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Funcom’s Dreamfall, one of my favorite games of all time, has something to say about where this could go!

Realized there's probably pref on Databricks too, which would further lower the value of its common. On the other hand, there could have been a markdown from the 38B since August '…

Actually seems Databricks got a great deal for Mosaic. Real qustion is why Mosaic took it v. hold out or do another round Rough math plugging in public #s and comments here: - All …

Disagree there are sacred timeless skills we ought to protect; tech has and will continue to reduce our need to spend mental bandwidth on skills Similar offline risk goes for all t…

Open source with own fine tuning closing in fast: https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-03-30-vicuna/ https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...

Self-hosted + self-trained LLMs are probably the future for enterprise. While consumers are happy to get their data mined to avoid paying, businesses are the opposite: willing to p…

Bingo and similar deal with Facebook. The best way to get leverage and power with FBGOOG is for advertisers to cooperate instead of compete. We are trying to do this with ecomm adv…

You mean his American wife whose parents were refugees from Vietnam? Source: light googling

Wait for enough confirmations where the payment becomes unlikely to reverse, which of course takes time and that's the more practical blocker for regular shops to accept Bitcoin.

Could also go strategic exit or PE route, though former tricky to put together and latter tough on valuation

This is the bull case for We that justifies a stratospheric valuation: it is the extranational life infra and connection market maker for the otherwise hyperalienated worker of tom…

ps can’t click last button on iphone se via iOS hn app

So both forks worth more 6mo in than they were immediately after split; sounds like actually supports idea forking for a good reason can be value accretive..

There are many valid criticisms of PoW but it's not contradictory to believe PoW can work (i.e. with large enough and distributed enough miner network) while simultaneously attacki…

Seems by and large reasonable but notably doesn't address the elephant in the room: potential their hardware has built-in backdoors for China government access. Should be simple en…

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lmao. kernel of truth to be sure but in fairness American legal system and democratic governance do strictly result in more liberty and security for individuals by and large, corne…

Defer to OP but that feels like bit lazy apologist framework for status quo. A few (unsubstantiated) guesses at reasons to counter: 1 - Medium risk medium reward opportunities exis…

Awesome to see innovation from capital providers on the instrument in the wild. As a niche market founder wish option like Earnest existed when we were raising early financing. Cur…

I'd like to see more content like this. Find it 100x more helpful than the success stories. Karenina principle and whatnot. Would gladly subscribe and pay buku bucks for a more rig…

Main reason likely natural down cycle following parabolic run-up. Remember btc/crypto still a global, minimally regulated market driven by and large by unsophisticated retail inves…

Lead contamination in school water supplies is a particularly pernicious, under-addressed, and improperly diagnosed problem, happening right here in California - with significant d…