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Syncopated posted:lmfao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZlOhSt_qW0
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May 4, 2021 18:54
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Isn’t the Real Water company where Juicero man went?
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May 4, 2021 21:04
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https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1389701641259995136
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May 4, 2021 23:08
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Those ads rule.
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May 4, 2021 23:47
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Ad libs?
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May 5, 2021 00:02
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mawarannahr posted:We live a documentary, it's called "Idiocracy," and it's starring you 
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May 5, 2021 00:08
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this is some good poo poo. quoteing so i can find it tomorrow to rub in some peoples faces that adamantly demand that facebook isnt that detailed about what it knows.
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May 5, 2021 03:06
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For tech bros, between this and hacking the spyware company, I kinda them.
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May 5, 2021 03:18
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:For tech bros, between this and hacking the spyware company, I kinda them. i wouldn't describe marlinspike as your typical tech bro lmao
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May 5, 2021 03:24
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Delta-Wye posted:i wouldn't describe marlinspike as your typical tech bro lmao They used to live in a really gross squat in Pittsburgh. They were one of the people behind TXTMob to organize protests around the 2004 RNC/DNC, then they signed some kind of contract with Twitter and cashed out at the first opportunity. Now they have old growth live edge tables that cost thousands of dollars, so they're certainly something couldn't say weather typical or a-typical.
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May 5, 2021 04:15
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The Nastier Nate posted:Were over a year into this poo poo and somehow the same people are still loving up Zoom calls zoom has a stonk market cap of nearly $100 billion and they can’t make their one product usable
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May 5, 2021 04:39
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I’m still regularly in meetings with Serious Business people who connect through their computer, then also dial the call-in number on their phone, dooming everyone to a minute of terrible feedback and reverb while someone tries to help them figure their poo poo out.
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May 5, 2021 05:18
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Centrist Committee posted:zoom has a stonk market cap of nearly $100 billion and they can’t make their one product usable Yet it's a million times better than loving webex
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May 5, 2021 05:45
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Centrist Committee posted:zoom has a stonk market cap of nearly $100 billion 
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May 5, 2021 06:07
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Nothus posted:Yeah we're already there, it's just that we did it the neoliberal way so it's patchwork, decentralized, largely run by private companies, and tied into the financial system. https://www.fastcompany.com/40464730/equifax-has-a-super-shady-history-that-might-explain-its-shady-present quote:Alan Westin, a Columbia University professor of public law, took to the pages of the New York Times to let consumers know that their Retail Credit files may include “facts, statistics, inaccuracies and rumors” about basically every aspect of a person’s life, as detailed in a 1995 Wired magazine article. That included everything from people’s jobs and schooling to details about their marital troubles and sex lives. Companies, Wired notes, used that information to deny credit to those they found “morally lacking.” Turns out people didn't like the private stasi so they rebranded to Equifax and said "ok now it's your responsibility to make sure all our data on you is right but also we may refuse to correct it, go pound sand."
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May 5, 2021 07:50
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Kitfox88 posted:lol If I'm reading that right, it's an underrated post
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May 5, 2021 09:48
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https://jalopnik.com/this-dystopian-biker-airbag-crash-vest-only-saves-your-1846823791quote:This Dystopian Biker Airbag Crash Vest Only Saves Your rear end If Your Subscription Is Paid Up
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May 5, 2021 09:56
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Remember Snow Crash? YT had something like this. Neal Stevenson left out this part.
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May 5, 2021 10:01
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Hiro had exactly this when he rode up to washington on the motorcycle
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May 5, 2021 10:46
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CloFan posted:Yet it's a million times better than loving webex Imagine trying to explain to someone who can’t figure out zoom how to install the webex browser apps
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May 5, 2021 11:57
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VideoTapir posted:Remember Snow Crash? YT had something like this. Neal Stevenson left out this part. We're definitely zeroing in on the Snow Crash timeline. Give it a decade or two of global food shortages and migration and we'll be there
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May 5, 2021 12:08
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Music (entertainment), movies (entertainment), microcode (big tech), and high-speed pizza delivery (gig economy for everyone else)
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May 5, 2021 12:13
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Vox Nihili posted:We're definitely zeroing in on the Snow Crash timeline. Give it a decade or two of global food shortages and migration and we'll be there i don't think it will take that long, we are already 95% of the way there
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May 5, 2021 13:26
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SpaceCadetBob posted:this is some good poo poo. quoteing so i can find it tomorrow to rub in some peoples faces that adamantly demand that facebook isnt that detailed about what it knows. those aren’t things you can actually target on, other than city. they should have used the stuff you can actually target against so that FB couldn’t wave it away as easily
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May 5, 2021 14:08
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Vox Nihili posted:We're definitely zeroing in on the Snow Crash timeline. Give it a decade or two of global food shortages and migration and we'll be there The Windup Girl timeline. Covid is the first prototype for the Blister Rust business model
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May 5, 2021 14:26
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CloFan posted:Yet it's a million times better than loving webex Teams is better for meetings than Webex or Zoom, fight me  (it's still terrible for everything else including chat which is supposed to be the core function)
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May 5, 2021 14:43
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Subjunctive posted:those aren’t things you can actually target on, other than city. they should have used the stuff you can actually target against so that FB couldn’t wave it away as easily bullshit
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May 5, 2021 14:57
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There's a huge list of poo poo you can target with Facebook ads. You can get weirdly specific with it. They got in trouble a few years ago because you could easily target Nazis and poo poo with straight up racist keywords. Not sure if it still let's you do that...probably.
