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by calr 3y ago
Given a piece of contemporary art, will you be able to tell whether it was created by a human or an AI process? What if your in a gallery looking at collection, but the artist is pseudo-anonymous and no one really knows what tools they use
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by calr 3y ago
I find commuting from the 24th and Mission to downtown via the BART very pleasant these days. Before COVID I would fight my way and barely squeeze in. Now I get a seat just about every time. I get off at Montgomery, so I am able to skip ove
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by calr 4y ago
When a company is nationalized what typically happens to the shareholders? Are they wiped, do they get paid out, or does some of their ownership carry over to the new entity (rights to a special dividend or something)?
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by calr 4y ago
Agree, this does not matter to Mark Cuban and certainly not us. Mark is gonna be fine even in the absolute worst case where the money is locked up for years, and he takes a 20% haircut on his modest deposit. This crisis is for businesses th
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by calr 4y ago
Also curious hearing from an expert on this one way or the other. Took the Tweet at face value without actually being able to confirm under what circumstances that would be true.
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by calr 4y ago
"Unpaid wages pierce the corporate veil, so boards are incredibly sensitive to employing workers they may not be able to pay." This is the key point in my opinion, and one I was not aware existed. Personal liability changes ever
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by calr 4y ago
Ignorance of your "black box" excuses not
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Ask HN: Why does Stripe need $4B?
73 points by calr 4y ago|28 comments
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by calr 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this video. It's hard to reconcile how these kids live and speak about their lives vs my own thinking. It seems to be a very nihilistic philosophy.
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by calr 4y ago
Or perhaps credit card popularity is increasing; spending that was previously done via cash and debit cards is shifting to credit cards. That would leave earnings constant.
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by calr 4y ago
Thanks for the in depth write up. Makes a lot of sense!
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by calr 4y ago
Noob question that I am sure is answered many times. What are the catalysts for a private company switching from options to RSUs (double trigger). In my previous role I got RSUs (double trigger), but now at a much smaller startup I have an
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by calr 4y ago
Is it correct to suspect that there are fixed costs for operating in different markets, and they aren’t breaking even in Japan?
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by calr 4y ago
I’ve had the same experience. Search is unusable far too often for general keywords; I end up making a failed keyword search and then fall back to making a search based on sender address. Searching on sender address works fine but requires
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by calr 4y ago
I think I see what your saying. Wealth creation is dilutive on a relative basis, meaning in 2019 the lower/middle class had X% of the total wealth. By “creating” a bunch of new wealth the denominator grows and on a relative basis the m
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by calr 4y ago
Perhaps this is philosophical, but how much actual “wealth” was created by humans in the past two years? Yes, assets values went up, but how much if any of the that growth was “real” vs inflationary? Did businesses get that much more effici
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by calr 4y ago
With a third party client Twitter can’t (easily?) measure if an ad was actually seen by the end user (impression) or if it was just served by the API but never rendered on the users screen. A lot of ad measurement follows from there.
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by calr 4y ago
Will try this for sure. Love that bananas are portable by design.
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by calr 4y ago
I have skipped breakfast since college when I was much more concerned about bulking up. I drink two coffees and that gets me through til lunch. I’ve never really considered alternatives to this routine. If I wanted to experiment with breakf
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by calr 4y ago
Not to dismiss your points, but if you are going to title the post “I lost 200k” it’d be nice to at least explain where the money went. Was it routine operating expenses that ultimately went to fund a failed product, or something more nefar
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by calr 4y ago
In my mind, Flexport is part of the "real" economy of moving atoms. They don't fall into the more fluffy "we are a startup that helps other startups start-up". I wonder if this is an early sign for a rough recession
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by calr 4y ago
I also am a bit surprised by this. AI is back to being the hotness now that crypto blew itself up. I suspect from reading this quote: "Many of the industries we serve, such as e-commerce and consumer technology, have been buoyed by the