valj

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by valj 1y ago
I stand corrected. His brother is on the news saying this is fake news and he's a Sox fan.
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by valj 1y ago
Cubs
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by valj 4y ago
I disagree - declining population is a disaster that only ends in a country becoming poor. As you allude to in your response, sub-replacement-rate fertility is what drives population decline, so declining populations are always ageing popul
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by valj 8y ago
Yikes, when did HN become so full of haters? This is easily one of the most exciting startups out there at the moment. It would be a game changer for so many people living in Europe and Asia who would love to live outside the US and commute
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Google won't sell general-purpose facial recognition APIs(blog.google)
4 points by valj 8y ago|0 comments
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by valj 8y ago
I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I imagine the key is in how you build defensibility around the core ride-sharing business. Ride-sharing suffers from the problem of clustered networks - you can be a global player like Uber
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Access Transparency(cloud.google.com)
4 points by valj 9y ago|0 comments
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Spotify planning to move remaining compute and storage onto GCP(cnbc.com)
1 points by valj 9y ago|0 comments
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by valj 9y ago
You're comparing apples with oranges. A drug dealer is a peon, someone at the very bottom of an enormous multinational pyramid who sells a commodity product in a market where every disgruntled customer has the ability to put them behin
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by valj 9y ago
From the article: "Department of Education ticked up to 18.8 percent as of June 30, up from 18.6 percent the same time last year, new federal data show." There's your answer - 0.2pp is totally insubstantial, which makes the t
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by valj 9y ago
Ahh yes - excellent point.
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by valj 9y ago
I just changed phones and found this really simple. You can just store a phone number with Google and receive an SMS key if you forgot to print off a key before changing phones. Everything seems to be working pretty well for me and I notice
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by valj 9y ago
Nice work team. I've been on Keybase for a while but I've only recently installed and started using Teams on iPhone and Mac and both the apps are very polished and easy to use. Definitely a lot easier than posting up my key and wa