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by 40acres 9y ago
He's probably right, didn't Airbnb struggle for about a year after graduation?
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by 40acres 9y ago
Yes, Portland is both growing very fast (high rise condos are popping up everywhere) and descending into a hell hole (Google springwater corridor) at the same time. Portland has established itself as a safe haven for homeless and down trodd
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by 40acres 9y ago
This is tough. Super targeted advertising is exactly why Facebook is so valuable. Add that to the fact that their marketing tech is so frictionless (it's my knowledge that you can get your ads up on Facebook relatively quickly w/o
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What an incredible post. I just love this guys blog, I wonder how long it took to research all of this. As a side note this gives me great confidence that Waymo will come out of the self driving car race in pole position.
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by 40acres 9y ago
I'm fine with this arrangement. Between Netflix, HBO & Amazon I have more than enough content to fill my viewing habits. I rarely pirate content because usually there is something good to watch. Customers were frustrated by highly
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by 40acres 9y ago
VOTE. As I've grown older I've realized more and more that this is the only way for citizens voices to be truly heard. You aren't going to outspend the big donors and you aren't going to out influence the lobbyists. If y
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by 40acres 9y ago
Generally what does huge mergers in industry mean for disruption (in the more traditional Clay Christensen model). For example, if the #1 and #4 player in a specific industry does that mean there is more space for an upstart to grow since #
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by 40acres 9y ago
Very interesting perspective w.r.t going native. Does that mean you would advise to use Swift/Obj-C & Java/Kotlin as opposed to React Native?
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by 40acres 9y ago
Agreed. I've been following this administration closely in the past year. It appears that they do nothing in good faith. Just look at how Congress tried to pass the health care bill and tax bills. If you want to fight for net neutralit
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by 40acres 9y ago
Coinbase seems to be the quintessential "sell shovels during a gold rush" company. Definitely provides a good case study about how to create a successful business during new industry booms.
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by 40acres 9y ago
What is UPI and Adhaar?
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by 40acres 9y ago
I've read a few stories about the lack of confidence in America's missile defense systems. We have THAAD missile [0] in Asia as a counter punch to North Korea but from what I've read confidence in the system is pretty low. Is
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by 40acres 9y ago
This makes total sense to me, I never had toys growing up. I used to use pens and pencils as action figures (to this day I have a weird habit of having a pen or pencil in my hand when doing mundane tasks at home) and also used to use the pl
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by 40acres 9y ago
It always strikes me as odd at how much HN complanies about hiring practices in tech. Spend a few weeks with Leetcode and CTCI and you have a decent shot at salaries in this range at the BigCo's (depends on location of course). What ot
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by 40acres 9y ago
I've been really into politics and government lately, I'd recommend the following podcasts in the genre. I cannot provide links as I'm on mobile but a Google search should suffice. The Weeds by Vox Media, this is a more &#x27
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by 40acres 9y ago
Definitely agreed that Congress is not executing their congressional rights as strongly as they should. The unauthorized wars combined with the fact that it's a guarantee that AUMF will continuously be approved is just one example. Con
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by 40acres 9y ago
Congress is becoming a non factor. The amount of pettiness and partisianship over the past few years had made Congress into the de factor weakest branch of government. Most of Obama's legacy was executed via executive order and guidanc
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Email Is Broken. Can Anyone Fix It?(wired.com)
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by 40acres 9y ago
How do you transfer Bitcoin into fiat currency? There was a Bitcoin ATM in Portland, OR a while back but I'm not sure how it worked and haven't really heard of other ways to liquidate BTC.
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by 40acres 9y ago
My half glass full nature tells me that we will be alright. The internet was born and thrived w/o explicit net neutrality laws for a long time (~20+ years). We have seen major technology players come out in support of net neutrality, a
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by 40acres 9y ago
Intel is all in on becoming a "data company", with the recent design wins in self driving cars & the AMD deal I'm confident that they will come out of the AI HW race in strong shape. This move just reaffirms that.
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Men generally seem to take issue with women who own their sexuality, combine that with the general level of misogyny and sexism in the tech industry and the general level of gate keeping that surrounds "nerd" culture and you get t
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by 40acres 9y ago
They could, absolutely. My mother has always dreamed of buying a house in Florida for instance but that would be impossible with their finances. Both of my parents are immigrants from a small country, they immigrated to NYC because it'
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by 40acres 9y ago
The common thread I'm sensing is that private equity and leveraged buyouts are pouring fuel on the retail fire, after reading about the Toys R Us deal it astonished me how they got raked over the coals by a PE firm.
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Both of my parents are in this situation, and it's only exacerbated by the fact that my mom had to retire due to spinal surgery and my dad has a bad hip injury that he refuses to get surgery for because he fears missing rent. Despite m
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by 40acres 9y ago
I've done Keto several times, and while the results were always fantastic the hardest thing is that 3-4 day period where you need to watch what you eat to enter ketosis, one false move can reset your progress and really discourage you;
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by 40acres 9y ago
The 90s were truly a golden age for TV adaptations of coming books. X-Men,the Batman & Superman animated series,along with Spiderman and more were classics.
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The marijuana industry is only growing, you might want to see what opportunities lie in that space.
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Definitely agreed. Especially when it comes to the editing, it makes the podcast hard to follow when there isn't a natural flow to the conversations.
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It's events like this one that make me doubledown on the idea that having a more diverse employee base helps buisnesses out, especially when it comes to "optics". Maybe just maybe if someone at FB in the decision chain had li

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