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by exogeny 5y ago
I know he dropped out and certainly I'm biased as an alumnus, but that's exactly the kind of people I met in college at CMU. I like to think he, like I did, got a little bit of that spirit during many late, late nights in Wean Hal
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by exogeny 5y ago
I forget the name of the company, but many of the concessions at terminals in US airports are basically monopolies controlled by one company. They go a long way in obfuscating it through iPads, authentic-sounding fronts (ie: the Biergarten
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by exogeny 5y ago
Yes, the results do speak for themselves: an unprofitable company with a petulant, childish troll as a CEO. Just because you act like Steve Jobs doesn't mean that you are Steve Jobs. You can ask Adam Neumann about that.
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by exogeny 5y ago
No one, certainly not any club, is requiring young people to get the vaccine. They're simply saying, as you are, that they have freedom of choice and that choice is to deny unvaccinated patrons from entering. If you are for freedom of
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by exogeny 5y ago
It's also hilarious that he didn't even have the courage to say that under his actual account; he had to create a burner just to do it.
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by exogeny 5y ago
The amount of bad-faith conservative junk in OP’s posting history doesn’t really help the cause here.
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by exogeny 5y ago
Hi everyone! Nik here, I'm the founder and CEO. Happy to answer any questions anyone has.
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Show HN: BigBrain – DraftKings x HQ Trivia(playbigbrain.com)
2 points by exogeny 5y ago|1 comments
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BigBrain launches as a mash-up of DraftKings and HQ Trivia(venturebeat.com)
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by exogeny 5y ago
They did. Yahoo!’s DFS product is a dismal failure.
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by exogeny 5y ago
It's hard for me to think of anything less niche than "like being at Stanford" given the extreme, tech-focused, affluent, bourgeois-as-fuck description that implies. The average person doesn't want to spend hours listeni
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by exogeny 5y ago
There are a LOT of misspellings in that article, enough for me to have a really difficult time taking it seriously.
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by exogeny 5y ago
This is somewhat unrelated to the story, but I am happy and proud of the Post-Gazette for digging into this. The PG is my hometown newspaper -- although I haven't lived in Pittsburgh for fifteen years, it's still home -- and they
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by exogeny 5y ago
YC invested in a company called Balto that was easily the most absurdly weak idea/company I've seen pass through. It was basically a crappy free-to-play fantasy sports platform that was lightyears behind the incredibly well-establ
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by exogeny 6y ago
It’s very related. It’s hard to go and decide to start a company unless you’ve got the economics to do so, either in the form of available capital or a fall-back security blanket. Those things, in America, trend disproportionately White. Do
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by exogeny 6y ago
I must be missing something. Scott literally calls a study that links IQ and race "sophisticated" and calls Murray an "ally" in the study of the connection and the antecedent impact on social welfare. It's only when
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by exogeny 6y ago
In that specific example, I'd say it's shitty, yeah. I haven't seen too many cases of a founder getting that 15mm up front though. That's comically high for a sign-on and even in an earn-out scenario that's on the h
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by exogeny 6y ago
This is normal, and happens a bunch when founders over-raise. A somewhat canonical example is FanDuel selling for >$1B and the founders getting zero. As far as the motive/"is it right": I'm going to take a somewhat c
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by exogeny 6y ago
tl;dr: Yes. (Also that is one hell of a clickbait title.)
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by exogeny 6y ago
I don't know how not to make this a personal judgment, but I hate this shit with a passion. Edit: For the sake of clarity, what I hate is the amount in which influencers and social media impact the market.
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by exogeny 6y ago
Newdream is a great memory! The exploding of new media/design zines of in the late 1990s was really something. Newdream of course, but Lockjaw, K10K, Kiiroi, Newstoday, Uploading...man, that was a cool time. I loved that ethos. It just
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by exogeny 6y ago
Believe it or not, this is very similar to how we handled the guest list for our fraternity parties in the early/mid 2000s at CMU. Everyone who wanted to explicitly invite certain guests (we actually had to keep a fairly strict door fo
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by exogeny 6y ago
This is the first thought that I had too. Lots of good memories, although I was on the latter end of the era and mostly played around with heavily-modded Renegade and Iniquity boards.
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by exogeny 6y ago
Fair points. Thanks for the well-reasoned reply.
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by exogeny 6y ago
I have no idea why this is being downvoted, other than potentially because people don't want to hear it, admit it, or listen to minorities who have talked it ad infinitum. This is a great read on subject [0]. [0] https://www
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by exogeny 6y ago
I would posit that authoritarian tendencies and mindsets are very tightly correlated with the right in the US.
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by exogeny 6y ago
The US has a very difficult to problem to solve within the ranks of its police. They've become militarized to an extreme degree, which is in turn either moving their rank-and-file more to the right, or attracting those who are already
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by exogeny 6y ago
A lifetime ago, I worked for Yahoo! well after Google had won the war. That office was full of talented, thoughtful, and energetic PMs...and a middle-management layer so thick that nothing ever got done. You'd propose new ideas, new pr
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by exogeny 6y ago
You’re missing the point. The outcomes and upside are irrelevant, what is relevant is that Microsoft’s only strategy to attack was to give it away for free and bundle it, creating a profoundly unfair (and illegal) advantage that continues t
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by exogeny 6y ago
Rabois is a clown, an arrogant jerk who isn't worth taking seriously. Even if you ignore his multiple sexual harassment scandals, it's very clear that he's a hypocrite on this issue and therefore should not be taken seriously

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