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Terrorist Fistbump posted:It's not uncommon for a company in trouble to be systematically looted by the people running it. One of the most egregious examples I've read about is what happened to Colt, the famous and venerable firearms company, starting in the early 2000s. In a leveraged buy out they usually keep management quiet by bribing them with salary increases. The talk of "go private" might be them shopping for a firm to do a bust out on Yahoo.
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Feb 26, 2016 23:32
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They should make a TV show about Mark Zuckerberg's Newark fiasco. Can one Tech billionaire's hubris and hypocrisy allow him to destroy America's schools one purchase at a time? Tune in to find out.
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May 17, 2016 04:00
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blowfish posted:Ok let's go Sounds like another kiddie porn jungle similar to bitcoin or Tor but I don't think Yarvin is about that. More likely it is a secret supervillain network for "neo-cameralists" to plot the downfall of the New York Times and install the ancien regime. But no mammal would ever pick up a gun for or consent to be ruled by QinShiHuang Fungusgnat. Maybe a very patient monitor lizard.
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Jun 29, 2016 23:43
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+ decentralisation worship + techie lolbertarianism + possibly buttcoin, and that clean slate system software stack = implementing special snowflake cases in a nonstandard and confusing software environment.
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Scientific journals are a loving racket. The feds pay for the research, the researchers do all of the labor and the reviewers are all volunteers. Then Elsevier turns around and charges huge subscription fees. At least they are better than professional journals where 90% of the articles are never read or cited.
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Sep 10, 2016 03:42
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Landsknecht posted:hi please fund my make-your-own-meth-empire startup so millenials can relive breaking bad through their smartphones Want to get involved in my new start up? It's called Crystal Blue Apron Persuasion. We send customers an empty juice bottle, some Coleman's fuel, aquarium tubing, lithium batteries, ammonia, drain cleaner crystals, and a pre addressed envelope. The customer can either sell the product back to us at a profit or smoke it themselves, it's the meth sharing economy. Artisanal, small batch shake n bake crank in less than 40 minutes.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:52
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silence_kit posted:Hertz was able to generate and detect radio with like brass spheres and bits of wire, at room temperature, and at atmospheric pressure. In other words, he discovered physics in which could exist in 'real life' conditions. He didn't need a billion dollar instrument to detect like a one-part-in-a-billion effect in a vacuum that every other field of science would never care about. Hertz's science experiment is totally the opposite of finding the Higgs Boson. You're a poo poo talking knownothing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwmxSjydPEE
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Oct 30, 2016 21:04
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The House Freedom Caucus's shopping list mentions Uber by name. Yeah but the courts aren't dumb, if drivers aren't employees then Uber is an illegal wage fixing cartel.
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Dec 16, 2016 00:01
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BarbarianElephant posted:Unless he's planning to put a train in that tunnel, it will do gently caress all for traffic. The more roads in a congested area, the more cars. Its probably for the HYPERLOOP
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Jan 26, 2017 17:17
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Uber has to be over right? A massive boycott, an impending sex discrimination lawsuit, and now corporate espionage.
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Feb 24, 2017 00:46
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Subjunctive posted:Who's suing them for discrimination? That story about their culture of ignoring sexual harassment and retaliating against complaints. I'm not saying its a sure thing but once one story gets out other victims come out of the woodwork. call to action posted:Uber will be fine, nobody cares about this stuff enough to pay a slight premium for a taxi But people don't pay a premium they actually get a discount because of the way Uber treats its employees and the access to VC money. If the investors turn off the fire hydrant of cash Uber might need to raise prices and people do care about that. Dmitri-9 fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Feb 24, 2017 |
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Feb 24, 2017 00:52
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DC Murderverse posted:My entire knowledge of wall street comes from playing Fortune Street on the Wii, but I'm pretty sure there's a way you can bet against a stock, right? The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
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Mar 17, 2017 14:50
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Cicero posted:Oh they definitely are issues, it's just a pet peeve of mine when articles discussing diversity in tech claim that the companies are 'so white' -- citing percentage of employees -- when they're actually less white than average. It's like they aren't critically thinking about the numbers even a little bit. According to identity politics logic Asians don't count.
