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by supster 11y ago
accepted = past tense of accept (to receive or admit formally) excepted = not included in the category or group specified
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by supster 11y ago
@chamath called it? https://www.quora.com/What-should-we-do-about-Trump-How-bad-...
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by supster 11y ago
The larger point was that incentives flip as soon as you become a homeowner. As a renter, you are hoping for housing prices to go down and would like to see this happen via increased housing supply, deregulation, or even a local economic do
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by supster 11y ago
Exactly, so many people seem to forget this simple fact
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by supster 11y ago
Well you can see that s is a string because of the assignment, and if you want you can also add type annotations like let s: String = "Swift is the future"
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by supster 11y ago
free float capitalization (e.g. http://www.renaissancecapital.com/index/ipousa.aspx )
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by supster 11y ago
Great business, great model, simply overvalued (expectations exceeded reality). Probably a winner in the long run IMO.
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by supster 11y ago
It's pretty hard to produce new viral games at low cost in a consistent fashion.
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by supster 11y ago
Their lock-in is their network effects. Airbnb has a huge selection of locations in many major cities around the world. Uber has an incredible number of drivers and riders on the system globally at all times of the day. Competitors will hav
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by supster 11y ago
The Visa fee of 1-3% is too expensive in the internet era. It made sense 50 years ago when cost of moving information was high, but now it's just rent seeking.
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by supster 11y ago
Exactly, this is why the stateless-ness is such a drawback to adoption. Because Venezuelan gov't knows that its people would prefer to transact in a more stable currency and try to convert from the bolívar to btc. And the gov't wi
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by supster 11y ago
The money supply is fixed to 21 million. Fortunately, the coins are basically infinitely divisible, so as the coins become more valuable (assuming over the long run that coins are used for larger and larger amounts of commerce rather than s
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by supster 11y ago
Did you guys consider using Elixir/Phoenix? Seems like it would have been a good fit (in terms of scalability) for what you guys have built.
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Beyond Disruption(stratechery.com)
8 points by supster 11y ago|3 comments
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by supster 11y ago
Python, Ruby, etc
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by supster 11y ago
Agreed, it would be cool if we could specify untyped zones within a function e.g. @untyped func parse(json: AnyObject) -> String? { /* code here is not type checked, if returned value is not type String then value will become nil
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by supster 11y ago
Agreed server side swift will be awesome. My only complaint is that JSON parsing is kind of a major pain. Libraries like Argo and SwiftyJSON help, but code can still get really verbose.
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by supster 11y ago
Great, now if you go to a Tier 3 city in China will that work also? Has your SMS cab service built a worldwide network with deep liquidity? Does your cab service account for supply and demand in realtime? Does you cab service experiment in
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by supster 11y ago
LTCM's main money strategies were fixed income arbitrage based on the difference between on the run and off the run Tbills as well as Merger Arbitrage. Black-Scholes model was not involved in their investing in a significant amount. Bu
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by supster 11y ago
Fair point, but the company bringing us self-driving cars started off as a glorified search company selling ads on the side. Maybe we should give these companies some time to mature, build a recurring cash base, and replow that back into co
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by supster 11y ago
I agree with your general sentiment, but I feel like your examples are wrong. Uber has fundamentally reshaped how we view and consume transportation. With the addition of self-driving cars, it has the potential to utterly reshape logistics.
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by supster 11y ago
You can rent a car, or you can rent money to buy a car (i.e. take out a car loan and make interest payments). In the end it's all kind of the same.
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by supster 11y ago
General question: what are some pros and cons of Perl compared to other languages like Python, Ruby, Java, Clojure, Haskell? What makes Perl unique and people so enthusiastic about it?
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The Chromebit turns any old monitor or TV into a computer for $85(theverge.com)
2 points by supster 11y ago|0 comments
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by supster 11y ago
> Would he be willing to forego YC's union-like attributes? Interesting view point! I would note though, that before the YC & AWS era of young founders starting companies on the cheap, venture capital had union/old-boy-netw
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by supster 11y ago
That's a great point. Maybe we should view the issue from two perspectives: 1) unions for government employees and 2) unions for corporate employees. Where maybe the solution for corporate employees is more equity compensation, and for
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by supster 11y ago
> Generally speaking, the inefficiencies of unions exist to protect the interests of the workers, who generate wealth for the company but more often than not do not have an equity stake in the business. What if we paid workers meaningful
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by supster 11y ago
well said
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by supster 11y ago
If you are investing at that late of stage you'll likely negotiate downside protection like liquidation preferences which significantly de risk the deal. In which case a 2-10x return is actually really good b/c you are not expecti
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by supster 11y ago
Interesting! So are store.p212121.com or lapspend.com aka offers.p212121.com hooked to the same backend? Can I buy from labspend.com? Since universities buy through their labs do they see divergent prices even within the same institution? H

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