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silence_kit posted:Obviously there is a lot of stupid stuff and dumb ideas in startups to make fun of, but I think a lot of the hostility in the thread towards them is just culture warfare.
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Wherein we find out what happens when the disrupters are them selves disrupted! spoiler: they're big whiny babies 
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Grondoth posted:Oh, I thought there was a guy in this thread who typed up a "oh, this is why we'll never agree, I see ignoring laws that are inconvenient as just the way we do things" response to someone. I can't find it anymore. I remember that post, too, but I thought that guy was from India, the country where cops walk up to your car with their hand out.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:It's going to be loving awesome when it all goes belly up and there's a bunch of unemployed engineers who can't afford the lifestyle they were promised when they chose CS in college. Fortunately Uber can transition them all into great contracting jobs where they can set their own hours as drivers! 
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Jun 16, 2016 23:20
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Barudak posted:Those tweets are typically wholesale created by the brand prior to the launch of the advertising. Only extremely rarely would a non planned for promotion tweet recieve money once put into the market. Twitters revenue is pretty much all variations of promoted tweets with slight modifications such as unique ad types, their loving laughable emoji system, and Twitter moments. Did Hasbro create Chewbacca Mom out of whole cloth to sell those dumb plastic masks?
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Jul 21, 2016 16:10
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Keeshhound posted:I saw a sign outside a shop in town announcing that they had free pokeballs for people. Is that just someone being savvy and dumping a few hundred into the microtransactions for a promotion, or is that a deal you can work out with Niantic? It's not even a few hundred. Hour-long Lures can be had for like $1.19, so you could do what my FLGS did and spend $9 and get 8 hours of nerdy people walking into your Android's Dungeon.
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OwlFancier posted:I think I would actually pay a substantial markup for a Vasquez autographed bra. You ever been mistaken for a woman?
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Jul 23, 2016 16:33
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Unguided posted:Can't wait to see the reactions on Tumblr when the sale goes through, their reaction to Yahoo buying Tumblr was pretty hilarious. I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... Web Rings on the shoulders of AngelFire. I watched <BLINK> tags glitter in the dark over GeoCities. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like doom WADs... on... FTP sites. Time... to logout...
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Jul 25, 2016 04:55
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Panfilo posted:Uber bashing died down for a while, what will Uber's long term fate be? Lately I've been seeing Uber cars everywhere.
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Jul 30, 2016 22:07
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lolquote:"We don't accept old cars, they have to be relatively new. They come with a three-month, 3,000 mile warranty and a 10-day money-back guarantee, so it's effectively like a 10-day test drive—no questions asked, if it's not the car you thought it was, we'll pick it up and take it back. And because we have no brick and mortar overheads like a dealership, the prices are considerably better," Lloyd said.
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Aug 1, 2016 20:45
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It's interesting how Mattress sales have (and car sales haven't) adopted to the internet. Mattress stores/chains do all sorts of duplicitous poo poo like listing the exact same mattress as different names based on region/state so you can't comparison shop (the elegante' in OR is the luxori in WA) and they don't really have online shopping at all (mostly because you need to come in and lay down on them) Meanwhile car salesmen, after kbb and edmonds, just got drilled into the ground when the age of asymmetric information ended and everyone (not just the greasemonkey carrying a physical blue book) knew exactly what the cars actually cost and how to wheedle you down. It must be nightmarish to deal with people who aren't rubes as a car salesmen, since them doing the correct thing (asking for the best price) literally takes money out of your pocket This might not be the best tangent for the unicorns thread, but what are people like car salesmen supposed to do when technology literally obsoletes their job or makes their gravy train into something that's a lot harder to eke a living out of? Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Aug 3, 2016 |
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WampaLord posted:We should ask all of the former travel agents this question. I wonder what they ended up doing. What did happen to the travel agents? I can't think of an industry more thoroughly decimated than travel agencies by the internet.
