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by aresant 9y ago
Appreciate your statement. Many that left their BTC assets on CB in interest of your core benefits - simplicity, security - will watch with interest for further communication in the coming weeks as price of bt cash stabilizes.
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by aresant 9y ago
Most fascinating to me has been Coinbase's position throughout this. Which was essentially they are treating the new Bitcoin cash as a shitcoin, aka not supporting it. They took the position that if you want your "free" Bitco
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by aresant 9y ago
Hard to beat the hedge fund compensation model of fee on the way up, fee on the way down. Agnostic to his Herbalife bet, Ackman "has widely underperformed the S&P 500 since its EOY 2012 inception: 7.1% since inception net of fees v
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by aresant 9y ago
A few colorful facts to the story here: 1) 3 years of service vests into NFL pension plan, he just hit qualification - value pegged at $21,360 a year for life (3) 2) He has not publicly commented on his retirement or reasons for it. 3) He h
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by aresant 9y ago
Walmart just lightly threatened carriers & owner operators that if they work for Amazon they can expect lower priority from Walmart in the future (1) Walmart presently represents ~14% of the total capacity of one of America's large
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by aresant 9y ago
Paraphrasing previous comment - I get the "see cryptos are too insecure / it's a pyramid / it's a bubble / ICOs are scams / etc" arguments. But holy shit turning a world currency into the wild west -
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by aresant 9y ago
I would immediately update your posting with a CV, website, git, whatever. You are on the front page of arguably the PREMIER network of people with access / need for technologists.
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Don’t Jump from 1 to 8: The Irish Spring Story(basadur.com)
1 points by aresant 9y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 9y ago
From the post mortem (1) -=> - A hacker managed to exploit a ICO multisig wallet vulnerability and drain 44,055 ETH - $9,119,385 at present. - A white hat showed up and "saved" 377,000 ETH - $78,039,000 !!! - by draining other
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by aresant 9y ago
This is so !@%!@ cool. Check out the A/B test of a technician with / without the software referenced in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5gXuZp25f0 Then here's a video that gives a sense of the s
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Facebook announces plan for housing at new Menlo Park campus(sfgate.com)
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by aresant 9y ago
EXACTLY. Sorry if I was unclear. ICO as a way to convert "Internet Points" into something of material value and reward users directly for contributions is incredibly fascinating to me.
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by aresant 9y ago
Why a dongle? The chffr app (video / nav data) + panda dongle (sensor data) is a simple way to let anybody participate in data collection, and for comma.ai to build enterprise value by accruing and organizing a gigantic data set that&#
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by aresant 9y ago
What could validate this article's hypothesis is if Tesla manages to roll out a Class 8 Truck that meets the industry's needs. Musk tweeted earlier this year "Tesla Semi truck unveil set for September. Team has done an amazin
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by aresant 9y ago
Where are the hits? - AR powers the world's #1 Photo App (#3 most popular app overall) in Snapchat's filters. - AR is getting its first commercially polished, OS level set of libraries in the next release from the world's mos
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Eye Tracking in Rec Room to Show Facial Expressions (VR)(againstgrav.com)
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by aresant 9y ago
We are in an age of the "hurry let's IPO before they realize our customer acquisition costs are unsustainable" IPO. Take Blue Apron, for instance. They stated their blended Cost Per Customer is $94 in their prospectus, this #
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by aresant 9y ago
Headline choice is editorializing - the actual quote "Mr.Kalanick conveyed to Mr. Levandowski in response that Mr. Levandowski should not bring any Google information into Uber and that Uber did not want any Google information. Shortly
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by aresant 9y ago
So Bonderman made an overtly sexist, diminutive comment about a new FEMALE board member at a meeting held SPECIFICALLY to address Uber's inherent culture & sexism issues? I'm not sure whether watching HBO's Silicon Valley
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by aresant 9y ago
What does a remote team do to enterprise value assuming a long term acquisition?
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by aresant 9y ago
Another top HN news item today is that Andy Rubin's new startup, "Essential", raised $300m today. Fun fact and by coincidence, Andy Rubin's last official gig prior to this startup was head of Google's robotics divis
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by aresant 9y ago
As somebody with an interest in the space I appreciated the honest breakdown of the challenges and failures, 100% agree that this is a tough market. But this part stood out: "We were charging clients 30–40% less than industry average,
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by aresant 9y ago
When the author made the mental connection on the matching labeling color from the TPU2 front panel connections the nerd in me did a little jig, I LOVE the level of detail and authority this article conveys. Despite my general server /
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by aresant 9y ago
This is a huge precursor to the real blow: "The decision hints that Alsup’s pending decision on a preliminary injunction might not be favorable to Uber. . . it could effectively halt Uber’s self driving development plans entirely while
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by aresant 9y ago
To what degree was Otto a comp for the valuations put on autonomous vehicle startups? Has to be fascinating AND deflating if one of your data points was "holy shit we can make $700m in 6 months if we get a team + MVP out the door!&quot
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by aresant 10y ago
This response feels knee jerk. It's been demonstrated in countless other threads (1) and articles (2) how economically important it is to overbook. Overbooking is central to airline profitability and their ability to provide flexibilit
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by aresant 10y ago
Sounds like maybe you have some existing IP that could be utilized. What level of capital commitment would you need to build a proof of concept?
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by aresant 10y ago
It's shocking to me that Yahoo is worth $48b today, they've been on an inevitable decline towards irrelevance since the mid 2000s. She took over Yahoo on July 16th, 2012 when Yahoo's stock price was ~$16. It's now tradin
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Facebook working on tech to let you type with your brain and hear with your skin(businessinsider.com)
35 points by aresant 10y ago|1 comments
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by aresant 10y ago
The machine takes no time though - eg 2 min of machine time is zero human cost time :)

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