hmm we should have beers more often
your treat
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 02:30 (nine years ago)
tangentially reminds me of the savings bonds my grandma bought for me. not the most interest-bearing investment, but at the time they were something like 6% compounded annually. so $250 worth of bonds every year or two turned into a couple grand for me after 20 years
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 02:36 (nine years ago)
current bond rate is something like .1% for EE series :(
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 02:37 (nine years ago)
I have no money rn but I believe in the American Dream xxp
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 04:15 (nine years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CixMwpfXAAA5rvI.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:34 (nine years ago)
dude is disrupting the shit out of the status quo
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:36 (nine years ago)
can we talk about thishttp://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/may/17/rentberry-sparks-fears-housing-crisis/
― ian, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:44 (nine years ago)
jesus christ
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:47 (nine years ago)
gross
― marcos, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:50 (nine years ago)
omg what how can that possibly be legal
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:58 (nine years ago)
Great. Something else for the leftists to whine about. "But I DESERVE that big, nice apartment in the chic area for what it would have gone for 25 years ago! I can't afford to pay more, but that's where I need to live!" Shaddap.Reply 0 ▲0 ▼
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Free market. No one complains about eBay. And Sf has rent control. Those entitled people just cry about everything. Move away from the city if you won't put in the effort to afford it.
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:59 (nine years ago)
I also wonder how it would work logistically -- Does rentberry meet you and check you out? Does it do a credit check? Does it hold your security deposit money for you and verify that you actually have the ability to pay the rent you bid?
― www.ramenclassaction.com (man alive), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 22:01 (nine years ago)
If you don't pay, the landlord can just use GoonBerry.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 22:58 (nine years ago)
http://www.theonion.com/article/ayahuasca-shaman-dreading-another-week-guiding-tec-52941
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:30 (nine years ago)
this is excellent https://nplusonemag.com/issue-25/on-the-fringe/uncanny-valley/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 May 2016 14:22 (nine years ago)
Good writing, but I wonder who all of these tech-obsessed techies are that spend every minute talking about tech and going to meetups and talking about funding at parties and everything. I've been in the valley for a long time, and this seems to be a particular breed of nerd that I haven't come across too often. The author makes it seem pervasive. Maybe she needs a new group of friends...
― schwantz, Monday, 23 May 2016 15:38 (nine years ago)
cross-posted from the "buying a house" thread but figured it could go here too http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/05/the-rise-of-million-dollar-homes-in-san-francisco-and-the-bay-area/483485/
crazy
― marcos, Monday, 23 May 2016 17:33 (nine years ago)
thanks for that caek, that was really good.
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Monday, 23 May 2016 18:23 (nine years ago)
at least when she was talking about the office day, it was v redolent of my own experience in a medium sized pre-ipo startup
schwantz i agree that your social life is what you make of them to an extent, and it's very easy to avoid the tech scene in nyc. but this rang true
We care about one another. We even care about the executives who can make us feel like shit. We want good lives for them, just like we want good lives for ourselves. We care, for fuck’s sake, about the company culture.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 May 2016 18:38 (nine years ago)
how many ppl is "medium-sized" approximately?
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 23 May 2016 18:41 (nine years ago)
i don't know how accurately it depicts the silicon valley culture and don't really care too much, but the writing was excellent.
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Monday, 23 May 2016 18:49 (nine years ago)
i joined at just below 200, people had been saying IPO next year for a year or two at that stage. still no IPO but they're at about 500 employees i think
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 May 2016 19:22 (nine years ago)
that sounds reasonable, I wasn't sure where the line merged into large
anything more than like... 50 - 100 people, maybe, seems like a medium-sized company? I'm sure there's a gartner study that tells me exactly where the quadrants are
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 23 May 2016 19:46 (nine years ago)
Under Dunbar's number, small company. Over Dunbar's number, medium company. Over 10x Dunbar's number, large company.
