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by ryporter 10y ago
Google doesn't have a say on what you can do with your phone. Google does have a say on what you can do with their service. These people were clearly trying to game the system. Google caught them red-handed and has now exercised their
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by ryporter 10y ago
Exactly. I detested both candidates, but it's ridiculous to frame this situation as one in which the "wrong" candidate won, and shows true bias.
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by ryporter 10y ago
Facebook can't win here. When they have humans more in the loop of selecting news stories, they get blamed for bias. When they remove the humans, they are blamed for AI which isn't perfect. Yes, Facebook can improve how it sele
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by ryporter 10y ago
Which bubble are you referring to? I'm not familiar with one in the retail clothing space.
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by ryporter 10y ago
There's a lot of dismissive hate in this thread, but this was a genuinely successful company before things went sour. I've heard about it many times from my wife. Amoruso has a very scrappy tale about how she launched the compan
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by ryporter 10y ago
I'm sorry you find this boring, but it is of a lot of interest to many other people. The company had a good origin story, a charismatic founder, rapid growth, and great branding. It's interesting that such a rapidly growing comp
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by ryporter 10y ago
You are alleging bias, not a conflict of interest. YC accepted into their program as a founder someone who was a partner. Does that really sound like bias to you? If a former professor at a university applied to be a grad student, would y
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by ryporter 10y ago
Would anyone downvoting me care to articulate why? I'm genuinely curious.
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by ryporter 10y ago
Airbnb is a platform. They can take steps to try to limit and root out discrimination, but it is the hosts themselves who are being discriminatory. Furthermore, hosts have voluntarily signed up to act as a small business owner/landlo
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by ryporter 10y ago
That's not a bad idea. A family member could offer to help the next transfer by personally delivering the cash, just to make sure that such a large transfer is safe.
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by ryporter 10y ago
It's important to note that the negative impact documented in this study is in development time and whether the task is completed. It makes no claims about impacts on maintainability that show up later in the development process. It
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by ryporter 10y ago
You don't see how it's better to be indifferent to the plight of minorities (which is just your characterization of Thiel, by the way) than it is to promote hatred of those groups?
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by ryporter 10y ago
You made a very specific claim in your first sentence, that supporting Trump constitutes a breach of fiduciary duty. Considering how quickly shareholder lawsuits follow announcements of mergers, I would expect lawyers to be circling these
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by ryporter 10y ago
Political views are one aspect of a person, but they do not define that person. Thiel himself understands this. When he was a law school classmate with Alex Karp (now CEO of Palantir), they constantly argued bitterly over politics, becaus
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by ryporter 10y ago
Really? There are CEOs who support Trump. [1] How many of them have sued (much less successfully sued) for breach of fiduciary duty? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Donald_Trump_president...
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by ryporter 10y ago
It's not tautological, because there is normally a good reason for the raise being hard. Obviously, there are exceptions, such as in this case. However, I'd be surprised if the returns are particular strong if you look at all
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by ryporter 10y ago
Yeah, I guess this means that their plans to build a data center in New York in 2016 fell through. [1] I love OVH, but I've been waiting for a while for a second data center in North America. I hope they build this one. [1] https:&#
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by ryporter 10y ago
That's very interesting, and it makes some sense now that you mention it. After all, SAC made it clear to investors that that would cover all of the legal expenses and fines, so they were just left with returns from the fund itself, a
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by ryporter 10y ago
I am serious, and I didn't say that. I would press them on what they knew and when, and I'd be willing to believe that they didn't know much more than readers of the WSJ did.
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by ryporter 10y ago
SAC Capital is a much bigger stain for former employees than the others, in my opinion. SAC allegedly had a deeply ingrained culture of finding and exploiting insider knowledge that permeated multiple levels. Basically, Cohen had employee
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by ryporter 10y ago
NITE may have abused the rules to maintain their short position, but this was definitely not some evil plot to drive down stock prices. The reason that these tickers end up on the "chill list" is because they are massively inflat
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by ryporter 10y ago
What are they protesting? This is an informational post.
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by ryporter 10y ago
If you need a sudden burst of capital, then you can't always wait a few months. Also, some of the companies who take out these loans (and presumably the ones paying closer to 30%) are not profitable. Their only alternative is selling
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by ryporter 10y ago
In some sense, but there is a key difference. "Companies can typically repay the loan as a percentage of cash flow so payments naturally adjust to revenue."
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by ryporter 10y ago
Obama has not put any corporate whistleblowers in jail. We can debate the merits of prosecuting those who leak government secrets, but that is a separate issue from this one.
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by ryporter 10y ago
The author seems to want to unearth some scandal about conflicts of interest, but there's not much here. The final quote of the article pretty much nails it. “On the one hand, if you wanted really pristine independence, it means you a
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by ryporter 10y ago
And now that "literally" has been coopted to also mean "figuratively", I don't even know what that clause means. I also got mentally stuck on that phrase, and my eyes literally popped out of my skull.
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by ryporter 10y ago
I agree that SRL is painfully verbose. I'm fairly experienced with regexes, and I found the new syntax to be far less readable. A better (and much simpler) way to make the regex more readable would be to split its construction into m
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by ryporter 10y ago
That's not clear to me. By that logic, any game in which players took one turn each, sequentially, would be gambling. The fact that you can no longer control the outcome does not make it gambling. You need to have a nondeterministic
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by ryporter 10y ago
Not knowing what your opponent will do does not make it a game of chance. For the purpose of defining gambling, the component of chance must be exogenous to the participants.

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