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Dr. VooDoo posted:I know the answer will be the founders blowing money on themselves at an amazing rate but what in the hell could Uber waste that much money on? They don't supply their drivers with anything so what are they dropping near a billion dollars on? Do car mustaches just cost that much? Uber is getting the poo poo sued out of them everywhere and some of the court cases where their drivers kill people are coming due.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:More bad news for unicorns: This makes me laugh pretty hard.
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Feb 12, 2016 20:12
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FilthyImp posted:When personal computing has roots in kits you build yourself, or components that can be swapped out by the consumer, its logical that rolling any of that back (much less forcing programs into walled gardens) would be met with hesitation. Phones are still in the early days of their lifecycle really. I'd guess in about 5 years you'll be able to build your own fairly easily and cheaply. Right now phones are still in the 486, first gen. Pentium chipset era. Cicero posted:Apparently recent video game DRM efforts have actually gotten very effective, though: They broke it like 3 weeks after this.
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Feb 16, 2016 04:16
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Liquid Communism posted:No IP holder gives a drat about fanart produced on a small scale. Suing fanartists creates a huge PR disaster out of what was essentially free advertising for their product, so it is instead reserved for people making knockoffs of actual company product. No one gives a drat about fanart sold on a small scale that makes the company look good. I"m sure someone job at WB or Disney is to watch Etsy and the other sites to make sure nothing anyone on the website makes there IP's look bad. If it did it's gone, if not it's free advertising.
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Feb 22, 2016 02:20
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I'm going to hazard a guess that a company dedicated to making international money transfers as seamless and cheap as possible by using what looks like a more automated version of hawala is going to be financed by organized crime. The money laundering potential is too big to be ignored. See also Bitcoin. It might not be financed by organized crime but it is going to be hevely used by them. It's more the massive network of transnational workers need someone to transfer money and this works with there traditions but on the internet. Which is what all the best web business are.
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Feb 22, 2016 03:43
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axeil posted:so who do we all hate more now, finance or tech? aren't they pretty much the same at this point. Selling nothing and destroying everything.
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Feb 23, 2016 20:50
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MS biggest problem in mobile space is either where either generations ahead of technology (the tablets they where making in the late 90's), a generation behind or so weird no one wants to use it. Of course they also own so many patients that they make a huge amount of money from every Android phone sold and more then likely will get a massive winfall whenever they settle with Apple.
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Feb 26, 2016 21:02
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ToxicSlurpee posted:From the looks of things they were in the right place at the right time and now pay people smarter than they are to make more things. Pretty much the right place and the right time. Paypal is pretty stupid but when it was created it was a massive leap forward in tech for buying poo poo on the internet.
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Feb 29, 2016 21:04
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Mercury_Storm posted:Haha wow I didn't even think of that. Christ what a terrible idea. Sears is so hosed it should be held up as an example of what no to do with your company. It and the US and Canadian post office are why Rand was an idiot in action.
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Mar 11, 2016 02:59
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Cicero posted:Nobody's mentioned SpoonRocket shutting down yet? On-demand stuff maybe work in the core areas of maybe 20 cities on the planet to be generous. The problem is most of these idiots don't understand this and if you live outside of these areas it's loving useless.
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Mar 16, 2016 20:18
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Cicero posted:Depends on which on-demand stuff you're talking about. A taxi summoning app is pretty awesome in basically any major city...heck it's useful in about any place that could reasonably be called a city, period. And that's true regardless of whether it's Uber or Lyft or a traditional taxi company behind the app. A taxi summoning app is fine, but it's not that hard to really call someone either. On demand dog walking, or shopping doesn't really work.
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Mar 17, 2016 19:44
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Subjunctive posted:Yes, "taskers" set their own rates and provide their own equipment. So taskrabbit (which I've never heard of) is basically an app based yellowpages then, or seems like it. Buffer posted:Sorry, I really didn't mean to derail into hiring practice. It's bad and dumb and purposefully designed to skew towards recent grads and everyone knows it. Then you add in the emphasis on places and not skills(which are getting so individualized by company you have to train them) and it's just comical. I didn't think it was quite make Vint Cerf submit his undergrad transcripts comical, but here we are. Based on IBM's current revenue issues I'd say the B2B crash has already started sbaldrick fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Mar 18, 2016 |
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Mar 18, 2016 19:54
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menino posted:I guess it depends on the business unit you're looking at. IBM is divesting a lot of service and trying to avoid low margin businesses. Their 'strategic imperatives' revenue is growing very fast. They can only fire people for so long.
