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How We Make Cars Is a Bigger Environmental Issue Than How We Fuel Them(radar.oreilly.com)
32 points by xenophon 11y ago|26 comments
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List of emerging technologies(en.wikipedia.org)
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by xenophon 11y ago
That's a great point and definitely something I oversimplified -- perhaps the "structural" factors of time horizon aren't a significant influence on the liquidity-seeking behavior of these investors. But I'd stand b
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by xenophon 11y ago
Not quite true, which is exactly the point -- T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Tiger Global, BlackRock, Coatue, Valiant and Wellington are a few of the public asset managers that are heavily outgunning traditional VCs and pumping up valuations thro
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by xenophon 11y ago
Another relevant article hinting at this development: http://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinator-raising-money-fo... The impetus behind a growth equity fund, according to the article, would be to provide "long-term ca
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by xenophon 11y ago
I work for a company that has deferred its IPO from plan, and from what I understand the SOX regulatory burden has very little, if anything to do with it. Credibility and providing liquidity for investors and shareholders are certainly impo
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by xenophon 11y ago
I don't think it's true that news media "clearly" do not see themselves as watchdogs anymore -- that's a pretty massive generalization. As the article discussed, the universe of news providers writ large has certain
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The Future of Computers Is the Mind of a Toddler(bloomberg.com)
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Newton's Flaming Laser Sword (2004)(philosophynow.org)
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III has a terrifying vision of the future(sploid.gizmodo.com)
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by xenophon 12y ago
In your example, you've just paid for 3 unnecessary months of use between when you "decided it wasn't for you" and "changed your mind." In a subscription model, you'd just resubscribe. I can understand you
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Facebook's Yann LeCunn Discusses Digital Companions and AI(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by xenophon 12y ago
When you buy software for a fixed price, you've just bought a depreciating asset (relative to upgrades) with no way to adjust spend and fine-tune your ROI based on anticipated or unanticipated changes to your usage. What I'm tryin
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Cryonics and Cryptography(alcor.org)
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Research priorities for robust and beneficial AI [pdf](futureoflife.org)
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Sebastian Seung's Quest to Map the Human Brain(mobile.nytimes.com)
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Redfin Raises $71M(bloomberg.com)
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An Illustrated Guide to Computer Vision(medium.com)
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A Proposed Redesign for U.S. Currency That Celebrates Science(io9.com)
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The Search for Exceptional Genomes(technologyreview.com)
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Fidelity's Oculus App Lets You Fly Through Investments(technologyreview.com)
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Can Singapore use big data to engineer a more harmonious society?(foreignpolicy.com)
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