mulligan

One important thing to understand is the "metaverse" these companies are trying to build for is both VR and AR. Not solely VR.

it means you are vesting (and paying taxes) every quarter, so you won't see growth on that pre-tax amount

Not in California, at least

Sounds like 25miles total. 12.5 each way.

missing postmates, which is an sf company since inception

> Popper abhorred philosophers who argue that scientists adhere to theories for cultural and political rather than rational reasons.

Might explain baby boomer behavior

Secret was filled with trashy posts and other types of low quality content without the ability to do much filtering.

confirmation bias?

More people in the world than ever have access to clean potable water. More people in the world than ever have no access to clean potable water.

There was some chess tutorial going around online that I failed to properly bookmark. The tutorial was premised on the fact that for casual fun games, you shouldn't have to memorize a bunch of strategic openings and instead adopt some of the older methods of playing before everyone memorized everything.

Does anyone remember this and have a link to it?

Likewise, for Spanish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aljamiado

I think everyone on the tour group was jaded at the end!

> several major mobile operators intend to deploy ad blockers on their network to put pressure on large mobile ad providers such as Google, Yahoo!, or AOL. They want to protest against what they see as excessive use of their bandwidth by those internet giants

This part seem kind of troubling.

At Machine Zone, we've been using formal methods to specify and verify systems we have in development. This is something we've only been doing in the last 6-9 months though.

From the article:

argues for a simple theory: the net marginal impact of drinking on health is negative at all levels; and moderate drinking is a marker for relative youth, affluence, and healthy habits rather than a cause of good health

This article from berkeley is super relevant, it was published just a few days ago: https://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/03/05/distant-supernova...

We can see a supernova 4 different times using gravitational lensing.

I'd be curious to know what you were expecting

What is that you see as unwelcoming about Blue Bottle?

Saving you a click, the greatest lie according to Huh is: > "Learning to lead effectively, Huh explained, was just as imperative as building a successful product."

I still don't understand why papers are not dated.

I can understand the policy and I'm not sure it makes them evil. You could build a publicly facing system that was simply an API into their database, thus providing the public with the data you licensed.

FYI: Google voice will transcribe your voicemails.

No. He's worth only a little bit more than how ever much it costs to hire the 2nd best guy.

Interesting. Similar to another company, literally down the street from them: http://emeraldtherapeutics.com/

It should be pointed out that he later left the NOI and became an adherent to mainstream Islam. That was another step in his transformation.

Implementing CRDTs on riak 1.x was done years ago: https://github.com/mochi/statebox

pirate.ceo happens to be available

I was pretty sure this happened a month or two ago, but I guess it is now official: http://www.businessinsider.com/klout-acquired-2014-2

I understand the goals of having a meetup like this, but having people meetup over "beer" is kind of exclusive and isn't a very inviting for a large chunk of people. Not to pick on Chute, since this is a common thing, but it is worth pointing out every now and again.