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by exogeny 4y ago
It's amazing that sports betting is legalized almost everywhere in the US, and legitimate skill-based games like BigBrain, PlayVS, and others aren't. Sports betting is the ultimate second-person game; no individual bettor is the o
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by exogeny 4y ago
I have a few friends who knew him (and Caroline) at Jane Street; their recollections are nothing like this garbage puff piece. Sequoia should be beyond embarrassed. Yes, their fund is way up. But they did next to zero actual diligence here,
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by exogeny 4y ago
When has anyone ever thought of Jason Calacanis as a savvy operator?
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by exogeny 4y ago
The demoscene is just the purest, coolest shit ever. Makes me wish I had grown up in Finland!
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by exogeny 4y ago
This is analogous to track and field or pro cycling, and it robs us of the ability to believe in the underdog. I don't know a single person who believes that Marcell Jacobs won the 100m dash in Tokyo legitimately, and that's a sad
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by exogeny 4y ago
I don't think "being repelled by stories of sexual assault" and "scolds" are the same thing.
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by exogeny 4y ago
Travis Kalanick? A poorly run, unethically operated business? Surely, Business Insider, you jest!
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Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchens: dirty kitchens in unsafe locations(businessinsider.com)
5 points by exogeny 4y ago|2 comments
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by exogeny 4y ago
YMMV, but a very large percentage of people I know who have claimed that SF/NYC isn't "friendly" enough to tech have, upon further elucidation, zero emotional intelligence around gentrification and almost universally thi
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by exogeny 4y ago
a16z in particular are on the leading edge of the get-equity-in-tokens-with-no-lockup and then immediately pump & dump scam. Step 1: Find literally any crypto project. Doesn't matter. Step 2: "Invest in it", and immediate
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by exogeny 4y ago
Definitely. I never would have thought that Anthony Michael Hall of all people would have put forth the definitive Bill Gates, but here we are.
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by exogeny 4y ago
That's so fucked. Straight up slave labor in almost all of the cases.
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by exogeny 4y ago
I don't think there's any "almost" about it. What's hilarious is that, in this context, "poor people" probably means millionaires.
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by exogeny 4y ago
For the tenth time in this thread, even if one agrees with that point of view, the issue isn't that Andreessen holds that view, it's that he's gone on record many, many times espousing the exact opposite of it. It's insa
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by exogeny 4y ago
Why does multi-family housing automatically mean the town will turn into a dump? Can you imagine no middle ground between the richest zip code in the most prosperous country on Earth, and a dump?
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by exogeny 4y ago
I don't think anyone really has much difficulty understanding his argument or why he's making it; the rank hypocrisy of his long-standing and consistent statements around building more housing is at issue.
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by exogeny 4y ago
I guess "it's time to build" doesn't refer to Atherton, more specifically anything that might take his property value down.
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Is Marc Andreessen a NIMBY?(twitter.com)
238 points by exogeny 4y ago|7 comments
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by exogeny 4y ago
Rabois is a founder and on the board of an unethical, scammy company? Surely you jest! He seems like such a great guy!
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by exogeny 4y ago
Fair, I'm definitely talking about the execution of the "dump VC on it and winner take all" strategy that would have only worked for Bird or Lime. Also, as a personal aside, I actually enjoy the product a lot. Whenever I visi
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by exogeny 4y ago
Normally I despise defending VCs, but: First, I think a lot of people fundamentally misunderstand the mandate of VCs. The firms themselves receive funding from limited partners, who are often very large pools like the California State Pensi
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by exogeny 4y ago
Mr. Rogers is one of the purest people to have ever walked this Earth. I used to infrequently run into him outside of WQED’s studios when walking to and from CMU’s campus and without fail, he’d have a huge smile on his face and tell me (as
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by exogeny 4y ago
I don’t think it’s particularly baffling to believe that potentially winning $600mm is attractive to a lot of people in a country where the top 1% control 15x the wealth as the bottom 50% in sum and where wages have stagnated to such a larg
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by exogeny 4y ago
Dreamhost has an interesting history. Not sure which came first, but they also ran a small design network called Newdream, which was similar to a lot of early Web 1.0 design zines/collectives like Swanky, lockjaw, and others. IIRC, New
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by exogeny 4y ago
Oh, poor Barstool! Who will defend them other than mediocre dudes who hate women?
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by exogeny 4y ago
It's such a dumb, nonsensical argument that I'm going to stop interacting with and instead simply laugh at you.
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by exogeny 4y ago
If you think that is justification enough for him to do what he did, then we're never going to agree.
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by exogeny 4y ago
Yes, SportsCenter's ratings are down because they try to emulate Deadspin. No other colluding factors in there, no, not at all! It's because they're all social justice-y and trying to tell me I can't shoot me guns!
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by exogeny 4y ago
The fact that you think Deadspin in particular was all about snark basically certifies to me that you have no idea what you're talking about.
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by exogeny 4y ago
Of course he is. He's a thin-skinned, self-hating hypocrite who uses his power inappropriately. This is the same Thiel who pals around with people who tell gay professors to "go die of AIDS". This is the same Thiel who fights

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