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Mar 29, 2017 22:29
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Anthony Levandowski, late of Uber and before that Google, just took the Fifth. Why? Because he is smart and doesn't want to give anything away for free.
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Mar 31, 2017 04:26
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fishmech posted:Neither fructose nor lactose are harmful, barring allergies and the like. Tell it to the worldwide diabetes and obesity epidemic
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Apr 21, 2017 19:51
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Andrast posted:Excess of anything is unhealthy https://twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312
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Apr 21, 2017 20:07
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shrike82 posted:"the power of collective hashtagging" Storytime is important
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Apr 24, 2017 01:07
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cowofwar posted:I don't understand this whole "cold" fad. Cold pressed juice, cold extracted coffee. Oh no, the ~nutrients~ can't get too hot!!! Cold brewed coffee is a taste thing. The solubility of flavor compounds changes with different temps.
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May 23, 2017 12:26
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cowofwar posted:This sounds exactly like audiophile shenanigans. Sure there's a difference, but is it appreciable by humans and not by a mass-spec? Doubtful methinks. This isn't the difference between a water and organic extraction, it's just a temperature differential - and not even a difference in time. A number of low solubility compounds will not be extracted as well, but cold water coffee extractions are normally done overnight so there's compensation for reduced solubility. Also there isn't a good clean-up so a lot of that poo poo will still be in suspension. Wow you should write for the National Review. There isn't a difference in time and there is? You want to talk about chemistry but don't think heat has an effect on dissolution kinetics?
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May 23, 2017 14:37
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Has anyone pointed out that blockchain technology is open source and software so there is effectively no scarcity of cryptocurrency?
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Jun 23, 2017 21:50
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Check out this Atlantic article and scroll down to the chart labeled "Percent Who Shower Once per Day". I have never heard complaints about how much the Swedes or Germans smell. If you look at the chart "Average Showers and Shampoos by Country", fricking Japan showers less often than once per day. East asian people have fewer apocrine sweat glands so they don't stink as much.
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Jun 30, 2017 18:11
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Why doesn't the HYPERLOOP use a ramjet to gulp air instead of using a low pressure tube?
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Aug 4, 2017 16:43
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Rime posted:Whole foods marks their produce up by like 30% over retail at other locations so I don't see why this is a big deal, they're just less severely gouging the dumb loving yuppies who shop there. Because it shifts the supply curve in a way that hurts their competitors.
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Aug 25, 2017 20:20
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Rhesus Pieces posted:https://twitter.com/pomeranian99/status/903634705119154177 What are the chances that the "rep" was a robot too?
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Sep 2, 2017 17:44
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"Disruption" is just code for ignoring regulations like requirements to service the disabled or provide benefits to your employees. That is where the extra margin comes from.
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Oct 2, 2017 20:57
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Rhesus Pieces posted:There's also the original Amazon Echo, the listening device that might also be in your bedroom or living room right now. How long did it take between launch and the someone being served a warrant to obtain their Echo data in a murder case?
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Oct 26, 2017 01:52
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pangstrom posted:Story is kind of all over the road, but summary of the potential Uber/Softbank deal: Why would anyone give money to Uber? They had to pivot to self-driving to have long-term viability and now they are wrapped with a corporate espionage case. It's all just money on the bonfire.
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Nov 14, 2017 20:38
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Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate the paperclip maximizer. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for the concept of the paperclip maximizer because it is literally just the grey goo problem recycled. Hate. Hate.
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Nov 19, 2017 16:07
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jre posted:lol no. Unless you think blockchain means 'uses cryptography' The bitcoin protocol makes the computation more difficult as time goes on but that is to make the token value deflationary not to make it secure.
