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What is a head shop?
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Why does it need to be "kill"? Why not "improve the newsletters"? All email killers failed to kill email.
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You are missing his point on money. He is talking for way more money than the regular person could get. In that case a person doesn't need a job and can rebuild his house easily.
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IBM also has 5 Nobel prize winners, but this was different time. I don't think we'll see it again.
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How is he financially independent? A serious question. He said that he worked for 3 years in Google. IS there anything which I'm missing.
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10 days ago someone posted a similar idea and how he failed. "I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25825917 I hope your project succeeds.
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Tesla stock price is high, but compared to the other car manufacturers they look quite good: - Tesla increased their revenue in a year where Toyota and VW saw a significant decline in their revenue. - Tesla can produce 1M electric cars at t
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Here are the responses of the top economists on the effect of the minimum wage increase: https://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/15-minimum-wage/ They seem quite divided on both questions.
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They missed the biggest idea of 2021 - Gamestop!
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I think this is very different from the Kodak situation. They are responding to market forces - the electric cars. The charging stations will provide a new revenue stream for them and it help them to transition.
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Many people underestimated the first iPhone. It has all the capabilities to be a disruptive technology. The appstore was missing only due to timing of the release (this is my assumption, haven't checked out). Also Christensen book has
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Some negative comments below, but this is good news. This is the sign that the electric cars on the streets have a critical mass big enough for Shell to invest. The second positive outcome is that if they are directly involved in the electr
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Not the OP, but I've built several ML pipelines in the last few years. Even if every step in the process very rigorous and using solid software, there are still challenges. ML models are very difficult (or impossible to test). The usua
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Not a good piece. Total waste of time.
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I know that some people here on hackernews don't have a good opinion of Jupyter Notebooks, but I expect them to be a very important step in how we publish scientific papers and experiment with ideas. There are probably other tools that
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'Most Favored Nation' drug pricing is currently blocked in court. We don't know how this will play, if it works.
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Google engineering expenses are 16%. We can disagree on their future, but for me it is likely that they'll face more challenges and more pressure from the investors.
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Seeking Alpha link has the changes over time. They were able to reduce the expenses in the last 2 years, but the investors are going to compare them with their competitors, not only with the previous years. FB for example has engineering ex
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Adjusted for inflation Netscape price is much higher, but at least they had a working product and big team.
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> NUVIA was originally founded in February 2019 Do they hold the record for the fastest and most profitable exit?
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Thank you for the list. Going quickly through the companies there: - Rackspace was sold to private equity and restructured and made public a second time. - LogMeIn was sold to private equity - Kaplan is part of bigger company
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See my post about their expenses [1]. If they don't grow the investors are not going to be happy about the high engineering expenses. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25766475
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The way I used FAANG wasn't very precise. It is possible that Netflix will become a feature of Google, Amazon, or Disney. I was referring to the concept of "bundling and unbundling" [1] which is beneficial to the big rich com
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> Dropbox is a feature not a product. When you are against FAANG every product is just a feature.
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Very good point about the pricing. Looking at their income statement [1] DropBox is not a very efficient company: Cost Of Revenues: $413.7M (22%) in software companies this includes Operations and customer care. There are spending as much a
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Dropbox and Evernote, for me are two very similar companies. Startups that innovated on a great user experience and had a flawless execution in the beginning. I was an early adopter of both of them, and they worked well. Dropbox sync betwe
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I really like that you are working on something original and different. Wish you luck. What is the tech stack behind the product? Do you use WebRTC? Something home-build.
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Nathan Myhrvold is also the anonymous writer behind "My First Gulfstream" [1] & [2] [1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1998/10/gulfstream-199810 [2] https://www.wsj.com/articles
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celebritynetworth is extremely unreliable source of information. Some articles call Mervold a billionaire which more likely. This is a person who had $650M in Microsoft stock. Owns 40% of 800 people corporation [1] and raised $3B capital [2
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The term makes a lot of sense if you know when and how it was introduced. When the early proponents of "Infrastructure As Code" started to write about it, the infrastructure was defined often time in multiple config files or direc

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