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Cameras don't have the same dynamic range of the human eye. A more fair test would be giving someone remote control of a Tesla with only access to the video footage.

I think cameras will hit parity with the human eye, but the question is will it happen before or after Lidar becomes more affordable and compact.

Early employees at Uber had an opportunity to sell stock at a funding round. Not sure exactly how many people, but believe it was first 1000.

Great analogy. Anything seems impossible before its done, and obvious 5-10 years after it's done.

I agree with hiring the four people over the one star. If that one person leaves or is on vacation you have a hole in your team.

There is a chance of the four who are not as capable today, 1-2 might become a stars in the future. He/she will be more loyal because of the opportunity the manager gave them.

Being able to leave your bike anywhere makes bike sharing so much more compelling.

How does maintenance work with this model. Paris has had bike sharing for a long time. The advantage of having the bikes in one location is if one bike had an issue you could use another. Also maintenance crews had to only visit a limited number of locations.

In 2-3 years time will the bikes deteriorate such that they will not be nice to ride?

The kids are the employees in that analogy and that is whom to the letter is addressed. Not simply a board battle.

No mention of the IPO disagreement. I wonder if most Uber employees would be for or against an IPO. I am sure many would want to cash out at this point and might support Benchmark for that reason alone.

"We have tremendous respect for the incredible work you do to provide this vital service in cities all around the world and to create work opportunities for millions of people globally."

Suggests that it is addressed to employees creating jobs, which would be the full time employees.

Apple could use anonymized browsing and searching data from Safari to launch it's own search engine if Google pulls its current deal.

Yes and the social aspects, stress relief, and the warmt.

Some of my friends started smoking during final high school exams to combat stress and fatigue.

Having multiple streaming providers will lead to more original content since streaming infrastructure alone is not defensibility.

Hopefully each streaming provider will share older seasons similar to how Netflix has acquired content currently.

I have Amazon, HBO, Netflix, and YouTube Red. I am happier than when I had a cable package - there is much more content I want to watch.

They would have faced backlash either way, it is hard to say.

He didn't leak the memo but it was shared publicly within Google.

If the memo was against the code of conduct, why did they wait one month to take action?

A better response from HR would have been to tell him: "this may violate our code of conduct - could you please take it down for the moment while we discuss amongst HR".

This could have turned into a reasonable internal discussion than a media circus.

If the funds went back to all employees equally then it’s a market-based solution.

This example is conflating the market for charity donations with parking. If I was going to donate $10k/month to charity anyway, I’d bid $5k a month on the parking (not sure how tax would work).

He/she was giving a counter example to show it wasn't win-win, not commenting on equality in general.

What about iTunes? [1]

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/total-recall/id1040020260

Why wouldn't it scale? It is the same strategy that Apple uses: build a compelling base product, and then sell additional services.

You could still have a free service that displays ads.

Initially with cigarettes, society only focused on the positive aspects and even after 50 years people still smoke.

Once a company gets going, even if it is discovered there are long term issues with their products, they will be hard to compete against.

I wouldn't lump either Google or Youtube with Facebook.

I signed up for Youtube Red, their commercial free subscription. I fill my subscriptions with topics I want to learn more about. It is easier to curate content on Youtube than Facebook.

I would pay Facebook $2-5/month not to show me advertisements.

Facebook login works fairly well to grab data once.

This is a good point! Most dating apps have Facebook login and grab a bunch of information from Facebook. Maybe this platform for single people grabs data from Facebook.

I like the idea of having LinkedIn and not just adding all my work contacts on Facebook. I want to be sure that the information I share on the dating platform and Facebook don't mix too easily. Curating my Facebook data once when signing up to a dating app is fine.

The groups on Facebook are very different but it still works. You should be able to build most things on top of the platform. Flickr was the social network for photographers but most photographers post on Facebook now.

Dating apps right now feel a little like pre-Facebook social networks. There is one for every niche.

I wonder why there isn't a platform for single people where dating companies are just apps on top of the platform. Seems like bad user experience that a user needs to maintain multiple accounts.

Don't get me wrong, I think this is a great idea but I think the really big company in this space will be a platform for single people.

San Francisco would be one of the harder cities to make self-driving work: bad light, heavy traffic traffic, bicycles, poor lane markings, spotty GPS downtown, etc.

I haven't been to Phoenix, so can't comment on the difficulty of running a self driving car there, but I would guess its easier than SF.

In FiDi/SoMA single parking spots can sell for $150k. I would be expecting $50-100k per resident.

If a neighborhood catered only to tourists and Airbnb visitors it would slowly turn into Times Square (NY) or Union Square (SF). This would not be a stationary equilibrium.

This is spot on. Also having a hotel next door is easy to spot when you are looking for a new place.

I think Airbnb is a good idea with regulation that limits the number of weeks you can rent out your place.

Great idea. I tried the verb tenses quiz. It struggled a little to understand me. The voice is also not the easiest to understand.

Edit: Doing a multiplication table drill that includes multiple tables would be useful.

Every apartment I have lived has a mailbox. Not only accessible to USPS, anyone can use it.