Wait a mo. I consider it possible that Maggie and Dennis could have had occasional angry sex.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 26 December 2019 03:53 (four years ago) link
Who’d fuck someone named Dennis
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 26 December 2019 03:54 (four years ago) link
hmmm, makes you think
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 26 December 2019 03:58 (four years ago) link
Nura came up through the university accelerator I occasionally mentor at. They stared as a couple of PhDs with some tech to make adaptive hearing aids that worked with the strengths and weaknesses of people hearing. Headphones was mainly something to do whilst they worked out how do the re gu altitude stuff for a medical device.
Headphones took off and the rest is history. The tech is cool and sounds remarkably good but I find the weird nipples in the earcups to be pretty uncomfortable. Keen to try the nuraloop buds when the come out.
Subscription is ridiculous but that’s the way of things today.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 26 December 2019 08:49 (four years ago) link
Guess who's back!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/business/steph-korey-away.html
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 13 January 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
they must have figured out the people they sell luggage to only read lifestyle magazines, so any news article (or the verge) wasn't going to affect their sales, right?
of course they're suing the verge, though. classic thiel move
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 13 January 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
https://thebaffler.com/latest/certain-unflattering-truths-schaffer
I’ve come to the view this as part of the project of the book itself: to leave us unsettled by how its narrator, like all of us, remains somewhat in the Valley’s mindset, if not its pocket. This entanglement is a feature of the system that works, as she notes, precisely as designed. In the end, for all the generosity she extends to those around her, Wiener is unsparing with herself: “Certain unflattering truths: I had felt unassailable behind the walls of power. Society was shifting, and I felt safer inside the empire, inside the machine. It was preferable to be on the side that did the watching than the side being watched.” Wiener has written an indispensable chronicle of this era in tech, the consequences of which we will all reckon with as the next decade unfolds. Still, given the Valley’s unmatched ability to avoid any sense of guilt as the world around it burns, there is no doubt in my mind that while Uncanny Valley will be read widely and voraciously throughout the empire, Wiener’s readers—techno-skeptics and technologists alike—will be able to recognize themselves without feeling indicted.But surely someone, somewhere, eventually, will need to feel indicted. At some point, we’re going to need the sharp end of the knife.
But surely someone, somewhere, eventually, will need to feel indicted. At some point, we’re going to need the sharp end of the knife.
― j., Tuesday, 21 January 2020 03:18 (four years ago) link
wow, Casper CEO on CNBC, when asked why the company priced its IPO at less than half of its private valuation: "I loved getting out and meeting investors. ... People got very excited" about Casper's mission. 🙃— eg (@eringriffith) February 6, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
wonder if you could say they were…exuberant
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
is this the mattress company or ... ?
― sarahell, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
I'm sure they'd insist they're a sleep technology company
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
it's a platform for sleep
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
not hot dog
― sarahell, Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
sorry, sometimes I get this thread and the thread for the Silicon Valley tv show confused
I got one of their pillows and some sheets on deep discount and they're pretty good if very overpriced
― caucus fricked iowa account (mh), Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
if you run their stock through the lazarus, the valuation becomes real
― zuck zuck lucify (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 6 February 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
CSPR ipo delivers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-07/casper-sleep-slips-below-ipo-price-on-second-day-as-public-firm
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 7 February 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
nice, love seeing VC money destroyed, after financing thousands of podcasts
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
From 2016 to September 2019, Casper spent $422.8 million on marketing, according to an earlier filing.
this seems like a lot
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 February 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
I thought the same thing
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
i mean, if you want long-term national name recognition for a mattress brand in a hurry, mission accomplished and that's more or less what it takes.
whether or not that's a good idea is another question but it's not unreasonable on the marketing side for what they were after.
