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by nappy 9y ago
Whole Foods Market. WFM was also their stock ticker.
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by nappy 9y ago
Are you still working on Whale? Also, what's going on with Zero-F? https://zero-f.co/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/06/just-kan-zero-f/
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by nappy 9y ago
I believe he's referring to the economic cost being $2 trillion, not the death count.
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by nappy 9y ago
Musk misses the deaclones he sets for himself constantly. Maybe always?
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by nappy 9y ago
I hope this is meant with sarcasm
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by nappy 9y ago
I used promethease and learned I'm CCR5-Δ32 and likely HIV immune https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5
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by nappy 9y ago
I suspect if a user began to promote and recruit for ISIL on HN that they would be banned.
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by nappy 9y ago
And one that employs a paid moderation team...
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by nappy 9y ago
A corporation spending money to host and spread speech in order to make a profit.
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by nappy 9y ago
Do you think corporations have the right to free speech? Do you think they ought to?
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by nappy 9y ago
IANAL but deliberately lying and deceiving with intent as part of a commercial transaction is generally concenered fraud.
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by nappy 9y ago
*as How is money laundering a "fake" crime?
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by nappy 10y ago
It's brilliant. My favorite.
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by nappy 10y ago
"The Essence of Decision" - Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow The easy way to think decisions is with the rational actor model. "The United States didn't sign the TPP agreement because..." "Apple removed the he
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by nappy 10y ago
Balzac was a wild guy, and prolific. Here's how he worked: Balzac drove himself relentlessly as a writer, motivated by enormous literary ambition as well as a never-ending string of creditors and endless cups of coffee; as Herbert J. H
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by nappy 10y ago
Sounds fun, would love to give it a try.
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by nappy 10y ago
I think there is some responsibility on the part of the "non-creative" here. It's very important to communicate when you are challenging someone directly and believe something to be true vs. throwing around ideas for comments
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by nappy 10y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I read this around when it came out, but giving it a second read has helped clarify some of my thinking. Something I find helpful is to have sessions where the goal is to come up with the worst idea you can about
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by nappy 10y ago
The camera placement is bad. I don't use video much at all, but when I need to on my XPS 13, I actually use a separate USB webcam. The built-in camera is just really strange to use - to others it looks like you're looking off int
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by nappy 10y ago
Two sided matching is hard, and even more so in dating. Starting a company is both :/
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by nappy 10y ago
Please be kind to everyone :) I think there are better ways to state your criticism that don't read so harshly. And in being kind, I think people are more receptive to criticism and suggestions. It can seem pretty silly from a purely r
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by nappy 10y ago
Interesting. I didn't realize they were doing this. This suggests to me they simply had an investor they really wanted on the cap table. Or perhaps they wanted a current shareholder to have a greater relative ownership of the company?
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by nappy 10y ago
Any idea why they would raise such a (relatively) small amount of money?
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by nappy 10y ago
SEC filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000132165516...
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Palantir raises an additional $20M(techcrunch.com)
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by nappy 10y ago
I've never found driving a manual hard on my calves... even a little bit. Maybe just me? Or something you get used to if you drive a manual all of the time?
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by nappy 10y ago
I think others have done a good job explaining this, so all I'll add is: accounting is an entirely different exercise than valuation. Which seems strange... But the goal of accounting is tracking assets and accounts more so than unders
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by nappy 10y ago
The Rio 500 was the first MP3 player I ever used. I thought it was incredible :) The Volt was the first MP3 player I ever owned. I loved that device. 700 MB of music, and I could burn as many CDs as I wanted... That thing was great.
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by nappy 10y ago
Access to information and the ability to quickly book will also lead to increases in efficiency
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by nappy 10y ago
It's possible more people are traveling than before, or using airbnb/vrbo/others vs cash transactions, or that providing more capacity, especially at high demand times, brings more supply online at peak times.

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