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Mar 20, 2016 04:25
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red19fire posted:I just want to chime in that 'break the internet' is the new 'going viral' and it's obnoxious. I feel no pity for these vloggers, how many hair & make-up blogs does the world need, or comedians doing lovely comedy
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Mar 25, 2016 01:57
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Josh Lyman posted:I mean, Snapchat, Pinterest, Dropbox, and Evernote are "real businesses" in that they have products. Snapchat is an interesting product but it seems like it will get sued by the government anytime now.
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PJOmega posted:Why? Child porn, terrorism, organized crime.
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duz posted:Section 230, unless you know something special about them. Just gaining a reputation as a provider of those services would kill it, or get it yanked from the app stores.
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Mar 27, 2016 03:41
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Pimpmust posted:Back to startups, anyone posted this? A couple weeks old but holy poo poo
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Mar 31, 2016 01:50
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Adventure Pigeon posted:I like that they think government regulation is the major thing stifling science when it's usually just lack of resources (the majority of which come from the government to begin with). The dude played Bioshock one too many times and has just enough sense not to try to build his city underwater. They don't seem to understand that pretty much all major science historically is paid for by the government or semi-government entities (noblemen basically). Honestly I can't think of any major invention that basically isn't back by the government in some way in order to really exist.
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Mar 31, 2016 17:14
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blowfish posted:No you see, at Bell Labs where every Great American Physicist did their Nobel-winning work which was only possible because the US postwar telecom market was essentially a monopoly and AT&T/Bell indistinguishable from a nationalised company And massive government contracts and grants that paid for all the Nobel-winning work of course.
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Mar 31, 2016 20:00
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icantfindaname posted:Has Twitter made a single cent of profit in its whole existence? I was going to say has amazon hasn't butseems to make a small profit despite being worlds biggest ecommerce site while at the same time being worse to work for them Wal-Mart.
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Apr 6, 2016 06:08
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Paradoxish posted:People keep saying this, but I don't think it's going to matter. There's going to be a lot of resistance to this stuff and I'm sure a lot of these things will end up damaged or destroyed, but ultimately they're going to have cameras installed, "accidents" will be prosecuted, and people will settle down and let it happen. There's no way that a lot of small deliveries aren't automated in 5-10 years if the the technology to cheaply do so exists. I can't wait till someone roles out this tech outside a place with near perfect weather like SF, I can just imagine how it will work in a mid-western winter let alone a Canadian one.
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Apr 7, 2016 05:07
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karthun posted:Computers are already better at driving on snow and ice than humans. If you doubt that turn off your antilock breaks and traction control and drive around during a Minnesota winter. More people I know have accidents sure to the antilock freeze then anything else. Given that automakers can't make a tire sensor that works in a Canadian winter then they sure as poo poo can't make a computer that does.
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Apr 8, 2016 00:27
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Hughlander posted:http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/29/handcuffed-to-uber/ why a lot of Uber employees (Not pseudo contractors) are rather hosed. A 40% tax rate on my 300 million dollars, the horror.
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May 3, 2016 00:11
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a foolish pianist posted:Well, a 40% tax rate on that money that the spreadsheet says I'm worth but who the gently caress knows, and also I'm a regular old software engineer and I barely make the payments on my condo is more accurate. You take out a loan against the shares, leave and sell. Enjoy your money.
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May 3, 2016 00:21
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RandomPauI posted:Except Uber prohibits taking loans against the shares. the only time a second mortoage on your house is OK
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May 3, 2016 05:15
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I kind of have a hard time thinking of Musk"s various projects as unicorns as at least his projects have a plan to really do something even if that something is stupid or illconseved like hyperloop.
