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eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

qirex posted:

also the future for amazon is to automate the pushing carts around part so all the humans do is put things into boxes

this is not the future

it is the present

dehumanize yourself and face to shover robot

# ¿ Jan 10, 2015 01:40

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 20:54

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Citizen Tayne posted:

James Kuntzler covered exactly this in The Geography of Nowhere. It's impossible to make a private space like a mall a public space because the point of public space is that you can do what you want (loosely within the law). As soon as there are management and security there to tell you to gtfo if they don't like you, it ceases to be a gathering space.

also everyone here would probably enjoy Kunstler's eyesore of the month feature

:911:

# ¿ Jan 10, 2015 02:51

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Citizen Tayne posted:

Kunstler has turned into a bit of a crank in his old age, but he is absolutely right about what we've done to our communities.

"in the absence of architectural detail you get television"

# ¿ Jan 10, 2015 03:16

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

bubble idea: cookr, order a meal from a local "food sharing" provider at a standard price and it's delivered, and you need to neither pay nor tip the deliverer

the "food sharing" providers are unvetted independent contractors paid a percentage who prepare meals using entirely their own facilities, recipe, and ingredients

the company uses its vast VC funding to fight any attempt at regulation for sanitation, safety, quality, or licensing because they're just connecting people who want food with those who have food to share, checkmate

# ¿ Jan 10, 2015 04:59

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

FrozenVent posted:

yos combinator

mods

# ¿ Jan 10, 2015 05:52

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Shifty Pony posted:

airbnb tried to launch a "dinner party" service which was basically cookr. never heard what happened to it after the health department disrupted the hell out of the business model.

why did they let that happen? you'd think airbnb would know about just ignoring regulation you don't like

# ¿ Jan 10, 2015 05:54

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

syscall girl posted:

no deliberately poisoned food here but we get car loan derivatives

at least you have your health

as long as you don't get sick at least

# ¿ Jan 10, 2015 06:12

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

duTrieux. posted:

what's the industry o/u on secret government artificial intelligence prograLALILULELO

Cyc and Cycorp still exist 30 years after their founding, coincidentally Cyc did well in the Command Post Of The Future battlefield decision support system trials a dozen or so years ago

I gather these days Cyc can learn through reading news and conversing in English (text), rather than through direct translation and entry of propositions in CycL by knowledge engineers

Lenat & co's papers "The Nature of Heuristics I-III" are good reading if you can find them, as is the paper describing RLL-1 which is the predecessor to CycL.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2015 05:57

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

FMguru posted:

our agreement said "peak hours"

it never said on which continent those peak hours were being observed, now did it?

libertariancontracts.txt

# ¿ Jan 14, 2015 06:12

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

duTrieux. posted:

they already do subprime car loans

do they offer CDOs and other derivatives based on bundles of these loans?

# ¿ Jan 14, 2015 10:21

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Main Paineframe posted:

speaking of "no quality filter", soylent just got $20 million from vcs

I asked my wife if she'd heard of it, and she hadn't and found their web site. many WTFs resulted from watching their intro video, especially since their founder really appears on the spectrum there.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2015 22:00

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Nintendo Kid posted:

since diet coke was going to be its own product that could be dropped if it failed, they didn't see a reason to try to copy the regular coke flavor.

I thought they iterated on developing a flavor people would identify as "Coke" despite the use of aspartame as a sweetener (making it taste way sweeter than regular coke), and then used the Diet Coke flavor as the basis for New Coke (n�e Coke II, which was still available as of the late 90s!) in response to the Pepsi Challenge

Max Headroom was also involved

# ¿ Jan 15, 2015 06:02

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Nintendo Kid posted:

that's new coke, still officially regular coca cola to this day even though its rarely produced, it's a flop, coke goes back to "Classic" coke which also has some minor flavor changes compared to the original stuff but nobody really cares.

and also there should be more Max Headroom

# ¿ Jan 15, 2015 06:09

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

jetz0r posted:

new startup idea, selling nerds a slowcooker covered in LEDs, plus premixed bags of rice, lentils, beans, and a seasoning mix.

cook.ly

now how do I invest?

with a no dilution clause so each subsequent round of ~~suckers~~ investors winds up having to pay me off, of course

# ¿ Jan 16, 2015 10:22

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Wulfolme posted:

If you're gonna chug a supplement thing as though it's a whole meal, it's probably a lot less disquieting to have it just taste like water than have it taste like chocolate.

I think what they worry about is not tasting like chocolate, but tasting like not-chocolate

like those terrible foil-wrapped candies

or carob

# ¿ Jan 16, 2015 10:25

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

hobbesmaster posted:

hyper space conserving stuff doesn't sell in the US for obvious reasons

it smacks of communism, everybody should have a multi-acre ranch

# ¿ Jan 17, 2015 01:14

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

As a Millennial I posted:

they've been working on it since 2007 lol

since the iPhone was first announced?

and it's still not available?

