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African Payment Startup Chipper Raises $30m from Ribbit Capital and Jeff Bezos(techcrunch.com)
2 points by smohnot 6y ago|0 comments
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Zelle Has Turned Dollar-Starved Venezuela into a Cashless Test Lab(bloomberg.com)
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Habits of Highly Successful People(mcsweeneys.net)
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How The New York Times reinvented their product(minesafetydisclosures.com)
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by smohnot 6y ago
BTV | Venture capital analyst/associate | San Francisco | Full time We're looking for someone to help us build BTV, a $75m VC fund investing in the best seed stage fintech companies globally. We are both entrepreneurs at heart, an
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Space Shuttle Endeavor moved 12 miles through LA streets (2012)(twitter.com)
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Leaked audio from recent internal Facebook Q&As(theverge.com)
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Facebook and Instagram launch live shopping(techcrunch.com)
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Lyft and Uber suspending California rides at midnight(theverge.com)
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Black newborns significantly more likely to die when looked after by white drs(cnn.com)
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by smohnot 6y ago
I dated someone who had prosopagnosia. She didn't know that she had it until she was in college on a trip to South East Asia, and she ran into her sister in a market in Malaysia and didn't recognize her sister! She normally can r
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ScaleFactor raised $100m for AI based accounting that turned out to be humans(forbes.com)
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African Payment Startup Chipper Cash Raises $13.8M Series A(techcrunch.com)
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Video of Tokyo, 1913-1915 (upscaled, colorized)(youtube.com)
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by smohnot 6y ago
Sad day for me; for a plane geek, frequent traveler, son of immigrants, and someone who has been to the factory (incredible - visit the Everett Boeing facility if you get a chance), this is super nostalgic. The "Queen of the skies&quo
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Museum of Ice Cream raised $40m, is an absolute mess(forbes.com)
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by smohnot 6y ago
I tried them at a pop-up the company had in SF; it was an awful experience. The employees of the pop up didn't know how to use the product, when they brought out a pair that fit my (very normal) face, I could barely see the screen on i
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Personal Capital Acquired for $1B(techcrunch.com)
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by smohnot 7y ago
If you like this, you might like "Searching For Sugar Man" a documentary where 2 guys in South Africa search for this legendary musician from the US who was rumored to be dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se
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by smohnot 7y ago
a better one for SF: https://saveourfaves.org/
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by smohnot 7y ago
These full-stack “cyborg” businesses are hard; seen them in many types of prof svcs; accounting, legal, recruiting, r estate, insurance. Very few have worked, Redfin as notable exception, though it took forever. The expected operational eff
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by smohnot 7y ago
A lot of folks don’t know that merchants pay more for CNP transactions. Why? Well it’s simple, there is no alternative to cards for an online transaction, the issuers have power. people think it’s due to fraud... there is a lot more fraud w
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by smohnot 7y ago
For those specifically worried about the 500 million animals dead in the wildfire, note that we kill 3 billion land animals and fish a DAY for meat ( https://sentientmedia.org/how-many-animals-are-killed-for-fo... ). Of cours
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by smohnot 7y ago
Relative to Dallas, yes - relative to SF it's quite a bit cheaper. Westlake's median price per square foot is $392, SF is $1068. The surroundings of SF don't get much cheaper. Dallas is $204/sf. https://www.zi
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AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans(theverge.com)
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by smohnot 7y ago
The tower at PNC in Pittsburgh is a new skyscraper that has a similar solar chimney model and relies on passive aircon for 42% of the year. https://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/r-d-awards/award-th...
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by smohnot 7y ago
Your link suggests that property crime in SF is up 40% in the past 5 years while it's down 25% nationwide... The economist and others consider it an epidemic: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/02&#x
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by smohnot 7y ago
I do have cameras that upload to the cloud; the system for interfacing and finding someone with that data (at SFPD) is abysmal; imagine looking through thousands of faces to find the perpetrator... Now imagine if technology could help solve
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by smohnot 7y ago
This seems like a bad decision to me. We have a crime epidemic and it seems to me like facial recognition can help. My house has been broken into several times and I've been assaulted in areas of SF with clear video footage; why wouldn
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San Francisco Considers Ban on Government's Use of Facial Recognition Technology(npr.org)
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