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by pdog 10y ago
> Most founders' instincts seem to be to give too much equity to investors and not enough to employees. Is this wrong? Investors don't receive anything for their capital but equity. Employees receive income, benefits, etc. th
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by pdog 10y ago
Welcome to the world of "data journalism".
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by pdog 10y ago
The founder and chief executive had a majority 55% stake. Considering she had final say on all decisions, you can't blame VCs for blowing up the company.
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by pdog 10y ago
> The SEC will decide by March 11 whether to approve one filed almost four years ago by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. If approved, it would be the first bitcoin ETF issued and regulated by a U.S. entity. This would combine the ridiculo
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by pdog 10y ago
Engineers and software developers care about encryption, and if Snap wants to hire the best of them, they'd better care too.
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by pdog 10y ago
Hopefully this pressures Snap to offer end-to-end encryption within their app. WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted by default[1][2][3]. It's embarassing that a major app like Snapchat—built around ephemerality and privacy and often handli
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by pdog 10y ago
Luckily, ambitious people don't think like this. They'd rather make a huge impact on society (think companies like Google and Tesla) than retire comfortably once they can afford fancy toys.
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by pdog 10y ago
Counter-example: Slack chose growth and they swallowed up a multi-billion-dollar opportunity that 37signals (now Basecamp) rightfully could have owned. Slack employs over 700 people now (compared to 51 people at Basecamp) even though they&#
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by pdog 10y ago
> Zero newspapers allow you to change subscription term online. It’s 2017 and newspapers haven’t figured out web forms with radio buttons. Newspapers all have digital departments, yet you can only cancel your subscription by calling a
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by pdog 10y ago
Is this a joke? Heavy lifters and bodybuilders don't live a healthier or longer life—they generally die younger and have more health problems. The scientific consensus is that endurance exercise like walking or running is much better f
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by pdog 10y ago
> Normal people --- and eventually the F-500's, too --- just use WhatsApp. Sure, but WhatsApp is a totally closed protocol owned by a company (Facebook) known for rampant issues with privacy. Security professionals have a responsi
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by pdog 10y ago
Is WhatsApp secure? It's a totally closed protocol owned by a company (Facebook) known for rampant issues with privacy.
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by pdog 10y ago
There's Netflix for television and Spotify for music, so it's almost inevitable there's going to be a "Netflix for journalism." (Even with competitors offering news supported by advertising for free, it's still
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by pdog 10y ago
> Avoid installing spurious, unknown or unnecessary extensions. This is wrong. You absolutely must use an ad blocker or noscript extension if you intend to browse the web securely.
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by pdog 10y ago
Most people don't want a giant box under their desk. If you're building a machine learning rig for under $1,000, you don't need room for expansion because additional $200, $400 or even $700 cards are a useless expense at that
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by pdog 10y ago
Sorry to burst your bubble, but culture is data too.
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by pdog 10y ago
> Thanks to increases in computing power, Sentient can squeeze 1,800 simulated trading days into a few minutes. How is it possible to generate seven years of convincing sample data from historical trading data without overfitting your
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by pdog 10y ago
> I like AMP over publishers' own formats... Back in the day, we called them websites.
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by pdog 10y ago
> Under the system, if an article is reported as false by users, it will be sent to a portal that all eight media companies have access to, according to Le Monde. If at least two of the companies confirm the article as false, the conten
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Facebook Launches Fake News Filter in France Ahead of 2017 Election(theverge.com)
5 points by pdog 10y ago|3 comments
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by pdog 10y ago
> Our world resembles a lot from each of these books. Much like in 1984, we have devices and companies constantly monitoring us (iOS, Android, Facebook, etc.), we have “news programs” and websites seemingly modeled after the “two minute
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by pdog 10y ago
Windows 10 is a great operating system, but if you have an existing business-critical workflow, why would you update your major version? Stick with what works unless you have a reason to update. It's why some multinational companies ar
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by pdog 10y ago
It feels like PostgreSQL is at the center of every terrible story about data loss[1] or poor performance[2]. I think companies prefer other databases like MySQL because they "just work." [1]: https://about.gitlab.com&
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Why Silicon Valley's Young Elite Won't Invest in Art(bloomberg.com)
2 points by pdog 10y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 10y ago
Ugh. No matter how much you do, it's never enough. I feel like people are tired of this type of grandstanding and it's one of the reasons why Trump won. Also, flagged because we're all tired of politics.
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by pdog 10y ago
How will Trudeau respond? Xiao Jianhua is a Canadian citizen, after all.
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by pdog 10y ago
Silicon Valley is a place where founders need to be reassured that building a company that's profitable but only worth $100 million is "nothing to be ashamed of."
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by pdog 10y ago
You'll learn far more having a two-minute conversation with someone whose viewpoint is different vs. reading an article in the MIT Technology Review .
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by pdog 10y ago
> Futurist and Stanford professor Paul Saffo looked out over a mostly male, mostly affluent-looking audience... I like when an article lets me know I can stop reading after the first sentence.
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by pdog 10y ago
> low grade mass consumption product that's bad for you Millions of people use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family. It's the platform that has powered trillions of meaningful social connections over the years

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