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   by avrionov 3y ago

   Scott Alexander reviewed the book "San Fransicko" by Michael Shellenberger and as part of the review analyzed the top reasons for people to become homeless. [1] Some takeaways from the review: - Number one predictor for homelessn
2. 62.▲
   by avrionov 3y ago

   According to this they own part of it: https://www.gv.com/portfolio
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   by avrionov 3y ago

   All FAANG companies had dedicated money pools for share buybacks. Apple even pays dividends. The common belief is that is a company is doing share buybacks, it doesn't innovate anymore. These buybacks have been taking place for the pas
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   by avrionov 3y ago

   This is a good list, but most of these Unicorns were product of zero interest rates. The valuations are down, we just don't know how much and some of the companies on the list are already bankrupt like Voyager. Read here [1] about the
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   by avrionov 3y ago

   Google Search, Android, Chrome, Gmail, Google Play Store, and YouTube Also Google Maps, Google Photos and Google Drive have more than 1B users.
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   by avrionov 3y ago

   It doesn't seems to be true. There were articles that Microsoft was helping AMD, but the denied it. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/microsoft-and-amd-ar...
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   by avrionov 3y ago

   For comparison I got ns/url=194.976 on Apple MacBook Pro M1.
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   by avrionov 3y ago

   Uber revenue in 2022 was 31B. Lyft revenue was 4B. This is not duopoly. Lyft is much smaller, loosing 1.5B per year and the stock price crashed. They will have hard time to keep the employees and keep the drivers.
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   by avrionov 4y ago

   They may survive, but it will be hard. A bug cut like this will destroy the morale in the company. What works in their favor is that the entire tech industry is cutting jobs right now and they don't look like an exception. If the cuts
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    The cuts are huge: - The latest cuts could impact 30% or more of Lyft’s more than 4,000 employees - The cuts could help Lyft slash 50% of its costs
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    Here is another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbxE_qODnKA
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    Here is another report: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/articleComments/bob-lee-san-f...
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    The site will be locked, with no further updates made after April 10th 2023. The site will be available in read-only mode for a limited period afterwards.
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    This news comes after the CEO of Twitch announced that he is leaving the company [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35184011
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    The stock price is down 2.5% today. The investors didn't like it for some reason.
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    Correct. The stock is up 5% this morning.
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    Here is an website which tracks projects around bay area: https://sfyimby.com
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    $5B last year 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1305708/tiktok-ad-revenu...
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    https://www.reuters.com/technology/hedge-fund-tci-says-alpha...
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    "Revenue is falling sure" Your numbers show that the revenue is increasing, but the growth is slower, which is very different than the revenue is falling.
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    The Verge has more information [1] "This comes just months after LastPass confirmed that hackers had stolen some of its source code in August and had access to LastPass’ internal systems for four days before getting detected. It looks
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    The hacker news title says (1962), but the article is dated "October 15, 1991" and it references "Database Systems: Achievements and Opportunities" in the October, 1991, issue of the Communications.
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    How do you store your data set? And do you have any open source releases?
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    I'm sorry to hear that. You should look at Celsius as an example what happen next. They are further down on the bankruptcy. https://www.reddit.com/r/CelsiusNetwork/
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    $3B. Twitter operational costs are $3B or 60%.
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    I'm not sure about this. Twitter operation expenses are $3B on $5B revenue. They'll have to cut significantly the operational expenses and some these will be engineers.
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    There are RSUs. When a company goes private, the RSUs convert to cash on the same vesting schedule. Of course the company can cancel them, but they usually keep the vesting schedule to keep the employees. For the Twitter employees (if they
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    We also peak bubble right now. There were similar stories 2006 and before.
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    The weather is not perfect in the Bay Area. The perfect weather is 300 miles south in Santa Barbara.
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    by avrionov 4y ago

    Usually, the RSUs are converted to cash and the RSUs schedule is kept the same. The workers which remain int he company receive cash on the same schedule.Hence Letting some people go before the RSU date saves money.