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by mrgordon 10y ago
From my experience at startups, I feel like causality is backwards here. We get very few leads through our website compared to referrals and recruiters, so naturally most of our hires don't come through cold website leads. Its not like
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by mrgordon 10y ago
The point is that you can get a $5-10 Uber ride instead of before where you'd spend $100+ on a limousine ride that you need to arrange well ahead of time. It wasn't a realistic option before except for special occasions.
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by mrgordon 10y ago
For example, Boca Raton in Florida is a wealthy area that had no taxi service until Uber. You literally had to get a limousine to go somewhere. Now its simple and cheap to get an Uber.
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by mrgordon 10y ago
I found this to be a good analysis of the situation with more backstory than other reports on Levandowski's background in autonomous vehicles before Google. It will be interesting to see how this effects innovation in the self-driving
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What Google Hopes to Gain by Suing Uber(bloomberg.com)
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by mrgordon 10y ago
I certainly agree with you to a certain extent, but if we're honest there were just as many things to leak about Trump if they had wanted to do so. If you smear one side to put the other side in power and undermine American democracy o
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by mrgordon 10y ago
I don't claim to be an expert on all these cases but I think I've made my point. Regarding Bethesda, the linked Wired article indicates Gawker exposed both Bethesda and Buzzfeed for removing negative articles at different times. I
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by mrgordon 10y ago
I strongly disagree. First of all, more than half the population is female (not to even look at race, sexual orientation, those who don't identify as male or female, etc.) so the majority of people by far are not white males who have &
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by mrgordon 10y ago
> only people without money should be able to sue? Is this what I said? No. But outspending a publication by an order of magnitude so that they either go bankrupt fighting you or lose the case is an example of how you can abuse the court
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by mrgordon 10y ago
I never said I would have picked that battle. I simply said spending boatloads of money to shut down the entire publication in response was a strong arm bully tactic. See my response to the parent comment if you want some actual examples in
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by mrgordon 10y ago
An independent media organization that uncovered quite a few stories: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/10-stories-exactly-need-gawker... I don't agree with Wired that all of those were super important but some o
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Yes Thiel had a vendetta against Gawker so he funded an unrelated lawsuit against them and used his billions to shut them down. The vendetta stemmed from the fact that the gay founder of Gawker found it horrifying that Thiel would hide his
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Whether or not you think what Gawker did was right, it is a terrible precedent that a billionaire can shut down the entire publication by funding lawsuits for other people against the publisher. There are ways to get the tape removed withou
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by mrgordon 10y ago
I never said this only happens on the right (whether I think it occurs more on the right is a separate argument but not one that I made here). But the post I responded to was saying they voted for Trump (despite his repeated racism, sexism,
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Unfortunately Trump's cabinet appointments have already proven him wrong. Carson, Palin, the leading anti-global warming crazy for head of the EPA...
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Because he appointed Pence who believes in gay conversion therapy. And because his platform contains various mentions of rolling back LGBT rights.
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Keep in mind that Thiel sued Gawker to stop freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Trump doesn't care and will appoint Thiel to a major position in his administration anyway. Trump also repeatedly sued (or threatened to sue) newsp
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Define "biased" Its like saying the US media was biased against Hitler. He espouses hateful, racist, sexist, and violent ideas. Its not a case of bias but rather rational distaste and fear.
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Yeah I hear you. I wouldn't say "everything you don't like is a bug" but if there is a dropdown to select something and it doesn't work then its a bug.
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Keep in mind Dropbox literally got its start with adding the sync icons in Finder when Apple said it could not be done. The entire company was essentially based on their ability to make a better user experience through a tighter integration
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by mrgordon 10y ago
A lot of their fundraising is for partnerships. For example, their previous round was mostly large Asian investors who could help Airbnb continue to grow internationally
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Hotels having bedbugs does not make morning news. In fact, last time my flight was canceled out of Newark they gave me a free hotel room for the night and almost every Yelp review mentioned bedbugs... I brought up the issue when I was che
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by mrgordon 10y ago
I read the first link and it didn't seem entirely clear cut to me that Watts hadn't done anything to incite the episode. Even assuming he hadn't, he was convicted by a jury of ordinary civilians so apparently they empathized
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by mrgordon 10y ago
While I'm no fan of the TSA, this seems quite extreme. The chance they would look at your hard drives is nearly 0% and most countries have some insane policies that outsiders could harp on as a reason to not visit and to "do busin
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by mrgordon 10y ago
They have insurance either way. I've had nothing but good experiences but to each their own.
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by mrgordon 10y ago
It will perform better than f/2.2 of the old phone. I know several professional photographers who often carry the iPhone when they don't need all their equipment. Its not that hard to take good photos with it, especially with enou
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by mrgordon 10y ago
They meant that you said your headphones don't last long and it could be because they were so cheap in the first place (not saying I agree or disagree without knowing which model you mean)
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Yep this matches my experience with unicorn stock options. It was a pain to come up with the exercise price & AMT upfront in the first place but the AMT was refunded in full the next year.
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Yes I agree, 0.5% is quite a high estimate for being the low end of the range. Airbnb common shares as well as those of other hot startups (e.g. Uber) are trading fairly close to the price of preferred though if one obtains liquidity.
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by mrgordon 10y ago
Airbnb takes the appropriate local taxes automatically as part of the booking

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