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John Carmack’s Epic 2015 Letter to Oculus VR Leaders(uploadvr.com)
2 points by aresant 8y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 8y ago
Greed is a wild thing! Reading through the SEC complaint while he was a very senior executive, he was a very amateur trader. The risk-analysis in hindsight aka - why risk jail / fines / everything to avoid a $350k loss on $10m+ of
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by aresant 8y ago
"Wow, 11 of these 50 were funded by Y Combinator:" - Paul Graham via Twitter - worth a read of that thread in which PG also notes that he has had nothing to do w/class selection since 2014: https://twitter.com&#x2F
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by aresant 8y ago
There are DOZENS of companies after this space with solutions ranging from point-of-sale, to beacons (facebook was aggressively rolling into this space, have heard less after privacy missteps), to WIFI range tracking, to some combo of the a
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by aresant 8y ago
I had a really interesting meeting with a huge institutional investor last week ($50b+ balance sheet) that has a ~$2b allocation to VC. They said that softbank has almost had a "chilling effect" on their VC group - especially arou
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by aresant 8y ago
Seeing an informed rebuttle like this always reminds me of the "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect as illustrated by Michael Crichton: "You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. You read the article and see the jou
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by aresant 8y ago
Some of the highlights from Will Strafach, who did the actual app research for TechCrunch: #1 "they didn't even bother to change the function names, the selector names, or even the "ONV" class prefix. it's literally
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by aresant 8y ago
In modern houses the solution to this is a “whole house air exchanger” which acts to cycle on low power the airflow in/out of house. You can also get these for single rooms and equipped with a heat recovery component.
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by aresant 8y ago
I read a really interesting thread recently, can't find it but the gist of it was Index Funds appreciating isn't guaranteed (as they're pitched) and localizing at a country level is a mistake for the future w/giant &quot
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by aresant 8y ago
The "something" that changed is that private equity (and even banks) figured out how to financially model MMOs just like SAAS. I think Tomasz Tunguz illustrates this concept beautifully in considering SAAS / MMOs as annuities
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Square leases Oakland’s Uptown Station in one of city’s biggest deals ever(sfchronicle.com)
3 points by aresant 8y ago|0 comments
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Inventor May Have Cured Motion Sickness Without Drugs(defenseone.com)
259 points by aresant 8y ago|113 comments
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by aresant 8y ago
“I disagree with the statement that these funds are protected by SIPC,” Stephen Harbeck, president and chief executive officer of SIPC. Not sure that leaves a lot of room for speculation - don’t sign up to use Robinhood as a savings account
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by aresant 8y ago
What zip codes is the trial / beta accepting? I'm in AZ often enough that I'd love to try it out for purely experiential reasons.
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Research at Nvidia: The First Interactive AI Rendered Virtual World(youtube.com)
2 points by aresant 8y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 8y ago
Format of the screenshots reminded me a lot of embedded Twitter posts - would love to see embeddable HN comments :)
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by aresant 8y ago
What remains the #1 most straightforward CRO advice that works basically every-time: fix your website's speed (especially mobile)!!! In a previous life I ran a Conversion Rate Optimization as a Service business and optimized $100s of m
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by aresant 8y ago
On the extreme end of "brand value you've got Kanye West selling a 100% cotton t-shirt for $120. (1) On the other end you've got Amazon not even bothering with a logo and selling a 100% cotton t-shirt for $14.99. (2) And the
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by aresant 8y ago
What is particularly striking about this article is that Walmart was - in 2002 - publishing influential studies about the correlation between site speed and conversion rate: http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2012/02&#x
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by aresant 8y ago
Fixed: “67% of workers earning over $100k see themselves “changing jobs for better pay due to strong labor market” in the next 6 months.”
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FDA seizes documents from Juul in latest e-cigarette crackdown(reuters.com)
2 points by aresant 8y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 8y ago
If you're enjoying this content make sure to spend a few mins poking around Syd Mead's incredible work: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/240942648784206721/
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by aresant 8y ago
If you haven’t read “Three Body Problem” - warning spoiler alert - the premise was mind blowing to me - that the reason aliens aren’t broadcasting signals is that more mature spacefaring societies use those signals as targeting vectors! Eg
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by aresant 8y ago
"Almost all of the clients are men, ranging in age from millennials to 70-year-olds, and they stick around for three to five years before going dark—usually due to bad investments, dips in the economy, or divorce." This entire art
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by aresant 8y ago
For as much as the Democrats have been screaming about a need to return to civility naming the act after a private citizen, richest man or not, is too funny. Compared to - say - the legislation resulting from the sub-prime crisis - in which
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Theranos to dissolve(google.com)
1 points by aresant 8y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 8y ago
One of the most unexpected & interesting "history of space aesthetics" to me came from the recent documentary "Jodorowsky's Dune" (which is awesome!). The film recounts the attempt by avant-garde director Alejan
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by aresant 8y ago
My secret hope for Apple is that they buy an ISP / Telecom like Comcast. It curdles my blood that ISPs are not only logging so-called advertising data, but are permissibly collecting and storing http requests, building full browser pro
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by aresant 8y ago
Funding is likely a major concern but as others have pointed out on these threads Tesla could likely raise at least operating capital into foreseeable future without a major problem. I think what this is a case of is further evidence that s
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What happens when you let computers optimize floor plans(joelsimon.net)
2 points by aresant 8y ago|0 comments

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