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by dpiers 7y ago
Harriette Kollman went to work for Boeing while her husband was fighting in World War II. She would later go on to become their first female computer programmer. Unfortunately I don’t know more about her achievements in the field. I know th
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by dpiers 7y ago
When I started at Uber back in early 2014, I didn't negotiate the offer at all. It seemed reasonable, so I accepted. Maybe I could have gotten more - but accepting has been, by far, the best decision of my career. A couple of years ago
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by dpiers 7y ago
Donnie Darko’s release in October 2001 was very quiet after they pulled all advertising because a plane crash plays a prominent role in the plot.
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by dpiers 7y ago
The interesting thing about white collar fraud is that it rarely goes reported, and there are little repercussions unless it does. Companies care less about protecting other companies from harm than the risk of exposing themselves to claims
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by dpiers 7y ago
I'd also argue that property taxes are a regressive form of wealth tax. For the average homeowner with a mortgage, they are taxed on an amount largely tied to the size of the mortgage and not their wealth. Also, most homeowner's p
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by dpiers 7y ago
I'm relatively paranoid when it comes to privacy and also did 23andMe for similar reasons. I stopped thinking of my DNA as a secret when I realized how impossible it is to keep other people from having access to it. Once someone knows
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Baubap (500 Startups Latam) Microlending App Stole 33M SMS from Users(twitter.com)
3 points by dpiers 7y ago|0 comments
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by dpiers 7y ago
That’s not exactly how it works. The primary function of surge isn’t to redistribute a fixed pool of drivers - it’s to incentivize additional drivers to go online in an area with excess demand. For example, it used to be that surge would sp
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by dpiers 7y ago
Waymo designs and builds their own LIDAR units. As of almost 3 years ago, estimated costs per unit had fallen to $5,000. https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/06/waymo-to-start-selling-sta...
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by dpiers 7y ago
From the proposal: “drivers would earn a minimum of approximately $21 per hour while on a trip, including the costs of their average expenses.”
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by dpiers 7y ago
Except Toptal is a “startup” that took $1.5mm in seed funding from investors like Andreesen Horowitz and promised employees equity.
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by dpiers 7y ago
If the chain were public, individuals could look up their vote by the hash but would have no way of proving the hash was their vote.
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by dpiers 8y ago
To be fair, he directed people to a >500 page book on the subject as a good introduction to some of these ideas. Do you expect him to effectively summarize a massive text in a single HN comment?
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by dpiers 8y ago
Part of it is the waitstaff avoiding tax on tips, the other part is that it allows the business to avoid payroll tax on the majority of waitstaff's earnings. In order to get a waiter to an effective $10/hr after-tax income you&#x2
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Lime Accuses San Francisco of Scooter Discrimination(bloomberg.com)
2 points by dpiers 8y ago|1 comments
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by dpiers 8y ago
Palmer left Facebook/Oculus last March.
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by dpiers 8y ago
And then those hefty taxes will be passed on in the form of rent. The non-resident never ends up on the hook.
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by dpiers 8y ago
I can only think of a couple occasions in my professional career where recursion made more sense than iteration. Both involved traversing trees with unknown depths (parsing XML and scanning a file system). That hasn't stopped it from s
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by dpiers 8y ago
Sorry - when you said it altered your financial trajectory I assumed that to mean it represented a majority of your net assets. I'm in the process of diversifying a very concentrated portfolio (a year ago >95% of my net worth was in
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by dpiers 8y ago
Investing that large of a percentage of one's portfolio in any single company is extremely risky; even if it is a large, publicly traded giant like Microsoft or Amazon. In order for the investment to be successful, not only does the co
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by dpiers 8y ago
You are correct in saying Tesla is neither a Ponzi nor pyramid/MLM scheme, but you have erred in your distinction between the two. A Ponzi scheme purports to have some amazing business opportunity, but secretly pays returns using money
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by dpiers 8y ago
The wording is a bit confusing, but I believe they are saying that it would take that long to catch up to Buffett's current wealth. If you assume his assets continue to grow at the same pace as yours, you will never catch up.
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by dpiers 8y ago
No, they are owned and operated by Motivate. Citi has, essentially, bought ad placement - similar to putting your name on a sports arena.
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by dpiers 8y ago
The NFL has aggressively litigated uses of their trademarks, to the point where you might technically be allowed to do something, but realistically it isn’t worth the trouble. https://www.thedsmgroup.com/super-bowl-trademark
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by dpiers 8y ago
Terms like “Super Bowl” and “World Series” are trademarked, so advertisers use phrases like “the Big Game” or “baseball final championship series”, in this case, to avoid a lawsuit.
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by dpiers 8y ago
Jet.com hit it faster. As did APUS Group and Rong360. Article is based on a false premise.
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by dpiers 8y ago
Why are you on this site if you don’t believe in early stage investing?
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by dpiers 8y ago
They have a network of independent contractors (regular people) that collect scooters off the street at night, charge them, and reposition/place them in the morning. The companies that win in the dockless electric space will be the one
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by dpiers 8y ago
Brushless DC motor and lithium battery advancements are the primary tech enabling these devices, and both are commoditized. The winners in this market will be the people who can best externalize the cost of repositioning, charging, and stor
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by dpiers 8y ago
The Xiaomi M365 scooters everyone is using were released Dec 15th, 2016. Bird started working on rigging them for rentals less than 6 months later and launched in August 2017. If you have been following the developments in personal electric

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