Silicon Valley is horrible shit
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https://medium.com/@espiers/what-passes-for-excellence-9b568eb5115a
And with that I leave for the day because goddamned my head hurts.
EDIT: BTW the original real estate listing is NOT satire, as far as anybody can tell. Here: http://supost.com/post/index/129734920. Here's a CNN Money article on the ridiculous ad: http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/14/technology/startup-castle/
... blurb on the originator of this "castle" idea:
Lakness is not new to the spotlight. In 2007, he appeared on the Survivor-like reality show Pirate Master, in which 16 contestants competed for $1 million in treasure. He was eliminated in the first episode for threatening to steal the pirate crew's compasses. He also worked for a time as a male stripper at Chippendales.
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I understand wanting to hook up with people like you, but this is going beyond extremes, into the crazy territory.
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There's definitely a weird sort of 'hipster' vibe about the whole thing…
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Hipsters have beards and drink Pabst. Unlikely to be allowed in as tennents.
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Yes, or even that.
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BTW the original real estate listing is NOT satire, as far as anybody can tell.
That's probably the only reason why anyone would pay attention to this as it's so over the top it would be badly done satire.
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The guy worked for the military but isn't down with explicit music?
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There's definitely a weird sort of 'hipster' vibe about the whole thing…
Sounds more like 'elitster' to me…
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It's stupid. There's nothing wrong with elitism, but only if it's actually based on merit and not retarded proxies.
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It would also help if it were, you know, LEGAL. Which it isn't.
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It would also help if it were, you know, LEGAL. Which it isn't.
It's certainly not legal for the landlord, but, what, those rules apply to roomates too? So (for example) two gay people can't refuse a straight roommate?
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It's certainly not legal for the landlord, but, what, those rules apply to roomates too?
Signing on to a lease with someone (being a roommate) isn't enforceable but it kinda sounded like person had the lease and was basically looking for someone to sub-lease which may trigger the landlord style enforcement; but I don't know much about that section of law.
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Ok, they aren't filtering poor people out with those requirements; the rent prices already did that. What they are doing is marketing to rich people. They're is nothing a rich person loves more than getting into an exclusive club. If they're anywhere near as savvy as they look, they're gonna be making a huge-ass premium off of calling gullible rich kids ‘excellent’.
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How about this?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/The_Doctor_and_I!(3758956651)(cropped_to_Tennant).jpg
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Is that the 'old' (young) doctor who ?
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Yes.
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I don't know, but after looking through her analysis, I think it can be summed up simply, "Don't eve think about it."
(The best one is, "We want someone financially independent [and a while later] but not so financially independent they'd buy a Rolex. We mean, we want you to pay your bills, but you shouldn't have anything left over for 'personal luxuries'." And, no doubt, "Shared luxuries are fine, though.")
I mean, with all those restrictions, why even advertise? Is there some kind of mandate that they advertise for roommates?
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Yeah, I was thinking about it, and it kind of makes sense. They're obviously targeting people who were born rich for this scam―what would a self-made success story possibly want to stay in a place like that for?―and if you're trying to extract the most amount of cash, it makes sense to filter out the people who are already throwing their money away, as well as the people who still have anybody else involved in their financial lives. I figure it's just another version of the same tricks used by cult-leaders, promising people self-fulfilment in exchange for $. (To be clear: I'm not alleging that they realize that this is what they're doing; just that this is a pattern they've fallen into because it works).
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We mean, we want you to pay your bills, but you shouldn't have anything left over for 'personal luxuries'.
That would be the sort of advert that would make me want to punch someone on the nose.
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It starts as standard "pretentious hipster" text, but quickly devolves into "pure crazy" territory.
Too bad they don't want anybody who's been diagnosed by a psychiatrist, because they seriously seem to have some kind of narcissistic personality disorder.
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because they seriously seem to have some kind of narcissistic personality disorder.
But it's such a weird one. For example, why don't they want women to wear makeup?
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Insecurity? They don't want women to look what they consider more beautiful than them by wearing makeup, but don't have the balls to wear makeup themselves?
Or they have an opinion about makeup shared by some people even here, but are also stupid enough to try and enforce it.
This is all assuming it was written by a man / men. Which might be wrong, but I think it's a pretty safe bet given the general tone of it.
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This is all assuming it was written by a man / men. Which might be wrong, but I think it's a pretty safe bet given the general tone of it.
