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call to action posted:Distillation, a process separate from fermentation, is almost always illegal in private homes because of the ridiculously high explosion risk Explosion risk, methanol poisoning risk, and heavy metals poisoning risk. Speaking with my local brew shop guy, the ATF (really the TTB) typically catches people when their home still blows out an exterior wall while they're at work. The other two popular ways are after a breakup/divorce when the partner reports them, or when they try and sell it to local bars.
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call to action posted:illegal in private homes because of the ridiculously high explosion risk hi please fund my make-your-own-meth-empire startup so millenials can relive breaking bad through their smartphones
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Oct 21, 2016 20:40
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Minecraft Holmes posted:Explosion risk, methanol poisoning risk, and heavy metals poisoning risk. to be fair talking about people getting caught because their still exploded isn't a fair assessor of the explosion risk, just of the people who didn't do it right to mitigate the risk and the real reason home distilling is illegal is because of the long history of private distillation being used to avoid liquor taxes
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Oct 21, 2016 20:46
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Well yeah, I've heard that it's around as risky as frying a turkey at home. Less even, if you're using one of those electrical air distillers they make for "home production of essential oils." It's always been transparently about taxes, which is why the enforcement is typically done by a trade bureau.
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Oct 21, 2016 20:52
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:Sorry to keep this derail going but this is too dumb to let go. Y'know, it's funny you say that... Fast Company posted:Companies like Blue Apron, Plated, and HelloFresh like to pitch their services as a solution for busy consumers who want an easier way to plan their meals, but a new spending analysis shows that the vast majority of customers don’t stick with these services over the long term. I don't know enough about data/statistics to say how accurate this is, but it's similar what I've seen from other firms so I'm inclined to believe it. People come in for that dirt cheap introductory offer, then drop it once they learn how to cook/realize take-out is cheaper.
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"After the second week, few customers stick with BlueApron" Note that the flyer I got Wednesday included a card for 1 week of BlueApron free. I think I've seen that promo elsewhere.
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boner confessor posted:and the real reason home distilling is illegal is because of the long history of private distillation being used to avoid liquor taxes Most laws don't exist for just one reason and it's very likely that the fact it is used to avoid taxes, the fact hard liquor is/was seen as a major social ill, the fact making it explodes residential areas sometimes and is a good way to poison yourself or others if you do it wrong probably all mixed together into it being pretty easy to get the laws passed.
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duz posted:I don't drink water because fish gently caress in it. Is there a unicorn to solve that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSicHEybkdg&t=55s Alternatively, at 1:44
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peter banana posted:never said pus had any negative effects either? Dude, I know this is D&D and being an insufferable smartass is kind of expected but stop that, seriously.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:"After the second week, few customers stick with BlueApron" Note that the flyer I got Wednesday included a card for 1 week of BlueApron free. I think I've seen that promo elsewhere. we tried hellofresh for one week just go to give it a shot, and decided it wasn't worth it. i dunno if i would call myself a customer of hellofresh because i accepted a discounted trial. if it wasn't for that i never would have given it a try
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Big Mad Drongo posted:Y'know, it's funny you say that... I wonder how this stacks up in comparison to a lot of other subscription or repeat services that have reduced/free initial offers. As for cook at home or takeout, I wonder if people are making equal comparisons when stating this. Blue Apron is not advertised as a bargain budget offering and $10/average entree is pretty comparable to like-quality takeout. Also people underestimate the gently caress out of their food costs from a grocery store; and that is before factoring in the heirloom items Blue Apron has specifically grown for them, the type of meat and fish they source, hand made custom pastas, specially crafted sauces, etc.
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Minecraft Holmes posted:Explosion risk, methanol poisoning risk, and heavy metals poisoning risk. One can get tips and tells from most home brew shops if one asks.
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So, New York's just signed a bill that's pretty much summarised as "gently caress airbnb"New York Post posted:State law already bars apartment dwellers from renting their entire units for fewer than 30 days. ed: techbros aren't taking it well 
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Kerbtree posted:So, New York's just signed a bill that's pretty much summarised as "gently caress airbnb" Did you link slashdot in 2016?
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Landsknecht posted:Blue Apron would make sense if they could deliver some quality, interesting products at a non-prohibitive price, although they haven't been able to do this yet. This and the next few pages of this thread have been an interesting read as my wife and I just cancelled our Blue Apron account recently. We have a lot of the same complaints people have already mentioned here. Each week there's two decent meals and the one that I could have made with random stuff in the fridge without thinking. We also had similar questions about who this is really for. We first tried it because we don't always have time to pick up groceries regularly near our respective workplaces (our home is in a bit of a void as far as produce goes). But like, some have said here they put a lot of money into pretty pictures of the food and not enough other parts of the experience. I mean do I really need the random insert with each box that's a full color page talking about a random ingredient? Like thanks I had no idea cheese is a thing made from milk or that sesame seeds are commonly used in hummus. Seeing Blue Apron talked about in this thread makes more sense now though. Everything weird about it is less weird and more "we designed this for techbros who have never touched a raw ingredient before in their entire lives and will pay a premium to not have to walk into a market." It seems like such a great idea on the surface but like a lot of the wannabe-unicorns in this thread it's not actually produced with anyone other than its creators in mind.
