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by onewaystreet 11y ago
This happened a year ago and AirBNB paid him $23,000 for the damages at the time. His new complaint is that he has been blacklisted from renting in NYC.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
The fact that 1.5 billion people use Facebook kind of suggests that you are wrong.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
Facebook is already two years ahead of the analysis in this article. They spun off messenger and groups into their own apps because they saw the monolithic approach was no longer working.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
Being in an abusive relationship is bad for people.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
Large venture-backed companies tend not to hesitate in hiring people. You got engineering teams (frontend, backend, mobile, QA, other), design teams, devops teams, marketing, sales, bizdev, support, hr, management, etc.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
People generally have no vision, everything is either going to be a failure or was obvious.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp, the apps that people are using more.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
Most stuff people create ends up having little or no monetary value so copyright is never an issue for them whether they wanted to be covered by it or not. It's when something they create ends up having lots of value that they start ca
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
What content do you consume that isn't funded through advertising? Unless you don't read any blogs, news websites, use any free services etc.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
People have been saying this about the fantasy and sci-fi genres for decades.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
This is getting to be less and less true with the success of series like Harry Potter, Twilight, Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, Divergent etc. Many of the books listed on that Goodreads link are parts of larger series themselves.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
> Then this story is huge, the sort of thing that would forever color Obama's place in history and would probably bring Hillary's political hopes crashing to ground. Few in the US are going to care either way. Osama is dead. Ho
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
That's probably a short-sided opinion. There's a lot of companies in a16z'a portfolio that I could see going public or having a big acquisition in the next 5 years: http://a16z.com/portfolio/
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
It went pretty much like he said. They expanded to every college, then to high schools and then the world.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
Facebook today is equal if not more complex than Google. They process a huge amount of user data and it's all searchable. The relationships in that data are much more complex than in web search results.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
Maybe it is more popular but most teens aren't stupid enough to trash the place so it is never reported.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
Him being on CNBC had nothing to do with privilege, Facebook had 100,000 users at this point (also, what about the other guy that was interviewed? His startup failed. So much for his privilege).
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
It's hard to build a business on negativity when that negativity is directed at your own users. People like gossip but not when it's about them.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
You're not wrong, but Sam isn't writing for those people. He's writing for the people that read HN. Not all advice has to be targeted to the least privileged.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
Revenue hasn't been a problem, Twitter will do over $2 billion this year. Wall Street has been fixated on user growth though. Probably thanks to Facebook touting its ever increasing user base.
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by onewaystreet 11y ago
Twitter has always skewed older.
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by onewaystreet 12y ago
These people use US based proxies and US registered SIM cards. From Facebook's point of view they are in the US.
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by onewaystreet 12y ago
These bots don't actually do much analysis. They just weight keywords and sources. "Buys" or "acquisition" in a WSJ headline has a pretty clear cut meaning. Financial headlines also tend to be pretty easy to parse (
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by onewaystreet 12y ago
It's no longer insider trading if the information has been made public. There would be no advantage to doing this either. There are thousands of firms and individuals running keyword based trading bots. You would be competing with all
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by onewaystreet 12y ago
Whose going to charge the US with a war crime? No one.
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by onewaystreet 12y ago
It's an interesting question because many more well know startups use AWS (Airbnb, Pinterest, Etsy, Spotify). Amazon has a webpage specifically to highlight them: http://aws.amazon.com/start-ups/ . It's hard t
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by onewaystreet 12y ago
Why are you using Dropbox? Why not just use FTP? Seems kind of dysfunctional.
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by onewaystreet 12y ago
> Nothing like studying your ass off for 16+ years, only to work your ass off for another 40+ years, taking on debt that you wind up spending a large portion of your life repaying (while often paying more than double the original price j
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by onewaystreet 12y ago
This isn't a "founders got screwed" story, it's the story of most failed startups. Usually the founders don't burn their bridges though.
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by onewaystreet 12y ago
Because Facebook has thousands of employees. I suppose it might be possible to give everyone a closet sized office.

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