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by dpiers 8y ago
This is intentional, and conserves a considerable amount of battery power. Bird specifically instructs riders to kick push twice when starting from a stop. Accelerating eats up significantly more energy than maintaining speed.
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by dpiers 8y ago
I can't comment on Uber's financials or accounting practices, but I can add some context on the author linked: Hubert Horan has published numerous articles with very negative outlooks on Uber over the last few years. A good exampl
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by dpiers 8y ago
Uber grew net revenue from 2017Q1 to 2018Q1 by 67% to $2.5 billion, which is unprecedented at that scale, and did it while significantly reducing losses. Uber is either the dominant player, or has a stake in the dominant player, in every ri
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by dpiers 8y ago
Yes, because people are known for diligently reading fine print. /s Cadillac has an eye-tracking system that deactivates the self-driving features if you aren't watching the road, and their system is limited to specific highways t
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by dpiers 8y ago
Not if it destroys the credibility of a rival coin, which I suspect could be the case here. Many in the "real Bitcoin" community call Bitcoin Cash a fraud because its existence reveals the specious value of their "real"
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by dpiers 8y ago
It does, but this prevents your system from being irreversibly updated by accident. I remember removing R6T3[1] on my Xbox 360 so that it wouldn't accidentally be updated to a non-homebrew/exploitable version. Without the resistor
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by dpiers 8y ago
I am eagerly awaiting the third act in this saga, where it is revealed that the whole exit scam/"PR stunt" was a misdirection and the real scam is uncovered.
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by dpiers 8y ago
Also, this is functionally equivalent to auto-selling RSUs and immediately repurchasing shares with the proceeds, from a tax perspective. RSUs should literally be treated like cash bonuses for public company employees - you should only keep
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by dpiers 9y ago
One scooter could easily have 5-10 trips per day. At $2/trip, the payback period on a $400 scooter is 20-40 days. The economics here (and with dockless bikes) are quite impressive, which is why billions of dollars has been dumped into
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Airbnb CFO Departs Amid Tensions, Leaving IPO Timeline Unclear(bloomberg.com)
104 points by dpiers 9y ago|60 comments
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by dpiers 9y ago
I believe they're mistaken - 500k/1MM are the new exemption phaseout points.
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by dpiers 9y ago
I did, too - not sure if you’d remember me, but I used to go by Zanzang. I went from modding games to programming them, then from the game industry to startups. Funny how 10 (plus?) years later we’d run into each other on a different site.
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by dpiers 9y ago
Unrelated - did you used to frequent a Halo tricking forum called HIH?
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by dpiers 9y ago
I have worked at Uber for 4 years, but I spent the first 22 years of my life as a resident of Lewisville. It’s been amazing watching the transformation from when I first started (No cars available) to now (ETA ~5 min) around my parents’ hou
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by dpiers 9y ago
Close up, they always look like landscape...
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by dpiers 9y ago
Correct, but the article specifically referred to securities as zero-sum transfers. A security is linked to something that has value, and exchanging the security doesn’t alter the value of what the security is linked to.
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by dpiers 9y ago
"Please invest responsibly" - coming from the company that lets people buy cryptocurrency with credit cards. This blog post reads like an attempt to preempt a lawsuit after the price of BTC crashes and people are stuck with rapidl
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by dpiers 9y ago
Bitcoin came out in January 2009, and the first iPhone came out in June 2007. Other than that minor detail, I generally agree with your comment.
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by dpiers 9y ago
Vince, it sounds like things have come a long way since we had coffee back in May 2013. Congrats on sticking with it and building a decent business.
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by dpiers 9y ago
I believe the intention is the former; the Code of Hammurabi is one of the oldest known sets of written laws, and almost half of it deals with contracts.
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by dpiers 9y ago
How is bitcoin useful? Other coins do exactly the same thing with faster transactions, more anonymity, and lower fees.
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by dpiers 9y ago
Wow, spam works. No wonder it’s so popular. /s
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by dpiers 9y ago
| Both of these Papers were revealed by an organization with the cumbersome name of The International Consortium of Independent Journals (ICIJ) — a group in need of a new name and a publicity agent International Consortium of Investigative
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by dpiers 9y ago
Bankruptcy is for settling debts, not judging whether someone's actions led to your financial losses. In this case, the amount of the debt was determined by the value at the time the bankruptcy trustee took control of Mt. Gox's as
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by dpiers 9y ago
Most companies move to RSUs by the time typical employees would hit the exercise cap.
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by dpiers 9y ago
ISOs are priced at the 409a value, which can be 1/10th of the preferred share price. Generally speaking, the 409a value converges with the preferred price as the company is de-risked and moves closer to IPO.
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by dpiers 9y ago
My understanding is that your computer computes the answer to a difficult calculation ahead of time and stores the output up to a specified size (ex. 1GB worth of digits of pi) . Proof-of-Space asks you to respond with a segment of the outp
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by dpiers 9y ago
I am going to write a letter to the City of Anaheim to inform them I am willing to pay double, maybe even triple, to lease their garage property.
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by dpiers 9y ago
Your vehicle and face are recorded by half a dozen cameras on the self-driving car and uploaded to the local police department for the accident report.
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by dpiers 9y ago
The phrasing is confusing, but I think it means the boy knew he would be late if he helped, and the consequences of being late, but chose to act anyway.

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