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   by Fordec 8y ago

   Still, a $150M-90M personal net worth at the 18B-30B valuation window. They're not going to starve either.
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   by Fordec 8y ago

   20% of Uber's revenue with 50% in losses.[0] I want to see Lyft succeed just to counter Uber, but yeah, those numbers need to be healthier [0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-results/uber-posts-5...
3. 483.▲
   by Fordec 8y ago

   That's not a war, that's one battle for one city.
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   by Fordec 8y ago

   With the home ownership rate in the UK at 63.5%. Combined with only 19% of the population (never mind more stock value than their primary residence value) owning any stock, stock ownership among the general population there is not like the
5. 485.▲
   by Fordec 8y ago

   There is still an unresolved dispute over Lough Foyle and a semi-resolved dispute over Rockall
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   by Fordec 8y ago

   I assume you mean the BSEG section is included? Off the top of my head Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Moldova, Turkey, Georgia, Northern Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Belarus, Romania and Bulgaria are all there anyway. I t
7. 487.▲
   by Fordec 8y ago

   Bad idea? What could possibly go wrong with abruptly breaking the worlds electronics! I know HN can be a bit of a fun free zone, but I do genuinely hope you didn't actually take the above 100% seriously?
8. 488.▲
   by Fordec 8y ago

   Kalanick owned 16% of Uber voting rights when he was ousted. Zuckerberg has 58.3% of Facebooks voting rights. He's not going anywhere.
9. 489.▲
   by Fordec 8y ago

   And with that, the first millennial detonates a few high altitude EMPs just to do society a favour in the long term
10. 490.▲
    by Fordec 8y ago

    Huzzah, another talking point to convince the team to migrate off Bitbucket. Silver lining I guess!
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    by Fordec 8y ago

    Without having to hack and/or expose I/O pins, anything with a USB port that can run the open source code can be given wireless communication capabilities with a very common and cheap chip
12. 492.▲
    by Fordec 8y ago

    Landing?
13. 493.▲
    by Fordec 8y ago

    We have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipple_shield
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    by Fordec 8y ago

    Treat the "Universe" that was created in the big bang like a firework that has just gone off. The "boundary" of the universe is just the size the explosion has expanded to for a given time. And today, 13.8B years after t
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    by Fordec 8y ago

    SV is good at Software, UI/UX and, historically anyway, Silicon. But it can't do end hardware. And the stuff it has been successful at is designing consumer hardware but outsourcing the manufacturing to another country. Arduino is
16. 496.▲
    by Fordec 8y ago

    "As written, Plan S would bar researchers from publishing in 85% of journals, including influential titles such as Nature and Science." - Nature Conflict of interest with this reporting much?
17. 497.▲
    by Fordec 8y ago

    Sounds like Eco https://store.steampowered.com/app/382310/Eco/
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    by Fordec 8y ago

    Or a random sentence generator. Or an unlocked phone in a pocket with autocomplete enabled