rogerdickey

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by rogerdickey 6y ago
What about setting off a nuclear bomb underneath the ship?
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Upvoting you just due to username
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Anyone know how they got Prince Harry? Did he or Megan previously know the CEO?
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
It's not "rents for the rich" it's "rents for higher priced apartments" and it's basic supply & demand. This headline stokes unnecessary class conflict. WaPo should be ashamed.
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
These tunnels were actually used by leprechauns circa 1300 to secretly move gold from town to town
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Do we know how much control owners of media companies have over the media they produce, in practice?
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
If it hasn't already, social media almost certainly will.
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Spoken as a former junior engineer this is 100% accurate.
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
The writing has been on the wall for many years. Unpopular opinion: Zoom is next when everyone else improves their codec.
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Boring. Facebook has been used for every type of communication, whether it's inciting violence or sharing cat pictures with grandma, by almost every internet-connected human.
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Flagged
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Moral of the story - don’t be unpopular
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
On some level this makes sense. Unions murder margins and productivity so you'd want to be circumspect.
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
HaaS
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Probably none or we would have seen one already after 10k smart people spent 10 years looking.
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Even if it’s a real violation, what damages can they prove? Uber is trying to help them
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Bad companies are bad at hiring, good companies tend to be good at it. In most cases as efficient as they can be if you understand their constraints.
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
I don't disagree with the point on overconfidence but it is a bit exhausting to be surrounded by 10,000+ overconfident CEOs of 3 person companies in Silicon Valley, most of whom will never succeed. It contributes to a culture that can
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
It is 60 startup slide decks, not 1,200 startup slide decks
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Not the first time someone was “on track” to roll out flying cars in 3 years and it won’t be the last
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Did they reach $100m ARR? If so that's impressive, a lot more than I would have guessed.
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
I remember meeting Dan, the founding CEO of Optimizely, at winter 2010 YC demo day. I had just grabbed my name tag and was walking toward the building when he stopped me outside to give me the pitch. He immediately struck me as a smart, cap
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
More like "Live video capability on the internet is now critical infrastructure" but even then, phones probably cover 90%+ of use cases
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
This makes me think they should have pivoted Blockbuster to a hostel / low cost hotel experience. Could have small rooms / shared baths that center around a living room where you can do movie night with other guests. I would be a
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Does Apple still sell phones at a loss? If so they are subsidizing eyeballs for app devs and need to somehow get paid back for this.
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
It seems inevitable that the government will make reactionary, uninformed decisions. The question is, how do we revert to normal (a freer market) and begin to teach those in power some basic economics lessons? I'm not hopeful that an o
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
I would have called this "Mirrortocracy". More clear that you're referring to mirrors, rolls off the tongue just about as easily, and still sounds like meritocracy.
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Wonder if this controls for severity of the crime? It could be the case that attractive people don't tend to commit crimes as serious (within each category, ie misdemeanor)
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Doesn't look like it covers 那个 (pronounced nah-gu in Mandarin). I had a black friend in college who told me about how deeply offended he was when he heard his Chinese girlfriend's parents saying this over & over...
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Who else immediately plugged in "nova"?

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