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by jsun 11y ago
What would be the point? grocery stores are dying already. Buy buttons are cool but surely it won't take 20-30 years for grocery stores to go away? Between Instacart (which in it's "final form" is basically amazon for gr
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by jsun 11y ago
I think the key difference is that Sony and Android both approached the watch as a smaller phone. You can play angry birds on it, and you can play music, and shop online and do everything that a phone can. In that sense they haven't bu
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by jsun 12y ago
Yeah I love Uber but the one thing that's really annoyed me the past couple of years is whenever it goes above 2x surge every UberX driver immediately "forgets" how to navigate the city. Even a couple of blocks out of the way
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by jsun 12y ago
I'm not sure the math works out. It mentions a weekly lease price of $780 per medallion in Chicago. Assuming 15% tax and 15% cost of insurance that comes out to $600 to the leasing company. Assuming the car costs $25,000 and has a depr
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by jsun 12y ago
Unsourced wikipedia articles seem to suggest that Wheeler believed the exact opposite on retrocausality. Since both pieces seem to cite no academic sources I will leave it to you to determine which is true. http://en.wikipedia.or
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by jsun 12y ago
Wow. this is misleading. Convertible notes are the best things to happen to startup founders in the history of fundraising. Take a modern convertible note to an angel investor from the pre-bubble 90's and they'd laugh you out of w
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by jsun 12y ago
This is wrong. The reason pay and job security are no longer powerful motivators is because of the way society evolved in the past few decades. It used to be common to work for the same company your entire life, forced separation from that
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by jsun 12y ago
hey we've been looking for this EXACT solution for ages and had no idea you guys existed... Is Streem going to continue to live on as a separate product?
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by jsun 12y ago
The writer was even money overall, but 2 for 10 in the top 10... not great If you are running a startup I don't know of a better way to convince yourself not to listen to the haters
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by jsun 12y ago
Well... I'm pragmatically there's things I'm going to agree with and things I'm going to disagree with for every. single. administration. So the choices are either working within the context of the system that exists tod
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by jsun 12y ago
what's your thoughts on chemicals like nicotine, which could be a powerful nootropic?
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by jsun 12y ago
With absolute neutrality towards the topic of the article, here are some warning flags for the data presented. "Employed Americans" isn't a typical survey category, and the author makes no attempt at explaining why "Empl
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by jsun 12y ago
Well he said if you kept giving the AI exponentially more computing resources it would get linear growth. I think it's fairly obvious that providing 1 computer exponentially more resources isn't much different from creating expone
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by jsun 12y ago
Seems like you guys kinda just threw in the towel and said "fuck it, its for philanthropy" Here's a better answer - Lending Club and Prosper both lost their shirts when they first entered the market, and now they are both mak
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by jsun 12y ago
yeah but all of those things are oh so unsexy to talk about given what's going on in SF right now
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by jsun 12y ago
YC's purpose is to advance the goals of the startups that it represents and make its investors money. Secondarily it tries to help develop the startup ecosystem regardless of whether the companies are in YC. I don't understand why
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by jsun 12y ago
A lot of advice on lawyering up and fighting this tooth and nail, and gotta say, this is extremely childish and a terrible idea. If you sue your company, you increase its chance to fail by an order of magnitude. If you lose, you can laugh a
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by jsun 12y ago
Just make the selection process really difficult. Those who want it will get it. Everyone shits on bankers but the reason there's so many successful ex-bankers outside of banking is because they're goal oriented people who don&#x2
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by jsun 12y ago
Your point #2 doesn't really work. You can manipulate the market in the short-term but you can't control the inherent value of the currency. Fiat currencies issued by governments can do that because they can literally just print o
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by jsun 12y ago
See point #2. Central monetary bodies specifically change monetary policy to prevent deflation, worse case they can just print more money to cause artificial inflating to combat deflation. Bitcoin doesn't have this defense mechanism.
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by jsun 12y ago
I'd like to hear a real economist's take on this but from my personal opinion Bitcoin will never take off as a transactional currency because of it's inherently limited nature, and here's the reasons contributing to it:
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by jsun 12y ago
I mean... no hate but this doesn't sound like a case of college is useless. If you tried your hardest and failed out, then maybe engineering isn't for you. I understand the engineering curriculum is much harder, but the fact of th
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by jsun 12y ago
haha glad to see modelviewculture has finally embraced the destiny it was born for - as spammy link bait top 10 list blog with regurgitated content. I guess this was truly the one trick SEO consultants didn't want you to know. By the w
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by jsun 12y ago
I don't think the author understands what the quantified self movement is about... data-points gathered by most "quantified self" tools are completely useless in the hands of anyone except yourself (or someone who has weird f
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by jsun 12y ago
A lot of times companies file trademarks that they know they won't get in order to get it declared a "generic term". Once it gets that designation the company can use it without worrying about a competitor coming in and trade
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by jsun 12y ago
Is this a real thing? if you guys are in Chicago you can come by today to take some pictures of my car:) Was thinking about selling it for 3 months already but just takes so much time.
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by jsun 12y ago
And Chicago! :) Groupon, Grubhub, Braintree, Orbitz etc.
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by jsun 12y ago
I don't think Sam meant anything derogatory by it, he's just stating his opinion. Frankly I agree Miami Beach isn't a startup capital, but that doesn't mean great companies can't come from it. It's just not pop
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by jsun 12y ago
This piece is entirely incomplete. It purports to examine the entire ecosystem from the angle of a single company, and writes an article not unlike painting eagles (or vultures as the case may be) as the villain conspiring against the innoc
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by jsun 12y ago
I haven't done any programming since highschool (AP C++) and recently did a self-guided online RoR course. Simply put, I was frightened by how much I was forced to rely on my 10 year old C++ programming abilities to understand the prin

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