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by flinty 10y ago
Weird, searching for ycombinator https://soundcloud.com/akharris this podcast comes up and not the one linked on soundcloud above
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by flinty 10y ago
Facebook makes most of its money on mobile ads which are not affected by ad blockers. So why make a big deal announcing efforts to block ad blockers? A smart company like Facebook doesn't make moves accidentally. This announcement is m
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by flinty 10y ago
The founder has a lot of ecommerce experience. Sold diapers.com for ~600 mill to amazon and had other similar ventures
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by flinty 10y ago
very similar to what spotify is for the google cloud
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by flinty 10y ago
What's a good resource to learn? Also what other than money can/should be negotiated?
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by flinty 10y ago
American Anti trust laws are present to protect consumers. European anti trust laws are present to protect competitors.
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by flinty 11y ago
Kim is easily in the top 3 writers ever at techcrunch
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by flinty 11y ago
What's a tactical map
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by flinty 11y ago
End of the day everything is competing for your time. So in a way facebook, snapchat, twitter, email, tv, radio, etc are all really competing to occupy whatever free time you have available when you are not sleeping. If the core joy provide
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by flinty 11y ago
straw-person /s
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by flinty 11y ago
Some people like climbing mount everest, others like giving speeches, others still like flying planes, driving fast cars. You have 5 fingers on your hand and they are all different sized. Expecting them to all be the same is imbecile.
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by flinty 11y ago
http://recode.net/2014/08/21/ycs-jessica-livingston-was-hit-... this is the article in question?
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by flinty 11y ago
100% agreed. I use it because I have to not because I want to. It literally messes up the command tab/command tilde behavior. This in addition to being a terrible interface overall and the general nuisance of notifications not being sy
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by flinty 11y ago
Same way with piracy. Most people who are pirating content weren't a potential customer in the first place.
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by flinty 11y ago
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/03/neolithic-culture-may...
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by flinty 11y ago
Payment isn't necessarily in cash. You pay with your time, commitment, interest, attention. If there is literally anything else you could be potentially doing but are spending time with a girl with the hope of getting sex out of it the
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by flinty 11y ago
Might have been an article around some match making service which took a bunch of girls from NY to SF to resolve this supply demand mismatch
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by flinty 11y ago
Any sources on this?
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by flinty 11y ago
fk, that is sickening :(.
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by flinty 11y ago
The article by Ben Thompson on Stratechery is a good one to go along with this one. https://stratechery.com/2015/why-web-pages-suck/
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by flinty 11y ago
The ad exchanges don't care for repeat viewers. Its purely a numbers game. More clicks more revenue.
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by flinty 11y ago
Don't think so. This is just a one location to easily use some of the things which have been around for a while on Google. In addition this is likely another move to appease the EC who have been making a lot of noise about Google searc
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by flinty 11y ago
>They then got complacent upon the business side and then ended up going in a panic as they used the share price as a indicator and not feedback of how things were going and with that had extra delays in seeing what was wrong. What does
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by flinty 11y ago
Inclusivity when it fits their narrative.
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by flinty 11y ago
Inspired a little bit by Aaron Swartz? http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/epiphany
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by flinty 11y ago
There was an awesome pipe which allowed you to get a rss feed of commentators you want to subscribe to. Sadly no more
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by flinty 11y ago
Can you recommend a starting point to building your own cms?
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by flinty 11y ago
How does the site find where the words are spoken?
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by flinty 11y ago
A display at the bus stop showing when the next 3-5 buses are going to stop approximately solves the problem
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by flinty 11y ago
Great points. The idea of having to switch companies to get any meaningful raise or using it as a threat is a misalignment of incentives that over the long term leads to bad culture

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