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by alehul 7y ago
Given that every single comment I've seen so far is a joke or a negative, it's worth offering a more respectful perspective of his accomplishments and story from Wikipedia [1]: Jack Welch was the child of a railroad conductor, bor
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by alehul 7y ago
To those mentioning that Facebook's revenue is $70b: their net income is only around ~$18b. This would be half of Facebook's net income for an entire year, which is substantial. It's a big deal to them.
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by alehul 7y ago
> after your decision has been proofen impaired once Who decides that your decision has been proven impaired, and how?
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by alehul 7y ago
From an American perspective, my first thought would be "how could this power, vested in the state, be abused by an authoritarian government?"
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by alehul 7y ago
> dwindling user base Even if Facebook is shrinking, I don't think WhatsApp and Instagram are, and who knows what other companies Facebook may be able to buy up rather than be overtaken by.
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by alehul 7y ago
What part of Texas, and how has it been better? As someone from the northeast, I'm intrigued!
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by alehul 7y ago
> If my data is going to be used to develop drug royalties, I want a % cut. For those saying this idea is unrealistic, I was at an accelerator in Cambridge a while back and met some folks working on a version of 23andMe that, in my opini
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Ask HN: What important truth do few people agree with you on?
2 points by alehul 7y ago|1 comments
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by alehul 7y ago
Crimea only appears as Russian if you're viewing it from within Russia, which recognizes Crimea as part of Russia, not Ukraine. If you're viewing Crimea from Ukraine, it will appear as Ukrainian, because Ukraine recognizes Crimea
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by alehul 7y ago
The board supported him being ousted as CEO [1]. He can have a seat at the table, but the table is largely comprised of people who wanted him out, and can continue to make decisions he disapproves of. This isn't a case of Larry Page an
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by alehul 7y ago
> Co-founders are supposed to have confidence in the business they built The business they built and still either run or largely preside over, however Travis was ousted— I'm not sure he'd agree with their current direction as a
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by alehul 7y ago
I've had this same thought about cloud storage. I had an older family member ask me "are you sure it won't go anywhere?" while I was encouraging them to use cloud storage such as Dropbox or Google Drive rather than a fla
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by alehul 7y ago
> we also ensured that 99.9% of all pages viewed by our customers were to products that had never received a counterfeit notice of infringement While this initially seems impressive (i.e. 1 in 1,000 products are fake), Amazon has a power
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by alehul 7y ago
This wasn't meant to be a question of ethics, but one of incentives— let's view it from a standpoint of "will this ultimately be bad for society." > Is it ethical not to look at a billboard when you're walking do
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by alehul 7y ago
> I guess it wouldn't be unheard of for a conglomerate like LVMH to acquire, but I'm not sure there's enough traction to justify a scenario like that. +1. Worked on a fashion startup a while back, and being early-stage we
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by alehul 7y ago
> Because Facebook hired climate change deniers as fact-checkers. Source: > Facebook has announced that it was teaming up with CheckYourFact.com, which is an offshoot of the anti-science media site, The Daily Caller > The CheckYour
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by alehul 7y ago
This is actually 1.0 bad, apparently. :) Each word added, "bitcoin", then "buy", then "now", drops the score lower until it hits 1.0 bad.
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Lyft's new TOS include waiving the right to a bench or jury trial(twitter.com)
7 points by alehul 7y ago|0 comments
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by alehul 7y ago
What are some? Is there a definitive list of the largest industries in the world, when we think in an abstract sense (i.e. energy, transportation, communications)? Barring how challenging it would be to calculate, of course. Or maybe a list
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by alehul 7y ago
> The entire point of construction in space is to avoid launching from earth This is true, but avoiding launching from earth could be done for one of two reasons: (1) to increase the efficiency of what can be built (2) to increase the po
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by alehul 7y ago
Orbiting shipyards seems like a likely bet (assuming we want to explore and interact with space). If we want giant, heavy spacecraft that are capable of interacting with their environment — the space equivalent of a construction vehicle or
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> Today, it shares the complex ‘just in time’ outsourcing and parts delivery model seen in the world of car manufacture. The drastic fall of Sterling, as well as the uncertainty over future trading arrangements with the European Union, h
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by alehul 7y ago
Ditto here! Spent over 1 year cruising through their free credits, now happily paying a couple hundred a month without a second thought. It's really intuitive and easy-to-use to see errors, read text of emails, and so forth. Side note:
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by alehul 7y ago
Bankers can be financially driven, however, 'Central Bankers' [1] if you prefer that terminology, like those mentioned above, are generally not. :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank
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by alehul 7y ago
> Seriously, say I am building a company worth 100m on paper. You think if I marry someone she should be entitled to a large fraction of that? Why? Let’s assume she doesn’t do anything with the business. Say she was an accountant when we
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by alehul 7y ago
To play devil's advocate, part of the reason that this business model survives is because of how much better it is for the creator of the service. Receiving a steady flow of income from those who use your product every month is a great
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by alehul 7y ago
> under a new treaty between the two countries > The U.K. and the U.S. have agreed not to investigate each other’s citizens as part of the deal
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Agreed. People often overestimate the value of truth. While it's immensely valuable to have factual information and put that information to use, truth (or objectivity, we could say) is less important in one's mindset throughout li
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by alehul 7y ago
Got it, thanks! Wish I could delete this now. We're based in Boston and the whole office isn't able to get on Google. Error: This site can’t be reached www.google.com’s server IP address could not be found. DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDO
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Is Google Down?(google.com)
1 points by alehul 7y ago|3 comments

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