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It does at Google. They have enough fat to digest it for a while.
They were too risk averse then (probably a consequence of the gigantic funding). Maybe the risk is lower now.
I am long on Uber: taxis are dead, it will not go anywhere. The only problem is that the board made a strategic mistake that felt good short term. They tried to retain users by pushing the founder out, and hiring a diversity CEO. This failed long term as any populist board move does. But they still have a chance to have their NeXT moment and bring Travis back.
How did you find it? I do not see it. I searched /newest
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dangxiaopin on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @12:02AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I attempted to submit https://www.infoworld.com/article/3440557/should-open-source-licenses-fight-evil.htmlNormally, when you submit a URL that has already been submitted, you are taken to the original submission, and its score gets incremented. In this case, it took me to an error message: "This story has already been submitted". Why did this anomaly happen?
Watch this one disappearing too
So if it was Berkeley (a state school), he should have not been fired?
It's not a company. It's a university, for God sake. If no free speech there anymore, then where? In the kitchen, like in the USSR?
Now if he was a pedophile, he should be in jail. But he is not, he is exersizing free speech, no matter how disgusting it is, he is entitled to it. Should Nabokov have been made unemployable too for writing Lolita?
I'd think that at P/E of 65 you'd expect some future growth?
Yet Google Trends exactly reflects (exhibits?) Google Play data of our app that has 37 million registered users.
I can only interpret that they are talking about logged in users with accounts. The users were logged out during the pre-IPO and that resulted in some double counting in their second post IPO 10-Q.
I was researching this because I asked myself a general question: "Why is the stock price of non dividend paying companies correlated to the performance at all?"
From the article you quoted (call me cynical):
"Disclosure: I am/we are long PINS. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha)"
>insiders must already be aware
The lockup period does not expire till mid-october.
I read their 10-Q and found this gem about "user re-authentication":
"Users
MAUs at quarter-end were 300 million, representing growth of 30% year-over-year. This represents an acceleration in user growth, in part due to one-time changes to SEO algorithms and user re-authentication that impacted Q218. International growth drove the majority of global MAU expansion."
"When the forest is chopped down,
the chips fly"
--Joseph Stalin
The competition is Fastly for example. The downside is that there are fewer and fewer independent websites.
The newest trend in banks is to migrate to AWS. See recent Capital One hack. They view it as a combination of commodity hardware with cheap software.
I am not 100% sure either, but I think /dev/fbN does not exist without a fb driver. DRM uses /dev/dri/renderNNN
Even though it does not look this way now, I think this is a seminal legislation that in time will move small startup scene out of California for good, due to what you have described. I have the same experience, bootstrapping a software company that initially could not afford an employee payroll and administrative/legal burden. Where do we go next to start non-VC companies? Oregon? Texas?
Just curious why contrary to the usual HN policy of reusing the headline verbatim, the word "communist" was edited out?
They have to pay payroll tax and administer payroll. I ran a bootstrapped business, that initially had several contractors, till a day I could afford to replace (in several cases, promote) them to employees, so I know this intimately. Additionally, there are payroll costs and the accounting costs, and the payroll administration burden. For a tiny growing business with no outside capital it matters more than you know.
The 5th largest economy figures come from semi monopolies like Google and Facebook. In the beginning, they get a VC investment, a comfortable office, a payroll admin and Wilson and Sonsini from day one. In the meantime, San Francisco restaurants cannot afford cooks.
Contractors send 1099 they receive from a company to FTB. They don't need to complain.
This means that a bootstrapped start-up cannot temporarily hire a graphics designer or a coder in California anymore, without the budget to make him an employee. But non-VC entrepreneurship has been hardly possible here for other reasons: building and rent control regulations driving the housing and office space costs. Since the 2006's "web2.0", progressive California regulators are at it for real, pitching entrepreneurship as an enemy of labor: it's no longer a place for small business and non-VC startups. Those have been fleeing.
So migrate a large production codebase to unstable API? With dependencies not yet migrated?
I think the sunsetting is very premature. Python 3 became a stable and viable alternative only since 3.6.1 (look at the evolution of async/await before that for example). Giving it 2 years is definitely not enough for enterprise (unless their focus is startup, tinkerers and data scientists)
8ch had a lot of very interesting and non-violent stuff. Have you been reading it regularly? I did.
I lived in a socialist country and you did not. Perhaps consider that you might not know where these current trends are pointing to.
So FB's internet peers should depeer Facebook then in their routers, since the original material (the stream) was on FB? Or you prefer your justice selective?
You upload your private SSL key to Cloudflare for example. And I was talking about hosting on your own hardware/colos like most large sites do (7x cheaper than AWS list prices on avg)