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Wank
Apr 26, 2008


Its "Asian" food but DELIVERED! In MINUTES! Asian food in 20 minutes or less - to your door. Its like Uber but for ASIAN FOOD!

Edit: vvvv I think this particular startup is in Australia somewhere.

edit again: whoops its in SF - from this: http://www.launchfestival.com

Wank fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Mar 3, 2015

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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Wank posted:



Its "Asian" food but DELIVERED! In MINUTES! Asian food in 20 minutes or less - to your door. Its like Uber but for ASIAN FOOD!

Since asian food is so hard to find in the bay area....

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





theres an apartment building going up down the street that has the penthouse going for $10,000/mo so maybe that guy could afford a tesla

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

etalian posted:

Since asian food is so hard to find in the bay area....

Ah yes but this is asian food sold from some goofy looking white dudes

No lie that probably makes it better. :love: Orange Beef :love:

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gFyqFGtqsM

a 3D printed bike that works


well kinda

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


Wank posted:



Its "Asian" food but DELIVERED! In MINUTES! Asian food in 20 minutes or less - to your door. Its like Uber but for ASIAN FOOD!

Edit: vvvv I think this particular startup is in Australia somewhere.

Being pitched by a couple of very not-Asian people, of course.

Contra Duck
Nov 4, 2004

#1 DAD

Wank posted:



Its "Asian" food but DELIVERED! In MINUTES! Asian food in 20 minutes or less - to your door. Its like Uber but for ASIAN FOOD!

Edit: vvvv I think this particular startup is in Australia somewhere.

Nope, San Fran only! Hopefully they expand into home delivered soylent soon.

Contra Duck
Nov 4, 2004

#1 DAD
Oh goodie there's a video of this too https://twitter.com/Jason/status/572543224331431937

"We're building the restaurant of the future :downs:"

Seems like there's a whole festival full of this garbage going on now http://www.launchfestival.com/. It's a goldmine, my favourite so far is unoceros which pays you fractions of a cent to let them mine bitcoins on your phone.

Hal_2005
Feb 23, 2007

DanAdamKOF posted:

So is the show pretty good? I saw the first episode but it felt like some sort of Big Bang Theory, except all the "hey I know that" jokes were of tech stuff.

Allegedly 80% of the show are urban legends, like the Peter Theil counting burger bun seeds which have happened in the last 10 years. So if anything its a great show for those who have never seen the deep contours of 1 infinite loop or casa Gates just how off the charts 'silicon valley' is. If the show does not titilate and make you just a little bit interested in 1. Tech promotions 2. SV governance and corporate culture you may be inside 'the bubble' in which case, everyone is laughing at you. Think of it like West Wing for SVC's.

TLDR: Yes.

TDR: Yes, it really is like that.

Edit2: Uber can not die fast enough. The stupid number of Uber clones or 'the uber of XYZ' are getting stupid.

Hal_2005 fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Mar 3, 2015

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Hal_2005 posted:

Allegedly 80% of the show are urban legends, like the Peter Theil counting burger bun seeds which have happened in the last 10 years. So if anything its a great show for those who have never seen the deep contours of 1 infinite loop or casa Gates just how off the charts 'silicon valley' is. If the show does not titilate and make you just a little bit interested in 1. Tech promotions 2. SV governance and corporate culture you may be inside 'the bubble' in which case, everyone is laughing at you. Think of it like West Wing for SVC's.

TLDR: Yes.

TDR: Yes, it really is like that.

Edit2: Uber can not die fast enough. The stupid number of Uber clones or 'the uber of XYZ' are getting stupid.

Elon Musk hated since it didn't put tech culture on a pedestal

http://recode.net/2014/04/03/at-hbos-silicon-valley-premiere-elon-musk-is-pissed/

quote:

“The parties in Silicon Valley are amazing because people don’t care about how they’re perceived socially, which I don’t think Mike [Judge] got. Hollywood is a place where people always care about what the public will think of them, and it’s loving sad, and the show felt more like that,” he said. “I’ve lived in Hollywood 12 years, and I’ve never been to a loving good party.”

