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Yahoo's been hosed for quite a while now, I thought this was common knowledge. Of the others, GoPro and Dropbox at least have something they can charge people money for, even though the former gets more and more competition from China (I bought a Xiaomi Yi which is 90% as good at 1/3 of the price) and the latter can be replicated by any idiot with an S3 account. I still haven't figured out what the gently caress Square does.
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Oooh ok, I remember seeing that and it kind of makes sense. I was probably confusing it withe the similarly sounding social thingy. So they might've been overvalued at IPO (whoa) but at least they have something going on there - unless the upcoming chip & pin is going to be impractical to implement, in which case they're hosed too, I guess.
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Reminds me of this: That image also makes me irrationally upset that my company not only gets stuck with a logo that was never made permanent, but is also in only one category despite having a strong position in multiple markets.
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Feb 7, 2016 13:29
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What if you don't have friends though?
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Feb 8, 2016 14:38
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Beerr. Thanks for the ideas, I think I'm gonna call it Adult Friend Finder or something like that, to make it clearer what it does.
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Feb 8, 2016 22:29
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Kwyndig posted:Well yeah, because people with MBAs are hopefully trained to look for things like a sustainable business model or a profit margin. Or "revenue" 
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Feb 11, 2016 18:33
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Well that's how all consulting works because there's a shitload of overhead costs, this is hardly unique.
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Feb 23, 2016 17:40
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The GPU situation is going to get instantly better once Pascal and Polaris are available in the next couple of months, and cards one or two levels below 970 can match it in performance.
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Mar 10, 2016 09:06
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^^^ Amazon's services are effectively B2B, while Dropbox is targeting end-users. Still, nothing preventing Amazon or Google from demolishing their business overnight, of course. Pebble is laying off 25% of employees (Which is 40 people, but still). Apparently the funding is drying up and the watch thing didn't exactly take off. Most other smartwatch companies in the market are established diversified operations so probably nothing much to worry about for them. born on a buy you posted:(Pinterest is the only one that makes a profit) mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Mar 25, 2016 |
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Mar 25, 2016 11:16
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Unilever has bought US start-up Dollar Shave Club for a reported $1bn (£764m) in cash to compete in the male grooming market. (http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36791928) Negative profit and only $150m annual revenue with a pending lawsuit from Gillette? Sure, why not.
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Jul 20, 2016 13:21
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Halloween Jack posted:I always wondered how they can really deliver shaving supplies that cheaply. They probably can't, which is why they're losing money like most other idiotic startups. By the way, are they the assholes from all the annoying podcast ads? I hope the fat stack of Unilever cash will get them to move them to Superbowl or somewhere else where I don't have to hear or see them. Abner Assington posted:In cash. 
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Jul 20, 2016 13:38
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Shifty Pony posted:I'm waiting for one of the major ISPs in the US to offer router or network-level ad blocking as an optional (paid) service. You mean ad injecting as a free service, right? That's been done already.
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Jul 21, 2016 13:47
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Is that just ignorance or one of those "I totally need those monster condoms for my magnum dong" things?
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Crossposting this from KS thread:mobby_6kl posted:Skully is dead! After collecting a cool $2.5m on igg and apparently failing to deliver anything, they're closing shop ASAP. It actually seemed like a pretty reasonable product, by igg standards, but was probably mismanaged horribly. Still it's weird that none of the established helmet manufacturers wanted to pick them up for cheap, it seems inevitable that AR/HUD helmets would be a thing eventually. Maybe their tech was poo poo/non-existing, who knows. Here's their site which is still up as of right now: https://www.skully.com/store
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Gail Wynand posted:There's still plenty of corporate and luxury travel agents out there. My parents just booked a trip to some kind of resort in Montenegro through an agent, and it wasn't a particularly luxury trip. Also my aunt works for one, and apparently business has been pretty lovely, but then she's in Russia that that would explain most of it. Still I'll try asking her about it the next time we speak (which might not be very soon). I think people still use them even for non-luxury mainly for convenience and feeling that you would be taken care of - no trying to catch a local bus from the airport or getting ripped off by taxi drivers, that sort of thing. There are some opportunities to extract economies of scale with larger groups so I think there's still some potential on the low end. As for corporate, well we're doing our best to demolish that by integrating all travel booking and expense handling in one, mostly automated web service. Although there still is some space in cases like organizing large events like all-hands meetings that currently require a bit of manual effort.