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Tried (or almost tried) Google Express this week. They sent me a $15 coupon, so I loaded up my cart with $14.84 worth of stuff. But their offerings don't have competitors next to them like in a grocery store, so it's much more difficult to price-check. I could tell right away that everything was priced between 20% and 50% higher than a normal grocery store. With fees and delivery costs I almost paid $10 to have $8 in groceries delivered to my apartment, and that was with a massive discount. Coincidentally, if you google Schwan's, the top ad is a 50% off plus free delivery coupon. For like $22 I got three pizzas, a giant family lasanga, a bunch of breakfast sandwiches and a yuuge bag of hashbrowns. Now that was an introductory offer. I'll still never order from them again, but hey, lasagna
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Neo Rasa posted:Like thanks I had no idea cheese is a thing made from milk or that sesame seeds are commonly used in hummus. Is knowing what hummus is made of or some uses of sesame seeds really such common knowledge that it's worth getting huffy about? A major focus of the whole idea seems like it's giving people a tutorial in ingredients that they might not have used before but not stuff that is so exotic they will never be able to get that again. I think they love the idea of you trying a dish, saying "I really liked this ingredient" then wanting to look at other things that use that (through their service or otherwise)
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Kerbtree posted:So, New York's just signed a bill that's pretty much summarised as "gently caress airbnb" From the NYT article quote:
This sounds pretty similar to the rules that Vancouver has said they're planning on enacting. Home Sharing means sharing extra unused space your home, not turning a residence into a hotel business. Unfortunately this will be very bad for Airbnb if this concept becomes a framework that other cities copy. It has been estimated that the major majority of their revenue comes from commercial hosts that operate multiple whole unit apartments, the sort of thing that would be banned under these rules. Looks like Toronto is looking into rules too
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I genuinely don't want AirBnb and similar to be banned. Hotels suck too, or do you all enjoy tiny rooms with odd stains on the quilt and ludicrously priced disgusting breakfasts? I'd like AirBnb to be better, not banned.
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Oct 22, 2016 19:03
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If Airbnb follows the rules they wont be banned, but thats not disruption enough of course.
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For the record I largely agree with the sort of regulation that NY and Vancouver are putting in place. I was looking at the regulations from Airbnb's perspective and mangled that sentence. This is bad news for Airbnb's profit margins, but good news for residents of NY and Vancouver. I've stayed a lot of Airbnbs before, most which were of the sort of house sharing that would be allowed under NY rules, and I really like the service. It's my favoured type of accommodation while traveling. I think there's a solid company here that would be able to exist within these sort of regulations, but I don't see how it would be able to justify the valuation that Airbnb currently has.
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BarbarianElephant posted:I genuinely don't want AirBnb and similar to be banned. Hotels suck too, or do you all enjoy tiny rooms with odd stains on the quilt and ludicrously priced disgusting breakfasts? I'd like AirBnb to be better, not banned. AirBnB seems like actively bad for society and civilization. It seems like it's loving too directly with a supply of a very basic human need by turning a bunch of places people were supposed to live into substandard illegal hotels.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:AirBnB seems like actively bad for society and civilization. It seems like it's loving too directly with a supply of a very basic human need by turning a bunch of places people were supposed to live into substandard illegal hotels. Hotels can be converted into apartment blocks quite easily, you know. So a huge hotel is robbing the city of the apartment block it could be.
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BarbarianElephant posted:I genuinely don't want AirBnb and similar to be banned. Hotels suck too, or do you all enjoy tiny rooms with odd stains on the quilt and ludicrously priced disgusting breakfasts? I'd like AirBnb to be better, not banned. If AirBNB just represented people who wanted to rent out their spare room, it is very unlikely they'd have enough volume to survive.
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Also the actual residents of those buildings have to deal with a parade of transients roaming their building.
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They should certainly pay hotel taxes. I don't see why a one bedroom apartment needs a sprinkler system designed for a 500 room concrete maze. As for zoning, there are "hotel" zones? Why are old fashioned bed-and-breakfasts often in residential areas?
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BarbarianElephant posted:As for zoning, there are "hotel" zones? Why are old fashioned bed-and-breakfasts often in residential areas? B&Bs fall under a different zoning code, and have rigid limits on size, and I'm pretty sure dedicated B&B buildings also have to have appropriate fire controls -- this depends on state. Furthermore, B&Bs' neighborhoods have a voice -- sometimes too strong a voice, I'm sure -- on whether a commercial business goes into their neighborhood. The answer to "This service sucks" is not "Well, let's break the laws to provide it cheaper". UPS and FedEx disrupted just fine, thanks, without breaking existing parcel laws.
