Brannock posted:

What I'm curious about is the knock-on effect all these pending collapses will have on cities like Seattle and San Francisco where the prices are exploding out of control thanks to all the techies concentrating there.

Popular Thug Drink posted:

one other small aspect is chauvinism, there's a lot of folks who think that places like omaha or raleigh-durham might as well be a dung-smoked yurt at the end of the earth and frankly i'm fine with those people confining themselves to the most expensive cities

Popular Thug Drink posted:

see? chauvinism. not everywhere between the coasts is a hellhole but if that's what you want to believe friend go for it

Quorum posted:

Lots of cities have abortion clinics and dedicated activist groups? These things aren't geographically limited to within twenty miles of New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle, on pain of lynching. For example, here's a map of access to abortion clinics; you'll note that Raleigh-Duram shows up as quite well-supplied:



(Disclaimer, a few of these, especially in Texas, are now closed because Republican control of legislatures sucks donkey balls.)

For a lot of people, a places doesn't have to offer "the same or better" as Seattle or NYC of any given amenity, it just has to provide adequately, while also satisfying whatever other value judgments they care to make. You can acknowledge that large coastal cities have better services in place for marginalized populations without also condemning everywhere else as godless wastelands fit only to be burned in nuclear fire.

Popular Thug Drink posted:

i'm sure the LGBT communities of omaha, raleigh-durham, and other red state cities appreciate your support

meanwhile, back in reality, there's lots of reasons for companies to establish branch offices in cities with a lower cost of living and we'll probably see more of that once the market cools off a little bit and some of the shine wears off the bay area

go3 posted:

what does any of this have to do with the OP

computer parts posted:

The collapse of the tech bubble is going to have lots of people still clustering to those expensive cities because they think flyover states are Mad Max hellholes.

The debate is over whether that belief is accurate.

shrike82 posted:

lol Solkanar, that's a pretty bizarre argument to be making - that bumfuck nowhere areas tend to be better to GLBT people

redscare posted:

Speaking of startups and compliance failures, how about Zenefits!

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/techflash/2016/02/zenefits-scandal-spreads-regulators-hr-tech.html


One of the last things you want to do is sell insurance without a license.

Shifty Pony posted:

You can't help but feel deja vu when you read about things such as people getting booed if they dare ask a startup founder their revenue plan.

shrike82 posted:

Probably because it's the equivalent of the Big Bang theory

shrike82 posted:

I think Seattle's another hub. It never went bubble mode for some reason.

shrike82 posted:

I'm comparing it with the other major hubs like SF and NYC.

MikeCrotch posted:

Isn't the PNW having the issue where rich people are moving into the city centre to experience the 'artistic and musical culture' of the city, thereby driving up prices and forcing said artists and musicians to move somewhere cheaper?

Kwyndig posted:

Also it's Chinese which remains the new hotness in VC/speculator realms.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

redscare posted:

It's almost as if 1960s era labor law enforcement is out of date and needs to be updated to reflect 21st century realities.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

The Military-Unicornial complex just got tighter: Former Google CEO Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Amazon has just started "Amazon Launchpad" which translates as "Take a product created through a Kickstarter or similar and sell it to a wider public." It's being promoted as "Discover Unique and Unexpected Products from today's brightest startups". The products include gems like Pavlok, a "wearable [i.e. black rubber wristband like all the other ones] that helps break bad habits and reduce cravings using vibration, beep, and a mild electric stimulus" (my daughter: "What about a rubber band on the wrist?"); Sleipnir, a $79 anemometer for your cellphone (husband and daughter: "You can't just wet your finger and stick it in the air?"), and a $99 water bottle that "tracks your hydration throughout the day" (via Bluetooth) but has no handle or carrying loop of any sort. That last is called the Mark One Pryme Vessyl, which sounds like it belongs in either a space vampire LARP or a fourth-rate metal band.

Ah, brave new world.

DrNutt posted:

That reminds me of a kickstarted product that keeps popping up on my Facebook feed. It's called the Luup and it's a litter box with three interlocking parts that basically sifts itself so you don't have to scoop. Only...

It already loving exists, it's called a Lift and Sift. So it's a product that you can already walk into a store and buy, with a much less stupid name no less.