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May 11, 2016 05:51
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Coolness Averted posted:Yeah there's a weird obsession with being at the desk over tasks. I have a friend who works at the US subsidiary of a rather big Japanese corporation and their culture is a bit wonky. He came from a company that was more flexible about what 40 meant, like staying late to get something out the door Thursday meant it was okay to leave a bit early Friday if your plate was empty. Since he's in the US the expectation is more 40 hours than 80 at least, but yeah they're all about 'This is the start time, this is the end time, be here 5 days a week in that window. We don't care what you're doing as long as you're here. The company at least seems decently loyal, though they practically disappear folks when they do fire them. Japanese companies are super into face time, which is why they want you ask your desk. For instance the NA President of Honda doesn't have an office, he has a desk as far as you can get to the door but everyone working in his giant open office space which is full of managers and assistants can see what he's doing. It creates a weird corporate culture. Also the liaisons are always poo poo but if you are a webioo that wants a job that pays really will but you will never get promoted from it's a good job to get.
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Munkeymon posted:Post in https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3246449 please. IIRC poster 'the talent deficit' is looking for ML people to work for a place in Vancouver which is a beautiful place to live, btw Do not move to Vancouver unless you want to enjoy the worlds most rear end-rapey overpriced housing market. This is a real listing from Vancouver right now http://www.point2homes.com/CA/Home-For-Sale/BC/Vancouver/Sunset/495-E-61ST-AVENUE/26130115.html
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May 31, 2016 19:03
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blowfish posted:Considering the Canadian Funbucks exchange rate, that's about half as bad as London. At most. At last count its more expensive then London as per the economist.
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I know we generally talk about unicorns here but what happens when unicorns cross into real business. Do you know Walmart has an internal facebook where it seems Supervisors and above have to say nice things about each other and cheer each other on. This board is also only seen by the area Supervisors and above but it's unicorn stuff for a business whose individual units outprofit pretty much any unicorn in existence.
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May 31, 2016 22:41
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eschaton posted:Did a bunch of idiots from Sears move into positions at Wal-Mart? Because this is poo poo that happened at Sears. Their Randroid CEO even had sockpuppet accounts where he'd do poo poo like argue with cashiers. While I had heard about the Sears one I had no idea Wal-Mart had one. I had to verify it was a family member that manages one. They may also be required to check the message board during downtime in order to pump each other up but that I haven't be able to verify. Wal-mart has always been super Randish but this explains some of the stupid poo poo they have done recently. Liquid Communism posted:In the ongoing fun of Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes... I honestly would love to see the value of some stocks on the private market right now with venture capitals and things bailing out.
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Jun 1, 2016 22:33
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FlamingLiberal posted:Uber just got $3.5 billion from Saudi Arabia's public investment fund, which makes them the company's largest investor now That is a horrible investment for that Saudi's who need a company that will create real capital.
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Jun 1, 2016 23:01
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Feinne posted:Oh yeah any of these people in the food or animal feed space should start getting ready for their products to be 'disrupted' off the loving shelves come September because guarantee they're not preparing to be compliant with the food safety modernization act. They will claim it's homopathic and outside FDA regulations right up to the point that's coming soon withe FDA and the EMA finish the giant study they have been doing on homopathic "medicine".
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Jun 3, 2016 22:04
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Randler posted:Considering a lot of Terms of Use are unenforceable legaloblabber, I'd not be surprised if Urbanhail were actually correct in this regard. Uber strike me as so full of themselves they would put something in their ToS like "your vehicle's value is part of our companies value and by using our service we now own your car" in some little subsection no one has read.
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Jun 6, 2016 23:37
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Popular Thug Drink posted:yes, and this is illegal Does this company exist, because I can't wait till say a Silicon Valley disruptor meets a Teamster boss or one of the billionaires that current run around in the transport industry.
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Jun 8, 2016 04:27
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Inspector Gesicht posted:So, against the going price for LinkedIn and Candy Crush, was the Star Wars sale to Disney at 4 billion a steal? And it is it the only multi-billion property that will realistically turn a profit after it changes hands? LinkedIn has 100 million paying users somehow, which MS is going to spend the next 10 years data mining. Dell still exists to sell computers to companies, the people that pay for things.
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Jun 16, 2016 03:41
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eschaton posted:Don't forget the horrific racism and general right-wing jackassery in Arizona, I'm pretty sure that drives out plenty of people too. Remember at the start of the thread when someone said the North Carolina was a great place for people to live because the cities are progressively.
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Can we talk about Latch, the more then likely super illegal door lock company. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...m_medium=social
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Octatonic posted:Hey now, so do objectivists! Everyone likes trains. Personal trains for everyone
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