warp_factor

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by warp_factor 7y ago
Yes it should be awkward, but at least in my experience in the past this was expected to happen. And the person on the other side of the awkwardness would mostly be receptive from the tentative approach. I feel like nowadays, because it is
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by warp_factor 7y ago
because society still associate being single with a bad trait (I guess the logic being that if you are Single there must be something wrong with you). You therefore don't want to expose publicly that you are single with a blue bag.
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Great idea. It is exactly my complain with dating apps: They shifted most of the dating scene online in a predefined "boring flow". It is unfortunately extremely rare nowadays that people approach each other in real life. I think
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Something I never managed to fully confirm or deny: I manually disabled all the data collection on my Google account (search and location history). Is Google still tracking my location? Would I still appear in that database? I'm prett
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by warp_factor 7y ago
Simply put: UX is bad and most people figured out this was an easier way to do it. (Also something that comes to a shock to people working in the Bay: Most people are really not that good with computers). Also, basic behavior mimicry. You s
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by warp_factor 7y ago
That's the issue with Slack and other hype trends that will eventually go away as fads. Slack doesn't you make you more productive, it makes you spend more time on smalltalks and constant distractions. I almost never had a constru
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by warp_factor 7y ago
I think those comments try to react to the fact that this news got overblown because the researcher is a very talented woman. She definitely did something amazing and unfortunately it turned political because it fits the narrative that some
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by warp_factor 8y ago
What is going on with all this cult-following of "FANG" companies? I seriously don't get it. From what I see those are close to the least ethical companies in tech. It really disturbs me that people chose a job for fame and m
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by warp_factor 8y ago
I thought this was a joke. Seems to be real though.
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by warp_factor 8y ago
multiple economic papers have shown that Rent Control is a huge disaster for a city. As said in another comment, it rewards those that moved in early (and those might be super rich techies like most of my friends that like to brag about hav
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by warp_factor 8y ago
you are right and I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. Most of the 72$ shares sold pre-IPO to retail investors were dumped on IPO day to make a quick profit. The individual investors and employees that are still in LockOut are no
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by warp_factor 8y ago
only if the IPO price is completely unrelated to the fundamentals, like it is for Lyft currently. If it is unrelated to the fundamentals, you are in full speculation territory and the only goal buying the stock is to sell it eventually to a
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by warp_factor 8y ago
The stock is in free fall right now. It popped because it was so much hyped accross regular investors. Right now I predict that one week from now it will go under the 72$ opening price
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by warp_factor 8y ago
Very similar to Lyft and Uber it seems
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by warp_factor 8y ago
I agree with you completely, it is a simplistic example of course. But spending multiple weeks in each you can have a feel for the culture of each place, the way people behave, their level of education etc etc.
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by warp_factor 8y ago
I was thinking about the same thing. It seems this stock is completely disconnected from the fundamentals and that's what allows it to go so high (And make the founder//VCs rich). If we push this logic to the extreme, what wo
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by warp_factor 8y ago
probably not. After spending an extensive amount of time in Mainland China and Taiwan, it is fascinating to see how one country initially evolved in two separate countries based on different ideologies. I would go as far as to say that if y
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by warp_factor 8y ago
Uber and Lyft IPOs look to me like they are legal ponzy schemes. Both companies lose a crazy amount of money, they have close to zero moat, customers have no loyalty and will go to another rideshare service if it is one dollar cheaper. The
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by warp_factor 8y ago
Can you explain more by what you mean with it is a "good company"? It is not a good or bad company, it is a company which mission is to make money. Shorts help keep the stock market healthy by giving opportunities to investor to i
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by warp_factor 8y ago
I think one of the bigger challenge is that when you become bigger you launch more projects to handle the scale and each of those projects introduce new bugs for which you need new team of engineers. Basically, once you hit scaling I think
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by warp_factor 8y ago
ok, but: * Everything they do is low data (no video, image or anything high bandwith). * Their whole model can be subdivided into smaller local problems (all users//drivers in the bay area have nothing to do with the users/&#
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by warp_factor 8y ago
I think you are right. I think that what is going there is also a bit political. They started to grow their Engineering department so fast that they need to justify the headcounts now. So each team is trying to invent new projects all the t
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by warp_factor 8y ago
I was actually making a point that what defines a tech company shifted over time. 10 years ago, we had some "hard tech" with a lot of tech innovation. I was arguing that the meaning of "tech company" shifted to a busines
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by warp_factor 8y ago
That's what I find so interesting with Tesla owner. They spend a fortune on a car, then they minimize every single issue they have with the car. My explanation for this is that for a lot of owners, the car is a way to be part of a hype
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by warp_factor 8y ago
Airbnb or Uber are not really tech companies. They are business companies with a WebApp required as part of the execution. They didn't invent anything on the technical level, they brought some business ideas to existing tech (I mean Ai
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by warp_factor 8y ago
it's funny, not sure why you are downvoted
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by warp_factor 8y ago
yes, everything is signaling. If you get a brandless tshirt, you are also signaling that you are too smart to buy the luxury brand.
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by warp_factor 8y ago
You make a good point and I edited my comment. Thanks.
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by warp_factor 8y ago
I replied on another thread on this topic where the same question got raised. (TLDR: Not perfect, but definitely a magnitude better).
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by warp_factor 8y ago
With simple logic: If TV is not Healthy, then Facebook is definitely worse as it mixes TV and broadcasts specifically the fake perfect life of people you know.

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