Jakawao

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by Jakawao 2y ago
I reference this post again and again when thinking about these "fun" discussions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14070189
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by Jakawao 4y ago
Employees tend to leave when a major portion of their compensation disappears.
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by Jakawao 4y ago
Freakonomics recently did an episode on their podcast trying to answer this very question: -Is Google Getting Worse? https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-google-getting-worse/ To their credit, Google actually parti
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by Jakawao 4y ago
That doesn’t address the criticism. If I pay for a good or service via crypto and it is not delivered satisfactorily, what is my remedy? Who even decides what “satisfaction” is? Yes, the dispute/chargeback process for cards is cumber
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by Jakawao 4y ago
> The pre-central bank localized agrarian and early industrial economic model leant itself to boom and bust cycles eg massive instability Glad to see we put those patterns behind us /s
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by Jakawao 6y ago
In 1936? Sorry, I don’t remember that.
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by Jakawao 7y ago
Fine, I will bite. https://www.wired.com/story/what-did-cambridge-analytica-rea... Cambridge worked both for the Trump campaign and a Trump-aligned Super PAC. Cambridge Analytica was paid $5.9 million by the Trump camp
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by Jakawao 7y ago
Can we please keep these political hit job pieces off of HN? /s
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by Jakawao 7y ago
I do believe that all competitive advantage is temporary and that better offerings are to come from a variety of players... However, there is simply nothing close to Tesla on the planet today. It will be some time before others can catch u
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by Jakawao 7y ago
Success is not a binary. It is relatively easy to build a small team that functions well. When you try to scale, it gets exponentially harder. This is why there are few successful startups, fewer successful scale ups, and even fewer unic
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by Jakawao 8y ago
I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or not, so I assume this is a serious comment. Can you share some examples of use cases where DLT is going to be transformative?
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by Jakawao 8y ago
Western Union made a bunch of press by announcing they would be leveraging Ripple to streamline their international payments and reduce costs. Last month they announce that they are parting ways as the Ripple hype did not deliver: http:&#x
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by Jakawao 9y ago
It is an excerpt from a newly released book. If you want the milk, you have the buy the cow.
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by Jakawao 9y ago
Two Spanish brothers are trying to make their own jamón in Texas. Acornseekers.com
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by Jakawao 9y ago
Also, keep in mind that Hawaii was not even a US State at this point. It was an independent island nation that happened to have a US military base.
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by Jakawao 9y ago
>be rich and do little work like most founders I trust you had an experience that lead you to think this way, but you clearly don't know "most founders."
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by Jakawao 9y ago
hunter2hunter2
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by Jakawao 10y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WfUnwynwZvE
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by Jakawao 10y ago
...but Massachusetts just killed their efforts to reform non-competes. http://www.wbur.org/morningedition/2016/08/02/non-compete-ag...