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One of the most lavishly funded gadget startups in Silicon Valley last year was Juicero Inc. It makes a juice machine. The product was an unlikely pick for top technology investors, but they were drawn to the idea of an internet-connected device that transforms single-serving packets of chopped fruits and vegetables into a refreshing and healthy beverage.
Google’s venture capital arm and other backers poured about $120 million into the startup. Juicero sells the machine for $400.
But after the product hit the market, some investors were surprised to discover a much cheaper alternative: You can squeeze the Juicero bags with your bare hands.
The experiment found that squeezing the bag yields nearly the same amount of juice just as quickly—and in some cases, faster—than using the device.
The device also reads a QR code printed on the back of each produce pack and checks the source against an online database to ensure the contents haven’t expired or been recalled, the person said. The expiration date is also printed on the pack.
i dont get the title joke
I wasn't aware that bad investments were a recent development.
This is just Silicon Valley's latest Cue Cat. DMCA to protect ink jet cartridges are another idea which needs to be shot in the head. Is that gone yet? I want to know, but if I look, I'll rabbit hole for another hour.
Quote from: etiolate on April 19, 2017, 05:46:27 PMI wasn't aware that bad investments were a recent development.Silicon Valley's particular brand of solutionism leading to hilarious (if dangerous in the case of Theranos) malinvestment is a rather specific phenomenon, though how much its existence can be seen as an indictment of capital over giving nerds any say in anything worthwhile whatsoever is something I am agnostic about.The title is also a pun on late capitalism, but it wasn't clear to me if that was intended.
The intent of the title is to indicate that capitalism will not die in the chaotic flames of socialist revolution, but slowly drown in a sea of overproduced IoT junk designed specifically to appeal to venture capitalists and no one else.
At a certain high point this increasing concentration in its turn causes a new fall in the rate of profit. The mass of small dispersed capitals is thereby driven along the adventurous road of speculation, credit frauds, stock swindles, and crises. The so-called plethora of capital always applies essentially to a plethora of the capital for which the fall in the rate of profit is not compensated through the mass of profit — this is always true of newly developing fresh offshoots of capital — or to a plethora which places capitals incapable of action on their own at the disposal of the managers of large enterprises in the form of credit. ... If the rate of profit falls, there follows, on the one hand, an exertion of capital in order that the individual capitalists, through improved methods, etc., may depress the value of their individual commodity below the social average value and thereby realise an extra profit at the prevailing market-price. On the other hand, there appears swindling and a general promotion of swindling by recourse to frenzied ventures with new methods of production, new investments of capital, new adventures, all for the sake of securing a shred of extra profit which is independent of the general average and rises above it.
Are these just bags of juice? What is this?
QuoteThe intent of the title is to indicate that capitalism will not die in the chaotic flames of socialist revolution, but slowly drown in a sea of overproduced IoT junk designed specifically to appeal to venture capitalists and no one else.Quote from: Karl MarxAt a certain high point this increasing concentration in its turn causes a new fall in the rate of profit. The mass of small dispersed capitals is thereby driven along the adventurous road of speculation, credit frauds, stock swindles, and crises. The so-called plethora of capital always applies essentially to a plethora of the capital for which the fall in the rate of profit is not compensated through the mass of profit — this is always true of newly developing fresh offshoots of capital — or to a plethora which places capitals incapable of action on their own at the disposal of the managers of large enterprises in the form of credit. ... If the rate of profit falls, there follows, on the one hand, an exertion of capital in order that the individual capitalists, through improved methods, etc., may depress the value of their individual commodity below the social average value and thereby realise an extra profit at the prevailing market-price. On the other hand, there appears swindling and a general promotion of swindling by recourse to frenzied ventures with new methods of production, new investments of capital, new adventures, all for the sake of securing a shred of extra profit which is independent of the general average and rises above it.
marx just salty that noone liked him and that he was too conceited to accept the jobs offered to him
so the only reason it's internet connected is to check the QR code? couldn't it like...use a satellite time clock?
Quote from: Kara on April 19, 2017, 09:00:55 PMThe title is also a pun on late capitalism, but it wasn't clear to me if that was intended.The intent of the title is to indicate that capitalism will not die in the chaotic flames of socialist revolution, but slowly drown in a sea of overproduced IoT junk designed specifically to appeal to venture capitalists and no one else.
The title is also a pun on late capitalism, but it wasn't clear to me if that was intended.
Quote from: Syph on April 19, 2017, 11:00:45 PMmarx just salty that noone liked him and that he was too conceited to accept the jobs offered to him funds were what Engels was forand translations I guess
I just buy stuff to get a momentary endorphin rush that I would otherwise have to accomplish something in order to achieve. Is that so wrong?
I don't know anything about how Soylent turned out, but at least there was something to its pitch. Maybe it's no better than drinking something like Ensure I guess.
Message from the CEOhttps://medium.com/@Juicero/a-note-from-juiceros-new-ceo-cb23a1462b03
Still not as satisfying as the debacle known as Soylent.
Drinking Soylent is basically admitting that you have given up on trying to derive any actual joy from the act of living.
Cue Cat! That's a name I haven't heard in forever. Back when Wired was my bible.
he CueCat was invented by J. Jovan Philyaw, who changed his name to J. Hutton Pulitzer.
Quote from: chronovore on April 19, 2017, 08:57:43 PMThis is just Silicon Valley's latest Cue Cat. DMCA to protect ink jet cartridges are another idea which needs to be shot in the head. Is that gone yet? I want to know, but if I look, I'll rabbit hole for another hour.I had to look this up. spoiler (click to show/hide)Click the URLDOGE[close]
Quote from: Trent Dole on April 24, 2017, 11:57:12 AMQuote from: chronovore on April 19, 2017, 08:57:43 PMThis is just Silicon Valley's latest Cue Cat. DMCA to protect ink jet cartridges are another idea which needs to be shot in the head. Is that gone yet? I want to know, but if I look, I'll rabbit hole for another hour.I had to look this up. spoiler (click to show/hide)Click the URLDOGE[close]Oh now I'm wondering how many other times the doge hid urls
I'm offended that any man of taste would think Popeye's chicken would need anything added. Plus, how well does cocaine pair with hot sauce and slaw? For shame!
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