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by nugget 11y ago
One diet trick I learned, sort of related to fitness, is to cut out almost all carbs. In crunch mode I don't really have time to work out and tend to snack 24/7. Carbs pack on the pounds. Now I just eat nuts (almonds), bacon, c
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by nugget 11y ago
Uber and Airbnb taught me to pay attention to what people do, not what they say. By November 2010 I was taking Uber(Cab) once a day around SOMA and absolutey loving it, referring all my friends to it, etc...and yet I still remember letting
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by nugget 11y ago
How low would a self driving 2 seater smart car have to drop in cost before you would view it as an acceptable replacement to public transportation in cities without strong existing subway routes? I think the costs will be surprisingly low
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by nugget 11y ago
It's interesting that Lyft seems to be able to hypermile behind Uber and benefit from the lobbying without having to spend any money. Google and others who eventually deploy self driving car fleets will benefit as well.
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by nugget 11y ago
When this tipping is reached then society may reorganize itself around concepts like basic income and so forth. It seems like a safe bet that a single, cohesive society could survive this transition without a huge amount of chaos. But wha
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by nugget 11y ago
If you think structural unemployment due to automation will be a problem in the US, just wait until 500 million Chinese factory workers are put out of work. A generation ago they may have been content to remain in poverty and ignorance but
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by nugget 11y ago
Tony invested in the wrong companies. Instead of trying for standalone valley style tech companies, he should have focused on small division style incubations that could be sold into larger parent companies who would use the acquisitions t
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by nugget 11y ago
At the same time artists (especially indies) have a significant interest in Apple succeeding. If Spotify dominates the market to the exclusion of all others, they will have no pressure to keep artist revenue share competitive. Best case f
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by nugget 11y ago
Not all, but almost all of the successful founders I know are obsessively focused on their startups and they don't put much time into other areas of their lives (family, social life, etc). Humans need sleep and whether they sleep 4 or
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by nugget 11y ago
I work in real estate and am privy to the behind-the-scenes details of some of these all cash, foreign buyer deals, in markets like SF, NYC and Miami. There's nothing new about it: money laundering has been around for a long time. A
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by nugget 11y ago
What happens when increasing automation leads us to permanent structural unemployment? How many years until Uber moves to self-driving cars and this entire article is meaningless? The real minimum wage is $0: when you can't find a job.
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by nugget 11y ago
I wonder -- if Uber converted drivers in California to employees and dealt with the increased costs (passing them on to riders) but also prevented the now-employed drivers from driving with competing services (Lyft) -- whether the company w
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by nugget 11y ago
The most active secondary markets I see today are the broker dealer successors to Frank Mazzola/Felix Advisor type outfits who use company approved (or tolerated) LLCs to vacuum up stock from ex employees who want liquidity. You have
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by nugget 11y ago
I personally wouldn't call it substantial. You can quantify the value of the liquidation preference by looking at the difference between the value of the preferred shares and the value of common shares available on secondary markets.
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by nugget 11y ago
How important is a liquidation preference on a $500m round which values Uber at $40b? Not very. Moreover, most of the institutions doing these late stage rounds and secondaries are the same banks and asset management firms that float the I
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by nugget 11y ago
Is it elitist to want to be around other kids you can mentally relate to? I suffered in school until I transferred to a 7th grade public magnet school. For the first time in my life I felt like I belonged because I could be myself with th
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by nugget 11y ago
Why not put the $250k into a perpetual trust that yields an inflation adjusted 4% forever? That's a comforting but not overwhelming $10k/year tailwind that they can learn to manage over time. No worries about blowing all the mon
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by nugget 11y ago
Between (hidden) payroll taxes and state and federal income taxes a developer making 120k in San Francisco isn't too far below 53%.
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by nugget 11y ago
I'm surprised that Mozilla didn't enable this feature by default. They're either serious about differentiating themselves on the privacy front, or not. It's the every day users who need this protection, not the more ad
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by nugget 11y ago
Adblock Plus whitelists Taboola and Outbrain, which not only push viagra ads but deceptive ones at that. Time to tell it like it is. The acceptable ads policy is nothing more than a narrative designed to allow them to extort ad networks f
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by nugget 11y ago
Another way to value these Unicorns is to look at common stock sold on the secondary markets which has no preference attached. Based on the deal flow I see, I am guessing Pinterest could sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of common
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by nugget 11y ago
Actually I just want to be able to afford a nice condo in a major city, which precludes work-life balance for awhile.
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by nugget 12y ago
Bingo. The people most likely to pay are by far also the most valuable user segment to advertisers. Sooner or later some ads will find their way back in.
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by nugget 12y ago
You must not have cancer.
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by nugget 12y ago
Passwords are the worst form of authentication except for all the others.
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by nugget 12y ago
Namecheap. No frills, simple interface. No upsells. Customer service has been excellent so far.
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by nugget 12y ago
Not directly related but one of the happiest days of my life was the day I transferred my last domain away from GoDaddy.
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by nugget 12y ago
Sorry to hear that. I don't know Columbo but I just looked up his bio and he seems to be a more conventional type of administrator who spent almost two decades at Columbia. Why MIT would recruit someone like that from outside the com
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by nugget 12y ago
MIT alum from the early 00s here. MIT was a stressful place. Much of that stress was self-imposed, and in an environment full of ambitious, intensively competitive over achievers, it can start to create a negative vibe. Turns out, this w
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by nugget 12y ago
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