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the guy is Erdogan's puppet and has to say things to undermine Saudi Arabia soooo im guessing since he is 'head of energy' he had to improvise a little using energy terms.
how? thru fracking? say bye to drinking water.
Re:Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways on Thursday December 13, 2018 @06:02PM (#18676952)
the local pizza shop does not belong to the richest guy in the world. the same richest guy who squeezes every drop of tax deductions and other inventives from the government to fun his business with my tax money.
unemployment numbers are distorted. they count all part time jobs and gig economy signups as employment. these arent jobs, you can afford a decent life with this kind 'employment'. people working as teachers, working as salesperson at an official car dealerships, working in retail cant afford to rent an apartment and are living from shared rooms.
Re:Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @12:16PM (#18656818)
I looked into plaid+stripe solution for our ACH payments need and after playing around with it a little I just didn't feel like I can put that in front of my clients and tell them 'Yeah put in your bank login and password on our website to make the payment, we promise it's secure'. Their solution didnt sell with me and I went for Stripe ACH where they make microdeposit and customer has to verify the amounts. Even PaySimple's eCheck solution sounds more reasonable to put in front of clients than to demand their bank login and password. IMHO
Re:The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted on Monday December 03, 2018 @05:50PM (#18593940)
so there is starting to begin some panic but its not in full swing yet.
Re:I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier on Sunday December 02, 2018 @04:48PM (#18584780)
-having grown up (and going to first 6 grades of school) in a small village with very tight community. -going thru 5 years of boarding school with very strong alumni traditions (kind of sect actually) -6 years of going to college and living on campus of a large University -living in a foreign country with very tight immigrant community of 'my country people' for the past 8 years I can say that yes, unfortunately and surprisingly, friendships and relationships are born out of and maintained mostly thanks to proximity and necessity.
Google needs to hire Satya Nadella as the CEO.
Re:The End Is Near for Mobile Apps? on Monday November 05, 2018 @05:51PM (#18386743)
its definitely the opposite of convenience. if i need the app i know where to find it. its especially annoying when the link keeps reappearing after i dismissed it once already.
Re:The End Is Near for Mobile Apps? on Monday November 05, 2018 @10:16AM (#18382884)
I think people actually prefer using decent mobile web apps over native apps and app vendors are actually actively fighting it by putting annoying 'get the app' link overlaying content on mobile web. they are trying to push people as much as as they can to force them to download the damn native app. you don't see any app publisher putting a link to mobile web app over the content inside the native app prompting people to use mobile web app over native app. For most of the content websites I use I don't feel the need for the app (twitter, reddit, LinkedIn, etc.) but they are making the mobile web experience horrible by putting that content overlaying link on every damn page.
oh he fled Assad, that makes it okay for him to offer professional driver services in a country where he just arrived with 0 assessment of his driving skills. and in the meantime if he ends up causing an accident or two by putting everyone's life in danger its okay because, remember, he fled Assad.
Uber and Lyft definitely put more shitty drivers out on the road constantly cruising looking to pickup or drop off their riders in most not suitable places with 0 regards to traffic, especially in NYC and suburbs. Uber and Lyft pays so little that most of their drivers are definitely not qualified to drive professionally but are doing it because they can't get any other job. I forgot to mention that these drivers work for multiple ride-sharing companies (at least 2 but sometimes up to 4 in NYC) and have multiple smartphones docked to their dashboard constantly distracting them.
Re:The Death of the IPO on Saturday October 27, 2018 @07:20PM (#18318244)
aren't ICOs like, dead?
Re:Uber Proposals Value It at $120B in Possible 2019 IPO on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @06:47PM (#18233954)
as an occasional uber driver and sometimes passenger I have to say while it has its moments when Uber is most convenient and cheap option there is nothing super amazing about this company or their product. Drivers are unhappy about worsening pay (uber keeps bigger cuts), riders are unhappy about worsening qualify of cars/drivers while uber still has not reached profitability. I would not bet the house on ubers ipo. may as well go the Groupon route
Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @02:59AM (#18173850)
as a Facebook addict who used it for 10 years straight im surprised i don't miss it at all, going 10 months strong.
wow what a short, on point and helpful article. very impressive story too. good luck guys, not that you need it:) keep kicking ass!
Re:Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look on Sunday September 30, 2018 @01:35AM (#18104625)
yes please
Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic on Saturday September 29, 2018 @11:58AM (#18101056)
just installed it on firefox. searched for myself, not really impressed with relevancy of the results but it did surface pages that I had not seen on first two pages of google. so im guessing its not really a replacement to google but a decent alternative
Re:WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:24PM (#18078218)
Zuckerberg was never known to be a founder with a good mission.
"One employee, a source told Kotaku, had been working until 3 AM the night before" Moral of the story, never work for any company until 3am.
because charity is an ideal for stroking his ego while writing off taxes.
Re:Airware is shutting down after raising $118M on Friday September 14, 2018 @06:31PM (#17991603)
wheeled vehicle parked in the isles to take a picture of a space on top shelf would be blocking pallet jakcs and other vehicles that need to move between the isles. may be a railed solution hanging from the ceiling would be better.
Re:Airware is shutting down after raising $118M on Friday September 14, 2018 @06:30PM (#17991598)
I don't know why this is getting downvoted. years ago when we had multiple warehouses our employees would upload pictures of shelves into the cloud at the end of every shift and if a product goes missing we would look at the pictures and inventory record to find out when exactly the real quantity of items on the shelf and inventory level in the system became off. if a drone could fly thru shelves on schedule and AI could count the items that would be amazing
Re:Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In on Monday August 20, 2018 @06:18PM (#17804535)
so how many companies are actually accepted into the course?
Re:Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In on Monday August 20, 2018 @06:16PM (#17804524)
I hope yours was not sent by mistake because I just got another email saying my application wasnt actually accepted. Which I understand because I was surprised to be accepted since our demo is passport protected and they could not have seen what is it that we have built so far.
Re:Traveling the World on a Third World Passport on Thursday August 16, 2018 @09:29PM (#17779687)
are they actively enforcing the 'turn over your social media accounts' thing right now? I have multi friends and family who came to visit me in the states recently and nobody mentioned that.

As a Brit, I don't think you will encounter any difficulty entering United States.

Re:A list of startups funded in 2017 on Monday August 13, 2018 @11:59AM (#17751048)
GDrive on Android said "protected file" and didn't display anything.
average consumer has proved to be a very irresponsible car owner and shitty operator of the vehicle. and given the fact that people got more distractions behind the wheel compared to 20 years ago such as checking emails, checking into flights, disputing a credit card charges or whatever little things that you need to get done often and can be done over the phone. it would be better for everybody if these flying vehicles were not sold to everyone and only well paid professionals were allowed to operate them as taxis.
Re:YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @10:34AM (#17558758)
this is awesome. lines up with our stage of development too. filled out the form, hoping to become part of YC community
curious if taxing buy backs was any part of the proposed tax reform. kinda highly doubt it but still hopeful

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