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The 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.
Is there anything from stopping someone having a backpack full of phones and pretending to be the whole crowd. Okay, they'll probably work that out pretty quick and ban you. But three or four accounts you might get away with?
Buying a crowd is old school. Politicians and unions have been renting mobs of protesters since at least the 90's, when I first became aware of it. Probably longer. The only thing new here is getting the gig through an app instead of a flyer on a telephone pole.
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If you are talking about Bi-Rite creamery near Dolores Park, I feel you, but hear me out. Three things: 1. I fucking despise lines. I will pay money, I will forgo comfort, I will give up on a thing I want, if a Line is an obstacle. I'm the jabroni paying VIP entrance to clubs not because I want to be cool, but because I can't be fucked to stand in a line. I won't do it. I'll go hungry before I stand in a line. I boug…
see, I think Bi-rite is mediocre at best. I prefer Humphrey Slocombe. also available in some flavours at he Exploratorium. But lines, or queues, are annoying. But I'll use them to learn some Zen.
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+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
Really? I occasionally see lines for lunch, but that's more of a rush thing. Where do you see this?
The item must be worth at least a dollar though.
Buying a crowd is old school. Politicians and unions have been renting mobs of protesters since at least the 90's, when I first became aware of it. Probably longer. The only thing new here is getting the gig through an app instead of a flyer on a telephone pole.
I'm dissatisfied the news never investigates the veracity of the crowd. It certainly is misleading. But I suppose pomp and circumstance helps the media inflate perceptions of the events they cover.
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Nobody is forcing the participants to stay, of course, but if they leave, they won’t be paid — their movements are being tracked with geolocation. You have to be there to get paid, and that is a good way for them to know you actually are. Is there any other way I wonder .. EDIT: did you mean that the app should turn off tracking when you're not "working"? then you're right but maybe it is due to software or hardware…
People will get a cheap throw-away Android phone, install the app, sign up, turn on tracking, then hide the phone somewhere near the restaurant, then go do their daily chores. Under the stand up ashtray is probably best, no one will look under there. Not that I would condone such a thing.
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+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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I really don't get the whole wait outside for 35 minutes to get marginally better ice cream thing. I feel like people want the tweetbrags about visiting the trendy ice cream shop more than they want the ice cream.
If you are talking about Bi-Rite creamery near Dolores Park, I feel you, but hear me out. Three things: 1. I fucking despise lines. I will pay money, I will forgo comfort, I will give up on a thing I want, if a Line is an obstacle. I'm the jabroni paying VIP entrance to clubs not because I want to be cool, but because I can't be fucked to stand in a line. I won't do it. I'll go hungry before I stand in a line. I boug…
https://missionlocal.org/2015/06/san-francisco-ice-cream-is-...
http://strausfamilycreamery.com/products/item/organic-wholes...
Because of the pasteurization requirement, you can't legally buy the best ice cream in the world in California -- compare the taste of Straus milk to milk straight out of a cow.
Other SF shops have much more creative flavors these days, if that's more your thing.