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Given a piece of contemporary art, will you be able to tell whether it was created by a human or an AI process? What if your in a gallery looking at collection, but the artist is p…

I find commuting from the 24th and Mission to downtown via the BART very pleasant these days. Before COVID I would fight my way and barely squeeze in. Now I get a seat just about e…

When a company is nationalized what typically happens to the shareholders? Are they wiped, do they get paid out, or does some of their ownership carry over to the new entity (right…

Agree, this does not matter to Mark Cuban and certainly not us. Mark is gonna be fine even in the absolute worst case where the money is locked up for years, and he takes a 20% hai…

Also curious hearing from an expert on this one way or the other. Took the Tweet at face value without actually being able to confirm under what circumstances that would be true.

"Unpaid wages pierce the corporate veil, so boards are incredibly sensitive to employing workers they may not be able to pay." This is the key point in my opinion, and one I was no…

Ignorance of your "black box" excuses not

The Information reported [1] Friday that Stripe is trying to raise $4B at a $55B valuation for “a huge tax withholding bill that comes due when it modifies employees’ stock grants …

Thanks for sharing this video. It's hard to reconcile how these kids live and speak about their lives vs my own thinking. It seems to be a very nihilistic philosophy.

Or perhaps credit card popularity is increasing; spending that was previously done via cash and debit cards is shifting to credit cards. That would leave earnings constant.

Thanks for the in depth write up. Makes a lot of sense!

Noob question that I am sure is answered many times. What are the catalysts for a private company switching from options to RSUs (double trigger). In my previous role I got RSUs (d…

Is it correct to suspect that there are fixed costs for operating in different markets, and they aren’t breaking even in Japan?

I’ve had the same experience. Search is unusable far too often for general keywords; I end up making a failed keyword search and then fall back to making a search based on sender a…

I think I see what your saying. Wealth creation is dilutive on a relative basis, meaning in 2019 the lower/middle class had X% of the total wealth. By “creating” a bunch of new wea…

Perhaps this is philosophical, but how much actual “wealth” was created by humans in the past two years? Yes, assets values went up, but how much if any of the that growth was “rea…

With a third party client Twitter can’t (easily?) measure if an ad was actually seen by the end user (impression) or if it was just served by the API but never rendered on the user…

Will try this for sure. Love that bananas are portable by design.

I have skipped breakfast since college when I was much more concerned about bulking up. I drink two coffees and that gets me through til lunch. I’ve never really considered alterna…

Not to dismiss your points, but if you are going to title the post “I lost 200k” it’d be nice to at least explain where the money went. Was it routine operating expenses that ultim…

In my mind, Flexport is part of the "real" economy of moving atoms. They don't fall into the more fluffy "we are a startup that helps other startups start-up". I wonder if this is …

I also am a bit surprised by this. AI is back to being the hotness now that crypto blew itself up. I suspect from reading this quote: "Many of the industries we serve, such as e-co…