Popular Thug Drink posted:

one other small aspect is chauvinism, there's a lot of folks who think that places like omaha or raleigh-durham might as well be a dung-smoked yurt at the end of the earth and frankly i'm fine with those people confining themselves to the most expensive cities

quote:

Instead, legislators returned to the state house to overrule a local ordinance in Charlotte banning discrimination against LGBT people. A bill written for that purpose passed Wednesday evening and was signed by Governor Pat McCrory, a Republican. In the House, every Republican and 11 Democrats backed the bill. In the Senate, Democrats walked out when a vote was called, resulting in a 32-0 passage by Republicans. The law not only overturns Charlotte’s ban: It also prevents any local governments from passing their own non-discrimination ordinances, mandates that students in the state’s schools use bathrooms corresponding to the gender on their birth certificate, and prevents cities from enacting minimum wages higher than the state’s.

Holyshoot posted:

"Banned LGBT Non-Discrimination Policies"

No it doesn't. It's one specific law, aimed at allowing people to use the bathroom of their choice, by saying they "identify" as the other sex. Unfortunately, kids as expected, abused that, resulting in a huge distraction and set of unforeseen issues, such as sexual harassment.

And no, it doesn't do anything special for minimum-wage laws, it forces ordinances to follow the state laws, and those states have to follow the federal laws. That's just the way it works.

quote:

Instead, legislators returned to the state house to overrule a local ordinance in Charlotte banning discrimination against LGBT people. A bill written for that purpose passed Wednesday evening and was signed by Governor Pat McCrory, a Republican. In the House, every Republican and 11 Democrats backed the bill. In the Senate, Democrats walked out when a vote was called, resulting in a 32-0 passage by Republicans. The law not only overturns Charlotte’s ban: It also prevents any local governments from passing their own non-discrimination ordinances , mandates that students in the state’s schools use bathrooms corresponding to the gender on their birth certificate, and prevents cities from enacting minimum wages higher than the state’s.

Gail Wynand posted:

I'm pretty sure that all of these are regs that Airbnb doesn't actually object to. What you see instead a lot is cities trying to ban Airbnb entirely or put incredibly onerous restrictions on them.

wateroverfire posted:

Spending thousands of dollars each to certify home kitchens is probably a non starter. I can't imagine many Josephine cooks generate more than say a couple hundred in revenue for the company in a year.

Installing facilities for home cooks to go cook in might be a business or might not, but is very different from what Josephine wants to do.

Hopefully they can work with the health department to come up with a streamlined inspection process or something. It's a neat idea.

wateroverfire posted:

Well, there are potentially thousands or even tens of thousands of home cooks who would like to make money by inviting people to eat in their homes, and who make the long margin on that business. So there's that to consider.

But really, the problem is that the law in CA doesn't contemplate small-scale operations that have a different risk profile than full scale commercial kitchens. Why shouldn't the law be ammended to permit safe small-scale production? Josephine is working within the system to try and bring that about.

WampaLord posted:

I have content, ironically found on Gawker!

http://gawker.com/new-startup-that-sends-dossiers-on-your-private-social-1781576586


They're disrupting credit checks by going way beyond their scope and scouring social media to create a "Personality Score!"

Tuxedo Gin posted:

No, the big hitters will just charge for access to the data since their entire existence is gathering and selling data about their users.

WampaLord posted:

I think the difference there is that Disney just bought the rights to Star Wars, not an entire company with employees and offices and whatnot, as far as I'm aware.

ShadowHawk posted:

I think Linked In owns their buildings. They're right next to Google, so they gotta be worth something.

sbaldrick posted:

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.

Aliquid posted:

how would you judge which tech startup to tax? revenues? if so,

cheese posted:

Some people get very into aspects of personal grooming and beauty. If someone wants that to be their "thing" then I say go for it. You are an idiot if you buy into the PR bullshit about straight razor shaving, but then you are an idiot if you buy into the PR bullshit of any activity.

blowfish posted:

I'm willing to pay more to not have to haggle. Why would I possibly want to waste time on that.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

hehe


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-04/food-startup-ran-undercover-project-to-buy-up-its-own-products

the talent deficit posted:

i work at a startup in this market and retailers and vendors (especially vendors) have almost zero ability to do any kind of analysis on trends like this. we have gigantic multinational customers that are amazed we can even aggregate sales by product category or by arbitrary labels. their in house analysis is interns and new grads making $30k and working with garbage excel spreadsheets if they have any in house analysis at all

blowfish posted:

on the other hand, it hits that sweet spot where middle manager types can understand it just enough to dangerously mess things up without knowing what they're doing.

Ccs posted:

So snapchat released some racist filter that people are up in arms about.

https://medium.com/@katie/im-deleting-snapchat-and-you-should-too-98569b2609e4#.l8rundv32

My reaction to this was that it's a Silicon Valley tech company, so there must be enough Asian-Americans on staff to know this was a bad idea. But checking their list of current and former employees, they seem to be a mostly white people company, with some Indian guys every once in a while.