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The Cost of Weddings in San Francisco: 1974 vs. 2017(buzzfeed.com)
1 points by fluxic 9y ago|0 comments
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by fluxic 9y ago
Library card!
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Transit app starts aggregating dockless bikes(medium.com)
1 points by fluxic 9y ago|0 comments
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by fluxic 9y ago
Historically, this is exactly what happened. I'm just saying—it's a morally repugnant thing to happen, and it shouldn't be any less morally repugnant whether it's an entitled capitalist techie kicking my grandfather out
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by fluxic 9y ago
Well many of the people displacing residents don't "own" the land either. They can just afford crazier rents. The distinction between whether someone is renting or owning has little bearing on where someone considers "ho
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by fluxic 9y ago
People have roots, man. If somebody would have tried to kick my Grand-x father off his homestead in Scotland, he'd have shoed them away with the blunt end of an axe. And yet when it's capitalism rather than war that displaces peop
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Transit raises another $5M from Accel to become a hub for public transportation(techcrunch.com)
2 points by fluxic 9y ago|0 comments
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by fluxic 10y ago
Montreal?
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by fluxic 10y ago
Update 1: > Travis Kalanick just sent out a company-wide email. It essentially says after Uber said it was naming a COO, Jones decided to leave. [0] https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/843586902817099777 Upda
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Uber president Jeff Jones is quitting(recode.net)
372 points by fluxic 10y ago|227 comments
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by fluxic 10y ago
[stupid comment, deleted]
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by fluxic 10y ago
> Using the Microsoft Corporation as his benchmark, Mr. Luttwak says that the new high-tech titans produce much capital but relatively few new jobs. The rich get richer, but those driven out of work by the computer revolution are forced
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by fluxic 10y ago
30-40% of people read to the end of the articles
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by fluxic 10y ago
Call me a pessimist, but as a content creator this piece came off as extremely out of touch. Yes: NYT is booming in subscriptions, and Patreon has carved out a nice little niche for supporting podcasters and YouTubers. But it's nowhere
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by fluxic 10y ago
While I think anti-capitalist communes are as hopeless as the author portrays, communes of likeminded individuals have been successful. Consider the Chelsea Hotel in NYC. In addition to being the cornerstone of NYC's art scene for 10
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by fluxic 10y ago
Can't recommend David Sylvester's interviews with Francis Bacon enough. Brilliant book, even if you're not a fan of the painter.
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Recap of Transit's crowdsourcing experiment in SF(medium.com)
2 points by fluxic 10y ago|0 comments
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by fluxic 10y ago
Lots of exceptions to the rule though. This startup just raised a massive (private) round: http://mashable.com/2017/02/02/hater-dating-app/
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by fluxic 10y ago
It's also industry parlance for when a startup hires a rival's employee, no? [0] http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/29/9634060/huawei-iphone-des... [1] https://techcrunch.com/2009&
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by fluxic 10y ago
Hey HN! I'm Joe. I'm a freelance copywriter and I'm often hired by startups (and their employees) to write better job descriptions, job ads, and cover letters. I imagined this as a fun tool to help early-stage startups get th
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Show HN: Poacher – Helping your startup poach their next hire(poacher.co)
2 points by fluxic 10y ago|4 comments
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by fluxic 10y ago
https://youtu.be/mJHvSp9AKYg?t=39
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Unsplash 5.0(medium.com)
1 points by fluxic 10y ago|0 comments
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by fluxic 10y ago
Fair point!
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by fluxic 10y ago
Current valuations: - Facebook: $350B - Twitter: $15.7B - Snapchat (projected): $20-25B - IAC (owns Tinder): $5.45B Interesting (and probably appropriate) that the market is pricing Snapchat closer to Twitter.
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Medium's in-house magazine “Matter” has shut down(twitter.com)
12 points by fluxic 10y ago|3 comments
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Hoosier(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by fluxic 10y ago|0 comments
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by fluxic 10y ago
Might have to start a slipper fund. Thank you!!!
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by fluxic 10y ago
I love you
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by fluxic 10y ago
HAHA! I'm going to get the world's softest, silkiest $4 pyjamas ;)

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