(isn't new zealand earthquake-prone?)
( yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_New_Zealand#2010%E2%80%93present )
― koogs, Thursday, 15 February 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
ugh ugh ugh https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/world/australia/school-tech-lumineer-academy-susan-wu.html
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Thursday, 1 March 2018 08:39 (six years ago) link
1/ VERY interesting tidbit from an ex CEO of major tech co.Tech giants are opening offices in new cities as much to RETAIN valley talent as RECRUIT new. New office opens and the ratio of valley employees asking to move to actual job openings is 11:1— Josh Wolfe (@wolfejosh) March 2, 2018
they're leaving
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 3 March 2018 01:23 (six years ago) link
I used to get sent to the principal's office for disrupting education.
― mick signals, Saturday, 3 March 2018 01:51 (six years ago) link
yeah basically none of the google people I know work in MV anymore (well, ok, a lot of them never did - but certainly not because they're DC based govt relations staffers)
that reminds me that someone brought this to my attention recently - an amazon intranet page apparently drove a shitload of traffic to a local indie in NoVa: https://www.arlnow.com/2018/02/20/amazon-employees-are-very-interested-in-a-particular-article-about-arlington/
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 3 March 2018 01:51 (six years ago) link
google is pretty much taking over chelsea in nyc
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 March 2018 01:56 (six years ago) link
a class of sovereign individuals “commanding vastly greater resources” who will no longer be subject to the power of nation-states and will redesign governments to suit their ends
have these ppl never read hobbes
― j., Saturday, 3 March 2018 03:26 (six years ago) link
i'm going to wager that a great many of them have not
i've never read hobbes btw
― had (crĂĽt), Saturday, 3 March 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
it helps to read with calvin otherwise its just the tiger talking to himself
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Saturday, 3 March 2018 04:17 (six years ago) link
hobbes is fun to read
the ultimate basis for the equality that leads people to seek the security of sovereign rule is human vulnerability to being killed by other human beings, regardless of one's power or station in life
so
― j., Saturday, 3 March 2018 04:44 (six years ago) link
so, we should have a king with absolute power to keep us in check, the office for which is itself a contrivance
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Saturday, 3 March 2018 04:46 (six years ago) link
In order to maintain their command over these vastly greater resources these sovereign individuals will have to become states themselves, de facto at first and later de jure
― (robot gives Mum a hot dirty slap) (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 3 March 2018 11:44 (six years ago) link
States on boatshttp://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/18/floating-cities-proposals-utopian-sci-fihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bargesGoogle may have built the structures on barges to avoid mandatory city building permits and public plans that may disclose their purpose.Ultimately, however, the time and cost of meeting federal maritime safety regulations may have prompted Google to abandon the project.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 3 March 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link
It is comforting that this is based off of william rees-mogg's prognostications: Private Eye used to run columns clowning him for the unfailing wrongness of his predictions. Think we're gonna be ok
― (robot gives Mum a hot dirty slap) (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 3 March 2018 12:04 (six years ago) link
Xp states on a plane
bravo
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 March 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
City officials warned Apple its glass walls were dangerous. Apple Park opened anyway. 911 calls show three people have been injured walking into them. Read more: https://t.co/CpUYRL578t pic.twitter.com/e4mqqBhBCu— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) March 2, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 3 March 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
Talk about hostile architecture
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Saturday, 3 March 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
https://windowalert.com/
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 3 March 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/everything-here-is-fake/2018/03/02/064a3d4a-18c6-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_story.html?utm_term=.63374e187c37
― Moo Vaughn, Saturday, 3 March 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
word is they're about to hire a new director overseeing their real estate and building assets - he has some 'disruptive' new ideas!
https://images.eil.com/large_image/BILLY_JOEL_GLASS%2BHOUSES-298776b.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 March 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
― had (crüt)
i think it counts if you've heard that mastodon record
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 3 March 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
move fast and break your face
also, belated applause for "states on a plane" I would like a painting of that please
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
anyway the point i was trying to make is that peter thiel's belly is soft and the masses of humanity determined
― j., Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
https://www.healthiq.com/careers
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 4 March 2018 07:48 (six years ago) link
"We do a daily standup where we don't discuss why something is late. Instead we each spend 10 seconds on what we actually shipped today."
harry potter and hagrid
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Sunday, 4 March 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
that’s really mind-bending considering the post stand-up “feats of strength” take much longer
this sounds like a hell
― mh, Sunday, 4 March 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
Sounds a bit like that Startup Castle.
"We believe winners have always won."
― jmm, Sunday, 4 March 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
They've invented SROs!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/technology/dorm-living-grown-ups-san-francisco.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
Everything is fine https://t.co/VB6uoq0Csu pic.twitter.com/21Ae4hMtUs— Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon) March 13, 2018
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
this is without a doubt the greatest silicon valley quote of all time https://t.co/6trw1Lx8a4— Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) March 13, 2018
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
the kind of guys that will sign up for this will be exactly the kinda guys who should sign up for this
― as the crows around me grows (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
living in the future fucking sucks tbh
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
100% fatal is a very high bar to set
― mh, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
see you in 500 years bitch
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
lmao
Twitter. You’ve invented Twitter. pic.twitter.com/h8qaAHjXqf— Neeraj K. Agrawal (@NeerajKA) March 13, 2018
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
lol
― goole, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
vg
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes charged with "massive fraud" by SEC https://t.co/RmzyJ5ycH6 pic.twitter.com/w7BcdNsxwQ— maya kosoff (@mekosoff) March 14, 2018
lol pic.twitter.com/OBHS9y2V5B— maya kosoff (@mekosoff) March 14, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
holmes def guilty of the most heinous crime of all: making the rich and the powerful look dumb af
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
see also fyre festival
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
Dave Morin on Theranos…. pic.twitter.com/iv3sfXBw8V— Will Alden (@williamalden) October 26, 2015
https://twitter.com/daveMorin
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
apart from everything else dumb and clueless about that: it must be amazing to have nothing you dislike more than thinking about passing out during your annual physical
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
lmao D@ve M0r1n "Entrepreneur. Investor. Photographer." "sponsor of Britt+Co. creator of super-disruptive world-changing Path. courageous giver of blood. better to be lucky than good."
tbf that's from 2015 but still lmao
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
when youre a real human being pic.twitter.com/iCL9aY5gQA— shane (@shanevader) September 8, 2016
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
get a brain Morin
― goole, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
is there a reason why we should have cared what the director of a ticketing website thought about a medical startup or is it just that silicon valley assholes are experts in everything
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
also if you're gonna invoke the holy of name of millennials at least spell it right you fucking tool
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
The fundamental underlying problem is the system of economic exchange we’re dealing with, which is sometimes called surveillance capitalism. It’s surveillance capitalism that, by tracking and monetizing the basic informational content of our lives, has fueled the spectacular growth of social media and other networked services in the last fifteen years. Personal privacy has been annihilated, and power and money have concentrated in the hands of whoever owns the most sophisticated machine to collect and parse consumer data. Because of the logic of network effects—according to which services increase in value and utility as more people use them—a few strong players have consolidated their control over the digital economy and show little sign of surrendering it.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/techies-who-said-sorry-silverman
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
so back on that "moving to New Zealand" thing, I figured it out, it's because NZ isn't on the map in Risk.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link