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WeWork documents reveal it owes $18B in rent and is burning through cash(sfgate.com)
4 points by aresant 9y ago|1 comments
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by aresant 9y ago
it is sad and amusing that at least three comments on this thread point out that the wapo article is substantially incomplete. From the original LaTimes article: "In 2013, federal authorities intercepted shipments of 28,000 restore dis
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by aresant 9y ago
Here is the actual article that Bill Harris wrote vs the linkspam: https://www.recode.net/2018/4/24/17275202/bitcoin-scam-crypt...
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by aresant 9y ago
I spend about 50% of my time thinking about and working at intersection of tech & real estate at considerable scale. WeWork is in a bizarrely weird spot. Building cap rates eg trading multiples are at all time, insane highs. This inflat
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Finland's basic income trial falls flat(bbc.co.uk)
48 points by aresant 9y ago|45 comments
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by aresant 9y ago
I respect the fire movement - principally the frugality and minimalist component. But I am genuinely interested to see what happens the next time the market crashes - very easy to be pragmatic about pulling your 4.5% while skies are blue.
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by aresant 9y ago
So turns out granting poorly-verified extensions permission to literally take over your browser after reading easily gamed reviews is a bad idea? The worst of the spyware / download guys are now the best of the "legit" extens
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by aresant 9y ago
Just for the sake of playing pretend internet detective: He didn't post a picture of himself with the beer. He posted a picture of a hand holding a beer that could be anybody and could easily have been lifted from a random FB account.
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by aresant 9y ago
Lots of speculation on Twitter that this is a misguided PR stunt. After getting lost in replies found this article of a guy visiting their office today and finding it devoid of any CPUs and founder missed an event yesterday: https:/&#
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SF supervisors pass law to regulate scooters(sfgate.com)
2 points by aresant 9y ago|0 comments
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San Fransisco issues cease-and-desist orders to Scooter companies(sfgate.com)
2 points by aresant 9y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 9y ago
This is a really smart and cool implementation, seems like a kickstarter waiting to happen.
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by aresant 9y ago
The day that Musk decided to call his driver-assist system "Autopilot" he lost my respect as an engineer and my business as a consumer. It's a great brand for a L4 - L5 system, not for Tesla's realistic capabilities as a
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by aresant 9y ago
The author dramatically underestimates the opportunities of scale and future tech in her model. Amazon is already: - Installing lockers into apartment communities https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=6442600011 that ma
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Uber Disabled Volvo SUV's Safety System Before Fatality(bloomberg.com)
3 points by aresant 9y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 9y ago
I just don't fully understand why Uber is attempting to compete at the technology level. The most important components, like the Lidar systems, are all third party and non-exclusive. And the likely current market leader in the tech - W
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by aresant 9y ago
That article was pulled from book "The Secret History of Mac Gaming" which is full of same quality of research from same author. You can get the digital version here - https://unbound.com/books/macgaming/
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by aresant 9y ago
I remember seeing the release of DB on HN and immediately had a "holy shit" moment, I was literally carrying a portable shuttle computer back and forth to the office before DropBox - congrats to the entire team and thank you for a
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Self-driving cars will cause sprawl(medium.com)
51 points by aresant 9y ago|65 comments
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by aresant 9y ago
This article suggests that the Palantir software, regardless of method, was in fact instrumental in identifying a gang leader who was subsequently sentenced to 100 years in prison. And that the reason that it was cancelled was largely due t
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by aresant 9y ago
A startup I would love to see is one that could provide detailed personal bookkeeping. Mint.com invented this at some level, but there's still an awful lot of manual classification to drive accuracy in my experience. In my own househol
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by aresant 9y ago
Taking the YC Seed Deck as advice means you are building a startup which is "a company designed to grow fast." AKA that is likely to be highly unprofitable, insanely stressful, and only more capital intensive for potentially years
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by aresant 9y ago
I don't understand the mindset of not wearing a helmet riding an electric vehicle at 15mph on a city street. The chances of head & face trauma are substantially reduced, and the chance of a fatal injury reduced by almost 70% w&#x2F
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by aresant 9y ago
Does anybody have an economist that they like who is writing intelligently about housing pricing right now? You see 27% in SV, and almost 20% in subs like Oakland and it's hard not to remember the couple of years leading up to the 2007
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by aresant 9y ago
I'd love to hear you expand on that comment. I've been surprised how many investors / technologists view VR as a niche market for enterprise / porn / limited gaming appeal.
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by aresant 9y ago
Reminds me of Barlows Guide to Extraterrestrials which is an awesome sci-fi companion https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/940230.Barlowe_s_Guide_t...
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The meaning of 'middle class' in Silicon Valley(paloaltoonline.atavist.com)
4 points by aresant 9y ago|1 comments
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by aresant 9y ago
Outstanding summary Patrick, was prepared for a piece of dry content marketing but many gold nuggets as usual! I would add a couple of supplementals unique to 2018 for those of us raising capital in a SAAS or looking to liquidate: 1) The &q
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by aresant 9y ago
Youtube, soundcloud, and other huge sharing platforms have all dealt with copyright & infringement through a combination of: 1) Easy takedown process DMCA 2) Algorithmic content identification & blocking Is there a start-up that pro
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by aresant 9y ago
That Kickstarter video's first 20 seconds are amazing - funny, informative, and arresting. Did you guys write and direct that in house? EDIT - After watching the entire video - including you hanging from them like a swing - I hope you

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