JohnnyConatus

NYC group?

Theoretically you're right. In practice not enough customers think about that risk for it to have a material impact on the startup's financial viability.

I met up with a pro TV writer I know and he said he was so happy the season was over because he could finally go to a mattress store and buy a new mattress. He said he didn't have time to do it for the last X months.

Basically being a TV writer is like working in video games; there's another person right behind you who would love to have your job because of the perceived glamor so terrible conditions persist.

Going extinct? Typical middle-child attention getting stunt.

They should have bought Shine and called it a day. Amazing how poorly their new UI works compared to a Chrome extension.

See this AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/6lvwh4/im_an_ar...

I.e. the mattress in a box business model.

The Atlantic and other sites regularly change A/B test article titles so they likely changed it

Probably because complaining isn't allowed at work. They mandated the usage so that's not a good sign especially when OPs complaints are deal breakers for anyone who isn't mandated to use it.

I.e. the emperor has too much kb.

SpaldingCoin is the hottest ICO in the archipelago

Have you tried integrating home-grown services into their workflows? Curious as otherwise it looks pretty good.

Smart lights are the killer app for Alexa. There's no going back once you have it. And the only thing keeping most people from getting smart lights is the cost which will fall.

White label exchange providers openly advertise wash trading as a feature. Also many provide liquidity from other exchanges so using aggregate market cap across exchanges is extremely inaccurate.

Also winter. Most of the dense cities in the U.S. also have significant winter weather that makes biking less ideal.

IANAL, is this a real risk? This sounds like suing a paper company for a ransom note written on it's paper. You can bring a suit for nearly anything but it feels like there would be a lot of precedent to immediately dismiss it.

According to sources, Foxconn really didn't want to buy Belkin but that's all they had at the store.

Spotify is an excellent product. They have addressed and solved almost every problem users cited for why they wouldn't pay for music via other means.

It's time to admit it: consumers do not deserve this level of product in exchange for listening to a few ads. These users are obviously unprofitable. And the premium version could likely be more expensive, too.

The devaluation of music was a collective moral convenience. Now it's time to pay.

I have FIOS and aside from finally syncing my online backups, I've been struck by how little difference / improvement there is over cable. I'm not a gamer so the latency doesn't matter. My TV isn't 4k so no help there and I suspect video "CDNs" will be the primary fix for most of the market.

What is the best use case for fiber? I feel like I'm missing it.

Look up B Corporations. There is another way. However most founders really want to be rich and few VCs will invest in this structure.

This should be higher. Optimize will eat the low end portion of the market just like Google analytics did.

When does it make sense to run Node on docker vs Heroku dynos or something similar? Is it just a cost thing at a certain number? Are these significantly specialized containers? The types mentioned in the doc seem like basic web apps.

I've used Docker for things like complicated java dev environments. But it seems over-applied for basic web apps.

While the pharmaceutical companies deserve penalties, it's ridiculous that someone with a pre-existing Valium addiction and a history of "hard drug" addiction is blaming the pharmaceutical companies.

Nan, admit it, you like getting high.

Stewart Lee on the values of Carphone Warehouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2firijxQOo

I'm not an expert but has anyone made a solid argument for why the banks would use XRP as the medium of exchange versus the existing fiat reserve currency (USD) or a general use crypto currency (BTC/ETH/BCH/whatever wins)?

In contrast, I've seen multiple articles like the below which basically say 1) Ripple good, 2) XRP unnecessary. Based on nothing more than one person suddenly becoming one of the world's richest people with next to no market penetration, the hype vapors seem strong.

(I know there are proof of concepts being run but a PoC is no guarantee an implementation. Otherwise all fortune 500 employees would be wearing Google Glass while they ride their Segways.)

[https://www.forbes.com/sites/ksamani/2017/12/20/the-bear-cas...

Built a fintech-ish startup all by myself, zero funding. I didn't intend to do it all by myself but it's not a sexy business so no one was jumping to go full-time. It came close to breaking me as a human being, honestly.

Anyway, I went from being a CTO who was constantly being pitched horrible no-good business ideas by first times CEOs - who as a rule, wanted to give me 10% equity but also wanted me to build the project for free - to a CEO who closed countless sales and knows his CAC and LTV like the back of his hand.

If I can, so can you but you have to manage CAC:LTV.

The nice thing about the old world of music was that when you played for an audience there was nothing going on but what you were doing. Now the band has to compete with everyone's phones.

The more competition that enters the market the more essential marketing and branding become to differentiate the product.

Everyone who told us musicians that flattening the barriers to entry would lead to more income were either ignorant of economics or willfully ignoring it further their interests. Few bands make more money off of Bandcamp then they did flogging their CDs.

I think your right. But if the idea is the halo effect that keeps me in the ecosystem, they need to do better on the OS/laptop front and on the Siri front. Both are slipping.

That's one hell of a post hoc justification to justify the unethical and illegal behavior of the 1% to capture even more of the economic pie.

Reminds me of the QZ article where the Chinese bitcoin miners all swear they're only interested in blockchain as a technology, not as store of value. Suuuuuure.