msmith10101

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by msmith10101 8y ago
Sorry to break the news to you, boz, but FB is a toxic waste of X. Fire yourself, pls.
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by msmith10101 8y ago
I just think this story is not worth talking about. Two people created a fake website. That is the story. This is a span story.
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by msmith10101 8y ago
So the IRS has no way of validating these numbers (they do require brokers to provide the numbers these days)? Overall I'm just not buying that this story is true, in other words.
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by msmith10101 8y ago
How can you do your taxes if your trades are not executed?
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by msmith10101 8y ago
Bad Blood is an awesome book. Really disturbing. There's a story about a naive stanford grad who joined Theranos and tried to blow a whistle internally when he realized that the "Edison" (a Theranos-based testing equipment) w
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by msmith10101 8y ago
I'm playing the smallest violin in the world for these guys, a la Reservoir Dogs :-). I hope they can find a new job :-( if they can't suss out this 2b :-(((
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by msmith10101 8y ago
Glad to see founders get the employee treatment ;-)
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by msmith10101 8y ago
Makes sense. Hardware/software overall is monopoly-determined. If you are looking for an exit or a business model in the startup world you have to do something unique. This whole scheme was dead in the water, IMO.
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by msmith10101 9y ago
Driving in a gas powered automobile is a lot more barbaric than drinking beer ;-)
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by msmith10101 9y ago
Would like to see the gig economy move off of human labor. Do any of these companies like Grab or Go-Jek have much of an autonomy story or any real competitive differentiators? If not, this whole space is otherwise a race to the bottom and
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by msmith10101 9y ago
Couldn't agree more. Ridesharing is a terrible solution to the transportation problem. And the artificial markets that Uber/Lyft have created here are not sustainable.
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by msmith10101 9y ago
no more uber stores pls. kthanks.
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by msmith10101 9y ago
More likely a new grad will get nothing: recruiters, dilution, and taxes will see to that.
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by msmith10101 9y ago
Not really. That's the 'only solution' if use limit yourself to the straight jacket of existing CS theoretical methods. Given how irrelevant it has been to industry up to this point (unable to even prove something as simple t
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by msmith10101 9y ago
Looks like both Benchmark and Travis Kalanick wanted to sell more stock than they were able to. Can someone explain who was able to sell stock and how their sell preferences were prioritized and executed? Was everyone able to sell at least
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by msmith10101 9y ago
What, exactly, has been fixed? What leads you to believe that the supply of Uber driver's will exceed zero once Uber can no longer lose over a billion dollars a quarter in subsidizing trips to pay these drivers more than minimum wage?
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by msmith10101 9y ago
The saddest thing about Travis Kalanick's story is that he was ousted because his greedy investors were afraid they wouldn't see a 20x return on their investment, and not because of the ponzi-scheme fundamentals or ethical comprom
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by msmith10101 9y ago
Two points: 1. You write as if Uber has solved the transportation problem sustainably. The end state of an Uber job is that it will pay less than minimum wage. Why? Because the barrier to entry is the same as most minimum wage jobs (assumin
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by msmith10101 9y ago
Reading something like this: I feel like TWTR users need to find a better product.
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by msmith10101 9y ago
Newtons method and linear algebra. High school math, basically.
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by msmith10101 9y ago
Revenue/user growth are irrelevant if your business model is to raise money for goods/services that cost you more money than you can charge from random users who have no brand loyalty. Uber's in a market in which there are no
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by msmith10101 9y ago
youth, gullibility, and the desire to please
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by msmith10101 9y ago
I've been wondering if the heat will take down a few data centers in this area. I guess reddit is hosted on AWS, however, so its current outage is not related.
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by msmith10101 10y ago
Congrats! Since your LAN House is in Palo Alto do you take the Caltrain up there? What do you think of the commute? I myself am between jobs now and trying to settle on a place - currently located in SF but thinking of moving to Palo Alto.
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by msmith10101 10y ago
Sorry, I meant to ask "was it a whistleblower?". Just curious how exactly this whole gnarly situation was discovered.
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by msmith10101 10y ago
Guess this is what spurred the investigation: https://www.propublica.org/article/own-a-vizio-smart-tv-its-... Still, how did this article come about? What is a whistle blower?
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by msmith10101 10y ago
How did Vizio get caught? Was it a whistle blower? https://www.propublica.org/article/own-a-vizio-smart-tv-its-...
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TensorFlow and deep learning, without a PhD(codelabs.developers.google.com)
3 points by msmith10101 10y ago|0 comments
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by msmith10101 10y ago
John Carmack has a history of betraying employers (e.g. softdisk). Hard to take him seriously when the evidence is he said she said and the law decided against him.
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Turing Award Winner on Gates and Ellison (2007)(youtube.com)
1 points by msmith10101 10y ago|0 comments

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