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sarehu posted:This is what I think about people that act like the "retro Thinkpad" is a real thing that's gonna happen. Any day now, Lenovo promised!  Look at those dual ThinknLights! The 7-row keyboard and dedicated audio buttons! 
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Well, that's why they say that having big data isn't the solution, it's kind of a problem 
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FilthyImp posted:There was a period of time where BestBuy would segregate it's online and in-store prices. So you'd walk in because a TV or game was on sale, only to find that the store price was different and they wouldn't pricematch it.  .Baby Babbeh posted:This is the actual answer. Most retailers don't have the technical sophistication to do anything useful on their own with granular purchase data, but there a lot of data broker companies that do and they pay relatively good money for it. In the past this was mostly used for direct mail — they'd sell lists of people who bought certain kinds of things to marketers who would then send those people junk mail. Nowadays, a lot of this data is resold to online sites that combine it with their own data to retarget their users.
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Skype for Business is fine, I think everyone was just complaining because of the stupid name and because that's at least the third time it's renamed in recent times.
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They did own Linksys at some point, which somehow made both more and less sense. They were in the same type of business, just on the consumer side, and had a pretty good reputation. But since they were kept as separate brands, nobody ever went "I love my Linksys router at home, we should go with Cisco for this data center" or vice versa.
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Aug 17, 2016 21:38
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Gail Wynand posted:TCAS does have an automatic mode that kicks in if the pilot doesn't do anything, though. So does Tesla, however. Sometimes it just doesn't work perfectly.
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Aug 22, 2016 15:07
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Hodgepodge posted:Wait, how the hell did they manage to blow up a satellite? No, it was pretty easy, it's just Musk overhyping things as usual: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-apparently-blew-up-during-a-test-firing-thursday/
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Sep 2, 2016 10:15
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Bird in a Blender posted:I guess this makes sense for towns that don't have existing bus service, but one of the big benefits of buses is reducing traffic congestion. Moving a whole bunch of people off buses and into individual cars will raise hell on the roads.
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I knew this wasn't Godfather but didn't remember Mattis at all. At least it wasn't a promoted Encino Man or one of his crew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpjieIRRAp8
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Has anyone been sued for downloading papers about panda loving illegaly? Not that I'd encourage it because that would be wrong but seems like a neat thing for broke students or independent researchers.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:the only people i ever see defending airbnb are people who rent out their property using it
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computer parts posted:Strange, I heard Uber didn't do this but regular cabs did. I don't think that's the point - just that Uber is used by the richer people who don't go into the poor areas. Liquid Communism posted:Don't forget the part where Uber's standards for what vehicles they'll accept their drivers using are also both a lot higher than most conventional taxi fleets, and not maintained or provided by Uber themselves! It's pretty easy to get a nicer experience when you're not paying for your fleet, after all!
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Panfilo posted:For example, a hotel area to the major airport, it would make more sense for them to charge a flat rate since the distances are consistent and the faster the cab gets you there, the more fares he can pick up in a day. And this is what I initially thought Uber was doing, and sort of is what BlaBlaCar is doing, though it's more actual ride sharing and not taxi hailing thing: https://www.blablacar.com/
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Altavista has been doing exactly what google did for a few years at least, except they didn't have as smart of page rank algorithm. Had some advantages early on though, like you could search for text that was nearby something else, to ensure it isn't completely unrelated. Google nowadays will return pages that don't even contain the searched words  For Maps vs GPS, there's been plenty of maps on phones/PDAs before Android even existed, it's just that none of those reached a critical mass, Maps still suck as navigation though, I have no idea how they still haven't figured out loving tunnels while Here manages them perfectly.