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BarbarianElephant posted:As for zoning, there are "hotel" zones? Why are old fashioned bed-and-breakfasts often in residential areas? Listen, I don't want to summarily invalidate your opinion but if you have to ask this, you should probably educate yourself on the subject matter before stating one. BarbarianElephant posted:Hotels can be converted into apartment blocks quite easily, you know. So a huge hotel is robbing the city of the apartment block it could be. No, they can't, because zoning. When they do, it's the choice of a local, elected, representative government, not an international corporation.
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BarbarianElephant posted:Hotels suck too, or do you all enjoy tiny rooms with odd stains on the quilt and ludicrously priced disgusting breakfasts? Implying that anyone desperate enough to register their house with Airbnb wouldn't have worse living conditions.
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Landsknecht posted:hi please fund my make-your-own-meth-empire startup so millenials can relive breaking bad through their smartphones Want to get involved in my new start up? It's called Crystal Blue Apron Persuasion. We send customers an empty juice bottle, some Coleman's fuel, aquarium tubing, lithium batteries, ammonia, drain cleaner crystals, and a pre addressed envelope. The customer can either sell the product back to us at a profit or smoke it themselves, it's the meth sharing economy. Artisanal, small batch shake n bake crank in less than 40 minutes.
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i think the bulk of the population who doesn't have an inexplicable grudge against hotels generally see the wisdom of commercial regulation on short term residency for profit
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I want a business that lets me timeshare my catte to people who want to be waked up in the middle of the night. I will provide a self-addressed crate in which they Uber him back to me each morning. Dumb catte also wants to tuck up on my arms so I can't type and thus waste muscles I could be using on him.
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How much for an hour of this cat's time?
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They're about to legalize marijuana in my state, I bet there'll be plenty of space for disruption in the home grow kit business (everything but the seeds).
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withak posted:How much for an hour of this cat's time? It scales by demand. At 3AM I pay you. Marijuana startups have been gearing up for at least two years. I have one that takes credit cards (!) and delivers lab-tested high-CBD tinctures to my door. They also sell weed in -- I am not making this up -- wee mason jars with a raffia string tied around the lid, with a paper tag with the name of the grower. One grower proudly boasts of their three generations of experience.
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Dry your eyes, BarbarianElephant. AirBnb having to follow the law/local or regulations or becoming more expensive won't spell the end of civilisation as you know it.BarbarianElephant posted:I genuinely don't want AirBnb and similar to be banned. Hotels suck too, or do you all enjoy tiny rooms with odd stains on the quilt and ludicrously priced disgusting breakfasts? I'd like AirBnb to be better, not banned. Are you saying that all hotels have tiny rooms with odd stains on the quilt and ludicrously priced disgusting breakfasts? I've never stayed at a hotel like that. Perhaps you need to stay at a higher-quality hotel than "youth hostel"? BarbarianElephant posted:Hotels can be converted into apartment blocks quite easily, you know. So a huge hotel is robbing the city of the apartment block it could be. Are you saying that a city always has exactly one choice between "allow a hotel to be built" and "allow an apartment block to be built"? Because I've seen areas, just recently in fact, where apartment blocks and hotels were simulaneously being built. BarbarianElephant posted:They should certainly pay hotel taxes. I don't see why a one bedroom apartment needs a sprinkler system designed for a 500 room concrete maze. Why do you think that someone would install "a sprinkler system designed for a 500 room concrete maze" in a one-bedroom apartment rather than "a fire-safety and -suppression system designed for a one-bedroom apartment"? BarbarianElephant posted:As for zoning, there are "hotel" zones? Why are old fashioned bed-and-breakfasts often in residential areas? Most hotels I've seen have been in commercial zones rather than a "hotel" zone as such, but I guess that depends on the local regulations. Regarding B&Bs, B&Bs are people's homes, in which they live, and from which they rent a room to guests (and then make breakfast for those guests). They're found in residential areas because the owners reside in them. A B&B is not the same as an AirBnB. vvvvvvvvvvv Eh, OK, the vocab is bad then. That's a pension, not a B&B. Weatherman fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Oct 23, 2016 |
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Weatherman posted:Most hotels I've seen have been in commercial zones rather than a "hotel" zone as such, but I guess that depends on the local regulations.
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In case you're not tired of foodiecorns: read about this company which expects to make bank and prevent food waste by selling restaurant leftovers as a short-term "all you can grab" buffet right after closing.
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Dr. AA Hazredstein posted:In case you're not tired of foodiecorns: read about this company which expects to make bank and prevent food waste by selling restaurant leftovers as a short-term "all you can grab" buffet right after closing. Honestly this is a really good idea and I would head to a buffet 10 minutes after closing to take my fill for a fraction of the cost. I don't know how you monetize this into a business but I like the idea.
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