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Aug 3, 2016 16:56
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Sundae posted:Wasn't Jet the one that was literally buying stuff from Amazon if they couldn't stock the customer's request, then charging a lower price and taking a loss on the item? This is even funnier because setting up a dropship account with Amazon is so dead-easy SaH moms do it for their mommyblogs.
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Aug 9, 2016 01:00
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mastershakeman posted:I'd love to see something like that in major metros mowing down cabs/random vehicles parked in the bike lane I live in Seattle. I am at half-mast just dreaming of that thing with threshers installed on the front ending the problem of people blocking the box in the Mercer Mess.
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I mean, here's how advertising would work, in my ideal world, because apps are free but cost money to make and run: let me select companies (maybe via facebook's "like this page") and only those companies can message me So like, I will let Fantasy Flight Games and Blizzard send me messages, because I would like to know about their new stuff that I might want and not know it's out yet But if loving Uber and Sony want to spam me with their bullshit, a pox on their houses And I'm sure Uber doesn't want to waste their money advertising to me, a person who will never use their product. And FFG would deffo. *want* to advertise to me so, win/win
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Aug 25, 2016 17:39
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boner confessor posted:i too have forgotten geocities I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... Web Rings on the shoulders of AngelFire. I watched <BLINK> tags glitter in the dark over GeoCities. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like doom WADs... on... FTP sites. Time... to logout...
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Oct 31, 2016 18:17
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asdf32 posted:But did Tesla invent torque? Yes, but then Edison stole it from him.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Tesla probably does deserve credit for making seemingly the first electric car that wasn't a weird, ridiculous hippie thing no one would want to be seen in public driving. Yeah. The prevailing take the first time anyone saw the Honda Insight was "I will drive an electric car as soon as they just make a fuckin' Civic that's electric."
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This is in the top 10 posts on Reddit today.quote:I used to Lyft Line or Uber Pool to work everyday or every other day so this was nearly ~$10 everyday so $200-250/month just for that. In addition I use uber/lyft to get around the city for meeting up with friends, getting groceries, going to meetups etc and that added up a lot. I was so shocked by this because even though the charges are tiny up front they really add up. A techbro discovers that public transportation exists.
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There are not one, not two but THREE bike-sharing cons in Seattle right now, with hundreds of lime, yellow and orange beach cruisers littering the streets here. Daily I get updates from my friends on Facebook and Twitter with pics of bikes stripped for parts or disassembled in Tweaker Junction or just set on fire/thrown into the sound. Brings a tear of joy to my eye every time. I get ride-sharing, car ownership isn't for everyone, but when you're down to bike ownership being too aspirational for enough people for bike sharing to be a thing, maybe it's time to start murdering the rich.
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Sep 28, 2017 04:28
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PenguinKnight posted:some dudes brain is going to get hacked to mine for bitcoins I can think of no more Black Mirror-esque punishment for a super-rich techbro who does this to themselves.
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Mar 15, 2018 06:04
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Cicero posted:Is there a more middle-class version of Blue Apron where instead of sending you a single meal's worth of fancy ingredients at a time, they send you enough normal-person groceries for a week's worth of dinners with corresponding recipes attached? Because I think I could be down for that. Grocery Shopping. You are talking about grocery shopping, which you can do online. I'd be megashocked if you couldn't go to your recipe website of choice and just export the ingredients needed for a bunch of checkboxed meals.
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Mar 26, 2018 23:10
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What's left to disrupt? I know! Let's take a bite out of BIG NAP!quote:Hi everyone! If you thoroughly enjoy naps then this is the place for you! I’m trying to create a business around taking naps and I want you all to be a part of my journey I have a couple of goals that I want to achieve before my business becomes a reality but in the meantime I’m just going to put up helpful, fun, interesting content for all of you and keep everyone updated on how everything goes.
