The idea is easily hated but it's also indicative of late capitalism really having nothing left to cannibalize but itself. And all the ideas people have left appear to be dumb ones wherein a failed concept from many decades ago is revived and promoted as if it now has a chance because smartphones.
Plus the idea that anything deserves a sheen of credibility because the men behind it are "ex-googlers" is pathetic. No offense to any ex-googlers around here.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
legendary gypsy-punk band Google Bodega
― crüt, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
lol
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
Who the fuck wants to buy milk and bread from an automat
isn't this how Japan works
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
tbf automats mainly died in US cities because inflation combined with the failure of dollar coins meant that appropriate prices no longer corresponded well to quantities of loose change people were carrying around. at least that's what i remember from some reading a few years back. IN THEORY there could be some kind of market for a resurgence of automats in the same places they always flourished - dense urban areas, train stations.
but they offered hot food, cooked recently by the staff behind the wall of vending boxes. essentially an alternative to white castles and other early fast-food chains. doing this for random groceries seems at best like a more elaborate version of the vending machine, with a much crappier selection than even the most limited actual bodega. and all the other negatives obviously. lol at the idea that for example, one of these at a gym could sell protein bars! like... um... gyms already sell that stuff dude.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
also i've eaten from an automat in amsterdam, was pretty gross but that might just be a disjunct between my idea of good late-night drunk food and that favored by the dutch.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
what late-night drunk doesn't love a bunch of slimy pickled fish slathered in some kind of ketchup sauce
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
with a side of fried gravy orbs
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
actually maybe they should partner with the soylent people on this. bolus of grey slime, get yer bolus of gray slime here
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
We share the opinion of everyone in the country
http://www.theroot.com/america-unites-momentarily-to-hate-this-stupid-ass-bod-1806099889
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
https://www.eater.com/2017/9/13/16302386/bodega-startup-corner-store-silicon-valley
Logistics analysis
― Hit to Death in the "Galactic Head" (kingfish), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/08/ashamed-to-work-in-silicon-valley-how-techies-became-the-new-bankers
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 9 November 2017 02:32 (six years ago) link
good lord https://t.co/pg1VZdEtE1 pic.twitter.com/iNgoWytag9— Alex Press (@alexnpress) December 11, 2017
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
Wait is that dude saying the real GDP is the friends we made along the way— R. (@rickyslams) December 11, 2017
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
lol I was like why do I have deja vu reading this and then got to the link
I'm much less enthusiastic about Tim Harford than I was ten years ago but this recent article makes a good point, that it takes a generation to figure out how to optimally apply a new technology, and The Web is maybe halfway there. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40673694
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
I can't even begin to formulate a coherent response to this sam altman (y combinator douchebag) run-on sentence of a blog post but I'm going to use this moment to vent
ARGH JESUS CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK YOU IDIOT
― mh, Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
I'm not linking it, but I am sure someone will, and it is one of the dumbest tone-deaf things I've read
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway?utm_term=.tmyDZ8Lqe#.tcPMrxg1w
ted chiang 👌
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 18 December 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
I tried to express some of the same sentiments regarding moderation, although not nearly as clearly, on the ilx twitter thread
Ted gets it
― mh, Monday, 18 December 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
Yeah, this is a good essay
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
Excellent
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:42 (six years ago) link
ted chiang i luv u
― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
it's a good essay until the conclusion which is "why can't capitalism just be a bit nicer?"
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
^Exactly
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
enh i dunno if it’s ted chiang’s job to come up with a cure for the illness he’s diagnosed
― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link
one of chiang's first short stories is a duel between flowers for algernon dudes who keep upping their smart drugs until one of them becomes a messiah, so basically his cure is elon musk and jeff bezos should be popping nootropics until one of them saves the planet.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
can we have them popping opiates until both of them leave the planet instead pls
― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
given their private little space race they've got going, they're certainly trying!
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
I think the problem is that he kind of does. Either way, it's a good essay.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 21 December 2017 00:16 (six years ago) link
hey everyone’s fav juice entrepreneur is back!
The most prominent proponent of raw water is Doug Evans, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. After his juicing company, Juicero, collapsed in September, he went on a 10-day cleanse, drinking nothing but Live Water. “I haven’t tasted tap water in a long time,” he said.Before he could order raw water on demand, Mr. Evans went “spring hunting” with friends. This has become more challenging lately: The closest spring around San Francisco has recently been cut off by landslides, so reaching it means crossing private property, which he does under cover of night.
Before he could order raw water on demand, Mr. Evans went “spring hunting” with friends. This has become more challenging lately: The closest spring around San Francisco has recently been cut off by landslides, so reaching it means crossing private property, which he does under cover of night.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/dining/raw-water-unfiltered.html
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 31 December 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
lol @ "raw water".
I hike, so get to drink from natural springs in the mountains and it is always great water, but lake water is just as "raw" as spring water and it is nowhere near as good. hell, if this guy wants really RAW stuff he should gather water from small streams that run through pastures where cattle graze. I guarantee that would be very lively water!
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 31 December 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
raw water is a real clarion call to roll out the guillotines
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 31 December 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
or what SZ said: "Little known fact: Roman shopkeepers were using the terms mouth feel and flavor profile to describe aqua right before the empire collapsed."
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 31 December 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTmxwEpWkAAsp9l.jpg
― mookieproof, Monday, 15 January 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
abysmal real names
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 15 January 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
that’s a risk i’m willing to take xp
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 January 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
As a mixed martial arts fighter, Mr. Buttram said he would fight for a couple hundred bucks, sometimes a few thousand, and worked security at a start-up, but his main hobbies were reading 4chan and buying vintage pornography, passions that exposed him to cryptocurrency.
― mookieproof, Monday, 15 January 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
those north korean ballistic missiles can’t come fast enough tbh
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 January 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
From last week:
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/01/08/latest-trend-fashionable-nonsense-raw-water/
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Monday, 15 January 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
welcome to the future, where the rich live on mars and no-one on earth has a job but, thanks to elon musk, everyone has a flamethrower
https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/boring_company_flamethrower_2048x2048.png?w=738
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/27/elon-musks-boring-co-flamethrower-is-real-500-and-up-for-pre-order/
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 January 2018 12:31 (six years ago) link
Musk’s Boring Company is literally a company focused on tunnel boring, but it seems like it’ll be a while before it has revenue or significant results (even if it’s already digging test tunnels). To fund the project until then, selling weird stuff with the company’s logo to Muskheads everywhere seems like a decent plan.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 January 2018 12:39 (six years ago) link
imagine being so invested in cult-of-personality vaporware that you're willing to drop 500 bucks on a flamethrower that doesn't even throw flames well enough to let you pretend to be the doof warrior from fury road
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 January 2018 12:45 (six years ago) link
I don’t have much use for a flamethrower.
― Jeff, Monday, 29 January 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link
his bore's like vapor, so buy this flame...and take your money
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Monday, 29 January 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
the boring company has sold all of its 20,000 flamethrowers in less than 24 hours fyi
if this means just one silicon valley asshole dies by immolation it'll all have been worth it
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
You could use it to melt the ice on your front walkway, but it would just refreeze again later. Other than that I am stumped for a practical use for that flaming contraption.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 02:09 (six years ago) link
melt ice, you say
pic.twitter.com/NyjqDrj431— "ascetic house" (@AsceticHouse) January 28, 2018
― mh, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 02:17 (six years ago) link
Oh boy, Uber but for doula
https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/doula-drama
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:05 (six years ago) link
there's one born every minute
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/peter-thiels-unfortunate-world-on-the-know-it-alls-by-noam-cohen/#!
― j., Sunday, 11 February 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link