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by dougSF70 4y ago
Spotify recommends me tracks that I have already added to my playlists. It knows me really well.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
He used $10bn of tesla stock to buy twitter (probably).
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by dougSF70 4y ago
He hasn't not given it away yet...and since most of it is tied up in illiquid stock (space x, twitter) and liquid stock (tesla) he probably can't do so easily. When you and me are billionaires we might have a different perspecti
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by dougSF70 4y ago
It's the tall poppy syndrome. Truth is, all we know about Elon is his public persona and he uses that to talk up his own book. Much like a16z invest in Adam Neumann's latest venture, not because they think it is a good idea but be
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Being fired isn't failing.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
He is ingeniously driving up engagement with Twitter by using Twitter itself. Many people want him to fail, expect him to fail, are willing him to fail. Past evidence of his failures had yet to be found.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Somewhat related, the bull run of the last decade has made it possible to run a fund and only have a 10% hit rate (absolute winners), compared to a 52% hit rate for hedge funds in the public markets. The net effect in VC must have been a se
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Seriously, its a paid for subscription service for small businesses...no need or desire to sell.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Thanks for letting me know, this was a boiler plate policy that we edited the bones of. I don't know how that crept in. We have no intention of selling this data or any other data, so I have amended the policy. Thank you.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Many people in the privacy space do not consider these requests to be legitimate because of the power of attorney granted to them is a moot. Furthermore, we are sent requests whether or not we have data on these subjects. So in both regards
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Somewhat relevant, but my firm was getting spammed by a provider called Surf Shark. Their emails were requesting removal of their "customers" data from our systems/DBs. We were getting hundreds of emails a day requesting remo
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by dougSF70 4y ago
I agree, it also provides a counterpoint to GPA scores. These scores are not standardized and are subject to school and school district policy.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
MIT admissions concluded that SAT scores were the least inequitable method for selecting students that would be successful at MIT.
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In theory yes, but layouts that require just filling in missing numbers are not puzzles. The layouts with missing numbers become puzzles when some thought must go into entry selection. The question is how many puzzles requiring logical dedu
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Then the maximum number of solveable puzzles must be the maximum number of unique grids...since you remove grid entries to make the puzzle and if you remove entries with the constraint that the puzzle remains solveable with a single solutio
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Ask HN: Lifting a Google Ads Account Suspension/ How?
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by dougSF70 4y ago
You would be surprised by just how many investors are looking for this type of surgery...many many people.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Missing a comma after 'is'
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by dougSF70 4y ago
I guess free speech that is proveably false is what is at stake here. Conspiracy theories are OK provided they are cannot be proven to be untrue.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
100% this
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Of course this view is ridiculous. It is like looking at one hand of black jack in a casino : "you mean you spent millions of dollars building a casino and you let that player win!" Sadly though we only get to see the non-portfol
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by dougSF70 4y ago
I will build you an $80k ARR business, I just need a $365mn down payment. If you want a business that loses $100mn a year, that will cost you a lot more - probably in the region of a $5bn down payment.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Exactly...most displays of AI are well trained circus animals...so far.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Time spent performing digital presenteeism tasks = time saved not commuting to office
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Exactly, a good hotel knows that location is just one part of the experience, service is the rest. Airbnb hosts can go rot in their own rent-seeking hell as far as i am concerned.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
I think this a feature of accounting practices. Mark down rent means you mark down the asset value of the building on your balance sheet. This reduces the value of your business which means loans secured against the business are in jeopardy
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by dougSF70 4y ago
The paragraph starting with the sentence "So why is an exchange rate peg a mistake? It’s not necessarily a bad thing — it can help create financial stability. But if you peg your exchange rate at a too-high level, you’re setting your c
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Exactly, perhaps if you could find the people who were aware of their own luck and the role it had played in their successes to date, they would be the people to back. This would rule out the inflated egos of Elizabeth Homes, Adam Neumann,
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by dougSF70 4y ago
As with earthquakes, successful start ups are notoriously hard to predict. We should be thankful that VC invest so "broadly". In the same vein, where a founder has previously worked should be viewed as just a luck indicator rather
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Except, weaker performers will stick around for severance and top performers will leave. If sufficient above average performers leave to avoid a layoff you are left with a weaker team. In this instance company doesnt get to chose, which it

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