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by dm8 9mo ago
Meta needed consumer product along with foundational model. Manus gives them consumer product now. Pure speculation - must be 5B+ acquisition given their revenue run rate. It seems M&A door is wide open for 2026.
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by dm8 1y ago
Communication, Trade, Commerce, Navigation, Education/Learning, are timeless needs for 100s of years. We buy and sell products all the time. And if something that improves our day to day shopping experience then we are solving for one
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by dm8 1y ago
I have worked on 3D shopping - this seems like a huge step up from the world of photogrammetry to NeRFs to veo. When it comes to shopping - the realism matteres the most. Its not just about 3D model but shadows of light, texture, how it loo
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by dm8 3y ago
This is incredible. I wonder if there will be medicine that cures idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. New class of drugs like Ofev stop worsening of the IPF but doesn't cure it.
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by dm8 4y ago
As someone who likes to pay for things I use, I'm in the target customer/user group here. Couple of questions - 1. Is it only for FB or across all Meta services (FB, IG, WhatsApp, Oculus etc.) 2. Are ads going to be shown to verif
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by dm8 4y ago
Blade Runner is one of those movies that gets better every time you watch. First time I watched it, I was thoroughly bored. But over the years I seem to appreciate the deeper meaning under it. It tries to present some fundamental questions
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by dm8 5y ago
Awesome. I'm not a golfer but I love this. Keep improving.
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by dm8 5y ago
Absolutely insane. They are growing faster (at their scale) than most SV hot shot startups! Edit: iPhone sales wow! Is it the most successful product ever?
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by dm8 5y ago
0 overdraft fees. Yay. More like it. It will force major banks to rethink their overdraft fees as a revenue center. As someone who was not so well financially just a decade ago, overdraft fees seemed like penalty for being poor. When you ar
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by dm8 5y ago
> That combined with the ridiculous housing costs in the bay area makes me wonder why anyone (especially more numerate people) would tolerate not working remotely. Maybe some people genuinely like living in the bay area. It is a beautifu
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by dm8 5y ago
I maybe in the minority in this comments section but I genuinely enjoy working from office. I enjoy the social aspects. And commute never bothered me, albeit max commute for me was 45 mins (in the bay area). The only downside that I always
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by dm8 6y ago
So CRISPR/Cas9 Nobel was a given since their breakthrough papers in 2011/2012. Lot of folks were speculating whether it will win in Chemistry or Medicine. Maybe Zhang/Church will win it in Medicine in few years. Also given th
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by dm8 6y ago
Thoroughly deserved. 9 years since publishing their paper in Nature. CRISPR/Cas9 is that revolutionary. Is that the fastest Nobel since breakthrough/discovery? Or was it Graphene Nobel (albeit in Physics) in 2010? EDIT: Looks like
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by dm8 6y ago
This is cool. Are you using it to power some app?
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by dm8 7y ago
Great pictures. In one picture there is some flowchart on chalkboard. I'm always curious on how did flowchart symbols came to be. For example I'm pleasantly surprised that the disk plate/drum symbol (used to signify databases
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by dm8 7y ago
From what I have gathered, reason vests are popular in SF is due to daily weather fluctuations since they are light weight. I did not know they were popular in other cities/metros too. Especially in finance sector.
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by dm8 8y ago
While most people are focused on how it will work for commute and day to day activities, even if it doesn't work for those use cases, it is great for theme parks, adventure rides type of use cases. People spend millions of $$ every yea
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by dm8 8y ago
I have used HotelTonight several times and I loved it. In general I found cheaper deals. Now with AirBnB, it will be interesting to see if hotel chains that partner with HotelTonight continue working as there is no love lost between Airbnb
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by dm8 8y ago
I'm not sure if I can answer that as I don't know their rating system. However, I'm confident of the fact that if they have inspectors who have expertise in Indian food then there will be dozens of restaurants from different
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by dm8 8y ago
>> If they do not know the culinary landscape how do you imagine they will issue a rating? Doing so would destroy their credibility as a knowledgeable school of critics. By hiring more inspectors? I'm not saying there is cultural
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by dm8 8y ago
One my gripes with "michelin star" system is that it is heavily tilted towards European and Japanese food. There is absolutely no Indian, South American, Mediterranean, Thai, or Chinese restaurants (albeit few though) in it's
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by dm8 8y ago
I co-founded a startup, and lot of my friends work at or run startups. At the end of the day everyone realizes, AWS/GCP/Azure etc. are all infrastructure players. It is given that all big 3 cloud providers will be competing agains
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by dm8 8y ago
> - Amazon makes no money, except through AWS. Purchasing Lyft is a significant investment over a a long time, and the money has to come from somewhere. If AWS lags during this critical juncture, this could cripple Amazon hugely. Did you
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by dm8 8y ago
More tangential q. I always wonder - why Epic is not disrupted yet? In same vein similar Q can be asked, why Bloomberg is not disrupted yet? I guess software is inherently monopolistic (or oligopolistic) market especially in highly regulate
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by dm8 8y ago
That was a great read. I really admire people having passion as well as expertise in these unique fields. Once fortune 500 CEO had come to my school for talk and he told us shortest path to rise up in corporate ladder is either having exper
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by dm8 8y ago
I didn't see different poster for same movie although I'm not a caucasian. Maybe it's just not your ethnicity but also your previous viewing habits. For example, if you watched lot of movies with hispanic or Indian or african
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by dm8 8y ago
> How can an advertisement not be bad? Ultimately it's always the goal to get someone to buy something they otherwise wouldn't. Brand/product awareness. Sometimes you don't know what you want. And sometimes you don&#x
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by dm8 8y ago
Absolutely and you have your preferences. The "pull" model advertising tend to be extremely expensive. For example, search advertising in search engines. That is known as intent driven ads, where user is clearly mentioning their i
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by dm8 8y ago
I work at an ad-tech startup, and I hear you. Ad-tech has lot of rotten apples. Advertising done right (aka unobtrusive, privacy conscious, and value additive) is a great for free information exchange. Bad ad is always bad, but ad may not a
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by dm8 8y ago
He got the gene editing part right. The CRISPR/CAS9 are proving that

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