I think the last point about a comedian using it fill an audience is very interesting. Even though they are paid to be there, comedy and humor is a very natural response and not all that easy to fake or disguise. It's like focus group testing for standup comedy.
App pays users to line up outside new restaurants
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#12San Francisco: "If there's no line outside then don't go there"
+1 - San Franciscans love to wait in line.
EDIT: getting downvotes, not saying all of SF, but its definitely a "thing" - if you live here you've seen it
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#13So essentially the entire chain is fake now. It's basically the sign of the apocalypse.
The entire chain: the facebook likes are fake, the hipsters, the customers, even the press release? Do those restaurants even exist in reality ;) ?
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#14San Francisco: "If there's no line outside then don't go there"
+1 - San Franciscans love to wait in line. EDIT: getting downvotes, not saying all of SF, but its definitely a "thing" - if you live here you've seen it
I've come to believe that San Franciscans love pain and inconvenience.
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#16>They’ve even been hand-picked by a casting agent of sorts, an algorithmic one that selects each person according to age, location, style and Facebook “likes.” >They may look excited, but that could also be part of the production. Acting disengaged while they idle in line could tarnish their “reputation score,” an identifier that influences whether they’ll be “cast” again. Oh boy, it's happening! https://en.wikipedia…
Off topic, but man, I feel like the "Black Mirror" series is required viewing for anybody working in technology. Depressing yes, but also a good warning of what is coming.
"warning?!"
Many people would aspire to run companies that build cool stuff like they have! ;)
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#17>They’ve even been hand-picked by a casting agent of sorts, an algorithmic one that selects each person according to age, location, style and Facebook “likes.” >They may look excited, but that could also be part of the production. Acting disengaged while they idle in line could tarnish their “reputation score,” an identifier that influences whether they’ll be “cast” again. Oh boy, it's happening! https://en.wikipedia…
Off topic, but man, I feel like the "Black Mirror" series is required viewing for anybody working in technology. Depressing yes, but also a good warning of what is coming.
Hopefully it stays in China.
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#19San Francisco: "If there's no line outside then don't go there"
San Francisco: "If it's not sold out, why even buy a ticket"
To be fair, I have yet to have good brunch at a restaurant where there was no wait on a Saturday or Sunday morning. When there are more people who want brunch than there are places offering brunch, you'd posit that places without a wait don't have good brunch.
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#20The app requires you to always allow them to track your location. It seemed like an interesting app till I found that out. I probably won't open it back up until I hear that they change this.