lol
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
see also
elizabeth holmes on a rollercoaster carefully screaming in a baritone— Sarah Lazarus (@sarahclazarus) March 19, 2019
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
i_remember_nothing.mp3
― β (crΓΌt), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 02:47 (five years ago) link
do I have to resubscribe to HBO to see this? dark internet is striking out
― akm, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
i just bought a ticket from burbank to oakland on https://www.jetsuitex.com/. afaict it's uberx for private jets. you pull up to a private hangar at a regular airport. my ticket was $20 more than the flight at the same time on southwest. VC-subsidized transit. boy, i don't know.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 22 March 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
Wagering that you will spend more money on VC-subsidized ground transport than on your air transport for this trip.
Also wagering that you will spend more time on the ground getting from Oakland to your destination than you will from BUR-OAK.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 22 March 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
gonna get a car to the bart station and it's a back street hangar so hoping for no traffic but yeah, it's not really great if you aren't the kind of person who likes driving to airports.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 22 March 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/technology/venture-capitalists-ipo-pinterest.html
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 24 March 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/03/20/business/00strut1/merlin_151953237_6cd2da47-4b11-4d9f-8d48-b8e7b4a54e0b-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webpRick Heitzmann, a partner at FirstMark Capital, which has invested in Pinterest and Airbnb, said it was time to βtell our story.β
absolute hero imoMan stole https://boingboing.net/2019/03/24/evaldas-rimasauskas.html?fbclid=IwAR0zPBGWxFPt3EWa9chp9eQdVhsjJJ8KNpshFUe2n2qPwj9EOeRa3m_hwDQ22m from Facebook and Google by sending them random bills, which the companies dutifully paid
― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:52 (five years ago) link
jeezushttps://boingboing.net/2019/03/24/evaldas-rimasauskas.html?fbclid=IwAR0zPBGWxFPt3EWa9chp9eQdVhsjJJ8KNpshFUe2n2qPwj9EOeRa3m_hwDQ
― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
as much a hero as anybody who commits corporate fraud, i guess
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Sunday, 24 March 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
that's fucking balllllller
― shoulda zagged (esby), Sunday, 24 March 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
ok finally found the theranos doc. was good but well over long and a bit unsatisfying since the story itself isn't over.
― akm, Sunday, 24 March 2019 23:21 (five years ago) link
it had enough content not in the book to be interesting on its ownthe emotional reaction of the fortune magazine (lol) reporter pausing and eventually choking out the word βhorseshitβ was great
― mh, Sunday, 24 March 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
holy shit at that boingboing link. ?!????
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 March 2019 00:14 (five years ago) link
Dude I would settle for defrauding Facebook for like 100 grand
― moose; squirrel (silby), Monday, 25 March 2019 00:16 (five years ago) link
fake invoices. that's all. that is GOOD MONEY. ffs. that's like... think of the number of people that money has touched, the lives wrapped up in it. you know tons of it is still squirrelled away. either transformed into other enterprises, or property registered through interlocking shell companies, not to mention all the more personally grubby behaviour it's probably enabled
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 March 2019 00:21 (five years ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-product-shutdowns-are-damaging-its-brand/
amadeo makes some good points here
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/now-its-microsofts-turn-for-an-anti-diversity-internal-revolt/
― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
Don't know why I went into the comments on that article but I did and even though I generally expect the worst I never expected this kind of thing:
Or maybe women aren't the ideological monolith that you seem to think they are? My wife is going into STEM (she's majoring in web design) but she's opposed to women's suffrage (meanwhile I'm not).
― silverfish, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
I'm going to charitably assume that this person doesn't know what "women's suffrage" means.
― jmm, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
women's sufferation
― Neil S, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
found the followup post after much wtf-like reactions to that post:
Correct, I don't see why that's so baffling though? Back when suffrage was gained it's likely that the majority of women didn't even want it at the time: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/05/did ... -the-vote/That's certainly changed since, but there are still plenty of women (my wife being one) who believe that women as a whole vote in ways detrimental to society.
That's certainly changed since, but there are still plenty of women (my wife being one) who believe that women as a whole vote in ways detrimental to society.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
I have no doubt that women can be better at misogyny than men
for whatever "better" means in this context
― mh, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
also, cool, web design gets to be STEM now
― j., Tuesday, 23 April 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
imagine paying $200 million for a company that thinks cheddar is the cheese has holes in it pic.twitter.com/DUsIc60TQE— bobby finger (@bobbyfinger) April 30, 2019
It was a strategic logo decision, bobby.— Melissa Rosenthal (@MelisOnCheddar) April 30, 2019
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
Good point.
