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by chrdlu 12y ago
I feel like cloud technology may be a contributing factor as well. At the same time, once Geoffrey Hinton used a deep neural network and participated in the ImageNet contest (2012: http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LS
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by chrdlu 12y ago
Great to see Luminal popping up on Hacker News! If you haven't heard of them before, this is their promotional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuSqtwYOUvo They are doing some very cool stuff in regards to automa
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by chrdlu 12y ago
Evan Spiegel's view of everything got leaked with the Sony Hack. Take it for what its worth: Fed has created abnormal market conditions by printing money and keeping interest rates low. Investors are looking for growth anywhere they ca
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by chrdlu 12y ago
I think thats a good move in the right direction, but the fact remains that startups are risky in general. Taxes + the exercise price of a slightly less risky startup (higher strike price) can unexpectedly add up to quite a bit of money for
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by chrdlu 12y ago
The 90 day exercise window for stock options really catches some non-finance employees off guard. They don't realize the high amount of tax and investment that has to be made for illiquid shares (which are still pretty risky for most s
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by chrdlu 12y ago
I completely agree with the more money chasing fewer companies idea. I think this interview with Marc Andreessen explains why there is more money for fewer companies: http://www.vox.com/2014/6/26/5837638/
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by chrdlu 12y ago
Hmm this is a very interesting point, but we would have to dive a bit deeper and acknowledge there are many different types of fiction. I would argue that certain types of fiction may actually be beneficiary such as To Kill a Mockingbird or
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by chrdlu 12y ago
Great map! I go to school in St. Louis and think that it really shows what the situation is like. Here is a map I just created: http://i.imgur.com/uz9Pbhx.jpg Red box - Forest Park (the big park in the middle of the city) G