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DenverR

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About DenverR

always learning

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    Comment #48637640

    You can look at historical percentile by year and score though.

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    Comment #48480896

    it's written to provoke thought and reflection. the title does the reflection on behalf of the reader which is a disservice.

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    Comment #48480640

    The actual takeaway question is "is Elon Musk on a frontier of his own — or is the market extrapolating one proven outlier onto an unproven one?" The HN title editorializes its own…

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    Comment #47117391

    real Free Laptops has never been tried.

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    Comment #44773706

    Congratulations you’ve just described central planning. So “society” should be able to veto a sale, but when payroll is due the owners are on the hook?

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    Comment #44773623

    How was Figma able to generate any value operating in Adobe’s powerful monopoly?

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    Comment #44772947

    Love the FTC getting to decide if you’re permitted to sell your startup or forced to deliver more shareholder value.

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    Comment #42442049

    Came here to comment the same. One of my favorite reads of the year.

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    Comment #41843723

    Clearly a rorschach for people. The cars were driving autonomously and the improvements in Optimus’ form factor were impressive, so to me it seems pedantic to complain that the bar…

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    Comment #41843363

    I’m not sure why everyone is positioning this as a “gotcha”. I may be off base, but was it advertised as 100% autonomous? I’m just impressed with the form factor, dexterity, and ba…

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    Comment #24204236

    Apple has closer to $93b[1] on hand vs. $1t quoted. [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/balance-sheet/

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    Comment #21949633

    Former GE investor here - everything you've said is spot on. Our modus operandi was that a growth equity investment should _never_ go to zero. The new portfolio thinking has shifte…

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    Comment #21773630

    Why does facebook continue to allow the running of political ads and all the headache that comes with it (despite it being a minuscule piece of it's overall revenue)? Power. You ca…

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    Comment #15719637

    They clearly learned the power of the preorder with the Model 3! This is a great way to raise funding without going back to the equity markets. Say they can fill up all the founder…

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    Comment #15315940

    shoot me an email drayburn[at]nvp.com, happy to jump on the phone and discuss

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    Comment #15315927

    shoot me an email drayburn[at]nvp.com

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    Comment #12924022

    It's seems pretty obvious to me that they replaced the human curated news section with a far (and intentionally) inferior product. They knew people would eventually begin complaini…

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    Comment #12800258

    It's less about raising funds and more about liquidity for current shareholders

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    Comment #11922591

    Apple will be able to appeal this and continue selling phones in the mean time. Pretty interesting regardless considering their investment in Didi last month to gain favor with Bei…

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    Comment #9216007

    I think there should be cameras installed in every happy meal as heart disease kills over 600,000 Americans per year.

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    Comment #9010995

    I always wonder if anyone notices that, the animation is one of my favorite parts of the site! Thats a great idea about having the collage adapt to the number of photos uploaded. I…

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    Comment #9010972

    The more MVPy version was seeing about 1,500 sign ups per week, but I am hoping this improved feature set bumps that closer to 5,000.