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by sebleon 8y ago
Exactly, no clear differentiator. There's a number of online interviews where even the founders couldn't clearly articulate what was novel.
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by sebleon 8y ago
What makes you think it was built to be sold to Amazon?
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by sebleon 8y ago
This is actually reasonable. Without this, Snap would be asking for lawsuits from anyone that submits an idea that’s even close to an upcoming feature. At the end of the day, this incubator relies on trust, and founders should never take mo
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by sebleon 8y ago
Where does the number “10 years” come from? 5 seems plausible to this non-domain expert
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by sebleon 8y ago
What's your email?
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by sebleon 8y ago
Whether you believe glysophate is carcinogenic or not, this scandal demonstrates how the FDA works for industry, not the people. If they had the taxpayers best interests at heart, they would not be concealing or halting research around a wi
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Ask HN: Should more countries block Facebook and Google?
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by sebleon 8y ago
Absolutely, companies face extreme government coercion in China.
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by sebleon 8y ago
What has he done to deserve it?
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by sebleon 8y ago
What are some ICOs you do support?
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by sebleon 8y ago
> legitimately innovative > exactly like every other ICO > hollow promises These are subjective opinions, doesn't seem like a rigorous line.
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by sebleon 8y ago
> because it's incredibly limited in scope (...) I doubt it will succeed. What is the correct amount of scope to ensure success? I'm curious what's the logic behind your comment and negative predictions.
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by sebleon 8y ago
Ah didn’t realize it was dropping. However, it’s clear there’s a large discrepancy between average employee income and average revenue per employee.
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by sebleon 8y ago
Seems like a good time for employees to unionize.
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by sebleon 8y ago
No, I'm saying that it's possible to have valuable companies emerge from overhyped technologies.
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by sebleon 8y ago
I'm generally baffled when companies opt to hire a junior dev for ~$110k, when an additional 30% more income can get them someone 10x more productive.
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by sebleon 8y ago
> brilliant one who is constantly going down rabbit holes unnecessarily Ha, sounds like an oxymoron
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by sebleon 8y ago
Yes, there is definitely a hype train, but that's not mutually exclusive from being productive. The dotcom boom produced many failed companies... alongside Amazon and Google, which changed society in many ways.
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by sebleon 8y ago
> One quick fix: designate one car parking stop near every street corner as drop-off spots for dockless lightweight EVs. Problem solved. Yes, this seems like an efficient and practical solution. Personally very happy to see how quickly p
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by sebleon 8y ago
In the US’s case, we have a guns vs. armored vehicles and tanks. While better than being unarmed, unclear how much self defense Americans have against a militarized domestic police force [1] [1] https://www.newyorker.com/new
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by sebleon 8y ago
1. You can’t. They didn’t have an incentive to prioritize this on product roadmap, at least not until now. 2. Most likely to jump start new accounts. They’ll be able to target ads at your new account better if they already have years of dat
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by sebleon 8y ago
> It was involved in 73 percent of all child trafficking cases reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Wouldn't this make Backpage an incredible asset to law enforcement? I'm surprised they're t
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by sebleon 9y ago
Venezuela has some of the cheapest electricity in the world thanks to subsidies... but spikes in your power usage at home will land you in jail [1]. One workaround is pooling power from your neighbors, but the legal risk and setup are enoug
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by sebleon 9y ago
I seriously doubt the author has spoken to a single Venezuelan about Bitcoin. A couple realities: - dozens of miners have gone to prison for exploiting power subsidies. Mining now requires pooling electricity from neighbors to hide high-usa
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by sebleon 9y ago
20% of the time, it works every time.
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by sebleon 9y ago
> they have little use for Latin America Untrue. China has been making massive investments there to secure natural resources in the past few years.
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by sebleon 9y ago
> Quantitatively: test and control pop splits. How do you actually do this? Presidential elections come once every 4 years.
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by sebleon 9y ago
Monsanto released Roundup-Ready Soybean in 1996 to INCREASE herbicide use, without affecting crop yield [1] Programs like Bt-corn reduce pesticide use... by making the plant produce the herbicide in the fruit. So, instead of being able to p
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by sebleon 9y ago
> development work is significant Not true, these guys invested a lot in making their sdks easy to integrate. You should be able to have fb/twitter/Pinterest/etc login in an afternoon
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by sebleon 9y ago
> Does "3x faster" mean at 300%, or at 400%? It's 300%. If company A is growing 10% every month, and company B is growing 30% a month, people would call B's growth 3x faster (30/10=3).

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