The safest bet is that it was written by an idiot.
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Well, that is obvious, yes. But I find it useful to try and analyse idiots at times. There are many we have to deal with after all, knowing more about one idiot might be helpful when dealing with another.
Yes, I know, I'm being optimistic again...
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would also help if it were, you know, LEGAL. Which it isn't.
TRWTF. You guys can't have rules as to who you can accept as a tenant in your own property?
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why don't they want women to wear makeup?
I personally believe that it is completely unfair for society to expect and require women to spend, in aggregate, at least ten times as much time and money on grooming and presentation as men do. I would be happier if I lived in a culture that, all other things being equal, spent about a thousandth as much on cosmetics as this one does.
Whenever I express this opinion, it never takes very long before somebody tries to persuade me in all sincerity that what I actually prefer is to see women wearing not their natural faces, but faces made up with a "natural look". Survey results are frequently trotted out to support this contention. Well, no fucker ever surveyed me. My preference for a real human face made of real human skin that I can actually see, rather than one that's been artfully tweaked and "enhanced", is quite genuine; as is my sadness when I contemplate all those hours wasted on mandatory application of high-priced mud.
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That's me. That's my point of view. Those are my beliefs and my preferences. And whatever my preferences, I have no right to tell anybody else what they should or should not do with their own face.
I'm fifty-three years old, and I reckon I was at least thirty before I worked that last bit out.
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You are old, Father William (the young man said)
And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head -
Do you think, at your age, it is right?
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You are old
Indeed. Yet, given my family history, I can reasonably expect to live about another 40 years.
And your hair has become very white
No, not yet, although there are "silver threads among the gold." My daughter was telling me the other day I should color it. (She also said I should get it cut. What has the world come to these days, kids telling their father to get a haircut?)And yet you incessantly stand on your head
I was never able to do that very well, if at all, even when I was young.
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What has the world come to these days, kids telling their father to get a haircut
And what is that rubbish they listen to?
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And what is that rubbish they listen to?
They've not gone as far down that road as many of their contemporaries; at least some of the music they like is good, although I'm sorry to say that they've mostly rejected music that has stood the test of centuries.INB4 blakeyrant about derailing "his" topic.
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TRWTF. You guys can't have rules as to who you can accept as a tenant in your own property?
Of course you can. You just can't have rules that violate the Equal Housing Act.
In this case, I'm not 100% sure if it applies. If this moron is running the house as a business, he's beholden to it. If not, he might be fine.
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into the crazy territory.
Yeah, it was, but the medium chick was more annoying with her assumptions and judginess, IMO.
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GIS took me to this:
http://valleywag.gawker.com/investor-proud-his-startup-is-wasting-money-living-in-a-1500457490
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I derailed 36 posts like a penny through the engineer's eye: Derailing trains for just pennies a day
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knowing this group my refusal to ever hand out whoosh flags will cause people to refuse to give me pedantry flags "just because"
</grump>
If you're not getting any pedantry flags, it's because you're not dickweedish enough.
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you're not dickweedish enough.
i like to think that means that i'm exactly the right amount dickweedish. :-P
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If you're not getting any pedantry flags, it's because you're not dickweedish enough.
The odd thing is, I wasn't dickweedy at all when I got mine…
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Stop please.
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We used to. But then the rules tended to be proxies for denying applications to minorities.
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Silicon Valley is horrible shit
Here I thought it would be about the TV show. I would have also agreed with that one, btw.
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@locallunatic said:
I don't know much about that section of law.
Paging @HardwareGeek.
Neither do I.
I'll let you in on a little secret, if you promise not to tell anybody. Shh. I don't really know that much about a lot of the stuff I get pedantic about. I'm just good at researching something quickly if I know a bit about it or it interests me, and then boiling it down into a concise (ahem) post.
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I'll let you in on a little secret, if you promise not to tell anybody. Shh. I don't really know that much about a lot of the stuff I get pedantic about. I'm just good at researching something quickly if I know a bit about it or it interests me, and then boiling it down into a concise (ahem) post.
Hmmmmm, now I seriously might need to hire you.
We might need to work on your brevity though. Too much irrelevant information and I usually say, "Cliff's Notes please, Tolstoy."
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Question: who the hell is Cliff anyway?
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Wasn't he the guy with a seagull on his head?