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by aresant 9y ago
The statement from Uber's new CEO on this settlement is concise: https://www.uber.com/newsroom/uber-waymo-settlement/
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This is such a fascinating cycle. Large pensions & sovereign wealth funds are so desperate for yield vs. low treasuries that they have pushed income producing commercial real estate values to all time highs. As a result these fund manag
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Check 25:30 for one of the most surreal moments I've ever witnessed - they blow the top, start playing Space Man, and send the Tesla into orbit - > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8wxV-lUsZg&t=25m30s
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From the analyst covering "They’ve warned about a decline in one of the basic fundamental financial drivers." which was "changes in the fourth quarter that cut the number of viral videos in people’s news feeds. Those tweaks,
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No coastal surf break that's close to civilization is safe from bacteria infestation but it is manageable. BUT sewage regulation can go a long, long way - take a look at the San Diego bacteria report http://www.sdbeachinfo.c
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Could we start with conclusive studies about impact of radiation on children & adult's soft tissue ?
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For the Bay Area contingent, a similar series of candid photographs taken by Walker Evans in the 1940s - 60s is one of the current MOMA exhibitions if you're looking for an excuse
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You want to know what I think is way, way scarier than self-censoring in SV? Is that as a CULTURE we are self-censoring due to the Chilling Effect from learning that the NSA collects unfathomable dossiers on every citizens private browsing
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I just hope that the current ICO bubble doesn't pop so fast that HBO's Silicon Valley misses the opportunity to skewer it next season.
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Going out on a limb but I think OP probably meant that: 1) They take account verification seriously and leverage best practices around 2-factor auth etc even going so far as suggesting you NOT use simplified solutions like authy. 2) Your &q
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To see adoption go as wide as current HODLERS hope BTC can go newbies need to be insulated from the type of insanity laid out in this article. Like at bare minimum and for the survival of crypto nobody should trade on unaudited exchanges. O
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"But, sadly, I don’t think this is really about what makes sense. It is about politics." Clearly this proposal is targeted directly at private SV and tech companies. And the mortgage deduction and state tax write off proposals are
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Keeping up with Darpa's challenges is a good way to see into the future a couple of their current projects: 1) A machine-learning competition to overcome scarcity in the radio frequency which is INSANELY fascinating and, if they pull i
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In higher ED this seems like a long time coming. Grad students essentially work as slaves for the Uni's & professors with triple-duty in lab time for professor + teaching + self-research. Their reward comes in notoriety & bi-li
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While the fluffy headline promises a revelation about Google, this article is actually a poignant lament on the future of work automation. The piece's author holds a humanities degree in Psych/Neuroscience. I point that out becaus
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The solution to stopping stupidity like this is to take a 12 month tour of duty at the US Digital Service: https://www.usds.gov/join#tours-of-duty Yes the bureaucrats, lobbyists, and special interests will continue fucking
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Something interesting On their last raise @ $3.7b it was thought they were doing around $64m/year - so a 57x of revenue! On this round they're raising @ $5b with $200m/yr - a ~25x of revenue valuation. (1) http://w
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In the affiliate marketing world I've seen huge international affiliates set up 100s of proxies to arbitrage grey-market affiliate offers (supplements / financial services / bizop / etc) on FB's platform. One stupid
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Apple's ARKit release has opened many people's eyes to the potential of AR as the true nextgen platform. Made possible by apples truly vertically integrated hardware/software biz. Especially in comparison to goog with their s
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Median age of employees working at selected tech and online companie(statista.com)
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"Then the executives sold their stock a day before they announced the hack to the public." Selling stock the day before the news makes these guys seem like absolute criminals, but (a) it's not what happened and (b) the soundb
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The graph in the article (1), showing a much steeper slope than other bubbles is fascinating for a couple of reasons: 1) The total SCALE of the bubble is much much smaller than say the tech bubble - the 280 stocks representative of the tech
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Straightforward: 1) Amazon tracked your research and likes to use " ad retargeting" if they see you leave before checking out to remind you to come back and purchase. 3) FB offers advertisers a variety of retargeting means + insan
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Among the complaints of bad behavior: "Kalanick [aquired] a self-driving startup that, according to a confidential report not disclosed to Benchmark (the "Stroz report") allegedly harbored trade secrets from a competitor . .
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I am illustrating use cases, not advocating - I think my excitement about the tech was poorly communicated as excitement for the chaos. But the minute you realize the use case around privatization of global wealth / taxes and/or p
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I am illustrating use cases, not advocating. The minute you realize the use case around privatization of global wealth you can begin to underwrite its probability. Because the crypto platform provides the OPTION for that to happen at scale.
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Fascinating how many questions / comments in this thread question if crypto currency macro even has a use case in this world. And for good reason. Is it a currency? Yes and no. Is it a store of value? Yes and no but sure is volatile. I
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Edit - Moved to comment I was trying to address -
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Netflix is such an interesting business. They have far and away the broadest streaming distribution (75% of it!) in the USA (1) which is a market that already 53% saturated. And the bull case guys point to international subscription growth
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How to Report Bitcoin Cash and Avoid IRS Trouble(google.com)
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