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This letter is clearly written with dumb, naive retail investors in mind. Anyone familiar with Palantir’s history knows that their first headquarters was a building they took over …

Best investments of the 21st century: 1. Peter Thiel, Facebook, $500k 2. Peter Thiel, Donald Trump, $1m No matter who wins the next election, Thiel and his buddies are guaranteed m…

Yes. Since he is the Roger Stone of the PayPal Mafia, he’s not going to go away anytime soon.

Reminder to those who aren’t aware: Quora is a rich man’s hobby business. You aren’t going to get practical knowledge from their decisions.

What do they look like! How do they function? How did they retool to make them so quickly? How do they compare to normal ventilators? What’s the UI on their control panels? This so…

How is this some sort of prescient statement? There have been movies made about this exact issue for decades. On a societal level, it is a bug marked WONTFIX similar to preparing f…

For reference, someone might want to post a chart of the gains the markets have made in the past 5 years. I would hardly call this a crash.

There’s a VC firm that already uses this model with their billion-dollar investments. It’s called Benchmark. Several of their former portfolio company founders can tell you all abo…

They didn’t actually have $300m, it was a commitment based on milestones that weren’t met.

Until the richest YouTuber isn’t an adolescent set up to prey on his peers with unboxing videos, these measures are all half-hearted attempts at keeping the cash flowing. More regu…

This is pretty tame and actually sounds pretty pragmatic and well-organized in a non-threatening manner, especially given the target audience (kids). Moderating for different count…

This seems strikingly similar to Travis Kalanick being paid to leave Uber. Is Benchmark involved?

> Mr Gates had made a $2m donation to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s prestigious Media Lab at Epstein’s behest. > “Although Epstein pursued Gates aggressively, Gates h…

I am guessing this would lead to solar system-scale destruction? Putting a base on Mars doesn’t seem like it would do much to counter such an event if it headed our way?

Well, that’s one way to kill your credibility quickly. Even if it was innocent, they should have anticipated that someone would have found this and inferred otherwise, and preempti…

GoodRx has well-connected Silicon Valley founders and a good PR team. We now see lots of this sort of submarine PR from tech companies. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

> Employees will have an option to see a health provider via a mobile app or website, and they can text a nurse on any health topic in minutes. If an employee needs follow-up care,…

Sometimes I forget that this is a community full of engineers, many of whom have poor social skills. Invest less time in apps and more time in trying to understand your kids.

Do you ever read the New York Times? He’s on the board. He’s also connected to half of SV. Check his Flickr account for the portraits.

Once you read the Epstein interview with the New York Times writer, you start to understand that there’s probably more of these “unconventional thinkers” in tech connected to Epste…

It’s a giant political dodge that has nothing to do with the underlying issues. You want to know what’s the real cancer, the real drug these dealers don’t want you regulating? The …

Sites using the like button are dumb to begin with, especially if they are in e-commerce. You’re handing your competitors an ability to do lookalike targeting of your customers via…

Bravo to Chris. We need to see more of this. Of all the FB lottery winners, the one who should be doing the most and avoids all negative press is Dustin Moskovitz. He votes his sup…

You just cited a newspaper owned by one of the richest members of the Communist Party. Not exactly an unbiased news source. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46353767