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by MarkMc 6y ago
A few years ago YC tried making part of it's program remote. It wasn't successful so they switched back to being fully in-person. This time they were forced to go 'all in' on remote and the result is, ”this will rank as
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The data in that article only goes up to 2018. It will be interesting to see if that 27% figure is now higher. It's pretty clear what is happening: Online dating has become the main way romantic partners meet online [1] and the average
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> consider that we live in a monogamous culture, and so the 20 percent of men who are regarded as attractive can only be in committed relationships with at most 20 percent of women. We may just as well pity the rest of the women, who are
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Twitter Spaces to launch publicly next month, may include Spaces-only tweets(techcrunch.com)
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Google’s approach to HBCUs helps explain why there are few Black engineers there(washingtonpost.com)
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Ah so this is why Twitter stock has been on a rocketship recently. This seems like a pretty good business move. Substack and Patreon have proved that people will pay to support their favourite content producers, and Twitter had the large us
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This is what worries me about Bitcoin. Right now total exposure to Bitcoin is a tiny fraction of the exposure to derivatives in 2008, but that could change as Bitcoin mania grows. Eventually a sudden drop in the price of Bitcoin could trigg
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It's also ironic that the center-right government is picking which projects to fund in order to reduce carbon emissions, instead of a market-based emissions trading scheme
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This 'bug' actually makes it more interesting and engaging
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Without that 4% Facebook runs the risk that users migrate to another social media platform, which could have a huge impact. Milk might only account for 4% of a supermarket's sales, but a supermarket that doesn't sell milk is at a
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According to the Australian government, the problem is that it benefits Facebook too much and doesn't benefit the news websites enough. An analogy might be to minimum wage laws: a laissez-faire market would result in an unfair distribu
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I'm a skeptic, as I would certainly prefer to hold $10,000 of FB shares than $10,000 worth of Bitcoin. The problem is that Bitcoin is not productive, so it only makes sense to own it if someone will pay more for it in future. But how d
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OK but won't Facebook need an algorithm to determine which posts do not comply with their EULA?
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Interestingly, Google and Facebook seem to disagree on whether an algorithm can determine what content is 'news': Google says: "There seems to be no clear or obvious distinction between news and non-news content, and the way
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Wow that's awful. At least on Android I could create a new user profile with zero contacts, but not sure if there's a similar workaround on iPhone
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This is the main reason I sold my Facebook shares about a year ago. It's clear that FB will not be able to repeat their Instagram trick in future
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Related: https://austenallred.com/reading
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I'm going to repost a comment I made a couple years ago because it's still 100% relevant: ------ Incredible that Google has been able to sustain almost 20% revenue growth for so long - much longer than most people expected. For th
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It's not just end users who would have to switch to Bing - the advertisers would also have to switch, and Google probably has better return on each advertising dollar spent on its platform. I wonder whether Google might withdraw their
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SoftBank's Son expects mass production of driverless cars in two years(reuters.com)
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I read that by having such notable speakers, hedge funds can invite and impress wealthy clients to what is essentially a big sales pitch. If you're trying to get 20 people to each give you $50 million, then speaker fees of $2 million i
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Reading Better(fs.blog)
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Thanks - I'll check it out although it seems to only use one microphone.
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Ask HN: Product to eliminate background noise during Zoom calls?
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By 'transactions sense' I think Yellen means using cryptocurrency to buy and sell goods and services. The Chainalysis figure seems to include people simply swapping USD for Bitcoin. So in that sense Yellen may be correct
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Why has it been so difficult for the Fed to increase inflation? Couldn't it have just printed more money?
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I wonder if there's an underlying connection here with studies showing that Black teachers improve outcomes for Black students: https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2018-11-...
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My comment wasn't meant to be 'dismissive'. The idea that Black doctors provide a better standard of care for Black babies is a reasonable explanation for the data - perhaps even the most likely. I just thought other explanat
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That's a fair point, but I think it depends on whether someone is clearly inciting violence. In the case of Trump's Twitter ban I would agree with you - it will enrage Trump supporters and cause them to disengage from constructiv
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In Australia for decades we've had laws that prevent one person from owning a majority of newspapers and TV stations in a city. It was supported by many left-wing people because it prevented Rupert Murdoch from dominating the media la

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