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suck my woke dick posted:
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:How is sponsoring NASCAR good? 1) Good jobs for hardworking real americans in the pit crew and driving team 2)
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Apr 16, 2018 16:38
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgEvT0UYK0w It's an app that tells you where things are in the supermarket. Disrupting BIG EYEBALL and they have a SaaS strategy to get stores to sign up and log where all their stuff is in the store, so customers spend less time browsing, and just get in and get out because the last things stores want is people spending more time in them and making extraneous purchases
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enraged_camel posted:Waymo is starting its self-driving taxi service in the Phoenix area today. No Robert Picardo animatronic puppet, no buys 
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https://twitter.com/ChappellTracker/status/1071099239353249792 Cute owl though
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https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1092846201374892032 Patreon is looking to gently caress up a good thing. This whole article (and tweet-chain) are so bonkers. Like, Patreon is literally getting money for free. They've skimmed 5% of over a billion dollars in patreon pledges for doing nothing but serving as a centralized payment-processor for small time operators. They could change nothing and make 50-60m a year forever - more as the platform grows - with almost no overhead. But since they're in hock to VC up to their eyeballs, they're fretting about "deliverables" and "additional monetization venues" like those have ever made the user experience better or easier to use. Patreon isn't doing anything paypal or ko-fi or google pay or a thousand other processors couldn't step in and do, and it's easier than ever for creators to let their fans know how to get money to them; the actual service is irrelevant. But capitalism demands its blood from a stone, and the correct answer to "how much money is enough" is, to capitalism, "always just a little bit more"
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https://twitter.com/mashable/status/1061122781297999872 Pince-nez. You've invented Pince-nez.
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Sage Grimm posted:But what about their customers/consumers? We've given Patreon as an example because it was a good way for artists to make money from crowdsourcing with their audience. Because of the changes, enforced by the demands of VC money, it is becoming a less useful service. Whoops, they've screwed over their client base pretty badly! Your mistake was assuming that creators or patreons were ever the customers. The real customers were always other, dumber VCs to sell the model to.
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Literally Professor Oak'ing the passengers
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suck my woke dick posted:Are Chinese Teslas supposed to be bargain basement knock-offs with taped together recycled laptop batteries or are they claiming poo poo just breaks spontaneously upon crossing the Chinese border I mean, Tesla did release all their patents, it's not like China couldn't make designer imposter knockoffs of those cars with no problem whatsoever.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Seen on Mechanical Keyboards thread: Massdrop is now Drop (ugh), and they seem to be shifting focus to objects they make and sell rather than mass buys. how much capital did they burn buying the drop.com domain. Like, that's probably a 7-figure deal right there, just to escape from... *checks notes* the name and brand that has been very successful and well-known for a decade?
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Feinne posted:Lol remember that they don't have anything in their factory painted yellow because Musk hates yellow. Oh, another fun fact: Teslas have black seat belt release buttons - you know, the things that are bright orange so you can spot them in an emergency like if your car is sinking into a lake. The reason is, the EU demands this simple, painless safety concession; the US does not. Every other car maker sells cars worldwide so they just source one orange button for all their vehicles, regardless of their destination. Teslas are not sold in the EU, so Musk went with the "classy" all-black seat belt release button. Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 13:15 on May 20, 2019 |
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Lambert posted:On the other hand, Peloloton is another one of those companies not making any money, they're a VC funded operation. They are selling a stationary bike with an iPad on it for $2000 and it has a forced $468/yr subscription fee. How are they not profitable? 
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luxury handset posted:how though? give me a sample regulation, which could be viably legislated. how do you define obsolete, how do you define upgrade, how do you ensure something is properly upgradable, when are these regulations grandfathered, etc. I just want city of heroes back you guys
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Jan 24, 2020 16:45
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WOWEE ZOWEE posted:In 2045, we discover Dyson spheres in the Orion arm of the Milky Way, and they appear to be dedicated solely to producing Bitcoin, porn, and cat videos. Accelerando was a documentary
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WOWEE ZOWEE posted:I think it was a mistake to create a platform where prominent people could broadcast whatever random thoughts happened to be passing through their heads to millions of people. I can now tell the rich assholes to gently caress off personally, so hard disagree
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