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by paggle 7y ago
Large fleets of Bird-style rental vehicles like bikes, scooters, etc should mitigate this.
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by paggle 7y ago
At a time when there was infinite demand for unskilled labor and when relative standard of living was much lower.
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by paggle 7y ago
LOL! Canada does not have even close to open borders. They have refugees and they have merit immigration which has been decried as racist in the US. Merit immigration needs a better ambassador than Trump. Perhaps Bernie Sanders.
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by paggle 7y ago
Name one country with better-than-average standard of living that has opened its borders and thrived. There will always be a wall around something nice — either around your house, or your neighborhood, or your country.
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by paggle 7y ago
That’s like saying “I can fly this plane better than this pilot.” If it’s true, you need to be hiring better pilots.
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by paggle 7y ago
It’s nuts for Uber to talk about their “offer.” They don’t make the offer, the voters do.
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by paggle 7y ago
Apple Keynotes were special because Steve Jobs was special, not because iPhones were. In a world where the top guys (Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella) have the charisma of somewhere between a mo
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by paggle 7y ago
The article couldn’t have been written about Google or Samsung, because what the NYT is saying is that Apple keynotes, once considered capital-N News by the press and public, now have all the excitement of a Samsung press event. They ascrib
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by paggle 7y ago
Sure, I think that he should have the literal freedom to do so, but that does not excuse him or Apple from being roundly criticized and berated for it. Like freedom of speech, your right to say something doesn’t make that thing right.
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by paggle 7y ago
I know that nobody should be stretching themselves financially thin for a newer iPhone. Unless it’s something like an app developer needing to buy a test phone, which this clearly wasn’t.
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by paggle 7y ago
Do you work for a startup? Startups generally don't employ a lot of university-research tech. The people who are reading current academic papers and incorporating them into the company's products are more likely to work at big com
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by paggle 7y ago
Well companies like JPM only publish this stuff after the rest of the world discovers it and it stops making money. They don’t publish actively profitable strategies.
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by paggle 7y ago
I mean the notch is basically the symptom of having gone into anti-feature territory. Removal of headphone jack, removal of physical home button, removal of TouchID for face recognition that is much slower, removal of 3D Touch... the iPhone
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by paggle 7y ago
Being profoundly unqualified to evaluate legislation, the electorate is highly susceptible to well-crafted advertising on ballot measures and can easily end up voting for something that they don't philosophically agree with. This is wh
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by paggle 7y ago
Rigged demos are everywhere. I raised a few million in VC with a rigged demo and then after the investor was on my board was really wrestling with how to tell them and readjust their expectations. Halfway into my first sentence they said “I
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by paggle 7y ago
“Pro” means more powerful. That doesn’t mean that you buy it if you need it work work. I know Fellows making $1m/year who have a MacBook Air because they prefer the low weight when they’re doing emails etc, and code from a desktop work
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by paggle 7y ago
Because the American revolution was not a “revolution”, it was a split between the highest levels of management in the US and the higher level management in England. It was like PayPal spinning out of EBay.
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by paggle 7y ago
Hasn’t every iPhone just been a speeds and camera improvement over the previous? With a few random things like TouchId, FaceId, and 3D Touch... but most of what matters is speed and camera.
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by paggle 7y ago
Because communist governments (among others) exert high levels of control. You can not control without applying force and you cannot apply force without violence.
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by paggle 7y ago
Where is the new and wacky stuff that Apple is working on? Facebook has Oculus VR and those weird solar powered airplanes providing Internet access in rural countries. Google has its self driving cars. Where's Apple's research pro
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by paggle 7y ago
It provides a valuable service. It gives property owners a hands off way of renting out their space to short term tenants. That’s going to make money.
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by paggle 7y ago
Because they will likely want to hire in Chicago at much lower salaries than SF but asking someone to eat a big salary reduction is hard.
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by paggle 7y ago
WeWork is a successful company worth a lot of money. Is it worth $47b? Likely not. But all except the last investors are likely to do well, and deservedly so.
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by paggle 7y ago
But this article is about sharing the URL. That’s preventable, which screenshotting is not.
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by paggle 7y ago
Facebook’s image CDN doesn’t work like this. If I save the media URL and send it to someone, it won’t work for them. I’ve tried — the URLs are user specific.
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by paggle 7y ago
“It is less good at larger-scale structure, like maintaining a consistent topic or (especially) making a structured argument with sub-parts larger than a few sentences.” Have you surfed Facebook recently? Shockingly few people are good at t
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by paggle 7y ago
The original system was genius... basically, the voters pick the person they know in real life (30,000 people) who they trust. Those people make all of the upstream decisions. Sadly various idiots between 1789 and now introduced concepts li
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by paggle 7y ago
The actual people who transfer $1 billion between each other (financial institutions, large corporations, and private investment vehicles) don't pay any fees either.
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by paggle 7y ago
How could the quality be lower? Isn’t it just a cast piece of iron?
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by paggle 7y ago
The downside of customization is that you lose your anonymity. I had a memorable vanity plate for two years that I gave up to regain the anonymity I prefer in my car.

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