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by vthallam 8y ago
It makes sense that Goldman Sachs and Newyork Stock Exchange are working on Bitcoin trading allowing wealthy clients to own Bitcoin. At this point it's definitely mainstream and if enough of the billionaires own it, they can definitely
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by vthallam 8y ago
I didn't knew Recruit is the parent company of Indeed, it makes more sense now. I see your start up is Zippia. It looks to me that it's a good looking indeed :) and seems you are doing well, Congrats on that. I did a small start u
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by vthallam 8y ago
I've never heard of Recruit Holdings before, but when I do some digging, I was surprised on how big the money is with Staffing/Recruiting companies. Not that Glassdoor is currently unbiased, but a staffing company owning Glassdoor
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by vthallam 8y ago
> my prior company paid for their entire data se Are you aware of how expensive that kind of data set would be? Also curious on what any company would do with that kind of data. Predict which company employees are the happiest?
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by vthallam 8y ago
Google is winning with TPU's. Most other competitors even with great machine learning talent would not be able to match the speed that Google does things with because of the TPU's.
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Bitcoin Sees Wall Street Warm to Trading Virtual Currency(nytimes.com)
144 points by vthallam 8y ago|120 comments
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Facebook to Research Ad-Free Subscription-Based Version(bloomberg.com)
14 points by vthallam 8y ago|7 comments
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by vthallam 8y ago
This article feels more like a press release. But not a good day to announce a partnership with Twitter.
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by vthallam 8y ago
Just took a simple search "queue messages on slack" to find one - https://sv-qbot.herokuapp.com/ The description looks close to what you were expecting.
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by vthallam 8y ago
> it's really hard to see how they can be stopped I know it's hard. But I was counting on Google Express being really really good in delivery and item availability. They partner with retailers in helping their products get mor
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by vthallam 8y ago
A way to get young people to use FB more? I know they literally know who's best for a user based on the ton of data we feed, but I'm wondering the privacy conscious folks would be hesitant to create a dating profile on FB.
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by vthallam 8y ago
Godaddy enables you to preregister at the moment. This is only a preorder and doesn't guarantee the domain.
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by vthallam 8y ago
I know TLD's doesn't affect SEO, but does Google enhance .app domain SEO when people search for apps on Google search?
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by vthallam 8y ago
I mean what did they expect when they were selling it to Facebook? It's far too compelling for facebook to not to milk Whatsapp users/data in some way. There could have been some balance of power if the 2-3 most used forms of com
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by vthallam 8y ago
Or you could do top 100 questions on leetcode or hackerrank and you would have solved the question in a minute. It's kinda sad that you could remember the top 100 solutions and clear interviews in almost all big tech companies.
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Bitcoin Prices Finally See Bullish Growth: Rises Past $9000 Mark(coinsocial.io)
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by vthallam 9y ago
Can't believe Jeremey Levine passed on the dream investments time and again.
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by vthallam 9y ago
Offtopic - But this NYT article has a very great interactive design to show the data.
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Goldman buys personal finance app Clarity Money(ft.com)
1 points by vthallam 9y ago|0 comments
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by vthallam 9y ago
This kind of makes sense. If the car owners are at some random place in the city, Uber could drive them there for pick up and offer ride backs.
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by vthallam 9y ago
The fact that there's no worthy competitor to FB shows the power of the network. Zuckerberg has been really smart to acquire instagram and WhatsApp to avoid the possibility of irrelevance. If not for the acquisitions, I think FB with t
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by vthallam 9y ago
Swarm
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by vthallam 9y ago
Educating people definitely helps. But even the most educated one's could give into impulse and get triggered to false propaganda.
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by vthallam 9y ago
>We also learned about a disinformation campaign run by the Internet Research Agency (IRA) — a Russian agency that has repeatedly acted deceptively and tried to manipulate people in the US, Europe, and Russia. We found about 470 accounts
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‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances(nytimes.com)
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Facebook a contributor to committees in Congress that will question Zuckerberg(usatoday.com)
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George Soros Prepares to Trade Cryptocurrencies(bloomberg.com)
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Trump Urges $100B in New China Tariffs, Stoking Tensions(bloomberg.com)
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by vthallam 9y ago
> if you are tricky enough doesn't mean Facebook is responsible for people being scammed by them Come on. If you think FB is not responsible for people using it for bad purposes, then what is the difference between Voluum, the track
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by vthallam 9y ago
Use Analytics is a big business. As in, people make apps like battery saver or flashlight just so they can get millions of downloads, later track the other app usage and sell data. Only here, they went little overboard with permissions like

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