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erdle··on Uber shareholder group wants Benchmark off board
look at the stories and when they're released... for example when travis was confronted in a hotel... there were like 4 people counting Travis.

so it was either one of them or someone they told that leaked... pretty simple regression analysis to eventually figure out that story after story with a certain group is getting out. then you have to figure out why and then it's... the present.

erdle··on SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside
> nice daddy VC writing witty blog posts

lol ... waiting for him to talk about the rampant pedophile problem on Kik

erdle··on SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside
> Maybe it will be bought by AOL or yahoo to prolong its agony further.

you mean ... Oath

erdle··on SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside
did Vimeo's core crowd also leave the platform?
erdle··on Tesla raises $1.8B
How much of this is actually being used to pay down SolarCity debt?
erdle··on A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its promises
The funny thing about that ... is that IBM's long time ad agency is Ogilvy & Mather.

It was founded by David Ogilvy.

One of his big things was "nothing kills a bad product faster than great advertising"... he would be so ashamed of these ads.

erdle··on Coinbase raises $100M Series D led by IVP
Poker term
erdle··on Introducing Watch, a new platform for shows on Facebook
Youtube's UX drives me crazy, especially on mobile. They really need to reach this next level of responsive where the length of a video is considered just as screen size has been in the past.

Tv.Youtube is a bit better... but I have faith they will step up as it continues to dominate.

Did a poll of my little cousins at a wedding, they would all rather have a Youtube Red subscription than Spotify or Netflix.

erdle··on Bees Are Bouncing Back from Colony Collapse Disorder
Mites are not 100% the culprit - but a lot of groups including the US Gov't are still looking into all causes.

My father has been briefed by the USDA more than once on the issue, it's complicated and nation states haven't been ruled out according to the last update he had.

Most likely it's a number of causes.

erdle··on Ask HN: Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?
sales data?
erdle··on KKR's Internet Brands plans to buy WebMD in a $2.8B deal
"All Western nations, with the exception of New Zealand and the United States, have historically (since the 1940s for Australasia, North America, and Europe) banned direct advertising of pharmaceuticals to consumers." - wiki

Would be interesting to see what happens in this space with all the changes to healthcare. Pharmaceuticals spend a ton on marketing, but if legislation changes that... would kill a lot of revenue for tech and media companies.

erdle··on Ask HN: If you were a coder who successfully changed careers, what do you do now?
if you can succeed in an architecture program, you can eventually work in just about any field, by brute force alone.
erdle··on Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment
He's now an investor in The Wing
erdle··on Blue Apron May Need to Raise More Money Soon After Shrunken IPO
Tesla/SolarCity will be raising by the end of the year. It happens, a lot. But how/why is a big deal.
erdle··on Blue Apron May Need to Raise More Money Soon After Shrunken IPO
Caveat emptor all around.

An interview goes both ways.

erdle··on Blue Apron May Need to Raise More Money Soon After Shrunken IPO
Which is why they targeted tech investors for money... people that know what they're doing wouldn't touch it.
erdle··on Blue Apron May Need to Raise More Money Soon After Shrunken IPO
ask/follow this guy: http://blog.minethatdata.com/
erdle··on Blue Apron May Need to Raise More Money Soon After Shrunken IPO
Just to be clear — most VCs are also getting universal basic income from LPs.

Warren Buffet once said most hedge funds were compensation schemes disguised as investment vehicles.

The same can be said for the average VC.

erdle··on Uber loses ground in US as rival Lyft accelerates
at the end of the day it's just an app... there is no Uber infrastructure such as a bus stop... very few real assets... and not a ton of IP if every car company, Google, and others are competing.

they had a great brand and the only thing they had to do was not fuck it up before they reached the next level. and instead they spent most of their cash on fighting rivals, built a culture that is eroding the brand and behind on the next thing in transportation.

erdle··on Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk?
Carlos Slim has a few interesting monkey period pieces at his foundation's museum in CDMX.
erdle··on Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk?
dont worry, ex wife is an art history professor ... 0 chance anyone on here will say something that is widely accepted in academia.
erdle··on The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (1899)
totally different pictures though - if it's a print or even a copy painted in the last couple of decades the light will be hitting it all wrong. oil paintings are interesting in how they settle overtime and cure.
erdle··on The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (1899)
a lot of beauty products are petroleum based
erdle··on Postmates Raises $80M in Push Toward $1 Deliveries
My startup is bootstrapped and does deliveries.

In fact we actually hired people that hated the old/current Postmates model.

But basically, it's not an easy business model and it's not one that makes financial sense, no matter what the funding, city, tipping situation is.

Deliveries = Time Time = Money

If you want someone to have time to make deliveries, you have to pay them enough money to have that time. Until VERY EXPENSIVE robots and cars replace people, deliveries will always be expensive, and relatively dependent on the speed of traffic + production. And even once we have robots, we'll need to charge enough to cover the robots, the guy that repairs the robots and money to invest in the next robot. That probably will be more than an dollar... especially when you factor in energy for the robots.

erdle··on Postmates Raises $80M in Push Toward $1 Deliveries
Could you shed some more light on this? Instacart claims to offer in store prices for my local store.

Although I have caught a few issues where they charged double for an avocado or something like that but it seems like more of a data entry error based on the current price of "2 for 1"

erdle··on Singapore Rising: The Plot to Be the Next Big Tech Hub
You're heterosexual — so there will be no issues.

People seem to not want to touch on the subject that the Singapore gov't has invested major bucks into companies like Square... while also having some rights issues. Even Salesforce maintains offices in Singapore, despite all their issues with Indiana hinting about an unwelcoming climate earlier this year.

But seriously — Singapore is extremely safe. But it's also safe because it's tightly controlled. There are undercover policemen everywhere, tons of CCTC, and some strict rules. And I think they also block Wall Street Journal online.

erdle··on Death of a Programmer, Life of a Farmer
Anecdote: Grew up on a vineyard and blueberry farm ... did not stop allergies from crushing my sinus cavities aka chronic sinusitis
erdle··on Why are all the 'good' restaurants starting to look the same?
Well that was a bait and switch...
erdle··on A Case Study of Toyota Unintended Acceleration and Software Safety
A friend is a director at an interesting company that provides secure translations amongst other services to companies and has made bank since this happened. I guess it's a bit of a secret outside the industry.
erdle··on A Case Study of Toyota Unintended Acceleration and Software Safety
Not sure if it's widely known how they were caught... but it was when they outsourced their translation of documents and a translator read documents and blew the whistle.

Which is why the top translation firms now offer... security!

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