dtien

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SF Is Fighting the Scooter Trend with Poop and Vandalism(motherboard.vice.com)
24 points by dtien 8y ago|16 comments
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by dtien 8y ago
As a developer and business owner, there are some interesting lessons to be gleaned from this story: 1) long time incumbent has its lunch eaten by exciting new product 2) publicizing a release date to hold the product and team to a fixed
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'PUBG' developer plans three month sprint to 'fix the game'(engadget.com)
1 points by dtien 8y ago|3 comments
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by dtien 8y ago
So this is an effort led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, which in itself is noteworthy, but then to claim a $1 Billion "seed" round is eye opening. I'm highly skeptical with G090's failure ( which is mentioned in
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New startup aiming to be the Netflix for mobile content closes $1B in funding(variety.com)
1 points by dtien 8y ago|1 comments
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Instapaper relaunches its premium subscription service(techcrunch.com)
1 points by dtien 8y ago|0 comments
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'McRefugees' on the Rise Amid Summer Heat(npr.org)
1 points by dtien 8y ago|0 comments
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Facebook, Apple and Spotify Ban Infowars' Alex Jones(theguardian.com)
3 points by dtien 8y ago|0 comments
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by dtien 8y ago
The cultural element in Japan of post WW2 salarymen and their stature in society definitely lends a unique point to this story. But in a more general case, with the aging population in the US and the around the world, with a large majority
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by dtien 8y ago
themeforest actually has themes that have all those elements you say are missing, I think you might just not be searching or filtering properly.
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Startup to rent middle-aged men in Japan(cnn.com)
3 points by dtien 8y ago|1 comments
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Jeff Bezos’s $150B Fortune Is a Policy Failure(theatlantic.com)
12 points by dtien 8y ago|4 comments
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by dtien 8y ago
900%!!! I stand corrected. Definitely the more I'm reading the more these new models are predatory rather than assistive like the Kiva model.
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by dtien 8y ago
So according to that accaglobal.com article that I linked ( focused on Chinese P2P industry ): Why are they borrowing: 51%: to accumulate credit worthiness 20%: meet basic needs 9%: fund major purchases of consumer durables So seems to
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by dtien 8y ago
Posted this because having heard of P2P lending before, I had no idea that it had grown to such a large ( scale and scope ) industry. The most recent exposure I've had to P2P lending or microloans is probably Kiva's more charitab
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China's Peer-To-Peer Lenders Are Falling Like Dominoes as Panic Spreads(bloomberg.com)
223 points by dtien 8y ago|139 comments
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Instagram makes immediate changes to API ( April 2018 )(instagram.com)
4 points by dtien 9y ago|0 comments
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by dtien 9y ago
Curious, where are you buying real rubies from at that quantity. A quick google search returned about 10 different places, but they look more like the jewelry quality level.
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Next platform – calendar apps?(amp.poynter.org)
1 points by dtien 9y ago|0 comments
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Instagram Graph API Launches and Instagram API Platform Deprecation(developers.facebook.com)
13 points by dtien 9y ago|0 comments
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by dtien 9y ago
Oh I disagree wholeheartedly. We're in the sh*tshow we are today not because of a lack of ideologies: Libertarian, Conservative, Liberal, Progressive, Evangelical, Green, and on and on... So clearly, there's no lack of 'con
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by dtien 9y ago
>It is not acceptable to pursue that agenda by ignoring expert answers to technical questions, regardless of party affiliation Your entire premise can be rebutted with the policies around climate change. If something as catastrophic and
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by dtien 9y ago
For those wondering how and why the wealthy can acquire these types of clearly stolen property, theres a great report with associated podcast dicing into all the machinations and legal wranglings surrounding a piece of art that was stolen b
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by dtien 9y ago
I thought you were just bs'ing at first but then.... wow: http://www.npr.org/2017/06/12/532557101/want-more-instagram-...
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by dtien 9y ago
I actually came to the thread expecting a lot of AirBnB hate, but didn't expect ALL of it focused on them. I've used AirBnB many times around the world as a traveller, and have had generally good to great experiences. But I can
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by dtien 9y ago
I interpreted that as them including their salaries, and not actual on-going server, marketing, advertising costs, etc.
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by dtien 9y ago
Was on the front page for a brief moment is how I actually discovered it and the link. Gone after I finished reading it, doesn't show as 'flagged' yet but it's definitely been removed cause I can't find it in the t
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by dtien 9y ago
Not myself, but a friend: Making an snes emulator in an HDMI dongle form factor with wireless controllers. SNES on your main TV system, switch TV inputs, play Super Mario Kart. No hookups, no wires.
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by dtien 9y ago
So the base subscription is free? And they're just paying when new leads are generated? From the payment provider's point of view, you essentially have a free subscription with misc charges each month. So using Stripe, you would
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by dtien 9y ago
True, though I find I don't need that 'while you were away' concept with my Lists because it's filtered to exactly the people I want to hear from. Which means, I don't get as much ( if any ) fluff in Tweets that you

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