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You're basically giving him money to spend on "shitposting" by buying a Rift, so I think not wanting to do that is fairly uncontroversial.
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To give a specific example, if my employer, with a median salary of over $100k according to that site, wanted to transfer me to work in the states, we'd have to compete for the visa with 40 Tata guys averaging half that. So as a result, instead of jumping through all the hoops and hoping I get through, they got some Turkish guy doing the work remotely instead.
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Baby Babbeh posted:It also didn't help that the marketing for it was atrocious. They weren't ever able to pinpoint what the use case for it was supposed to be, aside from really niche stuff like life casting or extreme sports which GoPro was already doing equally well. Probably they'd have done better to market it as a content consumption rather than production device, but they knew that functionality was still too half baked I guess. Pixelboy posted:Having had an L1 - it's also more paperwork. You really need to prove that you have some skill or knowledge that can't be easily replaced. Fluff pieces won't really work here.
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Seems like Blue Apron would take care of the biggest pains in the rear end with cooking (other than cleanup), which is planning the menu and then hunting down and prepping the ingredients. Still, having individual kits delivered to you feels kind of wrong, when you can have regular groceries delivered, if necessary. Generally, if I don't have much time I just grab some chicken breasts and frozen vegetables which can be prepared into something edible pretty quickly.
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Apparently Salesforce is still in the game? http://finance.yahoo.com/news/salesforce-still-mulls-bid-twitter-194643017.html I hope they buy it and start burning even more cash.Tars Tarkas posted:Look, man, changing "fav" to "heart" is not a light-weight decision! Also my employer spends only about 3x or R&D off a 10x revenue while maintaining and developing hundreds of cloud and on-premise solutions so yeah, no idea WTF they're doing there.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Unless I have something completely wrong here -- do tech companies that are still highly profitable shut down just because they aren't growing?
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Randler posted:How do you like them protected indications of origin. That's what they should try disrupting, by eating blocks of Grana Padano instead.
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Twitter is expected to lay off 300 employees soon: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-25/twitter-said-to-plan-hundreds-more-job-cuts-as-soon-as-this-week We called it!?
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Subjunctive posted:Like airport shuttle services, or UberPool, but with a harder scheduling/routing problem. E: yep, in Finland, and they shut it down already: http://citiscope.org/story/2016/why-helsinkis-innovative-demand-bus-service-failed TL;DR: it "worked" but had to be subsidized at like €17/trip, at which point they could've just paid for taxis for everyone. Maybe they could've reached critical mass of ridership with SV-style financing but who knows. Konstantin posted:It doesn't surpise me, wired Internet will eventually go the way of the landline. If Google or anyone else can develop a wireless protocol that allows for speeds comparable to residential wired Internet with no data caps, they stand to make billions. mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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^^^ That or dried and frozen stuff. I usually keep some of each and can whip something up in a hunger emergency. I can still see some value in a product like that, but there are already established products which apparently don't make you sick so... boner confessor posted:most transit systems are trying to reduce operating costs per mile, not increase them In any case, the idea was to displace private cars, not regular buses. For this, they'd need a lot more flexibility that comes with running smaller vehicles. If you still have to go to a regular bus stop and go through a long indirect route to drop off 50 others, you might as well use a regular bus or, even better, just drive yourself. Prism posted:Palantir is amazing commentary on what it does and the environment that allows it to exist.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:It's sad, because uber is an infinitely better experiance than a regular cab (especially if you are in another country, holy crap) but it's hard to tell how much that is or isn't a thing that hangs on them being just pure evil to their workers and being outlaws against totally just laws. DACK FAYDEN posted:It's worse than that, palantirs were originally used by the good guys until the bad guys got their hands on all of them and actively used them to corrupt and mislead people, and the one that Sauron had could eavesdrop on any of the other palantir-to-palantir communications.
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