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To be clear, this is absurd. I'm posting so that the community can enjoy.

Clinton also went on Epstein's private jet 27 times. He is by far the most connected to him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/nyregion/bill-clinton-jef...

It's weird how many articles say that Epstein was connected to "Clinton and Trump." No: he'd met Trump. He was connected to Clinton.

But any potential buyer can build his or her own and get the same level network effect. Bird doesn't have a network effect. You know this because you don't go out looking for a Bird. You go out looking for a scooter. Or you buy your own scooter. That's why Bird won't be bought, and why it's probably worth $100M max.

When will this insanity end? It's basically a flat round, so they avoided a down round. But would anyone care to hazard a guess as to what liquidation pref Sequoia is getting on this?

Do you purchase subscriptions to news websites, or do you follow the archive.is links on HN?

Of course I didn't purchase Overcast. There are better free alternatives.

Although I personally don’t like Overcast because of the ad injection (which I consider immoral) and the hypocrisy of its author being anti-ads in general (not to mention having built Tumblr, which turned out to be a porn obfuscation service), I agree that this is a bad move by Apple. Doesn’t matter: podcasts are going to go the way of TV, radio, and movies anyway.

Same. Just bought first Windows laptop in 11 years: Thinkpad Carbon.

Ben, everyone here understands the model. It isn't sophisticated and it isn't particularly special. You have a lot of [encrypted] sensitive data. On your network. On servers you own. You are a target. Once the bad guys get the data, they'll worry about the individual keys and whom they want to target.

I'm one of the many people who are both dropping 1P and advising friends and family to do the same as a result of this episode.

I've been a paying business user for 3 years. Dumping it. They must have some awfully bad execs driving their strategy. Do right by users and they whole world will eventually subscribe. Nickel, dime, and trick them, and the business will die.

These guys make a password manger product. That's it. And they encourage you to put health and passport information in there.

They should run it like a bank. Boring. Reliable. Trustworthy. That means not pulling this penny-ante nickel and diming stuff.

It’s not going to melt down. The whole line just falls way short of benchmarks for the chips. Linus Tech Tips did a good video on it.

How cool.

I wonder if I’m the only one: I just placed an order for my first Windows laptop in 11 years. The Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7.

Apple’s overthin design, heavy aluminum, bad thermals, throttled chip, soldered parts scam is over for me. Love macOS but fact is Windows is nice now and I’m back to the fun days of weird and wild hardware. Feels great.

Classic New York Times. Explicit tax law = "loophole" if the NYT doesn't like the people who follow that particular explicit tax law.

The big question is when will the VCs take the write down on their quarterly pro forma financial statements!

The only thing special about Bird is the quality VCs that got into it at seed and series a. Investors will be taking a second look at these funds. If second and third tier VCs had been Bird's primary backers, we would all care a lot less about this failed company.

Oh my god. Please, investors, do not put more money in. It's enough already. Anyone who studied economics and looked at this from the beginning knew it was a poor idea not likely to succeed. The experiment is over!

I feel like Journal <https://usejournal.com/> is sort of the platonic ideal--what Evernote should have been. Search-first.

https://usejournal.com/ is the way to go on this. It's a search-first product.

This low acquisition price might make you think: Bird got an awesome deal.

But it should also make you think: Bird isn't worth much.

Scooter and bike rental companies aren't worth much. They never have been.

They won’t.

It was China Telecom re-announcing the bad routes <s>this</s> every time.

Another nail in the coffin of Bird?

The beginning of the end of YT. "Extreme" is the ultimate slippery slope situation, and Google is unable to articulate respectable, bright-line rules around extremism. I can think of dozens of startups that allow video sharing, and some like streamable seem to have speeds and compute that outperform YT.

But, again, they don't seem to use Comcast Business Layer A to entrench Comcast Business Layer B. They could put a tax on every call to Stripe API if they wanted. They don't. The worst thing they've done is throttle Netflix (very bad) and the market spoke and they were shamed publicly.

Because even Comcast, the most evil of the telecom companies, doesn't put out a web browser that seeks to permanently entrench its ad business. In fact, it lets me use any browser I want.

Agree. Can he throw it on Streamable or something?

EDIT: Here it is: https://streamable.com/3ysv9

Security cameras are already everywhere. So, um, should there be a law that only human retinas can look at them? Why allow recording of the feeds, for that matter?

Now that they've used DBM, DFP, and AdExchange to cement their U.S. ad monopoly, they can only get more growth by shutting down the flow of money to the rest of the internet. So they need more inventory of their own to compete with that of their clients' (e.g. other websites that use Google Analytics, DFP, GCP, AdWords, etc).

I would love to see an estimation of the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted by companies (and by consumers who buy their products) on Google ads.

Seems to me their business model was faultyfrom the very beginning. For example, they initially claimed 1 week scooter payback to early investors. That was obviously an exaggeration. They also claimed to have market scale economics similar to Uber, but this was also false because the scooters were not being ridden from one micromarket to another. They were just staying in the same area.

There is a reason The Carlyle Group never rolled up all the bike rental shops into a big nationwide conglomerate!!

This comes a few months after Chrome began treating Google cookies with more respect than non-Google cookies. Yikes!