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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Tip: If you are very casual smoker and see a form asking you "Have you ever smoked?" or "Do you smoke any tobacco?" then say no. If you say yes then you will see it getting reported to your health insurance and even life
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
This is well covered in many books and articles. The back story, as I understand, is that Allen was checked out from Microsoft even before he got sick. He was going through relationship and other personal issues and went through long stretc
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
I get the hoopla but what’s the alternative? It’s not that Chinese customers are clamoring for any of the Google services. Without Google, China will continue to develop their home grown services with far more surveillance than Google would
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Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry(twitter.com)
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Pretty bad journalism. The article is full of what other people think of this act without ever revealing what really this new act does!
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Main paragraph: I grew increasingly disillusioned with academia. It seemed that many STEM undergraduates would rush into PhD programs out of sheer inertia, without exploration of other options, and spend five, six years of their prime yout
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Could you highlight his reasoning for being committed Christian? In my experience, it is very hard for intellectuals to cling to their religious beliefs in face of ocean of severe logical contradictions. So many of my discussions have usual
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
The problem with China is that government isn’t magically going to remove sensorship and Google had zero impact on their policy by staying out. It seems right move to me that Google will provide slightly more open search and other apps and
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
What was wrong with evil ‘ol Plantir? Thiel had been waiting for his reward since he wagged his tail for Trump.
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
No, they left it to rott. No innovations, no new strategy, no new leadership, no new bold moves. Nothing. If G+ was startup outside Google we would have ripped it off for not even pretending to compete. Social is absolutely the most importa
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Lot of us are estranged from our partners. I would say only this: Even if things are very bad, a thought of them dying will make you wish that you could have done something different while both of you were still breathing. There are no argu
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Number of project failures and cuts under Larry Page is just amazing. Normally you would expect that founder CEO insist on long term vision and loves to go after big bets. Under Larry Page, X had been cut. Boston Dynamics was lost. Robotics
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
- avoid implicit/explicit biases - respect privacy of individuals - avoid personal identification Overall don’t do anything with AI that is ethically wrong to do it by other means (for example, you can replace AI with expensive human l
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
His argument absolutely does not make any sense. This combined with the fact that AT&T and others have already been paying administration for getting favorable laws passed, I hope someday this guy gets investigated for bribery.
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Not true. Inter-racial marriages are actually very rare in all western countries, just a drop in bucket (although they are more visible because of our tendency to remember surprises more often than norms). Usually Asian boys would travel ba
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Cruise has made admirable progress but with 1/3rd miles and infrastructure they are way behind Waymo. Other players have basically existed the endeavour more or less so they do get to be at #2.
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
What about political orientation :).
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Personally I don't Musk had a choice. If he didn't do what he did then very likely Tesla would be bankrupt by now because of its debt obligations + short sellers. The short sellers counted on it. The choices he faced were go bankr
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
It's not going to be open-and-shut if for whatever magical reasons Saudis come back and decide to corroborate on Musk's statement.
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Almost everyone except you has been surprised so that should give you a clue. The Bayesian probabilities are all relative :). If you did believed 100% then you should have shorted the hell out of that stock. But you didn't so my guess
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
The guy hasn't been sleeping and short sellers had essentially all but cornered him to the extent he would go bankrupt. I don't blame him too much except that he hasn't got his #2 with whom he can vent out, calm down and stra
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
No, he is not.
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Unless you have worked with Musk you shouldn't be making these claims. I personally haven't but I know people who have and they tell me its mixed bag. Very passionate but if he gets a bad idea then you are screwed. Many of his var
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
TLDR; According to article, SEC did do the "swift" investigation and it seems they were convinced Musk had no hard evidence to back up his $420 claim. They even drafted settlement agreement that was supposed to be signed which I&#
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
I really have only one question... why did you kept doing more startups as employee? I totally understand people doing this as a founder but just don't get it otherwise.
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Thanks for the insight. I had guessed that most of the aquihires price are set at (investments + $500K/employee). If this wasn't the case, I would think that employees would have no incentive to get onboard and that would basicall
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Depends on what career stage you are and what you will be doing. If you have 5-10 years of experience and doing distributed computing/info retrieval/AI then $1M worth of RSUs over 4 years is VERY normal and totally expected by eve
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
You are also failing in life against someone who won lottery last week. You should have lot of regret about not going to that same store and not choosing those same numbers that lottery winner chose.
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Serious question: Assuming most of the startup crowd is in SV - how does this make any sense at all? People do have to pay $5000 mortgages there, right?
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by tinkerteller 8y ago
Your argument is not making sense to me as someone who had offers from startups. I was asked to take roughly 40% pay cut now and expect 10X increase in valuation for equity over 4 years which would put me ahead by 2X to 3X in terms of total

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