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by kul 18y ago
Was that ice on the screen at about 5m?
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Financial crisis: Default by the US government is no longer unthinkable(telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by kul 18y ago|0 comments
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by kul 18y ago
investments banks will come back. I wonder if they can reverse this status change in a few years.
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by kul 18y ago
back in the day it was easier to register .edu domains, and they bought it from someone who'd owned it for a long time.
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by kul 18y ago
why isn't this bigger news?
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by kul 18y ago
<3
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by kul 18y ago
"Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal." Prescient.
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by kul 18y ago
Taleb vindicated again.
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by kul 18y ago
thanks for the tip, I'm just about to start investing in the market and I'm glad I read this first.
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by kul 18y ago
we're all talking about it
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by kul 18y ago
i like this, but what's with the odd name?
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by kul 18y ago
Paypal?
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by kul 18y ago
"I'm not trying to beat up on incubators, but most of the entrepreneurs I respect the most would argue they were better off putting off raising money for as long as possible." That's not Max Levchin's philosophy, whom presumably she respect
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by kul 18y ago
I like the theory except the need to depend on machetes as part of the cause. Machetes are a very recent invention in the timeline of evolution. Maybe there were faster, scarier predators around in that area.
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by kul 18y ago
It's in the Sunday Times, so it's meant to be a leisurely read (and most likely in the magazine section). The purpose isn't to convey as much info in as few words as possible.
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by kul 18y ago
seems like this guy hasn't heard of talent acquisitions, which is what Jaiku was.
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by kul 18y ago
more info here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7427417.stm
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The Amazing Money Machine(theatlantic.com)
4 points by kul 18y ago|1 comments
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by kul 18y ago
my explanation is that i was too lazy to put my hand up
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by kul 18y ago
facebook is good for single people
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by kul 18y ago
well done dude, remember talking to you at the Joe Kraus dinner, nice to see the execution!
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by kul 18y ago
long live the YC PR machine. having said that, there is real substance behind songkick. pete and ian are plenty talented.
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by kul 18y ago
We're still building product on Auctomatic. I helped out on cricket.com as I saw the immediate opportunity (and I had the most cricket knowledge in the LCM team). It's going to be spun out as its own company, with its own funding and CEO.
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Live Current becomes official partner to the IPL for $50m(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by kul 19y ago|2 comments
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by kul 19y ago
Ppl here are basically complaining about the free market. Google is big because they have created a ton of value. If they were rubbish/didn't create value, then they wouldn't be big and wouldn't buy other companies. At least they did it by
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by kul 19y ago
we sold early :(
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by kul 19y ago
what worries me is that if you're not american, you're a "non-citizen". I'm still a citizen, just a british one. What's wrong with saying foreign citizens? this always freaks me out when I arrive at SFO.
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by kul 19y ago
wtf at submission headline. im paying no tax on this deal. the stock price hasn't been finalised on the deal yet either (related to point 2 above).
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by kul 19y ago
we were at startup school last year
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by kul 19y ago
So I met Ev in Oxford in Nov 04 (I was president of Oxford Entrepreneurs, and my reward was to be able to go to the dinner that the Business School held as part of the Silicon Valley event), and had stayed in touch with him since then. In M

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