so I was working for a blockchain startupcan we back up to how this even started, was the alternative mugging grandmas
can we back up to how this even started, was the alternative mugging grandmas
a fair question lol, a few years back I had just gotten my technical writing certificate and I was looking for work in a couple different cities, and I just so happened to get a job working for a *different* blockchain startup, before it was quite the dirty word it is now. the job itself was sort of a nightmare, but it was specifically because of the asshole who ran the place - everyone else was great and the work was sort of interesting, not to mention getting to meet all the industry's weirdos and psychos. then I left to work a steadier corporate job for a couple of years, and one of my former co-workers tapped me for this job, where I'd be working with some of those same people I liked, without (that) asshole boss, and for considerably more money than I was making at the time. so that's how that started.
since I last posted at least one exec has left the company, I'll be surprised if they survive the summer
― Simon H., Saturday, 15 June 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
tbh i don't really understand what "blockchain" even means and i don't give a fuck.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
I strongly suspect knowing what it means would never, ever impact your life in any meaningful way
― Simon H., Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
great! *whistles and skips*
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
(i mean, tbh, i do have some idea, but mostly a vague notion that it's connected to cryptocurrency)
Do you know what a database is? Imagine that but extremely slow and used for fraud.
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Sunday, 16 June 2019 01:55 (four years ago) link
^^^^ yes
One of the equity crowd funding sites I track offered me the opportunity to fund a startup that loans people âfiat currencyâ secured on their crypto holdings. Other than the use of the term âfiat currencyâ sending me purple with rage, even though that is exactly what they wanted me to invest; this seems like a perfectly legitimate way to light a pile of money on fire.
The same crowd funding platform was recently also offering me an opportunity to earn 19% ârisk freeâ on secondary debt for construction finance. I need to unsubscribe from this email nonsense.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 16 June 2019 05:03 (four years ago) link
I used to be quite positive about equity crowd funding but it appears to only attract the dross that canât get funded elsewhere. I did some work for a company that had equity crowd funded because it couldnât get other finance, it then attracted traditional investment which was tranched based on hitting customer acquisition targets. They failed to even hit a tenth of the first target so they are now out shaking down the gullible in another equity crowd funding raise.
Of course, whatever else happens the equity crowd funding platform gets 30% of the loot.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 16 June 2019 05:22 (four years ago) link
ed you are also supposed to defend pittsburgh here
― mookieproof, Sunday, 16 June 2019 05:40 (four years ago) link
Iâm assuming you could still rent a whole city block in Braddock for whatever heâs paying for the 85 sqft in downtown San Francisco.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 16 June 2019 05:55 (four years ago) link
Zeitgeist is not downtown SF, it's in the Mission several miles southwest.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 16 June 2019 06:03 (four years ago) link
Mountaineering is an extreme example where youâre trying to summit, while also trying to survive. In some ways, it is like a startup, where youâre trying to maximize and become a unicorn, while also making sure details donât pull you under. https://t.co/lYADRGMdVG— Stanford Business (@StanfordGSB) June 29, 2019
― mookieproof, Saturday, 29 June 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
Both are full of idiots that die and nobody cares
― And according to some websites, there were âsexcapades.â (James Morrison), Sunday, 30 June 2019 07:37 (four years ago) link
The most overlooked engine of growth is the individual. If you are really looking to move the world forward, begin by innovating on the inside, and disrupt yourself. https://t.co/SwYIgcnIqh— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz) June 28, 2019
― jmm, Sunday, 30 June 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
chugging expired milk to disrupt myself
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 30 June 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
knocking over a marching band in a domino formation is how i disrupt my sense of personal ethics
― hollow your fart (m bison), Sunday, 30 June 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
Getting back to Zeitgeist...
There's something quintessentially San Francisco about a startup CEO living and working above a longtime bar.
Soon there will be five startup CEO's living and working up there, and no more longtime bar. Ah, metastasizing gentrification. So quintessentially SF. One day in the near future Vivek Kumar will be reminiscing wistfully about back when he used to have to step over puddles of vomit when he left for his morning lattes.
― viborg, Monday, 1 July 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link
most of the people who used to live above Zeitgeist worked at Zeitgeist or other neighborhood spots. the rents were insanely cheap (my friend rented a room for $300/month there from 2007-2009) and allowed weird people to live in SF, as was kind of possible then.
that some yuppie trash now runs a start-up out of the place is yet another sign that we are in the worst of timelines, and San Francisco as a city is one of the biggest victims of it.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, 1 July 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
Wow, $300 is insanely cheap. I was paying more than twice that for a similarly sized space in Oakland around the same time. I did have a little kitchen tho and a nice bath. But I also had to deal with the heroin addict who lived downstairs and had a personal grudge against me...long story. Anyway when I was partying at Zeitgeist it was mostly with said yuppie trash so I can't be too self-righteous about it.
― viborg, Monday, 1 July 2019 02:25 (four years ago) link
Stanford Engineering alum/Youtube engineer techbro binges LSD in quiet hippy coastal town, ends up violently rampaging against friends, bystanders and finally law enforcement before being shot into submission.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/05/bodega-bay-deputy-shoots-s-f-man-in-grips-of-lsd-rampage/amp/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 7 July 2019 04:25 (four years ago) link
jeezus!
