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I'm curious what Market they set out to serve and what Market they serve now - would you mind elaborating?

Yup - dead in the water

jgacookon Snapchat has changed Venice, Los Angeles, and it isn't changing back

Read: a successful business in a high-paying industry in the middle of a bubble raises rent prices in the area around it...you could have written this story about San Francisco, New York, etc.

jgacookon Putin Ordered ‘Influence Campaign’ Aimed at U.S. Election, Report Says

Why is anybody in the government so unable to provide convincing evidence that the Russians were directly involved in hacking the DNC? This article's headline references the Russian state media preferential coverage in the Trump campaign and then, later on, repeats the intelligence community conclusion that Guccifer 2.0 is a GRU operative...

Don't we as democratic citizens deserve to have concrete evidence available to us that a foreign country influenced our election before we start banging the war drum? Can I really be expected to blindly trust the CIA/NSA/etc. on a topic of such vast importance?

jgacookon Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San Francisco

The Uber self-driving cars have a human in the driver's seat that is able to take control of the vehicle. It's not clear whether the computer or the human was in control when the car blew the red light.