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by doh 6y ago
Pex | Multiple positions | REMOTE (US and EU), FULL-TIME | https://jobs.lever.co/pex Pex is building VISA for digital rights. Our Attribution Engine ( https://pex.com/attribution-engine.html ) is being deploy
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by doh 6y ago
>Towards anybody, there is no possibility of the police being called on you while strolling through any random neighborhood and no possibility of that escalating into danger if they were I attribute this to gun ownership. Police in most
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by doh 6y ago
I hear you. This is where my white ass gets the benefits. I hope that I will see a time where it is not considered a privilege for anyone but white folks like me.
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by doh 6y ago
I heard this from other friends of color that describe strikingly different experience while visiting or living in Europe. I grew up in Slovakia which as non-diverse as it gets. The country is quite racist, but in a very different way than
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by doh 6y ago
I understand this approach and I bet it works, but there is just something about giving to the zeitgeist is what makes me queasy. I actually was told early on by one of the top VCs to find Stanford grad co-founder and they will invest with
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by doh 6y ago
That's very disturbing. I never thought I will consider myself lucky after what I went through.
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by doh 6y ago
I hear you. I seen worse unfortunately. Especially when founders are not white men (like myself). The way that some of my female founders friends were treated was orders of magnitude worse (if that's even possible). One friend wrote ab
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by doh 6y ago
Unfortunately this is a multibillion dollar company. I'm pretty sure they didn't even flinch. The only negative thing to them I know of is that one of the top US law firms dropped them because of this. They felt that this was very
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by doh 6y ago
You know, I think that was the plan. We were in such a dire financial situation that I believe they were planning to come back with just that. (I say this mostly because these guys were strategics rather than a traditional VC). However my h
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by doh 6y ago
Thanks for the nudge. I keep forgetting the markdown here is different
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I believe this was meant as a sarcasm, but in a chance that it wasn't here are some extreme cases (these are all different investors): - they asked me to pay for attendance in their seminar that will teach me how to raise money before
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by doh 6y ago
That's a good point. Essentially YC is a guard dog for the Bay Area. If you want to get in, then there is no better organization to help you out, keep the deals clean and founder abuse low.
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by doh 6y ago
YC is a fantastic shortcut to the Bay Area market. They protect you from abusive investors, attract talent and entice new customers. Farther you are from the Bay Area, less helpful they are though. Even in the Bay you can do it all by yours
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by doh 6y ago
Earlier this year we established 16 week parental leave (all types of parents). For a small company like ours, this is not an easy decision, but I believe it will eventually pay off in the long run. I'm originally from Europe and moved
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by doh 6y ago
>Pex fingerprints of videos are not the same. We also download the content to our servers. We analyze it, hence the fingerprint, and then delete the content. So yes, it's not apples to apples, but it works very similarly. >They h
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by doh 6y ago
>But calculating the fingerprints of the videos rather than store on disk and serve all the exabytes video means you're still at a fundamental _information_ disadvantage. >You already know the following but I'll spell it out
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by doh 6y ago
There is no business there. Plus it's not just YouTube. The UGC world is significantly bigger than YouTube.
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by doh 6y ago
You bring some interesting points, but you are off the mark on what's the true challenge. We [0] actually indexed "all" content on YouTube and dozens of other platforms. Not just metadata, but the videos. We could easily run
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by doh 6y ago
We have very standardized process at Pex ( https://pex.com ). It's not perfect and we are always trying to improve it, but it works quite well at this point. First couple of rules: - quick turnaround. We want to give an answe
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by doh 6y ago
I know many believe that this is mess is the result of the existing Copyright laws but I disagree. We are in times of change, where Wild Wild West is getting rules and enforcement. It's a painful situation for most, because the rules a
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by doh 6y ago
Sorry for the confusion. I meant a person that brings a lot of subscribers to the platform ergo generating them the revenue
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I scrapped Patreon earlier [0] this year to find out how big the platform actually is and what's the composition of its users. I was very surprised to see that it's a truly mom & pop platform with very few whales. [0] https:&
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by doh 6y ago
Pex | Multiple positions | REMOTE (US and EU), FULL-TIME | https://angel.co/pexeso/jobs Pex is building VISA for digital rights. Our Attribution Engine ( https://pex.com/attribution-engine.html ) is bein
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by doh 6y ago
Can you talk more about the specific? What kind of parsers did you guys use? How about storage? How often did you update pages?
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by doh 6y ago
There is an old saying that people respond to greed or fear. In fundraising, the greed is price, the fear is control. When I fundraise, I start with the greed so investors optimize for it. Right before we hit an understanding (pre/post
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by doh 6y ago
Yes please
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Pex | Multiple positions | REMOTE (US and EU), FULL-TIME | https://angel.co/pexeso/jobs Pex is building VISA for digital rights. Our Attribution Engine ( https://pex.com/attribution-engine.html ) is bein
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by doh 6y ago
California has requirements that developers have to designate certain units for low income. However, for larger developments, they found a loophole, where multiple developers pool all of these units and put them in a separate building. I th
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by doh 6y ago
I'm all for UBI. However the cash UBI suffers from significant flow, where the surplus is captured by landlords. That means if everyone gets $1,000/month, then the rents go up by the same amount, which pushes prices of real estate
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by doh 6y ago
Here is what I believe it's the cause. 1) More than a half of assets are now passive [0] 2) People with some money are bored at home and with no sports, they moved their betting to stocks [1] 3) Most trading is now hugely amplified by

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