A piece of Cheddar would have been a flat, orange block.— Melissa Rosenthal (@MelisOnCheddar) April 30, 2019
― jmm, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
not just any old logo decision, a STRATEGIC logo decision, checkmate haterz
― Neil S, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
maybe the holes are mouse nibbles
― (B) Read Message :: "Try Posting" (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
or perhaps you are rich and at one of those restaurants where a clever chef tries to trick you into thinking you are eating a different type of cheese. maybe they also place the hole filled cheddar cheese onto a bag of air that blows pepper jack smell on your face.
― (B) Read Message :: "Try Posting" (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
the holes are where the money goes
― Ξα½ΟΞΉΟ, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
only if u want a UTI
― remy bean, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
Fetch me my brown shirt! pic.twitter.com/LjovKlwU0G— Pinboard (@Pinboard) May 7, 2019
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
to be fair it would be a brown hoodie
― maura, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
Read this ending and died dead. https://t.co/WjTMbBtRm9 pic.twitter.com/6VoNFjgOY4— Mark Bergen (@mhbergen) May 15, 2019
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
holy shit that whole piece
― maura, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
I still don't completely get the entire coworking space model and I'm not sure my confusion is wrong
― mh, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
i think it's like working in a coffeeshop except there's no coffee and there are more successories posters around??
― j., Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
at an absolute base level coworking spaces are decent for people who do remote work in an area away from a company's main office or have their own business and need somewhere to occasionally work around other people, socialize, and use office facilities like a conference room
working in one 100% of the time makes less sense, because traditional offices generally have seating you're meant to be in more hours of the day, and if you're lucky you get more than a couple square feet of space. coworking is like... a long table and a less-ergonomic chair and you sacrifice personal space for notional amenities
― mh, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
I work in an indie coworking place now and I have had a month in a WeWork. For remote people they are good as an idea. The vibe in WeWorks is weird and not pleasant. And in a corporate finance sense WeWork is a real estate Ponzi scheme grift on SoftBank as far as I can tell.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
'my superpower is change'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
love how the article goes on about all kinds of shit without ever explaining what WeWork actually does. good indicator what they actually do.. is beside the point
― mh, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
i thought that was a deliberate choice since the ceo is such a knob
― maura, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
i have been hunting for like 30 mins to find ilx's original YTMND thread, but maybe we never had one?
anyway, pour one out for an internet thing that was great and is now dead and impossible to imagine seeing its like again.
i did find what i think is its first mention here:
I pointed this out on another thread, but best site ever: www.yourethemannowdog.com< br>My friend used to have his alert be a clip of Mike Patton asking "Safeway?", which he blurted out randomly in the middle of a Mario Bros. cover.β Vinnie, Saturday, May 11, 2002 7:00 PM (seventeen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
HOLY SHIT. I've never seen such brilliance. Oh my god, that's almost as good as Peanut Butter Jelly Time.β Ally, Saturday, May 11, 2002 7:00 PM (seventeen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― goole, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
guess what's STILL aroundhttp://superbad.com
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
β mh, Wednesday, May 15, 2019 8:29 AM (one week ago)
i think it makes the most sense for people who live in areas where the cost of renting private office space would be ridiculously expensive, and their homes aren't really suitable for some of their work: either because of size or sharing with others (including small children). People that pay for co-working space because being around other people typing on laptops and checking their phones is comforting to them or increases their productivity ... I do not understand these people, like this is the opposite of me.
― sarahell, Saturday, 25 May 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
like if I had to do the co-working space thing, I would be spending so much time on ilx and facebook posting about all the awkward, stupid and annoying people in the co-working space rather than doing my own work
― sarahell, Saturday, 25 May 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
Iβd bookmark that thread.
― beard papa, Saturday, 25 May 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
xxp no, that is the part that completely makes sense
The entire part where 90% of their marketing is about start-up weirdness and sub-TED talk stuff and whatever the hell the wework guy is on about all the time, that is the nonsense
also why do most of the pictures look like ergonomic nightmares
― mh, Sunday, 26 May 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link