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by sebleon 8y ago
They're not doing a full pivot - rather they're shifting from "car-ride-hailing," to the all-encompassing "mobility" and diversifying their revenue across a number of transportation means.
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by sebleon 8y ago
What ills do you speak of? The negative media narrative is not a full reflection of reality, rather what will attract the most eyeballs to monetize in this current media cycle.
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by sebleon 8y ago
Agreed - I was specifically responding to the concern of gaining experience to solve global problems.
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by sebleon 8y ago
It's not an unreasonable opinion, but I doubt a PhD can make up for lack of real-world experience. Likely, the best way to get better at solving global problems is by doing just that for years, preferably alongside others with more exp
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by sebleon 8y ago
Optics of having a portfolio company "acquired by fb", non-zero returns (more relevant for angel, for VCs it's pretty much the same as nothing), frees up mental energy to focus on other companies.
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by sebleon 8y ago
a) It is a fun fact, and b) I think their point was gun laws do nothing without enforcement
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by sebleon 8y ago
First off, kudos on launching multiple successful restaurants in a tough city like SF! > Our technology differentiation is taking advantage of the growth What does this actually mean? Reading between the lines, sounds like you're go
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by sebleon 8y ago
My suspicion is that Uber could out-bribe the taxi lobby by 10x, without moving the needle on profitability. This cap signifies that Uber either a) doesn't bribe politicians, or b) bribed the wrong politicians.
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by sebleon 8y ago
What makes it dirty?
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by sebleon 8y ago
Non-academic here: why distribute electronic copies of a paper through a scientific journal? I can see why publishers existed pre-internet (printing and distributing paper journals costs money), but seems outdated at this point. What's
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by sebleon 8y ago
Some argue that IPFS is a rip off of BitTorrent, and thus, the circle is complete: BT -> IPFS -> TRON -> BT
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by sebleon 8y ago
Why?
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by sebleon 8y ago
Vast majority of people had no safeguards in place, and saw their savings vaporize. This has led to widespread poverty, and reliance on government handouts for survival. There's thousands of people everyday that illegally emigrate on f
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by sebleon 8y ago
Venezuelan government wants to maintain control over money creation (and print as needed). They actually came out with their own cryptocurrency, the Petro, which is backed by national oil reserves.
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by sebleon 8y ago
Yes, incredibly difficult to get a Venezuelan passport now, these restrictions prevents nationals from leaving en masse. Thousands of Venezuelans have illegally walked out of their country, and making their way to my home country Ecuador on
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by sebleon 8y ago
Right, less downside risk, but Berkshire Hathaway in particular hasn’t even kept up with the S&P500 for the past decade. Better off with an index fund for sure.
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by sebleon 8y ago
This article is more realistic than most ML posts, but it’s clear the author is not a practitioner. > More handwriting data will make a hand-writing recognizer better, and more gas turbine data will also make a system that predicts failu
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by sebleon 8y ago
I'm pointing out a clear example that invalidates a major assertion from the BIS report.
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by sebleon 8y ago
> hard to identify a specific economic problem which they currently solve Problem: a handful of private companies could exert monetary censorship. World changing organizations like Wikileaks are possible because of cryptocurrencies, when
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by sebleon 8y ago
$100-$150/hr is very reasonable, $200-250/hr if the client is well funded and personally likes you.
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by sebleon 8y ago
It’s reasonable for admissions to take into account your access to resources. Growing up in a poor, single parent home is like going through life in “hard mode”, and getting decent grades is impressive. Sadly race is a good proxy for socio-
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by sebleon 8y ago
> we know Bitcoin doesn’t scale to handle the volume of transactions needed No longer true. I used to believe this as well, but I’ve been blown away by the work from Lightning Network [1]. Subsecond transactions that happen off the Bitco
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by sebleon 8y ago
Getting rich is a quasi zero sum game. By definition, only 1-5% of the population can be in the “financial elite.” While this advice piece might be correct, it will be useless for >95% of its readers.
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by sebleon 8y ago
Interesting, you don’t think this is an odd punishment if this was about Russia?
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by sebleon 8y ago
This is likely a false accusation. If Apple acquiesced to Russia’s demands, Apple would have: 1) removed Telegram from the App Store in Russia, and 2) prevented Telegram from using the Apple Push Notification Service to distribute non-block
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by sebleon 8y ago
Sadly, this is true.
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by sebleon 8y ago
Ha, I actually thought the comment was relevant for an article on blocking EU users with Cloudflare. This regulation calls for legal expertise, trusting google to save on fees seems risky for a business. In all seriousness, biz owners shoul
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by sebleon 8y ago
> surprisingly clear This is an 88 page document with extremely dry language. Just confirming your assertion will be time consuming. No wonder many American services would rather shut out EU users than comply.
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by sebleon 8y ago
They spent $100M on the first phone, and $200M left over. They had capital for multiple throws, and even started working on them.
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by sebleon 8y ago
It was not popular, they had dismal number of orders when they launched. I’m curious what suggested that suppliers caused problems - one of their investors was actually Foxconn.

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