Pinterest Mom posted:

recurrency is disrupting patreon by collecting money (and fees) on behalf of creators that haven't set up a profile.

they, i guess, scraped some podcast databases and the like, set up pages for a bunch of popular ones, and are accepting your money, without even asking permission from the people they're collecting on behalf of.

Pinterest Mom posted:

oh turns out they automatically create an account whenever someone does a search for something

Pinterest Mom posted:

recurrency is disrupting patreon by collecting money (and fees) on behalf of creators that haven't set up a profile.

they, i guess, scraped some podcast databases and the like, set up pages for a bunch of popular ones, and are accepting your money, without even asking permission from the people they're collecting on behalf of.

Sniep posted:

i had to look cuz i dont know / care what font it is as long as it looks fine which my termianl looks fine to me, so apparently it's this:

Main Paineframe posted:

look it all the techies searching for immortality, cures to the personal problems they have, and not understanding why they should ever die. how charitable of them

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/04/04/tech-titans-latest-project-defy-death/

Main Paineframe posted:

look it all the techies searching for immortality, cures to the personal problems they have, and not understanding why they should ever die. how charitable of them

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/04/04/tech-titans-latest-project-defy-death/

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

It was 2004 and Thiel had recently made a tidy fortune selling PayPal, which he co-founded, to eBay. He had spent what he wanted on himself — a posh penthouse suite at the Four Seasons Hotel and a silver Ferrari — and was now soliciting ideas to do good with his money.



lol thiel is a huge wacko libertarian that doesn't believe in philanthropy

text editor posted:

here's someone who could use a large dose of lsd or shrooms to kill that ego

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Oracle founder Larry Ellison has proclaimed his wish to live forever and donated more than $430 million to anti-aging research. “Death has never made any sense to me,” he told his biographer, Mike Wilson. “How can a person be there and then just vanish, just not be there?”


here's someone who could use a large dose of lsd or shrooms to kill that ego

text editor posted:

i just cant imagine a world without me

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Oracle founder Larry Ellison has proclaimed his wish to live forever and donated more than $430 million to anti-aging research. “Death has never made any sense to me,” he told his biographer, Mike Wilson. “How can a person be there and then just vanish, just not be there?”


here's someone who could use a large dose of lsd or shrooms to kill that ego

FMguru posted:

anyone who has ever met ellison would suggest strychnine instead

Nintendo Kid posted:

remember that one chinese emperor that demanded to live forever and demanded mercury based medicines to do that? larry should try that.

computer parts posted:

does this mean he'll demand a tomb with a map of the bay area created in mercury?

Nintendo Kid posted:

an acceptable cost to be rid of him imo

ruby idiot railed posted:

That's what we said about Qin shi huangdi

Elder Postsman posted:

Larry Ellison is THE WORST

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Citizen Tayne posted:

these are all over the place here right now. they're probably loving that money out of the drivers.

Mr Dog posted:

like I actually think Murdoch remains alive by the pure force of his hatred for the light and goodness in this world

Analytic Engine posted:

"The truth about life in 2015 at Stanford, where 21-year-olds are offered hundreds of thousands of dollars right out of school"
http://www.businessinsider.com/life-at-stanford-in-2015-2015-4

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PayPal offered Singal a summer internship. When Singal accepted, the company sent the teenager a gift package full of candy and coffee mugs for her parents.

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He was told about the perks of the internship, including a massive event Microsoft puts on for its summer interns called the "Intern Signature Event." A couple of years ago, Microsoft rented out Boeing's headquarters for the event. Seattle restaurants set up on an airfield. Interns took a tour of the factory and then had a wine tasting. There was a concert just for them featuring Macklemore and Deadmau5.

Microsoft made Keating an offer. On average, Microsoft pays summer interns $7,500 a month with a monthly housing stipend of $2,500. That's $30,000 in all.

Eventually, Keating took the Microsoft gig, but not because of the money or the perks, he says. For one thing, the perks were pretty standard. Just as Microsoft has its Intern Signature Event, other companies have their special weekends and trips. Google does a cruise around San Francisco Bay. Dropbox has a "Parents' Weekend." Oracle flies interns around in a helicopter.

As for the money, Keating says it was not the deciding factor. It won't be when he considers full-time jobs after Stanford, either.

It's more important for him to feel like he's on a mission. "I want to work on problems that matter with people who care," he says. "I want to work on problems that I think are important. I want to feel like I'm valued, but never that I'm being coddled."

Keating says he can worry about money later if he has to.

"I have all of this ridiculous earning potential. If, for whatever reason, I decide that I value money more later down the road, I can do that. For right now, what I'm really looking for is to learn a lot and to feel meaningful in my work. So I'm going to do something a little different."

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When current Stanford students ask Wong for advice, he tells them not to do what he did. Pixelate is not a failed company, but Wong says keeping it going has taken a huge amount of stressful effort.

Coming out of college, Wong didn't have any savings. That meant he had nothing to lose if his startup failed, but it also meant he had nothing to live on. (He had to figure out the cheapest, highest-calorie food at the grocery store. One of his roommates slept in the kitchen.)

Wong thinks he was not mature enough to run a company when he started Pixelate. He didn't know what a real work environment was like. He didn't know how to give employees negative feedback. He didn't know how to inspire them. He didn't know how to fire someone, because he had never seen anyone get fired.

Wong says Stanford did not teach him how to deal with adversity: "If you don't get into the class you want at Stanford, you use a petition and hopefully you'll get in. In real life, it's a little bit different."

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Between his graduate classes and all the contract coding, Yang-Sammataro says he's now working 14 hours a day, seven days a week. He's not making much money, he says. Definitely not as much as his friends at large tech companies who are pulling six-figure salaries.

"At this point," he says, "it's a really great way to basically learn these different things. I get to learn management, hiring, recruiting. I get to learn operations. I get to learn business development. I can't tell you how fortunate I feel."

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But Cosman wasn't very impressed with the place when he first got there. He saw that some of the most talented interns were getting put on boring projects.

Cosman decided he wouldn't put up with it.

"I talked to my mentor," he says. "I talked to him and said, 'Look, they're going to assign me to some lame project. I really don't want to do that. Can you give me a couple of weeks to just explore around Palantir, figure out where the most interesting work is happening and then go work with those people?'"

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One student, who asked us not to use his name for this quote, said he thinks Stanford students may turn down huge offers because, to them, "that money is almost not real in a sense. We don't have to deal with personal finances that much. Our parents still pay our bills, and we get free room and board.

"I don't think a lot of people have a sense of what the money means. So maybe when we get out into the real world people will start to care more about the money."

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There was a concert just for them featuring Macklemore and Deadmau5.

Main Paineframe posted:

holy lol. silicon valley is literally building itself around exploiting naive children