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by brentm 9y ago
I have trouble believing a significant amount of the population truly doesn't believe in climate change (I guess I'm a climate change denier denier /s). I think the problems lie mostly with the voting population not prioritiz
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But...If you want to do it very quickly and not deal with the quite dense ImageMagick docs this is way easier.
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Eh that seems a bit harsh. Wasn't Ferris in Uber's pre-seed or seed round? Plus he mentions Facebook, Shopify, Twitter and Alibaba on his AngelList. I'm pretty sure if you're one guy making $25-$100k bets and hit early o
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by brentm 9y ago
> I wish articles like this would start with "hey, i come from a place of extreme privilege, and assuming you're in the same boat, here's what i did and it worked out ok for me given the amount of resources i had to take t
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by brentm 10y ago
If you're spending much on advertising I would give Amex Platinum a look. They offer 3x points on one category per year and advertising is one of the options. The points add up fast and come in handy for flights.
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by brentm 10y ago
I don't think you can use PH to compare to any other deal, that was monkey business. No way in any world a message board that couldn't get beyond a niche audience, that (I think most would agree) was past it's prime, and had
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by brentm 10y ago
No way. A blog like IH is an internet business but it's still a small business and much closer to the suburban lawn car business you mention than something like Stripe. There is no big scale for something like IH in the future without
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by brentm 10y ago
My number are all over the place but according to WakaTime about 152 hours last month was spent in the IDE.
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by brentm 10y ago
The valuation difference between Uber & Lyft is staggering. Based only on brand recognition and valuation Lyft seems like the better investment today. Lyft's biggest risk is probably Uber's ability to withstand losses that wou
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by brentm 10y ago
> Trump administration’s proposed changes may mean travelers from countries including UK, France, Australia and Japan have to share digital information This is absolute garbage. Like everything rating machine DJT does this is hopefully o
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by brentm 10y ago
I haven't watched that much Gary Vee but from what I've seen he is at times informative & entertaining but mostly cringe worthy. He is a little too high on his own supply for me.
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by brentm 10y ago
Unrelated to the payment subject but it always blows my mind when companies not just copy a business model (which is fine and expected) but also more or less copy the identity along the way.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/powerwashingporn/
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by brentm 10y ago
> Why would investors be OK with losing power? Everything is ok while everything is ok. If the company was to run into trouble these restrictions would probably be another reason (in addition to the performance) for large investors to av
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by brentm 10y ago
Also quite expensive in terms of trailing sales multiple. > Twitter went public at valuation around 30x trailing year sales and 15x forward year sales. At $25 billion, Snap would be valued at a huge 62x trailing sales. > Assuming they
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by brentm 10y ago
Much greater losses than Twitter's S1. Snap's revenue is 27% higher but 548% greater net losses. Twitter s1: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312513...
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by brentm 10y ago
> A world without power because of damaged transformers would become economically stagnant Economic stagnation would probably be the least of our problems. The cascading issues from a world without power for an extended period of time ar
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by brentm 10y ago
> Not just that, the title is completely inaccurate. The most relevant part of the articles title, "OFFICIALS SAY" is absent. For what it's worth I copy & pasted the title from Wash Po at time of submission. I had to d
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Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity utility, officials say(washingtonpost.com)
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by brentm 10y ago
> Who needs a Twitter account aside from journalists and attention-seekers? Twitter is what you curate it to be. To me, Twitter is kind of the publishing platform Linked In was trying to build. Smart people posting interesting links (to
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by brentm 10y ago
I thought the public more or less rejected hang from the ear style Bluetooth earphones because they look awkward. I don't think making them white and giving you two is going to fix the perception. Although these may work much better th
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by brentm 10y ago
I just want to say these people do amazing work. It's truly been a pleasure to work with JS in 2016. Thank you to everyone working on Babel and the countless other great OSS projects. One of my goals for 2017 is to find a way to get in
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by brentm 10y ago
> Some basic UI changes could avoid all of that: e.g. instead of showing $123,456, show a range like $115,000-135,000 So true. When you know that you are not displaying an exact dollar amount you should not use exact dollar values. Exact
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by brentm 10y ago
I think that's being a little harsh. If you started something and A16Z offered you 7M you'd probably take it on the spot regardless of what it was you built. I'm sure when Ryan launched this thing he never thought it would be
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by brentm 10y ago
I have maintained the viewpoint for a while that if Uber's valuation is based on the inevitability of driverless cars and the reclaiming of that 80%+ revenue they are in trouble. Driverless cars even when the tech is ready will take ma
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by brentm 10y ago
If that is accurate and the number is based on 7 days of revenue at about $500 per day average this smells a lot like growth hacking nonsense.
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I'd say it is a net gain. The money went to pay the company that dug the hole who used the money to pay their contractors working on the project, equipment leases, gasoline, etc. It will also end up being mentioned on the various blog
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by brentm 10y ago
I would bet that unless you're a person who willfully hid large capital gains in bitcoin or faked some kind of large tax deductible expenses by purchase of Bitcoin you probably will have anything to worry about. If you are among those
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by brentm 10y ago
I noticed this on Sunday but it seemed par for the course for a Google news result. I wish they would use better signaling on any domain being returned as a news result. A domain registered less than a year ago with a link profile almost al
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by brentm 10y ago
It is a crazy time that we live in. We have a massive group of people that openly reject mainstream news and were lead there by the now President elect. Trump spent his entire campaign crafting an alternative reality and now millions of peo

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