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by interesting_att 3y ago
Brave is great -- but just objectively they aren't growing. Their MAU was literally larger a year ago. Compare last month's stats to last May's stats: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/164310457
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by interesting_att 4y ago
Thank you all! I am incredibly grateful to the HN community, I am finally getting in touch with a real person at Stripe who can hopefully rectify this situation.
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by interesting_att 4y ago
Thank you, I will email you now
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Ask HN: Stripe holding funds for 120 days for no reason
158 points by interesting_att 4y ago|114 comments
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by interesting_att 6y ago
Remember this is an ALLEGATION. I knew Fahim personally. I know people who spoke to him the day of about this very issue, so I have some information that most people don't. I absolutely do not believe this kid did it. Fahim was well li
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by interesting_att 6y ago
I was friends with Fahim and know personal information about this case. This kid absolutely did not do it, but it's easy to pin the blame on him. It absolutely was due to his work in Nigeria.
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by interesting_att 6y ago
Does anyone know how this would compare to Twilio's programmatic video? Specific use case is for livestreaming within a mobile app.
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by interesting_att 10y ago
If the hotel industry ever got its act together, they could really use this for a great marketing push. Advertise the fact that AirBnB lets racial discrimination go unabated, unlike the hotel industry which is regulated for this. Younger, m
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by interesting_att 11y ago
This is what I wondered too. Yahoo could be a great business if they just accepted that they were the Internet Portal for Old People. But this would never impress investors who are looking for insane returns. As a result, they're takin
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by interesting_att 11y ago
It's important to note that when the investment was made, enterprise tech companies (like Workday) like were getting a really high valuation, whereas consumer tech companies weren't doing so well. Investors like a16z probably want
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by interesting_att 11y ago
Keep this up and you'll be the dev golden child in no time. Best of luck!
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by interesting_att 11y ago
Really glad YC is pushing for research into this. This is a fascinating topic that deserves more research. There have many points in my life where many of my friends and I needed welfare just to purchase food. For all of us, we experienced
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by interesting_att 11y ago
Did you see an improvement in your credit score?
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by interesting_att 11y ago
I would actually disagree. eCPMs on mobile have steadily been going up, but not because game companies have been spending unsustainably. eCPMs have increased because brands have slowly been moving in, there is better adtech/targeting,
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by interesting_att 11y ago
PG's point is so obvious it is almost tautological. Of course we should get rid of negative causes + negative effects, while keeping the positive. That applies to literally anything (gambling, friendship, work, etc). Maybe people are i
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by interesting_att 11y ago
Fidelity marked down its investment by a whopping 43% http://fortune.com/2015/11/11/snapchat-isnt-the-only-startup... Add this to the fact they announced layoffs a little while ago + are now experiencing sign
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by interesting_att 11y ago
The stocks you mentioned barely get any buzz in tech media (TechCrunch) or HN. The stocks that OP mentioned get a significant number of mentions here. A number of unicorns are dying, experiencing significant criticism (Theranos), doing not-
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by interesting_att 11y ago
What's really interesting about this is that being a truck driver is one of the most common jobs in America. Most of these drivers have limited ability to do many other decently paying jobs. By getting self-driving countries, we would
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by interesting_att 11y ago
It seems intuitive to me. People who often do psychedelic drugs routinely state that 'resisting' the experience often leads to temporary mental distress.
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by interesting_att 11y ago
How is being the CEO of Yahoo and getting paid 100m+ 'high risk?' Her presence is now well known. She can work anywhere, and doesn't ever need to work again.
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by interesting_att 11y ago
Welcome to Hacker News, where people's conflict of interests are not disclosed. I agree with OP- this is an absurd tool. If you can pay $100/hr for an anonymous 'personal assistant' you can pay for a real personal assist
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by interesting_att 11y ago
The worst part of this is that Lumosity probably did a cost-beenfit analysis years back, realizing they would make more money via these deceptive ads than the expected FTC fine. For those who don't know- Lumosity is killing it. They ca
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by interesting_att 11y ago
I thought Arrested Development has been parodying the tech scene well. Seasons 1-3, which aired during the Bush era, showed the lives of incompetent and corrupt property developers + military contractors. Now the main running gag is a BS no
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by interesting_att 11y ago
He probably says things like this because the resulting media attention is a profitable strategy. Being in the media often confers a sense of legitimacy, making it easier to fundraise. Just look at Donald Trump. He has mastered the art of g
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by interesting_att 11y ago
China has become a significantly better partner for African countries than the West can ever hope to. Having spent some time in international development, the stories are the same: Western loans are always tied towards 'education'
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by interesting_att 11y ago
The article brings up the important point on Yahoo's acquisitions. For the billions it spent, it got barely anything in return. The real canary in the coal mine was Summly. Mayer paid 30M for an app that licensed its core machine learn
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by interesting_att 11y ago
We have no idea if the food estimate is correct. The article mentions that many people in Yahoo interviewed by the reporter think the investor's numbers are widely off. My guess the $108m includes other things than just food.
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by interesting_att 11y ago
Exactly. Would you trust Mark Zuckerberg with spending 15bn for the supposed betterment of society, or would you trust the US government? Given that the US government wastes so much via corrupt deals, inefficiencies, insane surveillance, an
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by interesting_att 11y ago
It's a pity on how he started the campaign by saying he would resign after day 1. Looking at the public's interest in 'outsiders' this political season (Carson, Trump, Fiorina) and the lack of any real opposition towards
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by interesting_att 11y ago
To echo another commentator's post, King has had sustainable revenue across multiple titles for years. Mobile isn't going away, and I don't suspect King will either. The synergy is obvious: King will share plenty of F2P monet

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