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yeah foreign investors have been driving the housing market here insane by showing up on day one with asking price + 25% and all in cash
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Lol that people who run companies actually text this poo poo to each other. I still use code words for weed when I talk to my dealer
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Jul 1, 2014 18:17
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I can only imagine Google wasn't willing to drop the money to buy Spotify because their UI was too well-designed and Google wasn't interested in acqui-hiring all those designers. Or maybe they need the extra money to buy Tesla.
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Jul 1, 2014 22:03
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I don't get to work from home anymore but I have a 45-minute walk to work and it owns pretty hard.
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Jul 2, 2014 15:56
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Tom Perkins, noted asshat VC who compared anti-techbubble sentiment to the rounding up of the jews, opined about how the tech bubble has pushed out artists, musicians and, notably, whorehousesquote:"I lived in Sausalito, which back then had a functioning whorehouse—one of the last ones in the Bay Area. It was a loose town where anything went, and I loved it. San Francisco was that way. It was artistic, outrageous. The gays had a lot to do with that." Perkins had brought his forehead to rest on his fingertips and closed his eyes, smiling. "I knew writers and artists. North Beach. The Beats. The jazz. It's still a great city, but I think it was better then." http://valleywag.gawker.com/legendary-venture-capitalist-tom-perkins-misses-bay-are-1598834197/+laceydonohue
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Jul 2, 2014 17:44
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They just opened a bunch of luxury high-end apartment/condo buildings in my work neighborhood, I imagine this will go the same way when the company realizes that the one guy they hire to sit at the front desk is not going to clean up the mountains of excrement and trash the homeless people sleeping out front will be creating every night.
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Jul 2, 2014 18:22
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Metrication posted:wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy a flat instead of paying $48k a year for accommodation ? A lot of people who are super young and paying these prices don't want to be "tied down" so they spend a bunch more so that they can up and go as soon as the money dries up
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Jul 2, 2014 18:42
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"Me and this giant check Uber just gave me will not allow innovation to die"
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Jul 2, 2014 18:59
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i find it very amusing that wired mag sees degrees of difference between an unlicensed restaurant and an unlicensed hotel. everyone has degrees of what's acceptable. lots of people love airbnb when they're traveling, but don't want to live next to one. it's almost like laws and regulations cut purposely wide because people are giant hypocrites and want cheap and unregulated when it suits them then scream bloody hell the instant they're not getting theirs
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Jul 5, 2014 12:54
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theflyingexecutive posted:the problem with airbnb is that you have to take it to its logical conclusion and worst-case scenarios the problem with the law is that it is written for worst-case scenarios because people always take it two steps too far. while ed lee is trying to legalize airbnb, uber and tech buses, monkey parking shows up to start selling parking spots and people think it's gone too far. people always pull poo poo too far, but you have to legislate for before that point because otherwise you're always reacting to worst-case scenarios (fire in an apartment, not enough exits) whereas we'd rather be dealing with the inconvenience of ticketing for minor inconveniences than picking up bodies
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Jul 5, 2014 14:29
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let's just get maximum efficiency out of your apartment - maybe a website that rents out your place while you're at work. we could call them micro-stays
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Jul 6, 2014 16:15
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PleasureKevin posted:has anyone read this for me yet? http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/09/whitney-wolfe-vs-tinder/ Jesus Christ tech crunch: quote:“Sean knew she wasn’t a founder… we all knew she wasn’t a founder,” one source said on the phone. “But he wanted to help her career, and he knew that having female representation in the press could only be a good thing for the company.” basically the article breaks down the lawsuit with such things as "Whitney says she moved to the location to help promote the app but she really moved because she was interested in a guy"
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Jul 10, 2014 11:08
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if you can't get women into tech, I guess you can pay to put tech in women
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Jul 12, 2014 09:34
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quote:After coercing her to have "oral and digital sex,'' Shi says when she finally resisted Zhang's advances, the executive retaliated by giving her a bad performance review and removing her as a project lead. or maybe the women are just too focused on other women, like at yahoo http://valleywag.gawker.com/female-exec-at-yahoo-sued-by-a-female-employee-for-sexu-1603836047/+tcberman
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Jul 12, 2014 09:36
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I had the first version of the iPhone and it suited my needs pretty fuckin hard. every iPhone since has been superior so my only complaint would be that I didn't know my needs could be suited so hard
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Jul 12, 2014 19:13
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Nintendo Kid posted:so your needs were: phone that played music
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Jul 12, 2014 19:43
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Google maps on iPhone owned, iPod app owned, web browser on edge was slow but owned, all poo poo I never had before Nintendo Kid posted:so you should have just bought a motorola ROKR, noted. ROKR is a great example of how lovely phone UI was before iPhone
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Jul 12, 2014 20:06
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:unfortunately the figures do not seem to back up this very appealing narrative. I had email, calendar and google maps on the first iPhone and there are web apps like nextmuni.com/WebKit I still have on my main screen today
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Jul 12, 2014 20:42
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hobbesmaster posted:as someone else previously sperged out about, it's a limousine aka car service. they do not pick up hails or stand around waiting for someone, they only pick up a customer based on the customer's request to a central dispatch they do sit around waiting for people, it's not like they have fares in the car all the time. using the app is pretty much a hail, they just don't pick up street hails. they're more like a taxi service that doesn't do street hails rather than a limo service.
