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by sebleon 9y ago
> No money raised means companies are forced to surive on revenue The opposite seems more true: insufficient revenue means companies are forced to fundraise.
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by sebleon 9y ago
Excellent communication and responsiveness. If you’re able to respond to any question on Slack or email within 2min during waking hours, that drastically improves the remote dynamic.
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by sebleon 9y ago
This is awesome. As a Bear power user, I’ve been looking for a collaborative note-app that just works. Haven’t gotten a beta invite yet for mobile app (key imo), but this seems promising!
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by sebleon 9y ago
> The more sophisticated hires will realize this and you may then have to increase their compensation (in equity, cash or both) to make up the difference to avoid a morale issue. What about the less sophisticated hires? Employees are tru
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by sebleon 9y ago
Right, it's better to be healthy at 90 than in chemotherapy. However, I question the societal and individual benefits of enabling everyone to live to 100. > We need to rethink the way we think about the elderly, because one day thos
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by sebleon 9y ago
> better humans Ah, sounds like you’re into eugenics. Do you believe humans are wise enough to determine what traits are favorable? Increased longevity, for instance, seems short-sighted. We already have extreme population growth. While
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by sebleon 9y ago
Twitter is profitable with revenues of $732M. What’s your definition of a business failure?
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by sebleon 9y ago
What makes it terrible?
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by sebleon 9y ago
> If he can't take the heat he should stay out of the kitchen Exactly, that's why he moved away.
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by sebleon 9y ago
What country are you based in? I’ve only heard negative things about the taxi industry internationally, mostly around corruption. Surprised to hear there’s places where taxis have a good reputation.
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by sebleon 9y ago
> only thing the taxi industry needed to do to prevent this all from happening was develop a ride-hailing app There's no way the taxi industry could have pulled this off. There's an incredibly complex dispatch system that keeps
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by sebleon 9y ago
> And today, by tapping the united strength of these and other interlocking fields and capitalizing on what they can teach each other, we seek to answer the deepest questions about intelligence — and to deliver transformative new gifts f
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by sebleon 9y ago
> public trust in the media at an all time low Is that a fact or opinion? Likely they're seeing ad-revenue increasing with the clickbait titles, giving them a data-driven reason to pursue this (short-sighted) strategy. Long-term, th
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by sebleon 9y ago
Rio de Janeiro had an awesome bike system in 2012. You could use an app to unlock the bikes, find hubs, save your credit card info on the app, super easy to use the bikes. This was all setup and subsidized by a local bank, surprised more ci
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by sebleon 9y ago
Ha, I've tried to use this product with 3 different teams, never caught on - ended up mostly syncing up via Slack+Email+Google Docs. Anyone here been able to get a team to use Asana?
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by sebleon 9y ago
Bloomberg could not afford Twitter - their market caps are $22Bn and $17Bn, respectively.
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by sebleon 9y ago
> Outdoor Activities Renting a car (via Getaround, Zipar) on weekends can be cost effective
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by sebleon 9y ago
Yes, Wikileaks has a spin (it’s run by people after all), but they’ve only posted factual documents. To give public full picture, we need more Wikileaks-copycats with a different spin.
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by sebleon 9y ago
Not relevant to Bitmain, but curious if Western perception is incorrect re: US IP law ignored in Asia
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by sebleon 9y ago
Got it, makes sense. Whoa, thanks for calling out my biases O_O > lax IP laws aren't actually that lax I thought one of the big initiatives for the TPP was to enforce US IP in Asia?
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by sebleon 9y ago
I'm surprised to hear there aren't more manufacturers in China that reverse engineer Bitmain's circuits, replicate, and sell them in the local market where US IP law doesn't apply.
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by sebleon 9y ago
"We buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like." - Fight Club I'd venture to say that the majority of human effort today is spent on useless things. Consumerism is the base of our enti
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by sebleon 9y ago
Bitcoin/Monero/Zcash are already incredibly useful by making things like Wikileaks possible, which was previously shut out of the world financial system from US Govt pressure. This contribution to international politics alone has
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by sebleon 9y ago
> fb dropped patent stuff Ah, thanks for the update, glad they did that > are not needed that often Right - statistically most apps are probably throwaway code for hackathons or demos. However, I'd venture to say that >50% of
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by sebleon 9y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by sebleon 9y ago
My take is that RN is great for demo apps or simple UIs, but I would not choose it for a production app where performance matters (ie. using camera, audio, custom controls, platform-specific SDKs, multi-threading, etc). You're definite
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by sebleon 9y ago
The logic still applies. 1. Start with platform you're most comfortable with. 2. Iterate on product until you have a winning formula 3. Replicate on 2nd platform to double revenues Building is a lot easier than identifying what to buil
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by sebleon 9y ago
Very heart warming article, glad to hear about empirical evidence that basic income leads to fruitful, productive lives. Personally, I believe that basic income would be a net good if 99% of basic income recipients wasted money on booze, as
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by sebleon 9y ago
Likely unions or insurance reasons. I’ve heard similar things about airplane pilots.
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Ask HN: Should this video be banned from HN?
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