Musk reached for a bacon waffle and proclaimed that he would take Judge to Burning Man this year. Musk stayed till the end of the party.

also hilarious how he mentioned burning man since it's another counter-culture event which techies desperately attended to get the high school cool crowd feeling

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
A) if you think any group of people as a whole is immune to any kind of social pressures then lol, and B) if you can't find a good party in Hollywood or LA then you must suck. especially if you're rich.


also thanks yuppies for wrecking burning man

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Moridin920 posted:

A) if you think any group of people as a whole is immune to any kind of social pressures then lol, and B) if you can't find a good party in Hollywood or LA then you must suck. especially if you're rich.


also thanks yuppies for wrecking counter culture events because you so need to fit in with the 'look at me look how different and uncaring about your social norms i am' crowd.

it's basically the age of story of the nerds staring at the jock or gearhead tables during lunchtime.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
it's just like look at the conditions people live in around the world on less than 2 dollars a day and then look at these fucks

"Hollywood sucks nobody can throw a good party"

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Moridin920 posted:

it's just like look at the conditions people live in around the world on less than 2 dollars a day and then look at these fucks

"Hollywood sucks nobody can throw a good party"

Also SF and Bay Area is general wants to be seen as a cool club place "So much better than shallow LA" even though the whole area is a basically a company town.

Well at least a company town that doesn't employ porn stars and hollywood coke fiends.

Hal_2005
Feb 23, 2007

etalian posted:

Also SF and Bay Area is general wants to be seen as a cool club place "So much better than shallow LA" even though the whole area is a basically a company town.

Well at least a company town that doesn't employ porn stars and hollywood coke fiends.

You would be shocked at how many ex escorts or Reno girls transitioned careers to personal EA"s. And I'm not talking about Electronic Arts booth babes. Not like that is a new thing, but I think valleywag (?) had something on this and the Snapchat offices & Skye office emails joking about the new 'talent'. Too lazy to find it. It's a thing.

Good thread. Should be juicy if we keep seeing margin and earning ROE's start to massively implode and all the good gossip goes public when employee stock programs start dissolving.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Hal_2005 posted:

Good thread. Should be juicy if we keep seeing margin and earning ROE's start to massively implode and all the good gossip goes public when employee stock programs start dissolving.

It is basically a bubble right now mainly driven by foolish private equity and also how you have large cap tech companies like Google buying up everything in sight.

On a side note this is one of the better talks I've found on SV's dubious history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo

Basically silicon valley following the government spending period was caused by tax cuts for capital gain rate and also how deregulation allowed big money like pensions to start making private equity investments.

naem
May 29, 2011

Hal_2005 posted:

You would be shocked at how many ex escorts or Reno girls transitioned careers to personal EA"s. And I'm not talking about Electronic Arts booth babes. Not like that is a new thing, but I think valleywag (?) had something on this and the Snapchat offices & Skye office emails joking about the new 'talent'. Too lazy to find it. It's a thing.

Good thread. Should be juicy if we keep seeing margin and earning ROE's start to massively implode and all the good gossip goes public when employee stock programs start dissolving.

Pretty sure I work with some of these

Hal_2005
Feb 23, 2007

etalian posted:

It is basically a bubble right now mainly driven by foolish private equity and also how you have large cap tech companies like Google buying up everything in sight.

On a side note this is one of the better talks I've found on SV's dubious history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo

Basically silicon valley following the government spending period was caused by tax cuts for capital gain rate and also how deregulation allowed big money like pensions to start making private equity investments.

Oh totally. A very well regarded Hedge Fund guy took out a half page editorial in a north american newspaper to highlight the bonfire of the vanities + declining conglomerate type deals in the 1966-1971 "go go" period and 2012-2015. Ever wonder why tech companies who have never done a car in their life want to do with the car industry ? Look at the tax shields and expense breaks for line retoolings ? Now look at their current goodwill / stock comp burn rates.

See anything striking ? Or fishy?

No?

Google the "nifty 50".


If I had to blame someone I would say it was Bessemer or Guggenheim who made it a 'thing' where if you get in on a series B to D round, you could get an assured 20x multiple on the exit. So what this did was force everyone into at least having a slice of a "tech fund" in your shop. The worst is you now have social media analysts who have zero loving clue how to do models, but are basically psudo promoters who 'trend spot' all day, vs. actually doing market research.

