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by jjmorrison 5y ago
I've done MDMA assisted therapy and it's been completely life changing. It has the impact of doing a decade of therapy in a day. The lasting effect is not from the drug, it's from the ability to learn and understand so much m
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by jjmorrison 5y ago
Bots or not - that $25B is coming from somewhere. I'm most sad that so many smart humans are working on this of all the important problems in the world. Makes loads of money though, so won't change until incentives change.
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by jjmorrison 5y ago
True. They do seem quite obsessed with slurping more data. i wonder how much it would hurt them in the long term if they couldn't get more.
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by jjmorrison 5y ago
Not sure if the breakdown is exact but financials say $25B in ads, and $700M in "other"
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by jjmorrison 5y ago
> 8% YoY user growth and 46% YoY revenue growth Curious how well understood the mechanics are of this. I've been fascinated by how clever the whole model works. They know revenue growth needs to outpace their ability to increase ava
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by jjmorrison 6y ago
Yes - by several orders of magnitude.
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by jjmorrison 6y ago
If I read this correctly, the point being made is that Honda got approval to allow drivers not to look at the road when in a traffic jam, which makes it technically level 3 when the car is in a traffic jam? It's a bit of an overstateme
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by jjmorrison 6y ago
I agree - I don't know how it use to work, but today, Tesla's a pretty pushy about keep you alert. I can't imagine blaming my car for crashing when I'm using autopilot.
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by jjmorrison 6y ago
Plaid is still (for some unknown reason) the only company that is able to do real time ACH transactions that bypass credit card companies in the US. All other companies still require long verification processes or high transaction fees.
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by jjmorrison 6y ago
this is spot on
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by jjmorrison 6y ago
:O! That's what Quibi stands for??!
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by jjmorrison 6y ago
It wasn't necessarily all spent. The team likely made a decision to return the capital left if the traction really wasn't there.
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by jjmorrison 6y ago
Yeah... I was doing some quick math the other day. There's about 100M americans that make less than 50k year. We could've given over $20k to each one of them with this 2.3T bailout. I feel like that would've been a more impac
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by jjmorrison 6y ago
> I am upset at myself for hoping anyone in this process would act like a decent human being. I hear you that you were hoping these big institutions would do what was best for people and the country in a time like this and they didn&#x27
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by jjmorrison 7y ago
I suppose it's not a broadly discussed topic, but it's definitely a thing. HR or recruiting teams would speak best to it. But you can spot this pretty easily. A recent example is Uber. When you do a big lay off followed by acceler
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by jjmorrison 7y ago
I think I disagree with that. The labor pool isn't unlimited and there's laws in place to protect workers. Reading this article as someone that's worked in banking it seems unfair to treat this company a different way that al
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by jjmorrison 7y ago
You're right on that. I'm more reacting to this story where the complaining is not try to change things, but an attempted take down of the company. I disagree with the anger and sense of having been wronged that's portrayed i
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by jjmorrison 7y ago
This is the story of a young founder who is scared and trying her best at an impossible task. And young employees who believed they were allowed to get the job they wanted at the company they wanted. But that's not how the system works
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by jjmorrison 7y ago
So it's a fear that if we explore things that might not be true, we'll all accidentally believe it? For all our flaws, I think humanity deserves more credit than that :)
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by jjmorrison 7y ago
> There is no way to measure the consciousness (again, the experience of being) of something Right - that's the whole game this author is playing. One question that is so easily answered if you spend time observing is whether or not
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by jjmorrison 7y ago
> I think the idea exists already to some extent. It's almost as if we've always known the true nature of our consciousness, we just keep overlooking it :)
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by jjmorrison 7y ago
Thanks for putting this together! What a huge effort. Ignore all the haters here, they'll complain about anything.
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by jjmorrison 7y ago
Why so much dislike for this? It's a theory that pushes on some of the foundational assumptions we make. Maybe it resonates and maybe not. But just being open to a new set of ideas means we can maybe learn something new and interesting
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by jjmorrison 7y ago
I thought the article was not great. But the fact that she's changed her mind on the topic makes me like her a lot more. How can we learn more if we don't change our mind?
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by jjmorrison 7y ago
I don't read anything here that isn't par for the course when it comes to fundraising. This is how it works with all VCs. Money isn't in the bank until it's in the bank. I get the frustration that it wastes time, but for
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by jjmorrison 7y ago
So exciting to see. What does society look like when science starts investigating consciousness with a more eastern philosophy lens?
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by jjmorrison 7y ago
> Some people advised me not to go there because it would only do harm to my name and brand, but I think I should We need more people who are willing to try and solve problems, not just be critical. Thanks for being willing to have a con
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by jjmorrison 7y ago
We should totally create a bias toward minorities for things like speaking engagements. And also - that imbalance will always be there. It's so well documented at researched at this point that the imbalance is at least partially driv
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by jjmorrison 8y ago
Actually, the founder is french Canadian. "Sonder" is just french for "wondering" with a bit of an inquisitive connotation.
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by jjmorrison 8y ago
No - imagine if you had bought 100% of Apple shares for $1 at incorporation, and then sold 1 share for $207. That would make the market cap $1T and the total investment would be only $208. It's more that the investments into Apple + th

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