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Jordan Peterson says this book is a masterpiece of psychology and modern philosophy. Maybe it's time to pick it up

Agree. Obamacare has been the most damaging policy enacted in my lifetime. And that's the opposite of what Trump is doing

Tesla is another "solution looking for a problem" type of company. They make nice cars but the electric engine concept has yet to provide a real benefit over combustion. (They say less solution but that's not really true is it?)

Another concept looking for a problem is crypto; as the only problems crypto really solves are the ones faced when doing illegal transactions or hiding money.

Big strategic mistake by Dropbox. Not sure what their differentiation is going to be in 2 years now that they've capitulated to GSuite.

Is Dropbox just a hosting company? Why are people still using it?

Mistake.

A "co-founder" with what sounds like ZERO experience that is shy to do sales and get his hands dirty is almost certainly going to be a failure.

These type of people are a dime a dozen and it sounds like you want to bring him in just cuz you like his personality. BIG MISTAKE.

If you ask me, bring in another technical guy and/or pay someone to help you with some market validation via sales (or do it yourself)

Trust me on this (you probably won't).. i've learned this the hard way. I've been a solo founder three times in both successful (30k customers) and unsuccessful startups.

great idea (for them), this is one of those cases where i actually do think the brand name was likely creating the wrong brand perception.

Spolsky is always doing interesting things. Great guy.

Silicon Valley is mostly a place for group thinkers with a "get rich quick" mentality and rich parents. That was my impression after living in Sf working as a CEO for 5 years.

Rendering user input via a Vue template is gonna set off some mental alarms with most experienced Vue devs. (Rendering user input directly is something most devs are careful with)

Evan discusses some of these risks in the docs and I'm guessing this particular exploit can be patched.

Wonder if this has to do with the fact that cryptocurrency primarily exists for money laundering, gambling and purchasing/selling drugs.

I just moved from SF. This is the best way to put it. Agree 100%

This is why there is usually one clear leader on most "successful" founding teams.

Cofounder situations are a significant risk which can and does outweigh the benefits in many startups

Hold up, most these problems are directly related to the problems of using React+redux (JSX) and likely some complicated backend stuff.

We use Vue + Firebase and even have SSR working w no complaints. (So it's actually more than just a SPA)

I realize it's an unpopular opinion here, but so far Trump has done a good job by most metrics.

Anyone against this administration seems to be unaware of the cause and effect in government systems...

PWAs on iOS mean a huge shift in strategy for startups.

In many cases(including mine) it now makes more sense to go PWA first instead of native.

SEC as the symbol was my favorite part:

The difference is that railroads actually had utility outside of illegal transactions.

AMP as a "feature" is really just there to prevent you from leaving search results and google's sites.

It's a cover up for further closing down the open web and helping them bump ad revenue.

Hopefully you guy already know that.

"rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city – except for bombing" - Lindbeck

People should guarantee higher pensions for the elderly. In fact, we should pay them more than they made when they when tHey were working. Take the money from the wealthy.

I see a lot of commits from the Vue team into the core repo that are meant to support use in native.

Likely, we can expect something comprehensive for native this year.

I also believe it's a smart strategy to avoid Facebook codebases because they are all meant to somehow benefit FB in some (usually dubious) way.

Also the Vue approach is 1000% cleaner in practice than React, just doesn't have the bandwagon effect going for it

Why do people keep apologizing publicly? Do they actually think that helps?

For all you guys that are interested in a key insight: once dealing w accusations of abuse the worse response you can have (regarding your personal career) is to apologize publicly.

Fight or stay silent.

Because,

1. The companies you mention also have a monopoly on internet content distribution

2. Most people are herd thinkers, don't know anything about NN, only that "it's bad" because the content they see says "it's bad"

Propaganda works.

Seems to me this is just a warning so that when both the SEC and US Treasury lay into cryptos next year they won’t feel so bad about everyone losing their BTC/ETH “fortunes” overnight.

This is great to know if the study is scientifically accurate. Hopefully we will start to get some clarity around the causes of autism and the role vaccines have played.

Why is making someone uncomfortable at work somehow a newsworthy topic?

Why are people supporting this? It's clearly a farce.

Hitting on someone is not sexual harrassment.

I've partied w Scoble, he's a nice guy.

I don’t know why we are thanking a successful company that is making tons of money (as thanks)...

Why don’t we spend the time to thank the creators and supporters of open source projects instead?

Nice list. I’d also add Node and NPM since you can’t do much front-end without those these days.

The reality of monopoly and collusion is here and it’s real!

When I started my first company it was easy to access customers(30k+) via all types of cheap online marketing. But around 2012, a massive shift started happening towards “content aggregators” and a closed web. Which made marketing a lot more expensive and less effective.

The big guys have closed the web and are now taxing business for access to people's attention.