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by awad 8y ago
They do a good amount of briefing events wherein (usually larger/well known/older) companies can meet with A16Z portfolio companies for show and tell style pitch sessions. If they can host some in SF, it would certainly make thing
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"Although the likelihood of missing any school days during the past year decreased with reduced income, among children missing school, those from low-income households missed more days of school than did children from higher income hou
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Zuckerberg outlines plan to pivot Facebook to “privacy-focused” platform(axios.com)
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Is it just me or is the site not loading for anyone else?
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Just think of it as Uber Pool/Lyft Line wherein one car goes to your house, and another goes to someone else's house.
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The beautiful thing about trucks is...you can put _multiple_ cars on the truck.
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Well, in this case, there is no middleman. And, with Tesla, there never has been AFAIK. So not sure if applicable. But assuming a general statement, I have to bite...why smart contract?
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Why Shopify Moved to the Production Engineering Model(engineering.shopify.com)
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From a practical standpoint, most users in the US are accessing US-shored services.
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Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps(reddit.com)
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I think that's actually a fair point and would agree with you on that wholeheartedly.
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Thus far most ICOs have been _actual_ scams, so ironically, it's topical and accurate insofar as highlighting why IPOs are a lengthy and costly measure...
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Saw this on the Jackie Chan thread yesterday: "It's surprising how much luckier people who prepare are."
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Isn't cell network exactly how it used to be done? What is wrong with that?
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The NBA is already rolling this out with VR games on League Pass and from what I gather it's getting to be pretty slick. I 100% agree that sports is the killer app here and am surprised to see it barely mentioned.
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They do make external keyboards for the iPad, for what it is worth.
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I honestly can't with the HN crowd at times. The problem with a bubble is you often don't realize you're in one.
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A shocking story of police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect(features.propublica.org)
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Snap and Spotify account for 13.7% of Google Cloud: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/spotify-will-spend-nearly-45...
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Here you go, all offered under the 'Business Productivity' umbrella of AWS: Amazon WorkDocs https://aws.amazon.com/workdocs/ Amazon WorkMail https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/ Amazon Chime
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I've done this, multiple times, when the airline I frequently fly follows up after a flight. I've noticed that they're pretty good with their timing such that they'll expedite the survey trigger after a flight that had a
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How Wall Street Became Wall Street(ny.curbed.com)
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Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: a group from Silicon Valley visits China(nytimes.com)
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Thanks, updated headline to reflect the original article
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Ads just work, no matter what you think(hackernoon.com)
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"Most people in Michigan who get in tech is to get a good paycheck, not to start a company or change the world for better." This rubs me the wrong way. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this. Not everyone can afford the r
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Procuring large contracts from enterprise and government. It's pretty handy in business.
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They wouldn't crack the top 15 even if they put all 50k new jobs instead of splitting it. NYC itself is big as is, and the NY Metro area is unparalleled.
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Assuming that the campus is in or around LIC proper, there's a lot to work with in the immediate area. Given recent and future development of proper high-rises along the waterfront, plus further re-zoning of formerly industrial areas t
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The city government would like to blame illegal Airbnb rentals for contributing to the housing crisis but at the same time still enforces strict height limits on buildings because NIMBYism. It won't be today, or tomorrow, but eventuall

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