Yes, you have a paid, sell side research analyst who's entire job, said with a straight face: I scan internet forums and look for the next big thing, and write a qualitative research report based on intense market research.

This guy was real. And he works at a major shop. This also is a 'thing'.

Nobody wants to be seen as an idiot for passing up on the next big Facebook like fad. The only thing is the average multiple for a tech private is now something retarded like 40x Price to non-Gapp revenue. I'll let that sink in.

Hal_2005 fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Mar 3, 2015

warderenator
Nov 16, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Hal_2005 posted:

Yes, you have a paid, sell side research analyst who's entire job, said with a straight face: I scan internet forums and look for the next big thing, and write a qualitative research report based on intense market research.

he's gonna get crowdsourced by kickstarter

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!

raditts posted:

Being pitched by a couple of very not-Asian people, of course.

Duh, if it were asians then the slogan would just be "we deliver food"

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

etalian posted:

not exactly true on the hot part since the tesla is most popular in the Bay Area.

And? The Bay Area is full of hot chicks.

Dr. Snuggles
Dec 3, 2012

Tbh some of us (Pick) use this website more than others and I feel that I am unfairly subsidizing picks posting. Unless some kind of fee by post usage is enabled were basically instituting a forced welfare state of posting.
I've always wanted to house thousands of insects. Yes this is a serious hobby of mine. No I didn't just decide to do this when I saw the indiegogo...

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flow-hive-honey-on-tap-directly-from-your-beehive

.random
May 7, 2007

Disrupting your mouth.
http://blog.sfgate.com/chronstyle/2015/02/19/silicon-valleys-livionex-wants-to-disrupt-dental-care/

but seriously, this sounds pretty awesome and I kind of want to try it? Dental care is pretty ridiculously outdated.

Tuxedo Gin
May 21, 2003

Classy.

Aferisan posted:

I've always wanted to house thousands of insects. Yes this is a serious hobby of mine. No I didn't just decide to do this when I saw the indiegogo...

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flow-hive-honey-on-tap-directly-from-your-beehive

this actually owns though. big time.

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
If it isn't a scam. I would think whatever tubes or channels allowing the honey to flow within the hive would become gunked up almost instantly.

edit: Looking at opinions of actual beekeepers is making me think definitely a scam.

Germstore fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Mar 3, 2015

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/in-major-goof-uber-stored-sensitive-database-key-on-public-github-page/

quote:

Uber is trying to force GitHub to disclose the IP address of every person that accessed a webpage connected to a database intrusion that exposed sensitive personal data for 50,000 drivers. The court action revealed that a security key unlocking the database was stored on a publicly accessible place, the online equivalent of stashing a house key under a doormat.

Sometimes it's amazing how many techies are bad at tech

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





http://www.cnn.com/videos/opinions/2015/02/25/change-the-list-poverty-garage-sutter-orig-ba.cnn?sr=fb030315poorkidsctlgarage9aVODVideo


SV owns so much. $1,000/mo to live in a literal garage.

Rod Munch
Jul 17, 2001


If she's working, she probably pays $1700 a month for day care.

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
Time to move out of SV.

I came to Silicon Valley and all I got was knocked up by some nerd.

Laughing at her acting like an expert on homelessness because she's had the experience of living in an apartment that while super lovely still has every basic human need covered. edit: I probably phrased that badly. It has the basic first world amenities except in the shittiest way possible. Despite living in a one car garage it looks like she has a CRT TV even.

Germstore fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Mar 3, 2015

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Germstore posted:

Time to move out of SV.

I came to Silicon Valley and all I got was knocked up by some nerd.

twice

naem
May 29, 2011

Is she divorced with child support? Because move somewhere cheaper, profit. Mission accomplished

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
Kinda old news but
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Google-workers-at-Superfund-site-exposed-4368421.php

quote:

For at least two months, Google employees were exposed to excessive levels of a hazardous chemical after workers disabled a critical part of the ventilation system at the company's new satellite campus on a Superfund toxic waste site, records show.

