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by dpiers 9y ago
Impossible Foods' lab and tech is very impressive. It's like they are the company Hampton Creek pretends to be.
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by dpiers 9y ago
~13K USD
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by dpiers 9y ago
I am one of the 893 who reported a transaction in 2014. I mined ~6MM dogecoins and sold them when they were near their peak. I wonder if reporting the transaction makes it more or less likely for my records to be audited...
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by dpiers 9y ago
WebGL may be good enough if you are producing low-res visualizations/interfaces and using the rest of the CPU/GPU to crunch the simulation. Epic got the Unreal Engine running in-browser with WebGL and asm.js. The stuff Uber is doi
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by dpiers 9y ago
Possibly. Most FCPA enforcement actions involve third parties. The FCPA expressly prohibits corrupt payments made through third parties or intermediaries. The fact that a bribe is paid by a third party does not eliminate the potential for c
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by dpiers 9y ago
I doubt that's true. The entire point of the Manhattan Project was to create an atomic bomb before the Germans could make one. Everyone involved knew they were creating a weapon capable of an unprecedented level of destruction.
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by dpiers 9y ago
You shouldn't worry about the police as much as MVTRAC and Vigilant Solutions
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by dpiers 9y ago
Those are the recommendations of the report, not the report itself. Only a few people have seen the entire thing.
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by dpiers 9y ago
Travis is a very sympathetic figure to many employees. He has poured his life into the company, to the point the two were indistinguishable up until his resignation. Travis was Uber, and Uber was Travis. Benchmark's letter makes me won
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by dpiers 9y ago
Which is basically how Tesla started - toys for rich people funded RnD until they could scale and get their costs down.
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by dpiers 9y ago
Can we stop describing ICO raises in USD? They raised ethereum tokens (ETH). The value of those tokens is specious, as there is no liquidity for the volume of ETH raised. Based on current ETH/USD rates, the USD figure given translates
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by dpiers 9y ago
It may be very hard to create such a system, but it is extremely easy to copy it. Bitcoin is a proof-of-concept for a new technology, but that doesn't mean it has value. I used to work at BitTorrent, and the extreme popularity of the p
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by dpiers 9y ago
Except the 'people' that decided the dollar is worth something control the world's most powerful economy and military, and can throw you in prison or seize your assets if you break their laws. The people who decided bitcoin i
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by dpiers 9y ago
Under the Howey Test, a transaction is an investment contract if: - It is an investment of money - There is an expectation of profits from the investment - The investment of money is in a common enterprise - Any profit comes from the effort
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Government won't allow driverless cars on Indian roads(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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by dpiers 9y ago
Wow - this looks like it would be really useful for us, and fits perfectly with our existing processes. I am building out the data analytics function on the Internal Audit team at Uber, and one of our challenges is that we have to pull and
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by dpiers 9y ago
They keep the grill at different temperatures for breakfast vs lunch, which is why all day breakfast required kitchen renovations.
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by dpiers 9y ago
She didn't know what she was exposing, though - I don't think someone should get credit for accidentally doing something good while putting people's lives at risk.
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by dpiers 9y ago
How is Manning a hero? She released a trove of information without any regard for the sensitivity of the contents or the value in the document being made public. Snowden released specific facts and documents to reveal programs many believe
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by dpiers 9y ago
"3 pages available to preview" Man I hate Scribd. Why does anyone use it? No, I do not want to download your app to read a PDF, and I don't understand why CNBC published it through your service.
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by dpiers 9y ago
One of my favorite stories involving patching and security vulnerabilities comes from Jonathan Garrett at Insomniac Games: "Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal was an online title that shipped without the ability to patch either code or
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by dpiers 9y ago
I understand where you are coming from, but this is a bit like saying "the primary symptom of dyslexia is the belief others are better at reading". MRI studies have shown fundamental differences in the mental wiring in autistic br
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by dpiers 9y ago
Gilt Groupe and Fab both sold at significantly lower values than they had previously raised at, not sure if that counts as a "total collapse". I predict the next one will be Hampton Creek, given the criminal probe into their fraud
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by dpiers 9y ago
Yes, they raised $350MM at a $9 billion valuation, and Holmes was hailed as the next Silicon Valley wunderkind.
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by dpiers 10y ago
Lyft and Uber both have this functionality (enter a destination and get matched with someone on the way), and I believe it is capped at 2x per day.
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by dpiers 10y ago
I think the video of the "car" moving around the paper map shows a lot of the value. You can rapidly prototype UI elements, experiment with camera angles/motion, etc. Amsterdam's streets in particular would have numerous
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by dpiers 10y ago
Exceeding the posted speed limit isn't actually illegal in Texas. State law requires drivers to travel at a "reasonable and prudent" speed, and the posted limits serve as prima facie evidence that your speed may not be pruden
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by dpiers 10y ago
Funnily enough, I watched the Breaking Bad series finale with him at his house. I also confronted him about his spending 9 months before he was arrested, but he lied to me and I bought it because his story made more sense than "my frie
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by dpiers 10y ago
I'm a big fan of Boosted, but I wouldn't put them on a holiday gift buying guide. Shipments have been halted for a month due to a quality issue, and even if they fixed it today, the waitlist is so long there is no way you would re
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by dpiers 10y ago
| With the Sidekick, PalmOS, and then Material Design, Matías Duarte has been consistently at the forefront of mobile UI design. Agreed, but with a slight nitpick - Duarte was hired to lead development on Palm's webOS designs. PalmOS w

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