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cheebla
14y ago
Anyone have any insight on what they're gonna spend it on? I don't know anything about valuations but why would a company like Pinterest need 100 million dollars cash?
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cheebla
14y ago
Just to be clear, when he says "nonfree" he means free as in speech, not free as in beer, right?
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cheebla
14y ago
Money is the great equalizer. I don't imagine they'll have any trouble getting start-ups to take their money. Then again, 65 million seems like a lot of money but if these guys don't know what they're doing it won't last them very long.
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cheebla
14y ago
does Kickstarter post stats on these kind of things? Like what percentage of funded projects are delivered? if not, why not?
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cheebla
14y ago
Definitely, but I think it is a question of scale. It's one thing to construct some ad-libs, but to actually create a piece of art (i.e. an entire verse) is a whole different ball game. It would be like if someone took fragments of Picasso
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cheebla
14y ago
I'm confused as to how they got him to say "Coachella". Had he performed there in his lifetime or did they have to create that word from old voice recordings?
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cheebla
14y ago
I'm not sure if this is what you're suggesting, but I can't imagine we will ever see someone producing entirely new Tupac songs based on his phoneme library. It would be in such bad taste that even the American recording industry wouldn't g