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by jld 8y ago
If there's a job where I just get to explore the wonder of Google Maps all day, I want it.
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by jld 8y ago
Via Bloomberg... "Terms of the loan are onerous. Investment firm Hudson Bay Capital Management can demand repayment of more than $3 million of the loan on Aug. 1, and the rest on Aug. 5. Proceeds from a planned stock sale must also be
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by jld 8y ago
Becoming movie payola was the way I thought they would go. They could be an avenue for studio to discount tickets to specific films without some of the problems of traditional couponing. This could either just drive buzz, or could allow stu
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by jld 8y ago
Totally agree on the USB-A models. On the other hand, my USB-C Yubikey only lasted a month in my pocket before the case fractured and flaked apart. Whatever plastic they encased it in was not up the job of being on keyring. Additionally the
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by jld 8y ago
While it's certainly possible, most people have their own ideas and problems they are already working on. Relationships and execution end up counting way more than ideas. On balance, if you have a great idea, you'll be better off
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by jld 8y ago
His sister is a federal judge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryanne_Trump_Barry
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by jld 8y ago
The merger is set to close next Monday. DOJ can file for a stay, but the judge warned them that would be unwise. I think the DOJ will just take it as a loss.
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by jld 8y ago
It is amazing to me that law enforcement's trigger for using deadly force so light that two teenagers arguing about a video game can get a third party killed across a state line.
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by jld 8y ago
In the case where the person on the other end isn't a native english speaker, (the calling a restaurant clip) why doesn't Google figure out what language they speak and speak it to them?
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by jld 8y ago
Say a user drops their phone in a desk drawer and goes on an 8 day hiking trip. He/she comes back and can't remember their passcode. Is the phone now a brick?
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by jld 8y ago
Nothing like fixing a bug by changing the spec.
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by jld 8y ago
"Live the circle. Feed the circle. Be the circle." Gavin Belson?
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by jld 8y ago
To tack on to this, why would investors want to own WeWork bonds vs equity in the company? In the case where bond holders do well, wouldn't shareholders do better? And in the bad scenario, with as many long term liabilities as WeWork h
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by jld 8y ago
I have found it to help. It's not a perfect solution, but I find part of the process of being less involved with my phone is acceptance of the fact that I might not be able to be able to address every need at every moment and that&#x27
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by jld 8y ago
I would love this to work with the same phone/carrier technology that allows Apple Watch LTE and iPhone share a phone number.
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by jld 8y ago
Thank you, this is interesting. Yeah, a fair point differenting the fall risk on playgrounds vs construction sites. It’s not apples to apples.
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by jld 8y ago
I am American and was in Denmark with an 18 month old toddler last year. We spent hours at many different Danish playgrounds. There was one interesting design paradigm I noticed that I think is reflective of a difference in parenting cultur
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by jld 8y ago
That's capitalism for you.
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by jld 8y ago
It's backloaded. 5% of the stock grant vests in year 1, 15% in year 2, and then 40% on year 3 and 4. The argument is that they have a demanding work culture which people want to leave after a year or two, but are then incentivized to s
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by jld 8y ago
Many (most? all?) newspapers have a firewall between ad sales and news/editorial. Since news and editoral on FB is pretty much the news feed, I think duplicating the newspaper model here might be something like so: One could split Face
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by jld 9y ago
I was really interested by how much of Robinhood's UI is designed like a game, versus offering a way to really research or analyze stocks.
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by jld 9y ago
It's not a perfect metric, but 86% of people accessing publicly-financed homelessness services in 2016 reported that their last residence was located in King County. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politi
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by jld 9y ago
Mozilla has ~$500M revenue/year. I don't think you'll find a alternate non-Apple/Google/Microsoft player with similar backing.
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by jld 9y ago
Google Maps is my pick for the coolest website on the internet. Truly a killer app.
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by jld 9y ago
Facebook jumped the shark when it switched from being a social network to being a news network.
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by jld 9y ago
I wish IFTTT were faster. Many recipes only seem to be run a few times a day. I've been concocting a bunch of things in AWS Lamdba lately which should be in a service like IFTTT.
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by jld 9y ago
I can't speak to the Dubai comparison, but Seattle is bringing 10,000 apartments online this year. http://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattles-re...
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by jld 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14304088
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by jld 10y ago
Congrats to the founders, early employees and to the VCs! Condolences to the rest of the employees as well as customers.
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by jld 10y ago
Apple's support page on USB-C power seems to be a sign that all is not well at Apple. > https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201700 You can verify that you're using the correct version of the Apple USB-

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