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Nov 22, 2017 20:21
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Klyith posted:Do you have any direct knowledge about the use of bitcoin in argentina? I've read several articles about that in places like NYT and other respectable media, but don't know how accurate they are. Though I'd guess that a report on "this is how bitcoin is used" is a lot easier to get right than a speculative "bitcoin-for-doctors will change healthcare" type junk. It still requires someone to accept Argentinian currency for bitcoins. What is the advantage to the bitcoin seller? And bitcoin is extremely volatile.
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Nov 23, 2017 00:34
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ufarn posted:We need to find a better term than cryptocurrency for this stuff. As Kashmir Hill said the other day, she gave some people sushi money in bitcoin a few years back that's now with $100k. "hyperdeflationary electricity-waster"?
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Nov 29, 2017 17:33
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divabot posted:coinbase (the popular one loving everyone signs up to which has no customer service) What is a reputable exchange to buy ripple on?
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Dec 7, 2017 02:32
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fishmech posted:There is a "token" called Tether which is traded at $1 US = 1 tether, because it's supposedly backed up by bank accounts containing $1 US for each token. And there is nothing stopping exchanges from front running or painting the tape or freezing sales and withdrawals whenever they want.
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Dec 7, 2017 20:49
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outlier posted:This diagram gets quoted a lot. Is there any empirical basis to it, or is it just "here's how I reckon bubbles work"? Benoit Mandelbrot wrote some stuff about the mathematics of financial markets.
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Dec 8, 2017 12:54
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silence_kit posted:People in the YOSPOS tech bubble thread are speculating that Patreon raised their fees because their payment processor decided that it would no longer permit them to aggregate many payments together. Their narrative is that now Patreon has to pay fees on every little micro-transaction, and this threw a wrench into their old pricing model. Why would they share that information with paypal? Why should they know or care whether I have 20 $1 pledges or 1 $20 pledge?
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Dec 9, 2017 20:18
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silence_kit posted:Sorry for not contributing to the bog standard griping about a price increase in this thread, which is a little bizarre given that most whining in this thread is about how startups price their products/services below cost. Pricing things too low victimizes workers and can create monopolies. Bad fee structures victimize content creators and customers. Just because "down" is bad doesn't make "up" automatically good.
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Dec 9, 2017 20:57
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Groovelord Neato posted:that's why it's insanely stupid they needed a big round of vc funding especially if it's to keep the lights on. That can't be the reason. Kickstarter, Gofundme, etc. all operate without complaint by taking a commission. if they needed to keep the lights on they should have tweaked the commission, not put their entire business model into question.
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Dec 9, 2017 23:24
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divabot posted:It might be time to consider the possibility that the root cause of the problem is that the company is run by a loving idiot with delusions of competence. Digital tokens wouldn't even help, we aren't talking about ketamine dealers here. The problem isn't getting money it is gating off your premium content for subscribers.
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Dec 10, 2017 00:25
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Neon Noodle posted:Thing is, it wouldn’t be all that difficult for Patreon to broker exclusive content deals with big players. I’m not trying to predict what they will do, but they certainly could open up more potential revenue sources with advertising. Which might also explain why they don’t want adult-oriented content. People are on Patreon because they are too spicy for other platforms. Do they really want to get into bed with Jordan Peterson or have Nick Mullen or Mike Stoklasa joke about child rape next to a "Patreon brand ambassador" logo?
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fishmech posted:Lol no. All of the big names are on someone else's platform, or they run their own platform. They just use Patreon as the place to handle their payments in exchange for allowing Patreon a cut of the revenue. Uh demonetization? If you get political or say a potty word your youtube ad revenue shrinks by 2/3rds. A lot of the podcasts have trouble getting regular ad buys and people like Chapo or Jim Sterling have probably already told bigger companies to gently caress off so I don't think they'll be signing brand deals with Patreon.
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