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Easily $100 billion. The momentum is too strong.

it was way overblown, the details ignored in the anti-Uber cacophony. This ruling only effects California and a single driver, as explained by an article in Forbes: http://www.forbes.com&#x…

in the OP's defense, it's kinda a dense read

The problem is monetization. It's not like Snapchat where you have a potential $1+ billion advertising behemoth . I was surprised it was valued as high as it is

Companies cannot hire fast enough. Glassdoor, an employment site, lists more than 7,300 openings for software engineers, ahead of job openings for nurses, This agree with the post-2008 hollowing out…

this is interesting, but also I'm curious how a week-old blog on a old school blogger template with only two posts got noticed so fast?

I initially thought it was a bug bounty

yeah..and that's why verbal scores are lower than math ones lol

I wonder if employees will start treating stat-ups like VCs do, by joining many firms for fractional equity of a single employee.

wonder why this story hasn't gotten more up-votes or comments. I wonder how some like Mr. Tao learns things...he must be able to grasp complicated things nearly instantly

but you can get a distribution more similar to a power law but using a log normal distribtion

Giving away your work can be the prelude to finding paying customers

How to get a job at Google: add annoying stuff no one asked for, ignore requests users want

Gmail is terrible in so many ways - Being randomly locked out of your account, the clunky user-unfriendly interface, the difficulty of marking certain senders as spam, ...

While progress may seem slower, we have a lot more people working on these unsolved problems. Also there is the fusion of abstract math and physics, which creates thousands of 'physicists' o…

There is a major reason for this: Obamacare Small companies are more reluctant to hire for fear of having to pay employee insurance if they have over 50 employees, under the employer mandate. Other fa…

Most investors are not that good. Look at the stats that show money mangers lag the market. I would have funded Air BNB because it's very scalable, it fills a large market, and seemed to have ver…

Here we go again What's being ignored is that the odds of your company becoming the next Air BNB or even 1/100 as successful as Air BNB are pretty slim. I dunno what the stats on y combinato…

no, because it said splcenter.org

So in other words, an asset class that has been run-up very quickly is falling very quickly. The media acts like this is unusual, when those who actually study markets see that it happens all the time…

A lot of Reddit users forget or don;t realize that Reddit is a business, not a non-profit. For all we know, it may not have been Ellen's fault...a lot of people jumping the gun

I think this is similar to the scalar theory of the stock market, which uses scale invariant geometric objects to represent stock market emery levels http://greyenlightenment.com/sorne…

I wonder if this has anything to do with prices being grotesquely overextended? It's not normal for a market to double in less than a year when inflation is otherwise low.

Yeah, that statement is pretty loaded, the subject of dozens pf PHD dissertations alone. I do think Fred is right, but it requires looking looking at the EMF in a slightly different way than most peop…

yeah, without percentages it all looks the same . Series A could be the same percentage as B

Public markets are rational. Tech stock performance has been strong but is driven by strong revenue growth and good business fundamentals generally speaking. I agree completely. That right there is …