gabagoo

experts have said a lot of things this year...

very insightful. the secret is that everything just gets worse every decade

Does this mean cum town is about to get a netflix show?

markets are organisms, and nature knows nothing of 'morality'- everyone who tries to trade on righteousness vastly underperforms the market

Ironic that a company so eager to do this still does not have any legitimate customer support staff.

If someone can do your job better than you, they should have your job.

I was just going to ask if anyone knew of a modernized version of Stumbleupon. Thanks, had no idea this existed.

Longform.org is a good resource for longer reads, if you get paywalled just pass them through Instapaper first.

Also Arts And Letters Daily

Naked Capitalism daily linkdumps (morning + water cooler at 2pm) have plenty of auxiliary reading material in them

Slate Star Codex comment section is always popping off, some discussions are more interesting than others depending on what you're into

Why do these gig companies have to function like racketeers? I don't understand why everyone from Grubhub to Uber to Airbnb feels the need to "take a piece of the action" in the way they do. There are smarter profitability models, it's just so lazy.

The hard magazine was distributed for free at every American Apparel (and numerous other places) for a few years. When hipster retail consumerism was at its peak the advertisements and content in those magazines definitely had a cultural influence, albeit short lived.

Push past the initial hurdle, after 2-3 years when you completely break with reality you will dematerialize into a ball of light and become a God.

It's important to have hard data on how many people like The Office

Worked there back in the day, some companies truly were never meant to scale.