― Vape Store (crĂźt), Sunday, 7 July 2019 05:18 (four years ago) link
what kind of lsd are these techbros brewing up that makes you do that
― mh, Sunday, 7 July 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKoLlKmQSHU
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 7 July 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
holy shit.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, 7 July 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
what kind of lsd are these techbros brewing up that makes you do thatâ mh, Sunday, July 7, 2019 10:12 AM (two hours ago)
â mh, Sunday, July 7, 2019 10:12 AM (two hours ago)
"On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene"
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 7 July 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
Wow, $300 is insanely cheap. I was paying more than twice that for a similarly sized space in Oakland around the same time.
idk, around that time probably about half of my friends were paying $300 - $400/month in rent in Oakland and SF. I was living in a kinda big 2 bedroom apartment w/my bf and we each paid $425. ...It's the beauty of rent control. Though some of them lived in "non-compliant" warehouse spaces.
― sarahell, Monday, 8 July 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EByG98VVUAExCxi.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 August 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
The Corn Belt is a place where agriculture is changed so often you can't call bullshit on someone who tells you they're going to do it too.
And sure, people who have never grown anything in their lives will write words & fill up paper with splotches of ink critiquing the people actually in the arena.
Even in the face of regulatory incompetence, the jealousy of the coastal organic food types, and the false narrative of a "big ag" backlash, America's farmers go on producing record yields that feed the world.
― untuned mass damper (mh), Monday, 12 August 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
They did put a golf course on the other side of the highway exit that only went to the county dump. Renamed the exit, they did. ... That was about 15 years ago though. They haven't really changed it since.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
lol mh
― marcos, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
What does this even mean? pic.twitter.com/7EpH4wEzyk— Nathan McDermott (@natemcdermott) September 6, 2019
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Saturday, 7 September 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
you have to pay to zip them up & it takes ages
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 September 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
They catch fire unexpectedly? The CEO is making an ass of himself on social media?
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Saturday, 7 September 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
get ready for self-wearing pants
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 September 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
Insufferably annoying people wear them?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 8 September 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
theyâre ugly as shit?
― beard papa, Sunday, 8 September 2019 03:18 (four years ago) link
think yall are over thinking it, those are actually wearable electric cars
― wario in the streets, waluigi in the sheets (m bison), Sunday, 8 September 2019 03:29 (four years ago) link
btw in case it wasnt obvious you use your dick to drive
― wario in the streets, waluigi in the sheets (m bison), Sunday, 8 September 2019 03:30 (four years ago) link
a thin veil of faux sophistication barely concealing an out of control musk
― Non stop chantar (crĂźt), Sunday, 8 September 2019 04:52 (four years ago) link
Pretty scathing column in the Guardian on the whole Epstein mess and what it means for 'tech intellectuals': https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/07/jeffrey-epstein-mit-funding-tech-intellectuals
― Frederik B, Sunday, 8 September 2019 12:16 (four years ago) link
xxp - so what does it say about the evolution of the dick that so few Americans drive manual transmission?
― sarahell, Sunday, 8 September 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
morozov also fired his agent for being a main conduit between epstein and these guys. itâs all so gross. and so damning as far as why tech has ultimately been so lacking in imagination despite all that money.
― maura, Sunday, 8 September 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
Kickstarter is doing illegal retaliatory firings of employees for union organizing:
https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/kickstarter-turmoil-union-drive-historic-tech-industry
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 13 September 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
Berkeley City Councilmember Ben Bartlett became the first elected official to purchase cannabis with cryptocurrency at a demonstration facilitated by the Blockchain Advocacy Coalition on Tuesday.
https://www.dailycal.org/2019/09/15/city-council-member-1st-elected-official-to-buy-cannabis-with-cryptocurrency/
He's running.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
what the FUCK
After firing hundreds of staff, the WeWork CEO held a somber all-hands meeting explaining why it was a necessary move, but then trays of tequila were handed out and DMC from Run-DMC burst into the room and performed "It's Tricky" https://t.co/t9oGq8ebTb pic.twitter.com/cuq0aM1Tqi— Tom Gara (@tomgara) September 18, 2019
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
Iâm reading the Dune series and every time Herbert describes the spice trance Iâm like damn... this must be how Jack Dorsey feels all the time— Ipod ââââ (@alexqarbuckle) September 18, 2019
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
that wework story is amazing
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
yeah, itâs incredible in every sense of the word
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
He told at least one person directly that his ambitions included becoming Israelâs prime minister. More recently, he said that if he ran for anything, it would be president of the world, according to another person who spoke with him.âThe influence and impact that we are going to have on this Earth is going to be so big,â he said last year at a âsummer campâ southeast of London, where the companyâs staff were all flown for a music festival-like event. One day, he proposed, the company could âsolve the problem of children without parents,â and from there go onto other causes such as eradicating world hunger.
âThe influence and impact that we are going to have on this Earth is going to be so big,â he said last year at a âsummer campâ southeast of London, where the companyâs staff were all flown for a music festival-like event. One day, he proposed, the company could âsolve the problem of children without parents,â and from there go onto other causes such as eradicating world hunger.
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
He relishes trips in private jets. Last year, We bought one for more than $60 million, people familiar with the sale said. Mr. Neumann has borrowed more than $740 million against his stock and has sold multiple hundred million dollars of shares, people familiar with those sales say, eliciting widespread criticism from analysts and Silicon Valley investors. These share sales werenât disclosed in the IPO prospectus.
this guy's net worth is like negative hundreds of millions lol
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link