https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/files/Size_Standards_Table.pdf
Information businesses generally are categorized as "large" at >~$30M or >1000 employees apparently.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 23 May 2016 22:32 (nine years ago)
hmm, tricky one. I think my employer fits under a couple different categories
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 23 May 2016 22:42 (nine years ago)
just making it towards the end of caek's article, which I v much enjoyed (with all the usual tinges of bitterness)
I tell her that the first woman engineer is also the only engineer without SSH access to the servers
sad lol of recognition, from across the world and considerably further down the glamour (and pay) scale
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 12:20 (nine years ago)
lmao yeah i listened to a lot of industrial music as a teen too
https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/735135973323898880
― goole, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 16:00 (nine years ago)
He didn't quite say that - he said anti-colonialism had been disastrous for the Indian economy for decades. It was in the context of the country rejecting Facebook's 'free basics' model.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Sunday, May 15, 2016 10:49 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he donated tonnes of money to mitt and supports his politics so this makes sense
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 17:37 (nine years ago)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, May 23, 2016 10:22 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
great read thanks
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 20:25 (nine years ago)
goole wtf is that
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 20:42 (nine years ago)
http://gizmodo.com/how-san-francisco-plans-to-use-self-driving-cars-to-fix-1778306148
Done right, self-driving cars can also alleviate the city’s affordable housing crisis. “It’s a space issue,” said Tim Papandreou, chief innovation officer for San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), who recently spearheaded the city’s big proposal. “We have the data to prove we won’t need the space on the streets anymore. But if we do both shared and electric automated vehicles, we’re not just freeing up space in the street, we’re freeing up space in the lots.”San Francisco’s vision is one of the seven finalists for the Smart City Challenge, the US Department of Transportation-sponsored contest to turn one American city into a transportation utopia. As one of the finalists, San Francisco received $100,000 to refine its proposal, and could get up to $50 million more for implementation when the winning Smart City is announced this summer.
San Francisco’s vision is one of the seven finalists for the Smart City Challenge, the US Department of Transportation-sponsored contest to turn one American city into a transportation utopia. As one of the finalists, San Francisco received $100,000 to refine its proposal, and could get up to $50 million more for implementation when the winning Smart City is announced this summer.
SMDH WTF $50M bonfire waiting to happen.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 20:59 (nine years ago)
You know what could alleviate your housing crisis is density and fixing the fucking transit systems you've already gotbut no - robot cars will save us all! do they work? no! but free money for local companies that are already made of money and are basically all tax cheats! yes!
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:00 (nine years ago)
otfm
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:09 (nine years ago)
Done right, self-driving cars can also alleviate the city’s affordable housing crisis
love when you can check out after the first sentence
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:12 (nine years ago)
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site568/2016/0517/20160517_071827_google-stuckped-0518.jpg
This diagram from a patent granted May 17 to Google shows how a pedestrian hit by a self-driving car would remain stuck to the front of the vehicle with glue, theoretically to prevent further injuries from being carried along and then thrown. (U.S. Patent Office)
― map, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:14 (nine years ago)
lol what the hell
― a man a plan alive (man alive), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:17 (nine years ago)
tombot otm
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:18 (nine years ago)
what could possibly go wrong w pedestrians glued to the front of cars
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:18 (nine years ago)
well if they're glued to a self-driving car that never needs parking then they aren't part of the housing problem anymore
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 00:09 (nine years ago)
just make the self-driving cars out of homeless people and skip the glue
Crumple zones!
― schwantz, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 02:14 (nine years ago)
The Collateral remake will be spectacular
― bonita pooleymoon (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 02:25 (nine years ago)
You're also going to have to glue the first pedestrian that gets hit so that the next one doesn't get thrown.
― ǂbait (seandalai), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 13:22 (nine years ago)
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― bamcquern, Friday, 27 May 2016 07:14 (nine years ago)
these self-aggrandizing tech libertarian bio blurbs are irresistible to me
― bamcquern, Friday, 27 May 2016 07:15 (nine years ago)
amazing
― marcos, Friday, 27 May 2016 10:17 (nine years ago)
I tend to be skeptical of everything
Energetic, Positive, Confident, Assertive Motivator-Visionary Influencer-Driver personality.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 27 May 2016 10:20 (nine years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/P8wV1vq.png
― just sayin, Friday, 27 May 2016 10:22 (nine years ago)
so happy I am never in a role that requires me to write a bio
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 27 May 2016 14:29 (nine years ago)
brb adapting that guy's bio to be my okcupid profile