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What makes you think it was built to be sold to Amazon?

This is actually reasonable. Without this, Snap would be asking for lawsuits from anyone that submits an idea that’s even close to an upcoming feature. At the end of the day, this incubator relies on trust, and founders should never take money from someone they distrust anyway.

Where does the number “10 years” come from? 5 seems plausible to this non-domain expert

What's your email?

Whether you believe glysophate is carcinogenic or not, this scandal demonstrates how the FDA works for industry, not the people.

If they had the taxpayers best interests at heart, they would not be concealing or halting research around a widespread potential carcinogen in our food supply.

Absolutely, companies face extreme government coercion in China.

What has he done to deserve it?

What are some ICOs you do support?

> legitimately innovative > exactly like every other ICO > hollow promises

These are subjective opinions, doesn't seem like a rigorous line.

> because it's incredibly limited in scope (...) I doubt it will succeed.

What is the correct amount of scope to ensure success? I'm curious what's the logic behind your comment and negative predictions.

Ah didn’t realize it was dropping. However, it’s clear there’s a large discrepancy between average employee income and average revenue per employee.

Seems like a good time for employees to unionize.

No, I'm saying that it's possible to have valuable companies emerge from overhyped technologies.

I'm generally baffled when companies opt to hire a junior dev for ~$110k, when an additional 30% more income can get them someone 10x more productive.

> brilliant one who is constantly going down rabbit holes unnecessarily

Ha, sounds like an oxymoron

Yes, there is definitely a hype train, but that's not mutually exclusive from being productive. The dotcom boom produced many failed companies... alongside Amazon and Google, which changed society in many ways.

> One quick fix: designate one car parking stop near every street corner as drop-off spots for dockless lightweight EVs. Problem solved.

Yes, this seems like an efficient and practical solution. Personally very happy to see how quickly people have begun adopting alternative transportation options, need for cars is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In the US’s case, we have a guns vs. armored vehicles and tanks. While better than being unarmed, unclear how much self defense Americans have against a militarized domestic police force [1]

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/do-not-resist-and-t...

1. You can’t. They didn’t have an incentive to prioritize this on product roadmap, at least not until now.

2. Most likely to jump start new accounts. They’ll be able to target ads at your new account better if they already have years of data about your interests.

> It was involved in 73 percent of all child trafficking cases reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Wouldn't this make Backpage an incredible asset to law enforcement? I'm surprised they're taking it down, instead of cooperating.

I can imagine the site could have facilitated countless sting operations and collected user data to identify traffickers.

Venezuela has some of the cheapest electricity in the world thanks to subsidies... but spikes in your power usage at home will land you in jail [1].

One workaround is pooling power from your neighbors, but the legal risk and setup are enough to deter most people.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/30/venezuela-is-one-of-the-worl...

I seriously doubt the author has spoken to a single Venezuelan about Bitcoin. A couple realities:

- dozens of miners have gone to prison for exploiting power subsidies. Mining now requires pooling electricity from neighbors to hide high-usage households

- vast majority of Venezuelans don't even know about Bitcoin, remains a niche topic, not a useful currency at the moment

- unlike Bitcoin, the Bolivar has a military and police force behind it, they will squash competing currencies that begin gaining momentum

20% of the time, it works every time.

> they have little use for Latin America

Untrue. China has been making massive investments there to secure natural resources in the past few years.

> Quantitatively: test and control pop splits.

How do you actually do this? Presidential elections come once every 4 years.

Monsanto released Roundup-Ready Soybean in 1996 to INCREASE herbicide use, without affecting crop yield [1]

Programs like Bt-corn reduce pesticide use... by making the plant produce the herbicide in the fruit. So, instead of being able to peel or rinse fruit (with varying results), you're eating corn kernels that have pesticide on the inside.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_soybean

> development work is significant

Not true, these guys invested a lot in making their sdks easy to integrate. You should be able to have fb/twitter/Pinterest/etc login in an afternoon

> Does "3x faster" mean at 300%, or at 400%?

It's 300%. If company A is growing 10% every month, and company B is growing 30% a month, people would call B's growth 3x faster (30/10=3).

> No money raised means companies are forced to surive on revenue

The opposite seems more true: insufficient revenue means companies are forced to fundraise.

Excellent communication and responsiveness. If you’re able to respond to any question on Slack or email within 2min during waking hours, that drastically improves the remote dynamic.