(what was obvious from the S-1 is no, it's not a good idea)
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:45 (four years ago) link
always hated their C
https://media.glassdoor.com/sqll/990859/casper-squarelogo-1434393923933.png
― mookieproof, Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:58 (four years ago) link
lol I do agree
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 8 February 2020 01:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/business/media/the-information-jessica-lessin.html
Maybe Information Actually Doesn’t Want to Be FreeBy Edmund LeeUpdated Feb. 8, 2020, 8:59 a.m. ETJessica Lessin’s online tech publication costs $399 a year and has no ads. Silicon Valley’s elite is eating it up.
― j., Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
heh I remember that valleywag piece
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
I miss valleywag
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
i'm reading bad blood. what a world!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 8 February 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
turns out a lot of smart people are very dumb!
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 8 February 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
haha i just read that this week. how is it that no one is in jail yet?
also, fuck david boies
― mookieproof, Saturday, 8 February 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
One likes to think one couldn’t be conned but one probably just hasn’t been a target yet.Also I could definitely be conned I’m very susceptible to salespeople who are ostensibly not outright scamming you.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 8 February 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
Literally just wrote a story about how rich people get lesser charges due to filing endless technical appeals. https://t.co/kazZzdQloO https://t.co/c2lFbJt2zE— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) February 12, 2020
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 February 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
Liz looking more normal-ish there
― mh, Thursday, 13 February 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
Adam Neumann's for sale apt is kind of a bland mess. That floorplan!
https://ny.curbed.com/2020/2/19/21143697/for-sale-in-nyc-adam-neumann-nyc-manhattan-wework
― Yerac, Thursday, 20 February 2020 00:21 (four years ago) link
fits
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 February 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link
ffs
I tend to be cynical about the idea of Late Capitalism, but an Uber driver last night told me a story which made my jaw hit the floor.He picked me up, and apologised for the congestion."You see all these cars, though? They're owned by the same person". (1/9)— Imran Khan (@imrankhan) February 19, 2020
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 20 February 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
: o
― j., Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
still use DC & Arlington cabs every week, never installed uber or lyft on any of my phonesFuck buying into a scam, even at a 100% discount
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 February 2020 03:50 (four years ago) link
this is some of the dumbest shit I've ever heardhttps://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/article/bumblebee-spaces-modular-housing-furniture-sf-15080191.php
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
let's needlessly increase energy usage in homes with a bunch of hydraulics that can only be operated with your chronically faulty internet-of-things devices! imagine coming home drunk and wanting to pass out and yelling at Siri for 20 minutes to get your bed to come out of the ceiling
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
But with Bumblebee it’s like Marie Kondo lives in my ceiling.
ceiling cat, only Marie Kondo
― mh, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_FUt5S7j0s
― adam, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
oh, what a feeling / when you’re yelling at the ceiling
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
overvalued and unprofitable startups desperately latching onto half-baked ideas for generating revenue: a thread— sir this is a wendy 🌹 (@dellsystem) February 25, 2020
― maura, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:01 (four years ago) link
people are ruining the pivot moment, which was supposed to be realizing that you had developed a component that is useful on its own in the quest to create your original product
now it’s just “we can slap ads or loans in”
idk maybe the latter was the real thing and the former kismet
― mh, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:34 (four years ago) link
Or, you know, all this shit has just been a fucking obvious bubble to people who know how to read and do math
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 04:16 (four years ago) link
all these companies following ilx's lead. hook about 100 people. Then turn on that ad revenue, baby.
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 05:09 (four years ago) link
I feel so old about this stuff. My life is so lo-fi, i just would never be interested in most of these things.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 06:00 (four years ago) link
The Homepolish story linked in that thread is a good one, if you enjoy reading about clueless entitled assholes ruining other people's lives.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:20 (four years ago) link
I am seriously wondering what type of permitting / code compliance issues those things would require ... like, are they gonna fall down in an earthquake? What is the minimum ceiling height they require? What about fire safety ... what is the fire rating of these things? Normally, code stipulates that you can't have storage closer than 18" from the ceiling ... because it's a mechanical device, would it require mechanical permits? ...
― sarahell, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
"who cares just build it and then worry about that shit later!" = every tech company ever
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link