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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Why do VCs let founders cash out pre-IPO? Because they aren't as smart as we/they think they are. Like most people, they have zero repeatable ability to spot unicorns or conmen.
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> A lot of ink has been spilled about how cooky Adam and his wife are but I really liked the WeGrow idea of providing schooling / daycare. Yeah, and everyone likes the idea of self-driving, solar-powered Tesla robo-taxis, too. Fin
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> People just want to get whatever it is working. There is probably a lot of time delivery pressure and something like IAM is complicated. Inexcusable. Change the login/password to anything more secure, even if it's tempora
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Nobody thought to raise that? to anyone? Unbelievable, no? And yet, when things like this happen, people want to blame the CEO. Sure, the buck stops there and that person is really responsible for everything . But should the execut
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> I for one don't understand how it won't cause mass inflation. America already gives away vast sums of money to various people and programs, over $2 trillion annually. UBI is just a way of saying, "here's your shar
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> As always, colonialism is the problem. Yes, the period of colonialism that lasted a few centuries is to blame for the all the many years before and after of the Arab world fighting among themselves, as well as subjugating their popula
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Where does this writer think shares go when someone dies? I'll bet Sam Walton wasn't fantasizing about his children pushing people around the boardroom a couple years into Walmart...
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> There is not really anything wrong with having a family business. Shouldn't building a business be step one, though? Neuman didn't do that; he gambled a bunch of VC money on real estate.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
>Well when they first came out I thought the product was super innovative.* I never really understood it. It's a nice looking, albeit expensive, thermostat with some simple optimization algorithms. Now it's a spying tool. Mea
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Tony Fadell probably wouldn’t like how google transformed his product. I put zero stock in the words of people who sell their company for vast sums of money, then complain how the new company runs things.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> If that's how a lot of technical authors are chosen, that could explain a lot about the quality of a lot of books. I agree, but I don't see how self-publishing makes that problem better and not worse. > meaning that less
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> feed them corn and soy which is totally not their natural diet What's a "natural diet"? I always assumed that animals (including us) ate what they could get, and their diets were perpetually evolving along with their e
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> I would love to read some serious research on this. Funny you ask for scientific research to support OP's argument, then you follow it up with a personal anecdote about milk fixing your teeth problem in a month (which it assuredl
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> That assumes the governments aren't in on it. My theory is the opposite. Career politicians have a lot to lose from universal data collection. They are already running into issues caused by 5-year-old tweets; imagine if their wh
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Do you find it a little odd that in response to an article about rampant pedophilia you are admonishing people for not using Monero? This is a hacker site. Is the most important point in the article that the Feds traced Bitcoin trans
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by navigatesol 7y ago
You're responsible to your partner, regarding acquired assets, whether you are legally married or common law.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> The stock rose 3% Friday After crashing 30%+ the day before. They are essentially bankrupt.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> At first the earphones were annoying, but after a week you dont even notice them. I use the same technique. I purchased a sleep mask with mini built in speakers from Amazon, and it's been great: https://www.amazon.com
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> a surprise withdrawal This may be a surprise to you, but this withdrawal was announced in December of 2018, and even by then it had been discussed for months: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/2
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Correlation does not equal causation Say what? You should write these scientists and explain, I'm sure they've never heard of this concept!
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> What good are values as a nation if we're willing to trade them for profits and cheap goods from China? And yet you promote Tesla, cozying up to the CCP and telling us that "China is the future" so that he can build som
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Sell their stock. To whom? Eager buyers of the stock?
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> You are a professional player in a tournament, you should not use an official stream to spew political opinions... or opinions of any other kind. You should use whatever platform you've earned to state whatever views you wish.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
Trying to wrap my head around this: someone needs to make money from it, or what would they be buying out? So why not you? If you need funding, then you have to build a compelling case sans demo. It's not unheard of.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
I don't think your problem is unique. I have a few ideas that if I could only get substantial funding for just might work . That said: > Could I put it on a corporate card as an LLC and do my best to make it work? Then fold witho
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Clearly our chief executive is happy to silence efforts. Ok, so maybe Trump is remaining silent on the Hong Kong protests, but let's not pretend that he hasn't put the screws to China or talked often about their corrupt merc
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> Young people in China are generally ultra nationalist and they support virtually everything the government does. Many Westerners have trouble coming to terms with things like "Not all the Chinese hate the CCP", or "Russ
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Let's give them some initial credit for being supportive of employees that support Hong Kong Daryl Morey is not an employee of the NBA, so I don't think there's anything they could do, practically speaking.
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> If someone manages to do it with Nike it will be fun to watch. It just happened with the NBA: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/08/asia/nba-china-houston-rocket... They pulled the 2017 All-Star game from
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by navigatesol 7y ago
> Stop sucking up to dictatorships. I bet people have already begun weaning themselves off Apple products! Just kidding. Most people expect others to do something, but take no direct action themselves. Pity.

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