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May 5, 2021 16:30
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I remember when facebook got busted because landlords were micro targeting white people to exclude poc. Then they became directly responsible for a couple of genocides oops!
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May 5, 2021 18:42
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skewetoo posted:I remember when facebook got busted because landlords were micro targeting white people to exclude poc. They got busted for that multiple times and kept adding the feature back because landlords wanted it lol. One time they tried to get around it by allowing you to ban anyone except white people, thus proving it wasn’t about race you see!
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May 5, 2021 18:45
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 https://twitter.com/Greene_DM/status/1390287432180973574?s=20
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May 6, 2021 15:06
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forever lol at uber
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May 6, 2021 15:13
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Abongination posted:There's a huge list of poo poo you can target with Facebook ads. You can get weirdly specific with it. The right-wing of the Labour party specifically micro-targeted Jeremy Corbyn and some of his staff with more left-wing ads than the real ones they were running on FB.
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May 6, 2021 15:19
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Why the gently caress is it so hard for a company that makes an app to have "contractors" who drive their own car drive people places for money, to be profitable? Wtf is costing them so much in overhead
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May 6, 2021 15:40
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Justin Tyme posted:Why the gently caress is it so hard for a company that makes an app to have "contractors" who drive their own car drive people places for money, to be profitable? Wtf is costing them so much in overhead They don't want to be profitable, they just want to be the last one standing in the end
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May 6, 2021 15:42
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like most venture capitalist projects I’m assuming they just wanted to get big enough to be bought and move on.
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May 6, 2021 15:45
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they set the rates low enough to be more attractive than traditional car services and give the drivers their gas money and small pittance on top that gets wiped out for car repairs down the line and whats left for uber isnt that much. as soon as they fully monopolize they can raise rates and theoretically make money but lol at calling an uber that costs 50 dollars per mile or whatever
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May 6, 2021 15:46
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Justin Tyme posted:Why the gently caress is it so hard for a company that makes an app to have "contractors" who drive their own car drive people places for money, to be profitable? Wtf is costing them so much in overhead They're trying to undercut buses on prices but without using anything with a capacity higher than like 4 riders and without using fixed routes so lol. TBH I don't think making money is actually part of Uber's business model, I think they're a non-profit enterprise to destroy public transit and teamster's unions. It may not be conscious on their part but surely the investors have thought about it and they keep pouring money into it. There's been a kind of funny thing with delivery where the delivery apps are also moneypits, and those are at least a little more interesting in that what we've learned is that delivery is basically always a money loser, it's just still worth doing for a pizza place or chinese restaurant because the losses from delivery are made up for by the profits on food, and increasing the customer base via delivery justifies the lower margins. With transportation it turns out that there's no magic, there's just the difference between how much it costs to give somebody a ride vs how much they pay for that ride. e: From a driver's perspective, since the road wear eclipses the wages you get from it, it's effectively a very, very slow way of selling your car.
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May 6, 2021 15:58
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I don't think that's the deep dark secret goal, just the outcome. I do think "be the last one standing, then charge monopolistic prices / distribute fixed R&D costs (including app maintenance etc) over a variable and rising revenue stream" is the current model, and they've been extremely successful with the near total absence of taxi services in some places. Why regulators didn't just outright ban them since they're blatantly breaking existing laws, even if they're protectionist ones, I don't know.
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May 6, 2021 16:45
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That's definitely not the plan, because uber has done some experimentation during periods where lyft wasn't spun up in an area or whatever, and found that demand is pretty elastic, people will walk or get rides from friends or just not go if the price goes above a certain amount. After discovering that they started working on uber pool to try and drive costs down, and when that failed they started doing self-driving. Now they're publicly traded though so they don't really need a plan they just need to convince wall street that there's a plan. Also the plan might just be to let other people buy self-driving cars when they come out some day and plug the cars into the uber network.
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May 6, 2021 17:10
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