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How many quarters after Q1 2016 till Marissa Mayer is unemployed?
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Her job is guaranteed; what are you even talking about?
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Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.
A good chunk of why uber service is "better" is because your driver is operating under circumstances where the next four star review could get them fired. Regular taxi drivers don't have to suck your dick to keep their job and imo that's what a lot of people like about uber over taxis.

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Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Discendo Vox posted:

Scarecams, LPs, pulling facial expressions, wacky voices, rampant misogyny and rape jokes until it threatened his revenue due to goons calling him on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFbVKL-Meo0

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Gail Wynand posted:

I know we're supposed to move on from locationchat, but even if you restrict yourself to democrat-run states there are plenty of viable lower cost tech hubs - most of which are already getting investment and are not cultural Siberias. Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, Vegas, Philly, Denver...

Indianapolis likes to fantasize about it but we're too controlled by right wing lunatics to follow through on it.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Woolie Wool posted:

Sometimes the behavior of investors makes me wonder if they are not actually human but instead some sort of ungulate.

Poor ole Andreesen, thought of a down round and died.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.
Gabe Newell always said that the way to beat piracy was to be more convenient than piracy, and goddamn if he wasn't right.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Discendo Vox posted:

Gabe Newell's an incredible businessman. Has he ever invested in anything that wasn't a huge suc

Ricochet was a free mod so idk what you're on about.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.
Microsoft used to make pocket pc pdas that could have phones integrated into them- I used to see them at Circuit Court all the time, even considered one when I bought my old hp iPaq. Does that not count as a smartphone?

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

JamesKPolk posted:

gently caress, thanks for the explanation.

Don't forget that in order to get on the network, you have to buy your network address from Moldbug, because any other arrangement would be communism.

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Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.
What kind of incredible reality bubble do you have to be living in to think that the tech industry is the only reason anybody wants to live in the Bay Area?

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