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by xivzgrev 7y ago
“But wide adoption of the optional security setting would make the app far harder to use for the vast majority of its more than 200 consumers, who rely on uploading phone contacts to identify friends and family members on the app, the sourc
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Ugh. Has this author ever visited LA? The entire city / culture is built around using a car to get to places. This article does nothing to address that, other than a few whimpy shoutouts to build more “convenient” public transit. Appar
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Despite the complaints, this is fucking amazing. I remember just earlier this decade I was pissed off at a taxi company for saying a taxi will come in 20 minutes...maybe, dispatcher can’t promise. Now we got Uber/lyft, and then...DRIVE
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
So what’s the alternative? Suppose we banish all private land ownership in San Francisco. What then? It seems like demand for space is so high people would fight each other to carve out their space. And if you build a house what would stop
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Why this 63-year-old teacher ditched the US to retire in the highlands of Panama(marketwatch.com)
4 points by xivzgrev 7y ago|1 comments
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Bank of America CEO says a recession isn't in the cards(cnn.com)
1 points by xivzgrev 7y ago|0 comments
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Eventually the piper needs to be paid. If people are taking more measured risks in search of growth vs outlandish, then eventually we will see a gradual contraction vs sharp correction. They will expand bit by bit into risky waters, get h
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
I had double cash until someone skimmed my card and citi didn’t notice. I had to catch it, make a complaint, then sign bullshit forms asking if the following name was mine. It just stumped me how they didn’t catch it - there were purchases
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
I respect the hell out of this author but this article to me fell a little short of his usual rigor/insight. Two points I would’ve like to see him analyze given the AWS metaphor 1) gross margins - this article reports 15-20% not 30% AW
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
What’s to stop exporting companies from increasing prices? Say I’m a Chinese manufacturer of plates. I have an American customer buying 6m yuan worth every year. Previously that cost them $1m USD. Now it only costs them $857k. In both cas
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Rationally, Sounds like he played the game and won. He didn’t make any false promises (but I’m sure didn’t correct anyone either). Values wise, to me sounds like a bit of a dick, esp with the early employees. Good for him, he made a billion
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Woo!! Give me one of those negative interest mortgages here in the US for my house - I’ll gladly pay some points for it. What a world we live in.
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
I agree. For the two recessions I’ve lived through, we didn’t arrive at them with everyone well aware it was going to happen. They snuck up and took the country by surprise. The tech bubble burst, and the real estate subprime bubble burst.
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Lots of products solve an emotional need. Here you have people feeling angsty they aren’t buying when they keep hearing “home prices are increasing!!”, but they can’t buy today. So here’s a company that says “here rent with us and we will a
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
I worked for a company that took SoftBank money, though I joined after the investment. As someone else mentioned they are later stage investors, and do look for potentially transformative things. In order to get in they offer large investm
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Here's the funny thing about recessions - they're usually predicated by some exuberance somewhere, and when it bursts it then ripples to the rest of the economy. 1930 was the stock market, 2000 was the dot com, 2007 was real estat
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Walmart used to be the innovator / leader. Now it just seems they are chasing trends. There doesn’t seem to be a coherent digital / tech strategy (at least on the consumer facing side). Walmarts core is poor, rural/suburban A
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
I.e., when people are mining for gold, sell pick axes!
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
I feel sad reading this article but understand where the women seem to be coming from. It basically seems like two choices 1) get married and because your husband works all day, you get zero assistance managing kids and housework and aging
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Came here to say this. Have my upvote.
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Haha sounds about right!
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Yea this is super impressive but also a little crazy. I’ve never heard of a company (yes, even bootstrapped ones) say that SES or Mailgun were too expensive - if anything, it’s that they’re dirt cheap. Cost aside, all that time hacking your
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Came for interviews with self taught people who are now full time developers. Found interviews with self taught people who hacked together websites and built businesses. Admirable but misleading. Suggested title: “No CS Degree required - in
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Did not read. Assumed article did not deduct malpractice insurance premiums and student debt payments to reach conclusion.
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
IT departments at larger tech companies may be interested in this. Every time an employee leaves or they recall equipment they need to remove stickers, a manual and time consuming process. The key question is whether the amount of time to a
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Fucking finally. I can’t wait for California to get their shit together on this. Now supporters there will have an analogy over the next 5-10 years
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Can you share more of your experience? Mine tends to be like the OP. For example, suppose a company has a new product and everyone believes there is a lot of opportunity with new product. So then each team figured out a strategy on how to
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
“Sanders will also release a detailed roadmap -- centered on new taxes on Wall Street -- to raise the $2.2 trillion dollars necessary to pay for this program and his other college funding plans. It will include a 0.5% tax on stock trades (o
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Bernie Sanders to unveil plan to cancel all $1.6T of student loan debt(www-m.cnn.com)
50 points by xivzgrev 7y ago|85 comments
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
It can help to create distance. For example, if you simply name a feeling, eg “I am feeling anxious right now”, it loses some intensity / urgency. Imho this is because our emotional center are wired to take over our rational center to

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