even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

Being offline -- it's the new hip thing.

there's this great new newspaper, everyone in new york is reading it, you probably wouldn't have seen it yet, it's pretty exclusive

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/business/media/new-york-times-web-site-returns-after-hours-offline.html?hp&_r=0

it's so chintzy when they write articles about themselves

I spend all day listening to people who make four to six times my salary complain about being broke. I figure it's good for me, since it makes career ambitions seem really stupid if I'm just going to be complaining about the same shit. Of course they do get to the beach more than I do.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/babysitter-robots-and-population-growth/

There is little need to worry that machines will take over all aspects of child rearing. People will always have a comparative advantage over machines, even if machines could in principle be better at just about anything. For the same economic reason that the world can produce more by assigning some tasks to unskilled people and other tasks to talented people, people will be doing tasks that are difficult for machines relative to other tasks.

But perhaps robots will make parenting easier and thus more popular.

if the robot replacements freak you out too much you can always plop one of these in the nursery and then go get some errands done

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-07/video-kissing-robot-reproduces-your-signature-smooch-letting-you-transmit-physical-kiss

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101208000460/en.futurama/images/f/f4/Nannybot_1.0.jpg

#obvpostisobv

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu5al2PIfv1qjsolgo1_1280.jpg

:((((((

The wire mother/cloth mother study almost always makes me cry. Look at that poor baby monkey.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/babysitter-robots-and-population-growth/

There is little need to worry that machines will take over all aspects of child rearing. People will always have a comparative advantage over machines, even if machines could in principle be better at just about anything. For the same economic reason that the world can produce more by assigning some tasks to unskilled people and other tasks to talented people, people will be doing tasks that are difficult for machines relative to other tasks.
But perhaps robots will make parenting easier and thus more popular.

― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 August 2013 04:59 (8 hours ago) Permalink

lol, ONLY an economist could write that last line

parenting is, like, the second most popular thing

Another day, another tech jackass: Tech Founder Complains About the Shithole City He's Forced to Make His Millions In

go back to palo alto, jackass

SF is the only US city I've spent more than a day or two in, back in '99, and I really liked it. Too bad I can never go back because it's full of tech jackasses, and I speak as a (sort of) tech jackass.

I have been to SF only once (aside from the airport), back in April, for a work conference and some meetings w/my boss, who is based on the west coast. We went out to lunch, and on our way back to the office, there was a dead body on the sidewalk covered by a sheet, blood pooling from underneath it, surrounded by fire/rescue workers and emergency vehicles on the street. People were standing around taking video with their phones and Instagramming it. It was really weird.

"I hate how the weather here is like a woman who is constantly PMSing."

"No, not the football team, they’re great. I’m referring to all the girls who are obviously 4's and behave like they are 9's. Just because San Francisco has the worst Female to Male ratio in the known universe doesn’t give you the right to be a bitch all the time."

He's a real gem, that one.

I think San Francisco is San FanTASTIC, personally.

But I'm not unlike a woman who is constantly PMSing and surely a 4 who behaves like she doesn't give a fuck about your rating, so I would say that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/realestate/destination-downtown-manhattan.html?_r=0

i don't even know how many 0's are in 400000

She was prepared to spend up to $450,000. “I don’t need anyplace extravagant,” she said.

national median existing home price, June 2013: $214,200

from the comments on Shih:

Public transportation in San Francisco is AWFUL - significantly (and statistically) worse than EVERY major city in America.

Do people who say this shit genuinely not realize how much more comprehensive mass transit is in SF and the Bay Area than anywhere but New York and (maybe) Chicago? Does he really think what passes for public transportation in Houston and Phoenix is better than MUNI?

statistically. statistically!!

Ideally, this place would be in a well-managed building with a doorman and a roof deck. She was prepared to spend up to $450,000. “I don’t need anyplace extravagant,” she said.

the rich are subhuman sewer sludge

Oh noes a playground with a track AND basketball hoops.

26, got that google money

the current entry on her "food blog" is fucking REPUBLIC
http://www.wasabipeanutnyc.com/

and i like republic but that's like running an art blog and posting pictures of sculptures in the MoMA

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The sculptures in the MoMA are way better than Republic, are you kidding me?

If you want to share the road, then you need to respect the rules of the road and stop running stop signs and lights.

entitled web dude is otm about this to be fair

okay i just figured this out
800+ fees plus another 200 for taxes and 200 for utilities
let's say the parents coughed up 100k for the down payment and paid brokers fees which would make them saints
300k mortgage at 15 years is like 2100
3000 monthly nut for home
let's ignore that her prior rent was 2500 a month
but figure your average living expenses in nyc are about 1.5x your rent/mortgage (she does "a lot of shopping online")
that makes her renewable monthly necessities come in at about 7500 before taxes
10k per month after taxes
she has to have a 120k job TO BREAK EVEN

sorry, prior rent was $1500 per month.
so she just DOUBLED her housing costs.

decor in there pretty look-at-how-stylish-things-are-at-target frankly

no doubt her moving/decorating costs were under 5k. but love of god, you are 26 and have ramped your standard of living up to where you now must earn six figures a year into your forties JUST TO BREAK EVEN
how do people do this and not get night terrors. i have money in the bank and no debt and i STILL freak out about money.

if you don't have night terrors then how can you be sure you're alive

hives and stress eczema serve as daily reminders

i don't know if i can even click

Modern Mothers’ Turn to Scratch an Itch
By AMY SOHN

In a culture that expects parents to be beholden to the needs of their children, mothers are getting time away. Above, Jes Wade and Mia Mountain on a night out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/garden/bound-to-a-place-despite-lifes-thorns.html

We bonded with it so quickly that we forgot it didn’t make much sense to have a summer cottage in Denmark when our lives were 5,000 miles away, in Manhattan. As a professor at the City University of New York, I had the summers off, but even so, this was a long commute.

LOOK, YOU'RE A FUCKING MONKEY IN A $30 TIE AT A MALL KIOSK. I HAVE A SUMMER COTTAGE IN DENMARK AND I WORK AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY AND I HAVE THE MONTH OF AUGUST OFF.

chill out, don't you realize, we own him too

i don't know if i can even click

You should, that Amy Sohn article involves men who put their egalitarian money where their mouth is and take full-time care of their kids for a month, instead of just writing anguished nymag articles about the chore wars

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/is-it-nuts-to-give-to-the-poor-without-strings-attached.html

iirc jesus was also pretty concerned over conditions attaching to fish and loaf receipt

"Still pagan? No fish for you!"

https://medium.com/new-york-tales/d8da811ad804
what is medium's deal anyway

It's thoughtcatalog for 35-year olds?

otm

"We love each and every aspiring upstart who comes to New York to conquer the writing world or the finance world or the dancing world…"

oh you do do you?

"But when you’re from New York, the city is never a faraway place filled with Woody Allens and Notorious BIGs. It’s simply… here.

you are here when you are here. good observation. and it totally is filled with woody allens and notorious BIGs. i've been there.

"It also means living in New York is growing beyond the means of those who grew up in the city.. and that the things that make New York so amazing are rotting away." - some guy in 1892

"But growing up in New York means the city is, literally, our hometown."

this guy is like the buddha or something.