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go to an animal sanctuary and see how beautiful the animals are in person. I promise you, if you transition to veganism you'll learn to love it.

what a lot of people don't know is that your taste buds and perspective on food/sustenance completely changes as you remove more and more animal products from your diet.

wow drake is posting on hacker news now too damn, this guy is everywhere

Peter Thiel knows what the best city in california is!!

I remember once watching an interview with Travis talking about pitching Uber to Benchmark, and he talked about how they wouldn't let him leave the office until they agreed on terms.

eerily similar battle going on now

It'd be funny if Pichai was like "okay damore supporters, what are you going to do? use bing? good luck avoiding google products on the internet LOL"

Agreed, but they'll get more funding. the big thing is, keep the support of your constituents and you'll keep getting funding.

Travis offended and insulted the drivers, while Lyft is chugging along quietly. As long as people have brand loyalty to them (which they sure do), they'll win the ridesharing battle as it's looking like Uber is teetering

damn. that's really cool. thought Elon wanted underground trains or something

>no matter how you engage with it, you end up pushing their message. Whether you're a die hard feminist, or someone who finds this divisive, you are being manipulated by cynical marketers

strikingly similar to the pepsi ad team strategy

how do people get by with 70K in london?

if you're a programmer, you can move anywhere in the midwest and get a job easy and the hours are chill too compared to east and west coast

It's super easy to look back and think, "it really doesn't matter where you went to school." and it's true, I've met people who went to no-name schools and get employed at great companies.

But put yourself into the shoes of an impressionable 16-17 year old. Private and flagship public universities have mastered selling their product with tours, special programs, the "college experience" etc. In addition, they sell getting a job with countless networking opportunities (especially prestigious schools).

It'd be really efficient for anyone who would need loans to get a degree to knock out all gen eds at a comm college and then transfer to an in-state university (it makes zero sense to pay 30-55K a year to take an entire schedule of calc 1 and chem 101). But it's hard to blame a 17 year old for taking the more fun and cooler option than the practical one.

I suppose if government and states invested heavily into community colleges and made them "cool" with great facilities and opportunities, more kids can be incentivized to go that route and avoid the heavy loans.

lol zuck wasn't an "immature frat boy"

dude spent his time studying latin, programmming and taking psych courses.

evan spiegel of snapchat is more your typical transformation from immature college kid to billion dollar company CEO

This is the height of stupidity.

If you absolutely refuse to use any products built by C-suite execs that advise and/or support Trump, then go live as a hermit in the wilderness.

edit: Uber/lyft are built by smart and motivated technologists who spend everyday making the most sophisticated ridesharing platforms out there. To use an unvetted and unsafe knockoff is inane.

Yea. Whoever runs for the dem nomination and wants to beat trump or pence (if he gets impeached) shouldn't even bother visiting blue states. Spend the entire campaign talking to voters in the rust belt.

>I find it depressing that people don't spend any time verifying stories and separating facts from fiction. I would classify the #deleteuber event as a form of fake news.

The worst part is, this problem will only continue. It's so easy to fake news these days, and lets say a bot was built to vet authenticity...which bot do you trust, the one made by CNN or breitbart? it just feeds back to the original problem, except a bot doing it would just increase the volume of bias news stories that are "vetted" by their version of the truth.

"I'm #deletingUber to show how anti-Trump I am!"

uses Peter Thiel backed Lyft instead

funny thing is, Trump supporters are now deleting Lyft in favor of uber.

nobody does an ounce of research anymore.

ahhaahah exactly the quote I was thinking of. Zuck is hilarious.

ZUCK 2020

you still would get way more viewership on linkedin posts, even though their system sucks

lol, I have no idea after what we witnessed this past election, why Zuck is interested in potentially pursuing a political position. perhaps he'd still have access to FB data?

if so, what would be the legal ramifications? I mean facebook is basically mind control for so many voters, they can push any info they want

obviously a biased piece to make snap and spiegel look bad. the product is great, even if it's garbage on android.

but it's really no secret that spiegel is arrogant and it shows. He pressured his rich parents to buy him nice cars in high school to fit in better, his leaked college emails, kicked out the founder who came up with the snapchat idea, etc.

I went to a hackathon in college when he was like 22 or 23, showed up wearing a suit and gave a speech with JFK quotes like some 20 year F500 executive would. comes off as a tryhard but his strategies are obviously working really well so who cares. keep at it, love the product.

>working for a company is almost never the answer for maximizing your brain

yup. which is why the next decades will be about bringing back time to humans instead of forcing them to monetize every hour they can to pay bills

agree with everything you said.

there's this demonization of wall street and financial institutions as if it's a brain drain to make money. what does that make the millions of ad tech and food delivery startups then?

its the backbone of the economy. no companies can be formed and no biz's can do transactions without the banks working well. the more efficient and sophisticated they can be, the better off everyone else is.

ultimately, much of the money on sand hill road is coming from LPs who made it in finance

i'm sure apple has done enough user testing to know that the touchbar will be an improvement over the existing keys.

I'd like to try it out first (if they ever actually ship em to the store) before I purchase.

That being said, the $1800 price point is BS. and so is the touchbar-less starting at $1500 for $600 internals. tim cook is being an asshole here. people will still buy it though (me too, but only because I need a new machine)

hardware going mainstream is $$$

i keep a spare iphone just to test iOS exclusive apps. I can't stand iOS. it's god awful. maybe I'm just a nerd but I find android to be so much better. doesn't feel restrictive.

I do get upset at google though -- i wish they did more to make it easier for developers to port their apps to android. also the iOS version of apps are built better, it sucks to have a garbage version of snapchat on android. but the sacrifice is worth it to have the physical back button.

WOW

i figured knowing obama's interest in good tv shows, he might have done the cameo! this is really neat stuff

magic link. That's what medium does for email logins, and slack offers the option as well. it's easily one of the safest methods

the whole thing was a very vanilla overview of what happened and what he plans to do. I hope this isn't what YC intends to with their podcast.

He should have spoken about one of the many times they were on the brink of disaster or the company shutting down, not some time where he got offered a $B.

I hope someone like Tim Ferriss can get a hold of Zuck for 2 hours, and chat to get an in-depth view of him. The dude is going to be remembered as the Edison of this century. He should share more about himself outside the context of fb and their products.