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What the fuck! They are breaking laws related to protecting people from discrimination! And all you can focus on is, hey, there's other people doing bad things too! Why can't you g…

EXACTLY.

Complete straw man? Which YC companies are listed on the NASDAQ? Exploit might be the appropriate word, but most of the SV VCs come from tech backgrounds these days, not finance. W…

1. I would agree but this doesn't reflect the reality and underlying political reasons for regulation and enforcement. I would imagine the large fine (lol jk, a $7mm fine is a joke…

It's almost like PG and his posse is part of the reason for some of the toxic culture in SV. But God help you if you say that... My open resentment for them aside, I do wonder why …

Just like they eventually fell into compliance with certain cities, right? Where do you draw the line? Uber has a record of flagrantly, openly, defiantly breaking US laws - this fi…

This is going to be wildly unpopular but 7.6 billion would be a number worth mentioning. (Although I also feel VW should be banned from the US, no negotiations.) What kind of messa…

Lol these types of assumptions, that I have the luxury to just interview for weeks on end, really get to me

"And here is the Apple Watch that tells us every time you smoke a cigarette, or think something shameful. Healthy mind healthy body."

What would be the infrastructure this time? Instacart drivers at the ready...? The whole ecosystem that's been pushed seems to be being pushed precisely because there's no infrastr…

I like how he tries to quote a "Nobel prize winning economist" as an appeal to authority, but then (without naming him) insults Picketty's work, which will probably win a Nobel. PG…

If getting $150k before doing pretty much anything else was standard, it would be significantly easier to create sub-billion dollar companies. I've looked at multiple companies tha…

And in +10 years, activist investors come in and lament how much more valuable the shipping business and the e-commerce business really are when separated, as the legacy network do…

Haha touche

Fair points, but I didn't say it was because of their cash dealings. I was suggesting it more because of how the cartels operate. Also, claims that local gangs would be able to com…

Ah, you hit it on the head. My neighborhood is full of these types, and that's the catch - you can keep your family together, but, just like happened to me standing at the ATM yest…

I know most people here mean marijuana legalization when they say drug legalization, but there is absolutely no way meth, cocaine, or heroine will be legalized within the next 15-2…

This is a very simplistic view of the cartels, and a very US-centric view as well. This doesn't really factor in the local / native view of these groups, which see them much more a…

I hear you, I really do, but plenty of guys in finance and trading work these hours and are expected to maintain regular families.

Is somebody really trying to quantify meaningful, long-term human relationships? I kind of thought almost by definition that these things were more nuanced than that. Some of the t…

Agreed. I simply can't imagine what would happen if our federal fiscal policy was left up to the 50 states individually. Jesus that would be bad. Texas, my personal and favorite ex…

Something of a straw man when speaking of paying off people who are long dead, versus people are were actively trying to get their products to market at the same time as you. You a…

Patents are a bit more nuanced than "touch screen on a phone."

Of course, the headline is misleading, as per usual... From the article: "By 2008, foreign currencies such as the U.S. dollar and the South African rand had become de facto currenc…