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What would be the point? grocery stores are dying already. Buy buttons are cool but surely it won't take 20-30 years for grocery stores to go away? Between Instacart (which in it's…

I think the key difference is that Sony and Android both approached the watch as a smaller phone. You can play angry birds on it, and you can play music, and shop online and do eve…

Yeah I love Uber but the one thing that's really annoyed me the past couple of years is whenever it goes above 2x surge every UberX driver immediately "forgets" how to navigate the…

I'm not sure the math works out. It mentions a weekly lease price of $780 per medallion in Chicago. Assuming 15% tax and 15% cost of insurance that comes out to $600 to the leasing…

Unsourced wikipedia articles seem to suggest that Wheeler believed the exact opposite on retrocausality. Since both pieces seem to cite no academic sources I will leave it to you t…

Wow. this is misleading. Convertible notes are the best things to happen to startup founders in the history of fundraising. Take a modern convertible note to an angel investor from…

This is wrong. The reason pay and job security are no longer powerful motivators is because of the way society evolved in the past few decades. It used to be common to work for the…

hey we've been looking for this EXACT solution for ages and had no idea you guys existed... Is Streem going to continue to live on as a separate product?

The writer was even money overall, but 2 for 10 in the top 10... not great If you are running a startup I don't know of a better way to convince yourself not to listen to the hater…

Well... I'm pragmatically there's things I'm going to agree with and things I'm going to disagree with for every. single. administration. So the choices are either working within t…

what's your thoughts on chemicals like nicotine, which could be a powerful nootropic?

With absolute neutrality towards the topic of the article, here are some warning flags for the data presented. "Employed Americans" isn't a typical survey category, and the author …

Well he said if you kept giving the AI exponentially more computing resources it would get linear growth. I think it's fairly obvious that providing 1 computer exponentially more r…

Seems like you guys kinda just threw in the towel and said "fuck it, its for philanthropy" Here's a better answer - Lending Club and Prosper both lost their shirts when they first …

yeah but all of those things are oh so unsexy to talk about given what's going on in SF right now

YC's purpose is to advance the goals of the startups that it represents and make its investors money. Secondarily it tries to help develop the startup ecosystem regardless of wheth…

A lot of advice on lawyering up and fighting this tooth and nail, and gotta say, this is extremely childish and a terrible idea. If you sue your company, you increase its chance to…

Just make the selection process really difficult. Those who want it will get it. Everyone shits on bankers but the reason there's so many successful ex-bankers outside of banking i…

Your point #2 doesn't really work. You can manipulate the market in the short-term but you can't control the inherent value of the currency. Fiat currencies issued by governments c…

See point #2. Central monetary bodies specifically change monetary policy to prevent deflation, worse case they can just print more money to cause artificial inflating to combat de…

I'd like to hear a real economist's take on this but from my personal opinion Bitcoin will never take off as a transactional currency because of it's inherently limited nature, and…

I mean... no hate but this doesn't sound like a case of college is useless. If you tried your hardest and failed out, then maybe engineering isn't for you. I understand the enginee…

haha glad to see modelviewculture has finally embraced the destiny it was born for - as spammy link bait top 10 list blog with regurgitated content. I guess this was truly the one …