m_ke

75 ms·

811.
by m_ke 7y ago
How long before they get acquired by Amazon? Also what are the chances of that deal getting blocked? Getting all of these uber drivers to deliver packages, groceries and food for amazon customers makes too much sense. EDIT: Looks like Amazo
812.
by m_ke 7y ago
Supply is a barrier to entry. These 2 sided market places require having a large supply of drivers and riders to be viable. A new competitor would probably need to come in with a managed fleet and be ready to operate at a loss for a really
813.
by m_ke 7y ago
Because they'll be able to undercut any small competitor that attempts to enter one of their markets by subsidizing it with revenue from everywhere else.
814.
by m_ke 7y ago
I'm convinced that the end goal is being the last one standing. Either one of them failing would guarantee a monopoly for the other and make it easier to play with the margins.
815.
by m_ke 7y ago
I deleted my podcast app recently and started listening to lectures on youtube instead. The information content is way higher and half of the time is not wasted on trying to sell me crap.
816.
by m_ke 8y ago
Also related to that I just came across a library that can generate json schema from a dataclass https://github.com/s-knibbs/dataclasses-jsonschema There's also https://github.com/Fatal1ty/mas
817.
by m_ke 8y ago
With all of the ride sharing companies burning money it seems like the real bet here is being the last one standing. If Lyft folds, Uber will have much more leverage to play with the margins.
818.
by m_ke 8y ago
I was an early clarifai employee and although I can't speak for what's there now, up until 2-3 years ago they had one of the most accurate models available (with google being the only real competitor). The generally available mode
819.
by m_ke 8y ago
I really want a client like that for HN, subreddits and my twitter feed, ideally with a feedback mechanism that can be used to rank the content based on my interests and filter out all of the other crap.
820.
by m_ke 8y ago
But they have most of the premium market. If you look at app revenues they're 2x android: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/apples-app-store-revenue-n...
821.
by m_ke 8y ago
Do you honestly believe that throwing mentally ill and addicted people in jail is the right solution to this problem?
822.
by m_ke 8y ago
My statement was conditioned on getting into YC, which is really hard to do if your product sucks or has no traction. Even with a weak product you'll be in a much better position because you'll able to meet with a lot of other fou
823.
by m_ke 8y ago
That's true, but it's practically impossible to bootstrap a "bullshit" company and have it succeed. If you get into YC you're guaranteed intros to anyone in their portfolio, press coverage from valley PR machines li
824.
by m_ke 8y ago
Yeah for data science and CRUD workloads python is great. The performance difference between go and python in those settings are negligible and python wins out on ease of use and ecosystem.
825.
by m_ke 8y ago
These days going through Y Combinator practically guarantees success for B2B/SaaS startups. Their network is so big now that you can hit growth targets that most VCs look for just by selling to other YC companies. Then you can throw th
826.
by m_ke 8y ago
You should also check out starlette and other supporting projects that Tom Christie (of DRF fame) is working on right now. Both FastAPI and Responder are thin wrappers around starlette. Tom Christie has been quietly building what's sta
827.
by m_ke 8y ago
Elizabeth Warren is coming to shake things up ;)
828.
by m_ke 8y ago
Yeah, but they control all of the platforms to make this work. With Android, Chrome, Chromecast, Youtube and GCP they have all of the pieces in place.
829.
by m_ke 8y ago
Google is really flexing on people here. With 5G this will be the future of all computing and only google and amazon have the data centers to make it work. Sundar opened up the event talking about deep learning, I wouldn't be surprised
830.
by m_ke 8y ago
1. Which "side" do you think I'm on? 2. What am I gloating about? I posted this link because reddit is a YC company that makes money hosting a lot of hateful content. If it makes you feel better, I'm sure it does so on a
831.
by m_ke 8y ago
And this is one of the top posts on reddit / the_donald: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/b1czmd/aussie_p...
832.
by m_ke 8y ago
What makes you believe that you'll get there first?
833.
by m_ke 8y ago
How much progress do you think you've made in the past 3 years towards that goal and what makes you think that you'll get there within the next few decades? Also what makes you believe that Open AI will get there way ahead of thou
834.
by m_ke 8y ago
And if you don't you'll be forced to open a DC office and bid on pentagon contracts.
835.
by m_ke 8y ago
> ... Sam Altman (CEO) ... Was this announced before or is this the first time they've mentioned it?
836.
by m_ke 8y ago
Tom Christie (DRF dev) is working on an async django like toolchain with starlette, databases and uvicorn. https://twitter.com/_tomchristie/status/1100064076191940608 Hopefully django will start supporting asgi so
837.
by m_ke 8y ago
I know that it is and understand that amazon got a pretty standard package. Just because it happens all the time doesn't mean that it's right.
838.
by m_ke 8y ago
Yes, fully aware of it. I'm actually working out of an incubator that's part of another tax incentive program (START-UP NY https://esd.ny.gov/startup-ny-program ) and am not against most economic development progra
839.
by m_ke 8y ago
Amazon did it to themselves by turning this HQ2 search into a circus. It's pretty clear that they knew where they wanted to go from the start and tried to use this as leverage to squeeze out as much out of NYC and DC as possible. It&#x
840.
by m_ke 8y ago
NYC is full of rich people. Giving the richest man in the world a tax break and access to a prime location in the largest city in the country to drive out middle class people would be dumb.

More ›