Surprisingly TGI Fridays is fairly popular in Norway and Sweden. I thought it was a joke when my Norwegian friends suggested we meet up there
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Why draw a distinction? Because the algorithms behind those products can and do change.
Right now, hyper-partisan content is everywhere. Why? Because publishers have collectively realized that partisanship drives clicks. Take away those clicks by changing the algorithm: the medium changes, the messages change.
Facebook used to have a problem with Farmville spam. It doesn't anymore because the system changed. Perhaps the same could happen with hyper-partisan clickbait.
Startups need to be nimble. When you raise 1.4 billion from the outset and hire hundreds of employees, you quickly build an internal bureaucracy. That's a hard ship to steer.
Most startups need to make course corrections, both big and small, before they find product/market fit. The political & psychological difficulty of those corrections becomes quite high when you have 100's of employees.
Investment dollars are like gasoline. Too much too early and you can actually drown out the flame.
Blockchains are useful in situations where centralized trust can't be established or would be less valuable. If you can't trust the government that's running the election process, how would a blockchain solve that?
Too many blockchain proposals just boil down to building a slow, expensive to maintain database.
Sadly the way journalism works today is one outlet does a ton of time-consuming, expensive digging. Then within minutes of posting, every other outlet copies the story
The team is made up of a few React core devs and some ex-FB folks. They actually helped organize the last official React conf. The scope of what can be built using Exponent is expanding rapidly. And you can build apps that are virtually indistinguishable from Swift/Java apps.
If you want an example, I'd encourage you to download the Android version of this app: https://li.st/
Spotify, Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, iMessage, Apple Numbers (I'd settle for Excel), Keynote (far superior to Powerpoint), Hearthstone, Apple Calendar, Apple Mail, Apple Maps, Apple Photos
For nearly every one of those apps I'd have to settle for an inferior user experience on Linux. It would be significantly more bearable on Windows, but still would be a UX compromise compared to my experience on the Mac today.
But I care a lot more about the OS and the software I use than the relative price value of the hardware I'm using.
OS X is a far superior operating system from Windows. Even if Lenovo offered computers twice as fast for half the price I won't switch until the user experience of Windows improves.
As of now, the amount of ether you hold doesn't increase your ability to affect a fork. That's entirely controlled by miners. The amount of computing power you bring to the ethereum blockchain controls how much your vote counts.
If Ethereum switches to a "proof-of-stake" system as planned, then yes, the amount of ether you hold will effectively be how many votes you have in making decisions like these.
FWIW I think integrity is a pretty okay company value. Depending on your industry, valuing integrity may be a trade-off that other companies are unwilling to make
Company values are only meaningful when they differentiate that company from others. Everyone wants to "Move Fast and Not Break Things".
"Move Fast and Break Things" was a value judgement. For Facebook, moving quickly was worth the penalty of sometimes breaking things.
This is why most companies have lame values like "Do your best work" or "Be honest". Great values, but nobody disagrees with them—so they're meaningless.
Many of the talks from TED never make it online. They only post one a day, and have a huge back-log of great talks to post.
Nick's original talk just didn't make the cut. I genuinely believe that was an editorial decision, not a political one. To that point, he gave an improved version of the talk a few years later which TED gladly posted online here: http://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocra...
VC funds tend to dislike small exits: they're not enough to return the fund and they can't re-invest the capital.
The status quo here is embarrassing. Diebold & the like should not be trusted with such a cornerstone of our society
We saw much higher FB auth rates on desktop web than mobile—bad enough that we may forego Facebook login on mobile web entirely.