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by brador 11y ago
> end user trusts the transaction is legit Maybe that's the hard part these companies solve for. When a deal turns sour you have someone to shout at. With a blockchain, you have no one. In effect, the companies you mentioned are
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by brador 11y ago
What would it take to completely wipe out all student debt? In theory, could a Presidents pen stroke do it?
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by brador 11y ago
> improving inner city schools is simply not contingent upon how much money is thrown at them. Because of the prevailing infrastructure. If instead he had created a customized boarding school for the inner city kids somewhere safe and
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by brador 11y ago
One more step towards Twitters untimely irrelevancy. Shame, if they implemented features instead of removing them they could be huge. Still can in my opinion.
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by brador 11y ago
Surround them with intelligent people who like talking. Take a visit to a children's area in a hospital if you want to meet some hyper intelligent children with less intelligent parents. They soak in an amazing vocabulary from being a
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by brador 11y ago
Would be an interesting experiment to see what cleaner is most effective in removing that gunk, then mixing with water and a smoker "inhaling" it into their lungs. Would it clean their lungs of similar gunk or would the water retu
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by brador 11y ago
I've learnt the jankiest keyboards belong to those who eat at their desk. Don't eat at your desk and your keyboard stays relatively clean and nice. Plus you're not putting that bacteria directly into your mouth.
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by brador 11y ago
Do you have to be married? Is it for anyone whose partner has had a child or only for your own child? Like, could you, in theory, have a baby making rotation of 3 "girlfriends" with 4 months of paternal leave each per year for a
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by brador 11y ago
> Pumping money into worthless products with no return This part shows your fundamental misunderstanding of what startups are all about. 9 failures for 1 success is expected. That means 9 worthless products, for 1 hit. But you don&#x27
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by brador 11y ago
Yes, that is where we are heading. Not communism though, more like corporate ownership of everything. That is, corporations own the property since they exist forever, humans rent them, since their existence is transient. Remote working, mi
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by brador 11y ago
> There is something fundamentally wrong with taxing an absence of income. Isn't the plan to eventually replace all fixed assets with rental assets? Thus solving this problem.
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by brador 11y ago
There's another possibility: Front for money laundering.
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by brador 11y ago
Could you do something similar with cornflour mix?
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by brador 11y ago
As an investor I'm not looking for Thiels "sustainable business strategy", I want growth. New products, new markets, pushing the envelope. And that comes from taking risks,, shipping, and dealing with failures. Google and A
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by brador 11y ago
It's his name on the door. The buck stops there. (And he's driving the culture.)
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by brador 11y ago
Satya has made some huge changes, and they're moving, but it's a beast of a company to push. Win 10 still has a chance to hit a home run and make his name, but only if hard decisions are made. That 6.63% market share could be eas
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by brador 11y ago
Fog creek is nice, but you're working on small localized projects compared to Amazons scale and breadth. Amazon employees are pushed hard, and that's their key to shipping innovation. Look at Googles cuddle farm - Lots of innovati
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by brador 11y ago
I say: Bezos is the #1 CEO in Tech right now. Amazon takes risks, and ships innovative products and services every month. Their risk taking is relentless and they take failure in their stride. They "get" how to do push. No oth
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by brador 11y ago
> No, we've been trained by centuries of experience that the concentration of power invites abuse. And this is what tech can solve. We could be "ruled" by adaptive algorithms we collectively vote on. If a better algo is
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by brador 11y ago
Like minded people get together and decide to make them happen, just like any multi-user change. Do we really need or want central planning like we have now? With tech we could solve many of our problems, instead we sit here calling them &
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by brador 11y ago
What if they didn't exist, would Japanese society be better? It looks like all the good points they have could be replaced by local community initiatives and collective planning. Imagine a society free of aggressive and predatory crim
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by brador 11y ago
Because an average courier drops 180 parcels a day. Now add customer preferences and you have a mess that can't be satisfied because everyone wants their parcel 5-7pm.
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by brador 11y ago
This is the Groupon/Kickstarter/Ebay problem. Everything is awesome until something goes wrong. Then the user leaves forever, and tells their friends. Trust is broken. Eventually the loses mount and the company crumbles from ba
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by brador 11y ago
Transformative works is a bandaid because we have no better solution to apportion how much value each party brings to the table.
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by brador 11y ago
The final product would not exist with either part missing.
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SWF source code from the Imgur hack
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by brador 11y ago
That was the cash, excluding equity.
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by brador 11y ago
You conveniently missed ad revenue. 4chan has around 650m pageviews a month. At $0.25/1000 that's a few million a year. And I didn't say he was lying, I said I don't believe him.
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by brador 11y ago
> According to the guy who ran the site. Do you see the problem?
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by brador 11y ago
He was sole founder, but allegedly had shadow investors. Sale/takeover - Similar sites that sold, Reddit, myspace ($35m), Digg. 4chans value to particular buyers, potential with a pivot/reculture. It's a smoking hot site fo

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