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YouTube also leads you down radical rabbit holes as that keeps the algorithm happy. How many of the recent terror attacks (ISIS or New Zealand type incidents) were fostered by YouT…

No mention of the purchase price - tho Looker was likely flying in unicorn heights.

There are investors out there who don’t insist on control. I know of at least two - IndieVC and Earnest Capital. Their investment can be paid back in cash over time from earnings.

I mean, mass immigration with no borders is exactly how humans spread out from Africa to populate the world. Seems it’s worked out great for humanity. And speaking as a resident of…

Real estate remains one of last few asset classes where ownership can be obfuscated reliably. This makes it ideal to park money of dubious provenance. If you bring transparency to …

I wonder if the type of instrumental music makes a difference. I find that soft techno like dub techno helps me focus, while classical does not.

+1. I feel you. The only upside - it made me read everything more carefully. Significant deal points can be missing, or subtle giveaways that negate the actual deal term two paragr…

@justin - congrats! How do the fees compare vs a traditional law firm? I love the price-predictability part, but can you shed a bit more light?

Index funds have beaten most active management over the long run. If you think about it, YC is a huge index fund in startups. The problem is not data-based prediction - just that i…

This is one of the best articles I've seen on climate change. We are now looking to a 3 degree rise in surface temps by the middle of this century - well within our lifetimes. Miam…

Jobs was IMO a High-Functioning Sociopath - http://www.md-health.com/Sociopath-Traits.html He turned his charm on when he need to accomplish something, but there is no real empathy…

Some of this is of course the Chinese government placing its thumb on the scales in favor of local businesses. It does this for a lot of reasons, but it's clear it happens. However…

I wonder how much of the European decline was driven by GDPR rules, especially opt-in requirements. GDPR-like laws are being debated on and passed here in the US by individual stat…

The parallel to the fall of the Soviet Union is interesting. The state slowly ran out of money, and couldn’t pay the military complex, including the army. The army’s loyalty to the…

I don’t know man - the Internet is distributed and last I checked it was doing great.

This one I think has legs. Quite a few content creators are upset with YouTube policies, and can drive users to PeerTube using other social services. Once you have a core group of …

It's not a problem that can be fixed. The endpoints - encoding at the transmitter and decoding at the device - can be with the efforts underway made somewhat equivalent between bot…

The number one thing that kills a startup is lack of market demand. His real genius is in determining market demand ahead of time, and in a low-cost way. This separates true entrep…

Excellent guide - rings true.

Yeah - he could have been nicer. No question. But notice his guy didn't quit. People who worked for him seemed to actually admire his ability to be dedicated to the product and mak…

What Jobs does here is truly impressive, for the following reasons: * he listens carefully to the customer - not just pretend, but truly understand the issue from the customer's po…

Not finding fault. The point of Webauthn is convenience - but the trade off is that if CTAP is compromised, it’s convenient for the attacker too.

See my reply to your other comment and review CTAP in the spec.