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by theprop 9y ago
Wow! What's the easiest way to stop this kind of attack? Stop all two-factor authentication?
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by theprop 9y ago
Age may mean certain things about DNA methylation, but it doesn't mean you can't continue inventing, challenging yourself taking chances e.g. 94 year-old co-inventor of lithium batteries co-invents a solid state (solid-glass elect
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by theprop 9y ago
Niagara Falls is at something like half its potential power. There are talks to open the floodgates so to speak once a year and let Niagara Falls be really gigantic (bigger than Iguaza) one day a year.
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by theprop 9y ago
To see the tuna auction, try to have someone who's seen it guide you. You have to get there ridiculously early, maybe 3am or even earlier...just so you know.
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by theprop 9y ago
Cool! Any video demo or anything of this anywhere?
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by theprop 9y ago
Yes, I think they were thinking of a way to pay potential startup mentors/advisors initially as a marketplace, then pivoted to general startup advice.
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by theprop 9y ago
Great idea about a marketplace for this! I think it could work for celebrities...I think fans would pay a lot to lunch with someone they're a huge fan of. 21.co looks cool & a nice idea!
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by theprop 9y ago
I remember when it was $25 to 50k and thinking that was a "steal"...but $2.7 million is ridiculous, though the money does go to a great cause :-).
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by theprop 9y ago
This article is misleading and wrong in some of its ideas. Every company wants to employ as little expensive and unreliable-relative-to-a-machine human labor as possible. Trying to cut down costs is in fact not short-sighted or somehow &q
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by theprop 9y ago
Interesting! Probably the most consistent top performer of the large hedge funds is the quant fund Renaissance and it's 100% I think employee/owner-funded at this point.
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by theprop 9y ago
There are actually lots of companies building robotics toys for kids and inspiring a new generation of Robotics Engineers :-D!
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by theprop 9y ago
They do have a good point. For the airline industry & its norms, any sort of ethical requirements will undoubtedly hamper their ability to hire "industry talent".
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by theprop 9y ago
Woah...that's a gigantic valuation...I wouldn't have expected their gross income to be in the nine figures yet?!
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by theprop 9y ago
Yes, "Partners at two prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firms deceived four of the five founders of a start-up company, withholding critical information and thereby cheating them out of tens of millions of dollars, according to
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by theprop 9y ago
Interesting also how they had what ended up being the basoc idea behind the much more successful Yelp, also Quora arguably and others.
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by theprop 9y ago
Despite this formidable team of engineering talent, in eight hours of off-and-on tinkering they couldn't correctly assemble any desks. Finally they called a carpenter who had done this before, and he started building two desks an hour.
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Chobani on Growing a Startup Without Investors(hbr.org)
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by theprop 9y ago
Anyone know more stories from Carrington's life? I love this one! "As the most famous Carrington story goes, she once cut off the hair of a much loathed houseguest in the middle of the night and served it to him in an omelet in t
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by theprop 9y ago
YES YES YES!! More support for this! That said, be prolific and deep...try not to repeat yourself depending on what you're doing but go deeper... Aaron Levie of box.com I believe started 10 different websites and box.com was the one t
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by theprop 9y ago
I read https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention... which details this. They're just being a little sophisticated in how they block third-party cookies. This will hardly stop other trackin
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by theprop 9y ago
Wow, yes, could be very true!! Could be related to higher crime rates by certain minority groups that may tend to live in old homes with lead paint. Historically, the great great great painter Caravaggio was quite violent/irritable an
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by theprop 9y ago
This is a huge, spirited discussion. There was a very similar discussion with many of the same points when child labor was outlawed and education was made mandatory a bit over 100 years ago. All the points against college education made he
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by theprop 9y ago
I hope these guys don't flip like Gracenote did...Gracenote was all crowdsourced user contributions (for a long time at least) but then they closed off the data and sold it to Sony for $250+ million.
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by theprop 9y ago
1. $400+ million to turn peanut fragments into a treatment. What?!?!?! 2. I think this treatment could potentially be a lot more deadly than the problem. It's a case of unintended side effects...in this case over-confidence vs. a s
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by theprop 9y ago
Probably not so much excessive hygiene, but antibiotic use. Some studies already indicate higher rates of allergies in kids who as toddlers took antibiotics.
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by theprop 9y ago
Some professor asks students on the first day of neuroscience, if all there is to know about the brain is a mile long, how far have we gotten so far? Students guess a few yards, a hundred feet, ten feet...the professor says no no, not even
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by theprop 9y ago
Bill Gates favorite quote is from the Great Gatsby: “His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”
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by theprop 9y ago
Great work!!! This could be amazing...if you can stimulate a reasonable number of neurons without an implant, it's a game-changer!!
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by theprop 9y ago
India is doing pretty well in green energy on the whole! India has the 4th largest energy generator from wind in the world. India has the largest solar power plant in the world (Kamuthi in Tamil Nadu). I at least hope that India is not i
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by theprop 9y ago
More details on how they calculated everything would be nice. A better place went bankrupt!

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