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I’m currently looking at a Cast system for myself and my daughter. Just don’t want to deal with the duties when it crosses the border into Canada! Everything I have heard about them with the Look bindings sounds amazing.
Good luck with your venture.
Not trying to derail too much but did the YT mills have bars that served alcohol? Liquor licenses are stupid expensive, seems like that would be an outrageous cost, pick a lane buds budget friendly direct to consumer or swanky experience people, they're not the same.
It doesn't sound incredibly different than the transition outpost, although maybe a bit more Ed Hardy with the tattoo place inside. I'd say a few bike brands have similar spots over all where you can meet up, check out the bikes, and have some beer/coffee/food.
hey I’m vehemently anti-YT right now but you can’t tell anybody not to serve beer what kind of monster are you?
But usually other brands only have those kind of front-facing demo center at their HQ/main warehouse like Transition,Santa Cruz & Evil.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure you need a liquor license to give beer away at private events. I think you only need a liquor licence to sell alcohol.
I haven't been to the new Transition or Evil showrooms, and it's been a minute since I've been to the SCB showroom, but I didn't remember SCB having a bar that sold drinks at all times, I thought it was just a stocked fridge that they dipped into when they wanted to greet, treat, or wow someone. Not sure what the YT Mills had, but based on what else I've seen, I imagine the answer to that question is "everything possible."
Free beer
My question was mostly rhetorical. I remember we spoke about Felt when Pierer started to look wobbly so I thought you'd like the thought exercise.
I'll bet Felt had 5x more SKU's, but I wouldn't know how to compare other aspects, they were in different segments and had different business models. I think I worked at Felt much longer than Charlie was sponsored.
Sorry. No spirits. Just beer/wine. And it was free. So licensing issues were probably minimal. Want to guess the wine? Decoy (which while not crazy expensive also isn’t crazy cheap).
If it wasn't Copper Moon served at room temp from a box, it's not even worth mentioning.
Finally found time to listen to this and it was great! Thank you for taking the time to research and record it, I know it's a lot of work!
I felt this was worth posting here. Yes, AI made it and yes its pretty spot on. It was built primarily off all financials from 2016-present.
AI needs to learn to count. Where is phase 3?
It used the South Park underwear gnomes episode as inspiration..
Yes, according to the Gnomes I believe that was supposed to be the profit phase, which was skipped in this situation.
Step 1: collect underwear
Step 3: profit
This really begs the question. Did Markus ultimately buy all leftover auctions or bid up the stuff he wanted in that whole EU auction thingy?
Whoops! First time playing with the new Google image model. I tweaked the output after generating the first variant and accidentally introduced that bug (missing phase 3). FWIW, I spot-checked a few numbers and it’s accurate. You all might not be as impressed as I am, but being able to visualize data this quickly and correctly is a huge unlock for anyone working with otherwise eye glazingly boring financial data.
I love a good tautology.
Thank you for the new word
The problem I have with this is – and this is a very niche and personal problem – ...meme stock apes fascinate (and amuse) me, so I spend an inordinate time reading about their nonsense, and they also now use LLMs to make flowcharts and infographics to "explain" their financial conspiracy theory fever dreams. And unfortunately, because the typeface and art styles are identical, that's all I could think of, despite the fact you're very obviously on the opposite end of the spectrum to a meme stock ape!
It's impressive how quickly it's become good at rendering text. Now they need to make it not burn an entire tree every time you ask it something...
it burns a tree every time you just look at something
He's Australian, trees burning is "just another day" normality for Aussie's.
Personally I'm just disappointed there wasn't a phase 6-7.
i was talking about google gemini
You bring up a good point. One of my favorite business writers, Paul Kedrosky, recently wrote about this. His argument is that society has always rewarded variance in performance.. In a way we are trained to "spot" these Asa Vermette style outliers. But in many domains, LLMs are muting that variance by pulling the average up and compressing the distribution, making real outliers harder to spot. He expects that trend to continue.
https://paulkedrosky.com/llms-shifting-baselines-and-400-hitters/ - if anyone wants the full piece ask - he's a buddy and I'm sure wouldn't mind me sharing.
is their next insolvency pending… 🤣
awesome! I've got a set of OG Cast on my rock pow skis, they're bomber!
Probably just pay a outside bartending company that would serve at events that way handle having a license to serve not the location where its being served.
1. This guy is probably right
2. This varies too much jurisdiction to jurisdiction for us to really comment on here unless someone's familiar with the alcohol regulatory scheme of Arkansas and wants to chime in
3. most (all?) jurisdictions do one-off limited licenses for events (notably though, some jurisdictions require money to change hands for their one-off events. No free beer at all! Although to get around this, YT would hire a catering company, pay the catering company for the drinks, and then give them out). A full license is most likely not required.
On another note, I'm interested to see what happens with this FELT thing. Kinda a dead brand on the MTB side for a while.
I bet Jensen regrets buying those YT bikes now. What a ballache for a company that from what I can tell really tries to offer good support and customer interaction. I can't imagine they got enough for it to be worth it.
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