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App pays users to line up outside new restaurants

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Re: App pays users to line up outside new restaurants

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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?

Mostly backpacks full of phones likely cost more than each phone could net you.

Most bitcoin mining rig costs more than it mines (per day? week?)

Re: App pays users to line up outside new restaurants

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So 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 ;) ?

I tried to think of a realistic scenario where someone would be inclined to fake the existence of a restaurant: to make real estate look more appealing? If a RE developer built a development with several dozen houses, it could boost the values of houses enough to make it worth the cost of faking a few trendy bars/creameries/restaurants next door.

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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…

Bi-Rite is convenient to Dolores Park, but the product is very unexceptional in SF in 2017. Like almost all the other boutique shops, they're not a state-certified pasteurizer, so they're legally required to buy "ice cream base" from one; they use Straus, like most high-end shops in the Bay: https://missionlocal.org/2015/06/san-francisco-ice-cream-is-... http://strausfamilycreamery.com/products/item/organic-wholes...…

OK, this comment deserves a Black Mirror episode all its own, or at least a skit in Portlandia, and I don't mind taking the karma nosedive that will result from pointing that out.

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I've come to believe that San Franciscans love pain and inconvenience.

Explaining why they moved to San Francisco in the first place?

I moved to SF to continue a relationship with a woman who was in residency for pyschiatry at Standford.

I didn't know it at the time but this was the exact reason I moved to SF.

Re: App pays users to line up outside new restaurants

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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…

Make sure you check out Salt and Straw - new in town from Portland, the best ice cream I've had and unique flavors that change monthly.

Re: App pays users to line up outside new restaurants

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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…

Following the theme of the article, how much did Bi-Rite pay you to post this?

Re: App pays users to line up outside new restaurants

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>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…

Actually, I remember hearing a lot about 'social credit ratings' in China a few years ago. I just took a look and it seems like the Chinese government is taking a step back on it. https://www.ft.com/content/f772a9ce-60c4-11e7-91a7-502f7ee26...

Re: App pays users to line up outside new restaurants

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The entire chain: the facebook likes are fake, the hipsters, the customers, even the press release? Do those restaurants even exist in reality ;) ?

I tried to think of a realistic scenario where someone would be inclined to fake the existence of a restaurant: to make real estate look more appealing? If a RE developer built a development with several dozen houses, it could boost the values of houses enough to make it worth the cost of faking a few trendy bars/creameries/restaurants next door.

Money laundering. Also works with dry cleaning.
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