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Yep . . . I rarely post, have never used 'Login with FB', I use a unique email address for FB, don't have the app on my phone (and when I did, I never allowed it to access contacts), and IE/Edge has always been my "FB browser" . . . when I downloaded the data they had on me recently, it was nothing I was uncomfortable with at all . . . the new FB container on Firefox is really interesting, but I haven't started using it.

Part of it also is that Giphy has licensing agreements with media rights owners to create gifs based on their content . . . they're not just indexing existing gifs.

https://www.wired.com/2016/05/giphy-wants-all-the-gifs/

I'm in your boat . . . I have a 4.

I've used Uber only once - to help my mom to a doctor's appointment after she broke her hip.

I guess we were slow and a bit of a burden . . .

It's an unfortunate situation. I wonder if perhaps it could have been mitigated by small changes to the wording to make it gender neutral:

"A Relationship with Maven..."

- Looks Great

- Complains A lot

- Demands Attention

- Interrupts Us When We're Working

- Doesn't Play Well With Our Other Friends

Of course, the photo to the right would need to be gender neutral, too. Perhaps just the logo.

I can't imagine that such a slide would have any repercussions, but it would get the same point across. It's often not hard at all to just be inclusive.

Oh indubitably! It was really more of a rhetorical question, but it is my biggest lingering gripe and wish the segmentations would work in my favor to make it a viable/valuable option for them.

It's just frustrating to see that the Surface 2 (not pro) has integrated LTE as an option, but it's not available for the Pro line.

As a proud Gen 1 Surface Pro owner, this looks spectacular.

My Surface replaced my laptop, and while I definitely had my issues with the transition (trackpad sucks so often use external mouse, aspect ratio is inconvenient for Office, display angle is limiting, and no built-in LTE), I've ultimately come to enjoy using it.

I've almost always got it with me, and I've found I've become nearly as productive on it as I was with my laptop. I've been willing to make the "nearly" tradeoff since I have it on me more often, so more opportunity to be productive, and I do use it as a tablet in ways that I obviously couldn't with my laptop.

The updates in the Gen 3 address nearly all of my gripes (why can't they integrate LTE??). I'm not sure if I'll pick up a 3, but only because my Gen 1 is less than 2 years old and still under warranty. If not a Gen 3, then a Gen 4 will definitely be on my shopping list.

I can't imagine I'll go back to a normal laptop. I guess I'm exactly who they are targeting.

Basically, the Yahoo valuation builds in some expectation that it will sell its shares in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, but instead of returning the proceeds to shareholders (fully realizing its value), they will attempt to reinvest in Yahoo and destroy some of the value

It's relatively common practice - buy RE as a speculative investment and hold hoping that it will grow in value as an area develops.

In the meantime, it would be great to have the property throw off some free cash flow, so developers build businesses on the property that involve highly generic structures that are easy to build (low investment) and easy to demolish - otherwise, the cost of demolition for any prospective buyer will reduce the value they are willing to pay for the land.

Common businesses for this purpose are parking lots/garages and storage. When you see those, it's pretty safe to assume the owner is trying to maintain as much option value as possible in the property.

Once you build a specialized structure, you lose option value on the property.

When I was in Germany in 2006 during the World Cup, they had an online system in place to allow people to return their tickets. They would then periodically re-release those tix into the pool . . . it was through that reissue process that I secured all of my tix.

Of course, the Olympics is a far more complex set of events, but I'd have to imagine it would have been easy to implement this year (6 years later).

Zoom in and check out Stamford, CT.

The internet is big, but please don't think for a moment that awareness of SOPA/PIPA is big at all . . . "normals" have absolutely zero clue about what it is . . . even many who aren't "normals" aren't aware.

As tech/internet professionals, we often forget the echo chamber we live in . . . we all read the same publications and participate in the same communities. Awareness/publication outside those communities is negligible. As an example, take a look at the blackoutsopa campaign on Twitter . . . 10,000 people (I'm one of them, by the way) out of 180 million on Twitter?? . . . the most recent claim I saw is that those 10,000 people have 20 million followers . . . in aggregate, sure . . . wouldn't be surprised if it was a net of only 1 million . . . if that.

That said, it's impressive that the anti-SOPA/PIPA campaign has had an outsized impact for its population, but there is a LONG way to go before the rest of the internet has even the slightest hint anything is even going on . . . and I do think FB/Google/Wiki/Tumblr blackouts would be needed to get there.

Thanks for the head's up on the TOS. Actually, there WAS a period of time when I was on FB when I was living in Germany. In fact, when I signed up for FB, I was living in Germany (not in the military), so still probably worth a shot.

I have a dual citizenship . . . U.S./France. While I live in the U.S., I may try this with my French passport.

In response to cperciva's comment . . . Statistically? Sure . . . on an individual basis? Should be irrelevant . . . that's why we base employment decisions upon the resume of the individual and not based upon the resume of the parents.

Key difference . . . names are chosen by a person's parents, while email addresses are chosen by a person for themselves.

Focusing on the name, which the person can't control, instead of on the person's accomplishments (resume), which the person can absolutely control, would seem to be an indicator of bias.

I don't think your point holds up.

I gush about Slovenia all the time. During my 3 years living in Europe, it was probably my favorite place to travel to . . . absolutely gorgeous country and great people . . . also really darn innovative, smart and open (as illustrated by this project).

I've read this piece tons of times and whenever it finds me (as now), I never pass up an opportunity to read it again.

I can't tell you how many people I've sent this to, or shared the sentiment with, over the years.

>No. The tax event is on the grant, not capital gain (therefore capital loss does not cancel). Furthermore, if I fall under AMT (very likely), I can't deduct anything.

Ooph . . . sorry. However, just so I understand, if your shares were to rise above the transaction price, would you not be subject to capital gains tax on the gain? It would seem a bit misaligned if you could be taxed on gains but not benefit from losses (however, I wouldn't put that past the codes and that still wouldn't account for AMT issues).

Good luck with it!

Sounds like you're in the same boat as everyone else in your round, right? It's simply a function of the timing of the deal (less than a year since you invested, apparently) and the deal structure (cash vs. stock).

Stock inherently requires the acquired company to share the risk of the deal.

If the stock goes down further, you should be able to claim the loss on your taxes when you sell, which should mean you would need more than a 52% total decline to go in the red on the deal.

Are you an accredited investor? If not, you may have some legal outs to demand your money back, but you'd need to chat with a lawyer. If you were to pursue that route, though, you'd likely ruin any credibility to make future investments in other companies.

Kinda stinks that there's the gap between tax law and SEC regs timing, though. Good luck with the investment!

Non-Tech Founder here . . .

I'm an Ivy MBA (yippee), and I'm working with a Natural Language Processing PhD and another guy who will be starting his PhD in NLP in September. However, neither can serve as a full-time Co-Founder . . . gotta find that person.

The business plan (yeah, the MBA actually wrote a whole one) has been vetted by some iconic folks in the industry, and proof-of-concept should be done by the end of the summer thanks to the brilliant NLP folks and some amazing designers.

So what are we doing? Basically, the hypothesis is that there is a fundamental misalignment between the way that people intuitively think about engaging with information online and the tools we use to engage with information online . . . we think in terms of our interests, yet the existing tools/services are structured by function. We're going to realign that.

Looking for someone based in NYC who can lead the technology vision beyond the PoC . . . they should have a passion for social media, experience scaling a consumer-focused web service (ideally as a team leader), and love the idea of playing with a ton of cleanly segmented and highly granular data on interests.

Email is in my profile . . .

Cheers!