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Jul 13, 2014 18:15
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sund posted:the only reason uber drivers don't answer street hails is because no one on the street is hailing some random guy in his beat up corolla although uber drivers have been picking up fares at bars and night clubs although instead of driving them home they take them to hotels and sexually assault them
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Jul 13, 2014 19:04
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to be fair to the drivers I'm pretty sure their fares weren't paying the $1 don't-assault-me fee
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Jul 13, 2014 19:12
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serious post the fines for breaking the law need to be 100% of revenue + additional fines or capitalism will just roll on through
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Jul 14, 2014 00:39
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qirex posted:Google paid $65 million for the eight-story, Embarcadero property at the corner of Bayside Plaza and Howard Street. Constructed in 1985, the building clocks in at 88,000 square feet and has waterfront views on all sides. It’s about two blocks away from Google’s current office. goddamnit
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Jul 14, 2014 23:18
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PleasureKevin posted:well it's not terrible. i mean, it looks like both a heart and an A. but also a paperclip. It looks like a hosed up fleshlight with two balls hanging off
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Jul 18, 2014 22:06
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qirex posted:e: my female friends all say the airbnb logo looks like lady parts so I think there is some inherent gender effect going on here, it's a rorschach logo lady parts and boy parts both fork from the same trunk so it makes sense
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Jul 19, 2014 00:03
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Sagebrush posted:-- Lief Storer, 28, has lived in San Francisco for 18 months One of the big reasons I call it "Frisco" is to watch people who haven't even been here for 2 years go up the wall trying to 'correct' me
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Jul 21, 2014 22:13
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ethnical consumerism is really easy if you give enough of a gently caress to take the less-than-most-convenient option at any given time. "Oh no whole foods is bad but I can't be hosed to take the extra hour to go find what i want somewhere else"
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Jul 21, 2014 22:25
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Legally only the person purchasing the alcohol has to show ID. You can buy alcohol with other people around you as long as you're the only one producing money to pay for it.
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Jul 21, 2014 22:42
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rotor posted:in my entire life I have never experienced what sargebush is talking about, nor have I ever heard of it. in this instance I would just go ahead and assume that the cashier is a nosy bitch who thinks young people shouldn't be drinking, not that she fears for her job. gently caress I mean ask for ID when they're both together, whatever, but when she leaves then let him buy the poo poo, it's not like he's gonna rip off his mask and go "Wow you beat our super-double-secret-entrapment-plan, let's sprinkle you with confetti for being such a good citizen"
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Jul 23, 2014 00:17
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like is she gonna get in the fuckin car and follow them to the next grocery store to make sure that they don't try this again
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Jul 23, 2014 00:18
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api call girl posted:if they leave the store she and the store are not liable for selling alcohol to a minor except that in the story the girlfriend left the store and the cashier still wouldn't sell it to him because she knew he could give her the alcohol when he leaves the store how far does it go? does the cashier wake up at night in a cold sweat thinking that somebody she sold liquor to might have gotten drunk and had sex
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had ramen in japan and it was pretty good well that's my story
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Jul 23, 2014 15:53
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Yeah Uber's valuation seems to basically be based on the idea that they will take over any and all car-driving everywhere with their vehicles (and driverless vehicles)
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Jul 23, 2014 21:02
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i know you are half-kidding but i have seen all four of these things in startups i've seen all these in one startup and i don't even work in tech
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Jul 23, 2014 22:29
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computer parts posted:
meanwhile Uber drivers are furious that the app is trying to prevent them from discriminating based on race/name/location
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Jul 23, 2014 22:30
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DeSoto cabs in San Francisco is talking about closing up shop, giving up on the medallions and switching to luxury black cab services. Gonna be hilarious when all the rest of the taxi companies give up on medallions and just do black cabs and SF PUC income drops like a stone. We'll be paying a ton more road infrastructure to deal with all the uber drivers doing their casual driving around but have no income to offset it.
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i can say one good thing about uber, I work across the street from their main office, and it's the only tech company i've seen in the whole bubble that actually has a diverse-looking staff. of course they're all dude-bros, but they're dude-bros of every ethnicity. of course being a 20-something woman in uber's offices is probably one step away from being in the porno version of the most dangerous game, but at least it isn't as lily white as the rest of the companies
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Jul 25, 2014 00:40
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computer parts posted:Here in SF, we have three car services, Uber, Lyft and Sidecar. They're not going anywhere It's amazing that multi-billion-dollar car service companies are based in a city that's so small it takes an hour to walk from one side to the other
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Jul 25, 2014 19:00
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http://valleywag.gawker.com/google-is-still-paying-barely-any-taxes-on-its-billions-1610960893/+laceydonohue So google is paying 0.17% tax on their $22 billion in earnings after shuffling their money through Ireland and the Netherlands. Comments are full of people who are adamant that Google is paying every cent they are "legally required" to. OK, Mitt Romney.
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sund posted:well honestly, pass a loving law to get those taxes instead of putting on a show of calling a bunch of CEOs to Washington to ask some "tough questions" I would like to see loopholes closed I'm just tired of fanboys waving their finger and going "What we are doing is completely *legal* by the legal definition of the word *legal* in all legality required to remain legal." Like, freedom of speech means I can walk up to somebody and say "You know, somebody out to rape and murder the gently caress out of you," but it makes me an rear end in a top hat for saying it. It would be nice to see a company not actually screw the system as hard as they possibly legally can.
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