# ¿ Jan 17, 2015 01:17

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

fleshweasel posted:

where's the write up on why Linus sucks
I have used git so I know that part

to start with there's The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate where he argued against common wisdom in OS design with the author of one of the most prominent textbooks in the field

there's how Linux implemented threads for many years (via loving fork!)

these are the things that make him an idiot who is nowhere near as skilled as many of his followers think he is

and then there's the way he treats people on mailing lists when they have questions or ideas or disagree with him, which is the part that makes him an rear end in a top hat

# ¿ Jan 18, 2015 00:48

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

uncurable mlady posted:

i think she raises good points pretty often and I don't begrudge her anger or style

I think she raises a lot of good points and I enjoy Model View Culture and think it's important work

her anger and style go a long way towards alienating current & potential allies and people who could be persuaded to her point of view, when she uses them to attack those very people as insufficiently revolutionary. it's the sort of thing that has held back many movements, and winds up doing the counter-revolutionaries' work for them.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2015 00:56

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

graph posted:

"lmao, those whiny bitches should shut up and make me a sandwich!! lol." sulk, eschaton, and chris_knight, completely unironically. loving kill yourselves

perfect shanley right here

# ¿ Jan 18, 2015 08:52

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Flat Daddy posted:

sulk is subhuman filth who should be dragged out into the street and shot,
because he mentioned that being abrasivene in ur messaging might be unhelpful to your cause
fucker should kill himself for that. im mentally normal

# ¿ Jan 18, 2015 08:55

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Main Paineframe posted:

ah yes, the only reason leftists have accomplished nothing of note in the last forty years is because they were just too rude to rich white men. if only their tone was nicer we would live in a socialist paradise by now

well that and nonstop infighting about who's betraying the movement through the most minute counter-revolutionary thought or action

you'd like to help stop war?
well we reject your application
you crack too many jokes and you eat meat

# ¿ Jan 18, 2015 08:57

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

DolphinCop posted:

good news: creating/maintaining AI and robots to do menial jobs costs more than paying poo poo salaries to blue collar workers. wage slavery will never go out of style

we're currently on track for a Gattaca style dystopia imo

please, the proper term for them is "morlocks"

# ¿ Jan 22, 2015 05:44

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Pinterest Mom posted:

the bushes are Old Money

the Bushes are Old Old Money - they became New England Old Money because they were Old Money before they came to the United States

and GW somehow convinced almost a majority of the people of the U.S. that he was a yokel from Texas they'd like to have a beer with, rather than a member of the patrician elite they've been taught to hate for many years

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 02:33

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Wells posted:

doesn't the IRS go after business that really abuse the 1099 thing? or is that just a trauma induced delusion I have

only certain businesses of course

enforcement was utterly gutted by Bush and the remaining people were told to focus on individual and low-income and small business cheats, not large corporate or high-net-worth cheats. yes, really.

and here we're talking about a business with connections too.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 02:39

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Shifty Pony posted:

uber has all the data they need to accurately estimate net income for drivers. they require you to disclose your car's year, make, and model which combined with their knowledge of miles driven is enough to get fleet average fuel economy/cost and depreciation numbers. it just isn't in their interests at all to do the calculation.

they don't even have to do fleet average with that, they could do it literally for every driver, automatically.

but if they're computing what their drivers will make after all taxes are taken out and vehicle depreciation and insurance taken out and such, it leaves more of a paper trail for someone to turn around and say represents that they think of their drivers as employees and they should be reclassed as such and back taxes + penalties paid.

I really hope a state tries that tack and succeeds at it, even without such a paper trail.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 02:43

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

vodkat posted:

why would a cult 1980s TV show directed by noted transcendental meditation guru David Lynch open up a restaurant in ur hometown? idgi

if that's what it was I would wind up living there in a vinyl booth with a Formica table

and they'd have the best drat coffee and cherry pie, and there's always music in the air

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 02:46

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

sonatinas posted:

Mystery Diners is pretty bad. Seems to always portray a horrible owner trying to exert his/her dominion over the lives of the employees.

isn't that all business people? what's the point of a tech bubble otherwise?

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 22:43

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Snapchat A Titty posted:

obv they would make that available to people who are not captains of industry, like duh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E

# ¿ Jan 24, 2015 03:05

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Mido posted:

the future is pod transport

a big loud and angry quad copter blares an arrival siren as the atomic family dad runs out the front door and traps himself in a scratched and dented plastic bubble to be flown away by the angry hornet of a transport

I honestly cannot wait for this future

dibs on angryhornet.co

# ¿ Jan 26, 2015 09:27

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Jonny 290 posted:

how those robots are made, and is what we should focus on.

self-improving autonomous corporations based on smart blockchain technology

# ¿ Jan 30, 2015 11:39

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Wild EEPROM posted:

if you want the best deal now buy the montblanc tourbillon

oh please

IWC Portuguese Sid�rale Scafusia

# ¿ Jan 30, 2015 11:48

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

The Leck posted:

you mean i used to own multiple nissans?

nissans maxima

# ¿ Jan 31, 2015 16:52

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

on television, that's ok. tv ads are actually good and entertaining (the first few times you see them) and they're at least a not-bad part of the television experience

TV ads are terrible and gently caress Hulu for not letting users pay to avoid them because it's run by TV people who want them to stick around forever

# ¿ Jan 31, 2015 23:29

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

theflyingexecutive posted:

if you don't think burning man on a conceptual level sounds fun, idk what to say

the dust gets loving everywhere

that's a conceptual level that's not for me

# ¿ Feb 2, 2015 09:52

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

a few pages ago but

Citizen Tayne posted:

If any amount of money could vanish from your checking account without you noticing, you're an idiot and a gently caress-up.

rule 36

# ¿ Feb 2, 2015 22:21

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Citizen Tayne posted:

fast food is nothing like a dollar store or a check cashing place.

yeah, the latter are only financially harmful, not biologically

# ¿ Feb 2, 2015 22:25

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

qirex posted:

welp, looks like zombie battery retailer rat shack might finally die

wonder how much the complete swath of TRS-80 intellectual property would cost at auction...

# ¿ Feb 2, 2015 22:34

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Flaming June posted:

they thought it would be cheaper to just rehire the entire department in denver instead lol

are ex-Quark people are running the show there? that's straight out of their playbook.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2015 11:16

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 20:54

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Shaggar posted:

not really. Microsoft got hit w/ their anti trust case w/out any evidence of anti competitive practices. its about perception

oh, shaggar.

:allears:

# ¿ Feb 4, 2015 22:22

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