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by kenneth 6y ago
Alright then, for the sake of argument then how would you feel if there was a website named "wikipedo" where people take the normal photos of children posted on social media and aggregate them thusly with a vastly different intent
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by kenneth 6y ago
I don't see how taxing foreign income would work. A corporation would just spinoff foreign business to avoid it. If you tax those it'd just reincorporate offshore. The USA simply can't tax the foreign income of a foreign comp
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by kenneth 6y ago
One of my best investments is a company I turned down at demo day, but who pivoted a year later after running out of funds and finding a completely new product. I gave them their first post pivot angel check and they're well on their w
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by kenneth 6y ago
Not only that, but it also materially improves your business for many B2B startups given the network of companies who will do you a favor and sign up for your service during the program. It helps kickstart early traction.
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by kenneth 6y ago
Maybe it would help if they weren't all trying to raise at a 10-30M valuation when they're barely getting started. There's a lot of YC businesses I'd love to fund but where the economics are totally out of whack.
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by kenneth 6y ago
On Energeous, the science is sound in theory. In practice I don't believe the company will be able to execute; but transmitting power over RF is something we've understood for a long time (since Edison first demonstrated the techn
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by kenneth 6y ago
Selling 10% regardless of price is the logical and rational decision for any employee with a meaningful stake. If you have 6 or 7+ figure into the stock, slowly diversifying is the only sound thing to do, even if you still strongly believe
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by kenneth 6y ago
I was actually thinking that reading the article. You could build yourself a faraday cage around the house, and inside you have wifi and a femtocell. The issue comes when you have balconies / patios / laws that you want connectivi
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by kenneth 6y ago
The Suez Crisis's failure by the British and French had nothing to do with Egypt beating them militarily, and had everything to do with American pressure. One of the West's biggest strategic failures. The Israel, British, and Fren
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by kenneth 6y ago
The HK government is in no way any semblance of democratically elected. The majority power in all branches of government lies with Beijing appointees.
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by kenneth 6y ago
I have to deal with the police on an almost daily basis in the last couple years. They've gotten infinitely worse… they're unnecessarily aggressive, confrontational, and unreasonable. Everyone (almost) hates them here, with good r
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by kenneth 6y ago
Evergreen is one of the shipping companies from Taiwan. Incidentally, one of my favorite airlines EVA Air is their spinoff airline, based in Taipei (and far better than the flag carrier China Airlines)
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by kenneth 6y ago
I wonder if you'd be able to use a .local name and somehow get a proper signed certificate for it, which you embed into your local device. Alternatively (and this is pretty hacky, but should work), you get a full domain unique to your
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by kenneth 6y ago
That's why I wear a watch with simple ticks instead of numbers and no complications other than a simple day-of-the-month. I can't stand busy watch faces. https://www.omegawatches.com/media/catalog/product
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Apollo Caesars and Wall Street’s Billionaire Brawl for Control of Gaming Empire(institutionalinvestor.com)
1 points by kenneth 6y ago|0 comments
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by kenneth 6y ago
I want to use Nebula, but the UX there is such garbage (less reliable streams, no discovery/algo, no good movile/tx ux) it's really hard to get onboard, even if I'd prefer to.
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by kenneth 6y ago
That's a pretty common issues in VC. I run a more traditional seed stage firm and we have to deal with similar issues. It's not uncommon for the IRR in the first few years to be artificially low given we have to hold investments a
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by kenneth 6y ago
I strongly disagree with the premise that a founder should keep "internals" at arms length and run a process without them to avoid any pressure from internals to lead and somehow maximize terms. Your existing investors have a vest
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by kenneth 6y ago
Doesn't fix the problem of accidentally turning your video on when you meant to shut the call off. I've taken plenty of calls in places where it'd be more professional to keep the video off (especially when outside home)
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by kenneth 6y ago
A key difference is that Taiwan independence is a LOT more important to the US' strategic interests than who runs Syria. Taiwan independence matters to the USA in that it helps contain China. Syria, despite Russia's meddling, has
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by kenneth 6y ago
Being sexually active is a choice. Nothing's stopping you from going out there and meeting people. There's plenty going on if you're willing to step out of your house and meet people. (And no, swiping on apps doesn't cou
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by kenneth 6y ago
Not sure if it's a taste thing, but I don't find any single character on Sherlock to be particularly attractive, having just binged on the entirely of the show in the past two weeks.
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US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross Straits Invasion(scholars-stage.blogspot.com)
93 points by kenneth 6y ago|188 comments
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Book Banning in an Age of Amazon(abigailshrier.substack.com)
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Uber visionary’s crypto app raises $26M after fintech pivot(fortune.com)
4 points by kenneth 6y ago|0 comments
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by kenneth 6y ago
Step one of Farenheit 451? Science fiction has been quite good about warning us of the dangers of authoritarianism, censorship, and the thought police. One thing it didn't imagine is that we'd do it to ourselves without a central
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by kenneth 6y ago
How does "twin sisters" imply a rags to riches story? You seem to be implying that because the headline mentions the success of a female team in taking public a games studio making games for a female market, it somehow implies the
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by kenneth 6y ago
Norwegian is dropping the 737 MAX because they're practically bankrupt and are significantly downsizing. I wouldn't read too much into this — it's a business and marketing decision, not a safety decision.
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by kenneth 6y ago
That sounds miserable. Why would you do that to yourself? Is it purely cost?
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by kenneth 6y ago
We used to have that system on top of gold but we killed it a bit over 40 years ago. It was called the gold standard and most of the world ran on it. We need a version of it where the powers can't just say screw it, let's can it a

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