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by ziszis 9y ago
Can you link to the information re: "having at least 25 riders be former sex offenders, sexual assault, and murderers just in Cali" Don't see it in the source article.
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by ziszis 9y ago
Most of the call spam blocking solutions suffer from needing to trust Caller ID. Spoofing caller ID is now trivial and used by spammers [1] There are some work arounds to this like "audio fingerprinting". [1] https://en
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by ziszis 9y ago
Link to formal termination letter: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/files/2017/0... The termination letter indicates that the termination is for cause and may have implications on stock aw
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by ziszis 9y ago
Groupon is a great counter to consider in terms of the product-market fit theory. Few companies have ever had the product-market that Groupon had "Groupon is so effective that Mason claims Groupon now has 35,000 companies clamoring to
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Kenya’s Struggling Uber Drivers Fear a New Competitor: Uber(nytimes.com)
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Inside Bitfinex's Comeback from a $69M Bitcoin Heist(bloomberg.com)
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Nvidia CEO: Software Is Eating the World, but AI Is Going to Eat Software(technologyreview.com)
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Judge rules Uber can work on self-driving, but Levandowski barred from LiDAR(techcrunch.com)
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Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling(techcrunch.com)
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by ziszis 9y ago
I generally believe in transparency. But I would resist transparency with someone that exhibits this attitude: Andrew Anglin, the owner of The Daily Stormer, has been candid about how he feels about people reporting his site for its content
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Waymo: Uber plotted with Levandowski before he left Google(axios.com)
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How now Amazon? (2000)(money.cnn.com)
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by ziszis 9y ago
It is not a coincidence that Uber's competitors are all raising money at this point in time. It was hard a year ago. Uber's struggles have not only boosted the metrics for competitors [1], but there is increasingly a plausible sto
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by ziszis 9y ago
Waymo's allegations now go much deeper and further back than just Otto: * "Levandowski was deceiving Google almost from the moment it hired him to work on the Street View maps project back in 2007." * "Levandowski contro
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Things learned from Anthony Levandowski's deposition in Waymo vs. Uber(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by ziszis 9y ago
The miss isn't that eBay made money on the transaction in the end. The miss is that eBay completely failed to secure the IP rights to Skype. Zennström (CEO of Skype) was essentially able to sell his company twice and eBay made less tha
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by ziszis 9y ago
I assume that Otto execs indemnified Uber with respect to the intellectual property, given that it was a primary value in the acquisition. If so, Uber can claw back the $680M they spent. If not, it would be the worst IP miss since Ebay acqu
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EU lawmakers include Spotify and iTunes in geoblocking ban(reuters.com)
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The case for Donald Trump’s first move to restrict legal immigration(economist.com)
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by ziszis 9y ago
The numbers in the headline measures the # of H-1B petitions that were received before the USCIS decided to stop accepting more because they can meet the "mandated 65,000 visa H-1B cap" and "the 20,000 visa U.S. advanced degr
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CEO of $3.7B startup accused of firing employees before options vest(businessinsider.com)
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by ziszis 9y ago
And then UAL gained back almost the full value by Wednesday morning and has performed similar to Delta and other airlines. Like most PR disasters unless you keep digging when you are in a hole, the long-term impact is small and consumers fo
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Apple Clips scored up to 1M downloads in its first 4 days(techcrunch.com)
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Can I Have a Pet Fox?(popsci.com)
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The Ideal Ratio of Praise to Criticism(hbr.org)
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by ziszis 10y ago
More supply of senior engineers will decrease salaries. The visas used to be taken primarily by junior devs preventing (some) senior devs from getting one. Senior devs may no longer be blocked which increases supply. Demand is unchanged, at
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by ziszis 10y ago
H1b visas have primarily been used by consulting companies to bring in less expensive junior engineers (<$100k) [1]. If new directives make it harder to sponsor junior engineers, it will shift the mix to more senior engineers. This will
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How Lyft Is Capitalizing on Uber’s Scandals(time.com)
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Jerks and the Startups They Ruin(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by ziszis 10y ago
No True Scotsman? [0] What is Andy Jassy's engineering degree? What is Sheryl Sandberg's engineering degree? The reality is that people aren't one-dimensional. If you have overly simple rules: no MBAs, must have University de

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