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Google doesn't have a say on what you can do with your phone. Google does have a say on what you can do with their service. These people were clearly trying to game the system. Goo…

Exactly. I detested both candidates, but it's ridiculous to frame this situation as one in which the "wrong" candidate won, and shows true bias.

Facebook can't win here. When they have humans more in the loop of selecting news stories, they get blamed for bias. When they remove the humans, they are blamed for AI which isn't…

Which bubble are you referring to? I'm not familiar with one in the retail clothing space.

There's a lot of dismissive hate in this thread, but this was a genuinely successful company before things went sour. I've heard about it many times from my wife. Amoruso has a ver…

I'm sorry you find this boring, but it is of a lot of interest to many other people. The company had a good origin story, a charismatic founder, rapid growth, and great branding. I…

You are alleging bias, not a conflict of interest. YC accepted into their program as a founder someone who was a partner. Does that really sound like bias to you? If a former profe…

Would anyone downvoting me care to articulate why? I'm genuinely curious.

Airbnb is a platform. They can take steps to try to limit and root out discrimination, but it is the hosts themselves who are being discriminatory. Furthermore, hosts have voluntar…

That's not a bad idea. A family member could offer to help the next transfer by personally delivering the cash, just to make sure that such a large transfer is safe.

It's important to note that the negative impact documented in this study is in development time and whether the task is completed. It makes no claims about impacts on maintainabili…

You don't see how it's better to be indifferent to the plight of minorities (which is just your characterization of Thiel, by the way) than it is to promote hatred of those groups?…

You made a very specific claim in your first sentence, that supporting Trump constitutes a breach of fiduciary duty. Considering how quickly shareholder lawsuits follow announcemen…

Political views are one aspect of a person, but they do not define that person. Thiel himself understands this. When he was a law school classmate with Alex Karp (now CEO of Palant…

Really? There are CEOs who support Trump. [1] How many of them have sued (much less successfully sued) for breach of fiduciary duty? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Donal…

It's not tautological, because there is normally a good reason for the raise being hard. Obviously, there are exceptions, such as in this case. However, I'd be surprised if the ret…

Yeah, I guess this means that their plans to build a data center in New York in 2016 fell through. [1] I love OVH, but I've been waiting for a while for a second data center in Nor…

That's very interesting, and it makes some sense now that you mention it. After all, SAC made it clear to investors that that would cover all of the legal expenses and fines, so th…

I am serious, and I didn't say that. I would press them on what they knew and when, and I'd be willing to believe that they didn't know much more than readers of the WSJ did.

SAC Capital is a much bigger stain for former employees than the others, in my opinion. SAC allegedly had a deeply ingrained culture of finding and exploiting insider knowledge tha…

NITE may have abused the rules to maintain their short position, but this was definitely not some evil plot to drive down stock prices. The reason that these tickers end up on the …

What are they protesting? This is an informational post.

If you need a sudden burst of capital, then you can't always wait a few months. Also, some of the companies who take out these loans (and presumably the ones paying closer to 30%) …

In some sense, but there is a key difference. "Companies can typically repay the loan as a percentage of cash flow so payments naturally adjust to revenue."

Obama has not put any corporate whistleblowers in jail. We can debate the merits of prosecuting those who leak government secrets, but that is a separate issue from this one.