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by facethrowaway 6y ago
This letter is clearly written with dumb, naive retail investors in mind. Anyone familiar with Palantir’s history knows that their first headquarters was a building they took over from Facebook. The two companies are intertwined in many, ma
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by facethrowaway 6y ago
Best investments of the 21st century: 1. Peter Thiel, Facebook, $500k 2. Peter Thiel, Donald Trump, $1m No matter who wins the next election, Thiel and his buddies are guaranteed more contracts. Welcome to the new American plutocracy!
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by facethrowaway 6y ago
Yes. Since he is the Roger Stone of the PayPal Mafia, he’s not going to go away anytime soon.
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by facethrowaway 6y ago
Reminder to those who aren’t aware: Quora is a rich man’s hobby business. You aren’t going to get practical knowledge from their decisions.
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
What do they look like! How do they function? How did they retool to make them so quickly? How do they compare to normal ventilators? What’s the UI on their control panels? This sounds like a fairy tale to me, with the governor covering for
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
How is this some sort of prescient statement? There have been movies made about this exact issue for decades. On a societal level, it is a bug marked WONTFIX similar to preparing for asteroid impact, the next Big One in SF (come on guys, we
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
For reference, someone might want to post a chart of the gains the markets have made in the past 5 years. I would hardly call this a crash.
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
There’s a VC firm that already uses this model with their billion-dollar investments. It’s called Benchmark. Several of their former portfolio company founders can tell you all about how it’s worked out for them.
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
They didn’t actually have $300m, it was a commitment based on milestones that weren’t met.
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
Until the richest YouTuber isn’t an adolescent set up to prey on his peers with unboxing videos, these measures are all half-hearted attempts at keeping the cash flowing. More regulation is probably needed.
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
This is pretty tame and actually sounds pretty pragmatic and well-organized in a non-threatening manner, especially given the target audience (kids). Moderating for different countries’ rules is a requirement unless you want to get kicked o
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
This seems strikingly similar to Travis Kalanick being paid to leave Uber. Is Benchmark involved?
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
> Mr Gates had made a $2m donation to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s prestigious Media Lab at Epstein’s behest. > “Although Epstein pursued Gates aggressively, Gates had absolutely no business partnership or personal frie
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
I am guessing this would lead to solar system-scale destruction? Putting a base on Mars doesn’t seem like it would do much to counter such an event if it headed our way?
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
Well, that’s one way to kill your credibility quickly. Even if it was innocent, they should have anticipated that someone would have found this and inferred otherwise, and preemptively disclosed it. This is public key encryption software, n
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
GoodRx has well-connected Silicon Valley founders and a good PR team. We now see lots of this sort of submarine PR from tech companies. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
> Employees will have an option to see a health provider via a mobile app or website, and they can text a nurse on any health topic in minutes. If an employee needs follow-up care, Amazon Care can arrange for a nurse to pay a visit at ho
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
Sometimes I forget that this is a community full of engineers, many of whom have poor social skills. Invest less time in apps and more time in trying to understand your kids.
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
Do you ever read the New York Times? He’s on the board. He’s also connected to half of SV. Check his Flickr account for the portraits.
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
Once you read the Epstein interview with the New York Times writer, you start to understand that there’s probably more of these “unconventional thinkers” in tech connected to Epstein and his behavior than we are ever going to find out. The
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
It’s a giant political dodge that has nothing to do with the underlying issues. You want to know what’s the real cancer, the real drug these dealers don’t want you regulating? The NOTIFICATIONS. That’s something everyone on the inside knows
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
Sites using the like button are dumb to begin with, especially if they are in e-commerce. You’re handing your competitors an ability to do lookalike targeting of your customers via Facebook ads. This is one of the biggest advantages of that
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
Bravo to Chris. We need to see more of this. Of all the FB lottery winners, the one who should be doing the most and avoids all negative press is Dustin Moskovitz. He votes his super voting shares whatever way Mark Zuckberberg wants, keepin
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
You just cited a newspaper owned by one of the richest members of the Communist Party. Not exactly an unbiased news source. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46353767
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by facethrowaway 7y ago
They were funded almost entirely by Sam Lessin, the husband of the founder, and his Facebook money. There is a massive conflict of interest there which they can conveniently avoid disclosing because it’s all arms-length. I was surprised nob