From mid-November to mid-January, levels of trichloroethylene, or TCE, exceeded concentrations considered safe by the federal Environmental Protection Agency at a Google office complex in Mountain View, according to a detailed report to the EPA obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting. The buildings sit on a Superfund site 3 miles from the company's headquarters.

quote:

Pregnant women who are exposed to low levels of the chemical during a crucial three-week period in their first trimester face an increased risk of having a baby born with holes in the heart, a 2011 EPA analysis found.

quote:

On a recent afternoon, young women, pregnant women and visitors with young children could be seen relaxing in the courtyard. One Google employee who was visibly pregnant was asked if she was aware of risks associated with TCE exposure.
"We're really not allowed to talk about it," she said. "Sorry."

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


.random posted:

Disrupting your mouth.
http://blog.sfgate.com/chronstyle/2015/02/19/silicon-valleys-livionex-wants-to-disrupt-dental-care/

but seriously, this sounds pretty awesome and I kind of want to try it? Dental care is pretty ridiculously outdated.

quote:

$20 for a 1.7-oz tube

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





raditts posted:

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.

That's really not that bad. I pay about $30 for a 3oz bottle of decent moisturizer. Don't have a massive glob and it'll go a long way

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.



This video is like white_people.avi

Fatkraken
Jun 23, 2005

Fun-time is over.

raditts posted:

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.

How restrictive is their patent? If this poo poo works, then at worst there will be generic versions within a few years when the patent expires, at best within months if it turns out the patent isn't that strong or there are similar but legally distinct ways of making the active compound

EDIT: or of course, the company realises that selling a hundred million tubes a year at 5 bucks a pop is better than selling a hundred thousand for seventeen.

thoughts and prayers
Apr 22, 2013

Love heals all wounds. We hope you continually carry love in your heart. Today and always, may loving memories bring you peace, comfort, and strength. We sympathize with the family of (Name). We shall never forget you in our prayers and thoughts. I am at a loss for words during this sorrowful time.

enraged_camel posted:

And? The Bay Area is full of hot chicks.

Bwahahahaha.

Dude, SF is half gay/lesbian and it's otherwise a tiny rear end town, so the actual number of single women / single men is one of lowest ratios in 'big cities' the world.

There was a recent study about the ability to get into relationships, SF was the worst. Least number of new relationships forming, least ability to start one.

If you're a hot skinny tattooed vegan lumbersexual bartender with a trust fund, sure, you can maybe pull some tail. If you can beat out the other five that hit on her just before you did.

If you're talking Oakland, that is somewhat better. But still, poo poo, and getting worse thanks to the bazillionaires and Saude/Russian investment groups buying up all the rental properties with cold hard cash forcing everyone interesting - and not tech rich - away.

I bailed on that noise and will never look back.

Locker Room Zubaz
Aug 8, 2006

:horse:
~*~THE SECRET OF THE MAGICAL CRYSTALS IS THAT I'M FUCKING TERRIBLE~*~

:horse:
Tinder is getting a pay update and it charges more money if you are older than 30. Surge pricing for dates is the future

quote:

Tinder told NPR that U.S. users will pay $9.99 for Tinder Plus if they're under 30, and $19.99 per month if they're 30 or older. U.K. users between the ages of 18 and 27 will be charged 3.99 pounds per month, and users 28 and older will be charged 14.99 pounds per month

naem
May 29, 2011

akasnowmaaan posted:

Bwahahahaha.

Dude, SF is half gay/lesbian and it's otherwise a tiny rear end town, so the actual number of single women / single men is one of lowest ratios in 'big cities' the world.

There was a recent study about the ability to get into relationships, SF was the worst. Least number of new relationships forming, least ability to start one.

If you're a hot skinny tattooed vegan lumbersexual bartender with a trust fund, sure, you can maybe pull some tail. If you can beat out the other five that hit on her just before you did.

If you're talking Oakland, that is somewhat better. But still, poo poo, and getting worse thanks to the bazillionaires and Saude/Russian investment groups buying up all the rental properties with cold hard cash forcing everyone interesting - and not tech rich - away.

I bailed on that noise and will never look back.

On the other hand it's chock full of hot single women who've moved here looking for single straight dudes and they're just as thirsty

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FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Locker Room Zubaz posted:

Tinder is getting a pay update and it charges more money if you are older than 30. Surge pricing for dates is the future

Rip tinder, all hail the new hot dating app that's gonna come out in a week.

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