert bassoon for actual money and for him it was only a part time gig. And he didn’t get a scholarship in college for it.

Cyrano4747 posted:

A bunch of peoples homeowners policies are going to be interested to hear that they’re a public pool now.

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

Are they?

I honestly don’t know, but have occasionally wondered about stuff like this.

Is your homeowners insurance more expensive if you use your house for AirBnb?
Is your auto insurance higher if you’re an Uber driver?

quote:

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Anne Whateley posted:

You can (and should!!) pursue activities without trying to be a professional. You shouldn't have to ditch hobbies you loved just because you graduated

Cyrano4747 posted:

My understanding is that if you're good with your instrument but not quite orchestral good one of the big career options is the military. They've got a special recruiting pipeline and MOS for musicians. The top line stuff like the USMC presidential band are rigorous as hell in their own right but there's a bunch of lower-tier stuff like unit musicians.

I'm foggy on the details but I think the people who audition well enough to get in the actual no bullshit "we play for the president" USMC band get to skip boot camp while the ones who don't make that cut still go through boot camp but afterwards skip a bunch of stuff, kind of like computer touchers.

USMC page on it.

gschmidl posted:

Semper F#

greazeball posted:

On the other other hand, I just hung out with a friend who's a musician in France. There's a national scheme for performing artists where they have to do like 43 performances a year and then they qualify for disability insurance, pension, etc. They just give their number to the pub owner/booking agent who sends part of the payment directly to the govt and the rest to the performers. This also benefits the govt by incentivising performers to report their earnings.

knox_harrington posted:

Business concept: Airbnb style movie watching app where you pay to go to someone's house and watch their TV

Filmr

gschmidl posted:

Semper F#

Cyrano4747 posted:

My understanding is that if you're good with your instrument but not quite orchestral good one of the big career options is the military. They've got a special recruiting pipeline and MOS for musicians. The top line stuff like the USMC presidential band are rigorous as hell in their own right but there's a bunch of lower-tier stuff like unit musicians.

I'm foggy on the details but I think the people who audition well enough to get in the actual no bullshit "we play for the president" USMC band get to skip boot camp while the ones who don't make that cut still go through boot camp but afterwards skip a bunch of stuff, kind of like computer touchers.

USMC page on it.

Humerus posted:

You joke but I saw an article about an app that's AirBnB but to swim in people's pools, which seems like a lovely way to get wrongful death lawsuits spread around.

Lol, it's called Swimply that's the dumbest poo poo ever:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/08/16/tech/swimply/index.html

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

Are they?

I honestly don’t know, but have occasionally wondered about stuff like this.

Is your homeowners insurance more expensive if you use your house for AirBnb?
Is your auto insurance higher if you’re an Uber driver?

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Bird in a Blender posted:

GWM I guess if they just give you a flat per diem. Dumb with money if it’s all reimbursed off receipts.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Cyrano4747 posted:

Honestly exchanging large amounts of cash isn't that big a deal as long as you do the exchange in a public place. Even $10,000 in hundreds is pretty small so it's not like you need to haul around a suitcase of cash. Easily held in one hand or put in a belly band or fanny pack etc.

A lot of police departments have a place set aside for exactly this, with security cameras and near enough to officers going about their day to day that someone would have to be a real moron to try and mug you.

It's certainly a bit unnerving to carry around though, I'll give that.

edit: accepting large amounts of cash is a tad more annoying just because you need to worry about counterfeits and you need to count it there. Order some of those fake detecting pens that bartenders use (they're cheap) and know the other poo poo to look for like security threads, watermarks, etc. A cheap UV light can help a lot there. Just go straight to your bank after the purchase and deposit it.

I also wouldn't accept anything that's not a modern bill. If someone's trying to give you a stack of pre-2013 bills I'd refuse the sale. If they're not trying to pull something it's annoying but not a killer, since any bank will exchange them.