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I've been saying this for a couple of years now. None of the music I listen to anymore features an electric guitar; it's all made on laptop computers. The fun part about knowing how to play guitar is that you can learn how to play your favorite songs. But if none of your favorite songs feature an electric guitar, what fun is it anymore? I'm 30 years old and have been playing the guitar since I was 12, but it's just not as fun anymore... I'm thinking about learning how to make music on my macbook so I can stay young and hip :)

Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell

They run sponsored posts on the HTML version of reddit, not sure about their mobile app tho. I've actually paid to run some ads on reddit and would recommend them. Their ads are cheap and they'll definitely send traffic your way if that's what you're looking for.

Isn't reddit already successful? Why are they raising money? Shouldn't they be generating profits and returning those profits back to their shareholder(s)?

Why this isn't on the front page of Hacker News is NOT a mystery. Whoever posted this first gave the story an awful headline! Now nobody can repost the story with a good headline because Hacker News' doesn't allow reposts... WTF?

Someone else posted that this is why they think Amazon may have filed this patent - a sort of "Good Guy Patent Troll" move.

Great point. It would be nice if that's what they're doing.

LOL. They already have a MotoG phone they sell at a discount. The only catch is they spam you with ads. It's too bad they can't have a little more integrity when it comes to stuff like this.

Poor decision making like this gives capitalism a bad name.

I hope not. It's annoying.

Sounds interesting, hope to see some replies (I'm just a hobbyist so I don't have a comment).

Yeah wtf? Everyone let's Google crawl their site but it's naughty for anyone else to do it... such bullshit!

Puppy Linux kicks ass at reviving old computers.

I like .xyz because it's easy to get the name that you want. Dot io domains are pretty cool too but they're expensive.

The AI risk problem has already been solved. If any robots start acting up, just hit 'em with the ole semicolon and down they go.

Their list of the World's biggest problems was sort of shitty in my opinion.

Pretty sure PiperChat killed Yik Yak.

The TI-83 had some pretty kickass games. I remember playing "Drugwars" on mine in High School.

Seems like Quora is going after a big chunk of YouTube's market. Pretty much everyone uses YouTube for this sort of thing. It'll be interesting to see if they'll be able to pull this off.

"a lot of workers have thought jobs without much time to think."

I think this is why big companies have trouble innovating. They get filled up with hard workers who spend little time time thinking because they're too busy working.

There seems to be a trend: As software increases in complexity, programming languages and frameworks become higher and higher level to combat these increases in complexity.

For example, think about how much more complex it is to develop an Android app versus a web app. All you need to write a web app is a text editor to create three files: an html file, a css file, and a js file. Android development on the other hand is so complicated that you need a fancy IDE to organize everything for you. My prediction for the future is that Android development (and mobile development in general) will eventually become this simple.

Well you probably already know this, but I think Google is promoting Kotlin over Groovy because of their association with JetBrains. I'm sure if Google developed Android Studio from scratch instead of using JetBrains IDE as the basis for Android Studio, maybe they would have chosen Groovy. So yeah, they just as easily could have chosen to add official support for the Groovy programming language and achieved the same goal of making Android development easier.

Apple came out with Swift to make iOS development easier. I think Google is trying to do the same thing by adding official support for Kotlin in Android.

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Investment companies usually have a different legal structure than a typical startup and are subject to different regulations. You could however start a conglomerate, like Berkshire Hathaway, that invests in startups like VCs do.

So a "fund" wouldn't legally be allowed to raise money using equity crowdfunding. But a "conglomerate" that invests in startups structured as a C-Corporation could raise money through equity crowdfunding. Hope my reply helps!

The problem with equity crowdfunding right now is that most of the tech startups aren't raising money through the portals. What percentage of the YC Summer 2017 batch do you think will go on to raise money through the equity crowdfunding portals? My guess is that few, if any, of the YC Summer 2017 companies will raise money through equity crowdfunding. And this is a huge problem for potential equity crowdfunding investors. Equity crowdfunding investors simply do not have the opportunity to invest in large number of the best startups. Go check out the types of companies raising money on the funding portals, most aren't tech startups. You'll find all sorts of bullshit companies, everything from board games to restaurants!

Haha, no I don't distrust them. I want to invest when they go public!

That's right, the banks often send paper checks. Automatic bill pay is shit.

Great idea. I hate the current system where companies can get access to your bank account and pull money out at will.

Does anybody know anything about the company behind this, OfferZen?