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i seriously think people want curry and once this app takes off, laws will be re-defined because people don't want to lose this new thing they love. i.e. uber/a

i seriously think people want curry and once this app takes off, laws will be re-defined because people don't want to lose this new thing they love. i.e. uber/airbnb/zenefits

stephenr 11y ago
Can you elaborate how people wanting curry equates to disregarding food safety laws?
- andrewfromx 11y ago
  airbnb: people wanting cheap hotel rooms equates to disregarding hotel zoning laws uber: people wanting on-demand taxi service equates to disregarding taxi medalian laws local.menu: people wanting curry next door equates to disregarding "selling" food laws. i.e. once people start using the new things that break laws and love them, they collectively go, f those laws they were dumb.
  - stephenr 11y ago
    > once people start using the new things that break laws and love them, they collectively go, f those laws they were dumb. People collectively say a lot of things, that doesn't make them true or accurate. Americans in particular seem to have an obsession with "fuck regulations, free market ftw" - plenty of other countries regulate things that make sense, without making things overly burdensome. Go ask anyone who had a mortgage and/or pension fund in 2008 how that free market thing turned out for them. > people wanting curry next door I don't know what your obsession with curry is specifically, but if it's next door, they're your neighbour. Just ask them if you can have some fucking curry.
    - andrewfromx 11y ago
      you have a point about not all regulations are bad. But this one seems like airbnb bad, not mortgage2008 bad. s/curry/anyfood Asking your neighbour is not the same thing as letting cooks broadcast what they are cooking and if they are willing to sell plates.
      - stephenr 11y ago
        > But this one seems like airbnb bad, not mortgage2008 bad. This one is Airbnb bad if you assume that 1 out of every 5 Airbnb rentals is being used to (take your pick) shoot porn; murder and cut up the bodies of people (to later be fed to pigs); arrange a reboot of the Bumfights video series; run a 24-hour needle swapping joint; etc > Asking your neighbour is not the same thing as letting cooks broadcast what they are cooking and if they are willing to sell plates. Exactly. The first one is a social interaction. The second is a business, and that's my whole point.

i seriously think people want curry and once this app takes off, laws will be re-defined because people don't want to lose this new thing they love. i.e. uber/airbnb/zenefits

stephenr 11y ago

Can you elaborate how people wanting curry equates to disregarding food safety laws?

andrewfromx 11y ago
airbnb: people wanting cheap hotel rooms equates to disregarding hotel zoning laws uber: people wanting on-demand taxi service equates to disregarding taxi medalian laws local.menu: people wanting curry next door equates to disregarding "selling" food laws. i.e. once people start using the new things that break laws and love them, they collectively go, f those laws they were dumb.
- stephenr 11y ago
  > once people start using the new things that break laws and love them, they collectively go, f those laws they were dumb. People collectively say a lot of things, that doesn't make them true or accurate. Americans in particular seem to have an obsession with "fuck regulations, free market ftw" - plenty of other countries regulate things that make sense, without making things overly burdensome. Go ask anyone who had a mortgage and/or pension fund in 2008 how that free market thing turned out for them. > people wanting curry next door I don't know what your obsession with curry is specifically, but if it's next door, they're your neighbour. Just ask them if you can have some fucking curry.
  - andrewfromx 11y ago
    you have a point about not all regulations are bad. But this one seems like airbnb bad, not mortgage2008 bad. s/curry/anyfood Asking your neighbour is not the same thing as letting cooks broadcast what they are cooking and if they are willing to sell plates.
    - stephenr 11y ago
      > But this one seems like airbnb bad, not mortgage2008 bad. This one is Airbnb bad if you assume that 1 out of every 5 Airbnb rentals is being used to (take your pick) shoot porn; murder and cut up the bodies of people (to later be fed to pigs); arrange a reboot of the Bumfights video series; run a 24-hour needle swapping joint; etc > Asking your neighbour is not the same thing as letting cooks broadcast what they are cooking and if they are willing to sell plates. Exactly. The first one is a social interaction. The second is a business, and that's my whole point.