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Club Necaxa, NFTs and the Funding of Communal Institutions(cafesociety.maxwellsocial.com)
1 points by dlitwak 5y ago|1 comments
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Stlft #10: Ford Bronco, Blockbuster and Nostalgia Porn for a Simpler World(maxwellsocial.substack.com)
1 points by dlitwak 6y ago|0 comments
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Covid Calling Our Bluff: ToGo Cocktails, Virtual Conferences and Online Sermons(medium.com)
1 points by dlitwak 6y ago|0 comments
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by dlitwak 10y ago
Congrats to Ali. Been very impressed with Chariot's mastery of nitty gritty business & logistics fundamentals. That sounds like it should be obvious, but Leap and other competitors couldn't so much as file the right permits, l
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Online Travel Landscape(mozio.com)
2 points by dlitwak 13y ago|1 comments
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by dlitwak 13y ago
Obviously the analogy breaks down at some point . . . but yes, I will check out that book, thanks!
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by dlitwak 13y ago
Candy Crush, we're holding that up as a development that Apple is responsible that we want to be proud of, seriously? Regardless, an app store wasn't groundbreaking. They executed much better on what Blackberry was already doing w
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by dlitwak 13y ago
I judge what I see . . . can't speculate about other companies. The robotics acquisitions were kept secret for a long time as well. As were autonomous cars. Eventually they came out. I don't think there is some super secret lab at
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by dlitwak 13y ago
Don't be silly, all research done by companies has an ROI counter tied to it . . . the point is that some do much more forward thinking research into technologies that might not yet have a specific application quite yet, and others are
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by dlitwak 13y ago
I think credit is given . . . that's the past though, only so long you can rest on your laurels, and creating a snazzier phone and an app store doesn't really measure up to autonomous cars and robots in my opinion . . . its very n
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by dlitwak 13y ago
True. I'll admit that there is probably a fair amount of bias because Google has a better PR department. But I doubt it's that much better than these other guys . . . I think much of the research being done is around incremental i
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by dlitwak 13y ago
Ok they have a computer and an operating system as well as a nice way to transfer files . . . big whoop. I think we can all agree that this isn't groundbreaking.
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Google is the new Bell Labs(davidlitwak.com)
96 points by dlitwak 13y ago|102 comments
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by dlitwak 13y ago
Totally agree. I've been at demo days and I just tune out the foreigners who I can't understand. It's hard enough having to listen to 40+ startups in a day, and try to understand what someone is doing, why they are doing it,
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2 Reasons 2023 is Optimistic for Autonomous Cars: Public Policy and Economics(davidlitwak.com)
4 points by dlitwak 13y ago|0 comments
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by dlitwak 13y ago
At the same time everyone of those google employees who lives in SF pays SF taxes, quite high taxes as a matter of fact, and that contributes to the community, 2-3x more than any of these hippy touchy-feely types who claim that SF is theirs
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by dlitwak 13y ago
it's evened out because people now live where they work instead of have EVERYONE live one place and work numerous other places. I'm a capitalist whose fine with everything going on in SF to be honest, but I agree that Google is es
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by dlitwak 13y ago
Not necessarily. I hate these articles just as much as the next techie, but there is no denying that Google is solving a problem they are creating: if they didn't offer these buses then people wouldn't live in SF anywhere NEAR as
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by dlitwak 13y ago
definitely agree. What's stopping some upstart kids with a mobile app and a ton of VC funding from undercutting everyone. What if they didn't take any cut at all and made money on upselling on other services or ads on the app?
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by dlitwak 13y ago
Perhaps, I'll admit my Rockefeller history isn't super extensive, but still: once he bought up all those competitors he was in an industry that required MASSIVE investment of oil wells, pipes etc. to compete with him. He had massi
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by dlitwak 13y ago
I think this is a very naive and somewhat wishful thinking writeup. You neglect a major reason why Rockefeller was able to obtain a monopoly: he controlled literally every part of the process of extracting oil, from the wells to the pipelin
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by dlitwak 13y ago
You can use SkyScanner's Everywhere search, so look from London to "Everywhere" and you will get a list of destinations. However, this was often the premise of these inspiration sites that didn't work out. Wanderfly has the ability to searc
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by dlitwak 13y ago
Oh I agree. I guess I thought you were referring to a lot of these "comprehensive social trip planning" tools that help you collaborate on a trip. I think they are useless. I agree it's the problems like "ok, how do we get from Prague to Vi
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by dlitwak 13y ago
public transit is actually a fairly small percentage of the way people get to and from airports. SF is one of the highest in the country though, I think around 22% of people use transit to get to and from the airport. However, on the opposi
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by dlitwak 13y ago
Perhaps, but I'd counter that with the trip I just planned I didn't need a tool to do it. I shared a google doc with a friend for one and had a couple skype calls. For another I just went over to her house and we figured out the dates, wher
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The state of some travel startups and why some are missing the pain point(tnooz.com)
45 points by dlitwak 13y ago|17 comments
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by dlitwak 13y ago
This is great. I bike to work and I had kind of intuitively figured this out after a month, but pretty cool nonetheless!
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by dlitwak 13y ago
We have had unpaid interns before, as have a lot of companies I know. The difference is you can't find CODERS to be unpaid interns. Every person whose trying to break in to marketing, social media and PR etc., we have no real use for them r
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by dlitwak 13y ago
ITB was for the first week, the second two weeks I was working in the same environment most other berlin startups work in. But yes, it's anecdotal evidence, observed continuously over 3 weeks. And it's an impression, that's all, never claim
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by dlitwak 13y ago
Thank you, it's a brand new Tumblr template, wasn't aware that it had a problem, will get on it.

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