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SpaceX spent 'less than half the cost' of a new first stage on Falcon 9 relaunch(techcrunch.com)
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US F-16 Crashes in Maryland(cnn.com)
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Steve Bannon Removed from National Security Council(bloomberg.com)
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Signal App Downloads More Than Double Since Trump's Election(recode.net)
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Investor Sentiment Index Tells Founders When to Raise Money(techcrunch.com)
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Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects long before Otto(techcrunch.com)
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Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook(techcrunch.com)
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Introducing Redux Offline(medium.com)
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Steve Mnuchin: Losing Human Jobs to AI “Not Even on Our Radar Screen(techcrunch.com)
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by petergatsby 10y ago
Stop rewarding the most hyperbolic, sensational content by propagating it the furthest, fastest. Turn tweets into "ice-berg tips"; user taps on tweet to see more, nuanced info.
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by petergatsby 10y ago
Informative piece on circadian rhythm -- not sure how it justifies getting rid of the 40-hour work week.
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by petergatsby 10y ago
In theory perhaps. But anyone who's been paying attention knows, depressingly, that the stories coming out of Uber aren't new or unique. The gross culture depicted in these kinds of posts maps pretty-much 1:1 with the wider cultur
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by petergatsby 10y ago
"As investors, we certainly want to see Uber succeed, but success must be measured in more than just returns." -- Sure, but Uber is already a mission-driven company whose success is inversely proportional to horrible things like D
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by petergatsby 10y ago
Fowler's post shed light on Uber's serious internal problems -- no doubt. But going public with a post like this erodes founder-investor trust. It's across the line. Publicly condemning the internal culture the post depicted
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Automatic Robot Lawyers for Managing Open-Source Licenses(techcrunch.com)
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by petergatsby 10y ago
A long-needed solution to an increasingly important problem -- I hope they keep a free version after the Beta.
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by petergatsby 10y ago
Still my all-time favorite song in a musical: Pure Imagination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ-uV72pQKI
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by petergatsby 11y ago
It's a tiny amount indeed, but not everyone looking to start a startup has access to f&f with $20k to blow. Their goal, for better or worse, seems to be to circumvent the relationship-building part of fundraising at the earliest st
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by petergatsby 11y ago
100%
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by petergatsby 11y ago
I'm not sure that class-based polarization is inherently problematic. Surely some degree of inequality is an inviolable consequence of a society that values both freedom and private ownership. Imagine an America in which the poorest f
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by petergatsby 11y ago
Half-full headline: "American middle class shrinks, lower-income marginally increases, upper-income up 50%".
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by petergatsby 11y ago
"World outrage" isn't a constant. The internet means information travels faster than ever before, but also inadvertently causes "interesting things" to outpace "the truth". Properties like Upworthy/Bu
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by petergatsby 11y ago
Success!
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by petergatsby 11y ago
This is brilliant! Thanks for sharing.
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by petergatsby 11y ago
There seems to be this misperception of board members as individually highly influential on the actions of a company. Rice was probably hired for several of the reasons that you mentioned above. Ultimately though, it's hard to make use
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by petergatsby 11y ago
Leaders of large companies usually have to manage a wide array of disparate and sometimes diametrically opposed interests. The guys at Dropbox are smart; isn't the "obvious" assumption that Rice could be useful in helping the
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by petergatsby 11y ago
Positions on complex, high-level issues usually don't translate into predictable behaviors in specific, real-life scenarios. As for character, it's unclear what's unsettling about presumed utilitarians acting towards what the
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by petergatsby 11y ago
I think you're right; market forces, left alone, are unlikely to realign incentives within a desirable time-frame. This seems to explain Gates' stance. However, the creative capitalist would argue that rather than penalizing fossi
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by petergatsby 11y ago
It's tempting to criticize the decision to hire Rice based on weak spots in her track record, but we should resist the urge. In reality, Rice could've been recruited because of her relationships with top govt. security officials,
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by petergatsby 11y ago
It's not necessary to exclude the possibility of a Carbon tax, but it's certainly not the only, or most likely to be tenable, solution. Gates' own Creative Capitalism probably offers a better path towards zero emissions.

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