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Tuesdays with Morrie

Relevant parody video - Venmo CEO: We’re Fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWFLztKBrLY

Agreed but they also say "We’ll be adding to this list in the next couple weeks." So time will tell.

Hi Adora,

Can you explain if every startup is accepted or not? In the link it states "Last year, over 13,000 companies applied to participate in Startup School, and 95 YC alumni volunteered their time to advise over 2,800 of those companies participating across 141 countries." How many companies will be accepted this year? Or do all applications get accepted?

Thank you!

Opposing player on Second base could see the sign from the catcher and then sign his own back to dugout or player.

Player batting can see his own dugout or his own third base/first base manager and easily receive a signal from them.

As is now all major broadcasts easily show the catcher's sign and it can easily be decoded back to his pitches. Without the use of cheating you could only really get the signs today by having a player of your own on second base.

Just to point out if you add $50 on this service over the next month or so you get a bonus $10 added to your account as a digital credit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16219202011&pf_rd...

Alexa is not a reliable source for traffic reporting. It is based on toolbar installs and potentially some A9 advertising data.

Why would traffic matter at all? If NYTimes wanted more ad page views they would just remove the 10 article cap on US traffic. If this was a chance at them trying to pad traffic numbers then any US based advertiser would easily see the origin of the traffic and not pay for it.

It could simply imply it's "illegal" due to the contract those publisher sign with the SSPs and Exchanges that clear their inventory. i.e. "; iv) create "forced visit" traffic; v) create invisible or nested IFrames loading pages or ads; vi) intentionally falsify clicks: vii) modify or obscure display of ads; viii) fraudulently generate requests or clicks; or ix) use any means of artificially generating ad impressions or clicks, including third-party services such as paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, auto-surf, and click-exchange programs."

Follows the launch of the Flurry App last week: http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/18/yahoos-flurry-unveils-rede...

Actually down to just 1 at the time of 10 PM EST on Friday

Oyster, a Start-Up name that was already a name for another startup… oyster.com

Why is everyone so whiny? Should everything be free in life? In a time when PBS's budget is drastically cut I am glad free content still makes it out and I am happy to support it. No one is forced to watch ads.

Um Herbalife?

An easy hack for them to collect their users phone numbers too.

"In their seminal 1998 academic paper introducing the idea of Google, Page and Brin criticized advertising-funded search engines as “inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers.”"

-- The times have changed.

Can people stop complaining? Every other day the front page is covered with posts on people "giving up" and "this not being the American they love." Since all of these intrusive efforts have started how many attacks have happened?

Not sure if this is the case... http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/31/world/meast/saudi-blogger-sent...

I like how "red" means excitement youthful, bold. Reminds me of RED bull.

Glad they wasted 200k to apply for this dumb TLD

Another horrible deal for SF. BUDDY MEDIA ring any bells? I also loved this bit "It ran a $21 million loss on $292 million in revenue last year."

If I make $1 a year that means I earned $21 million and one dollars more than this company did last year.

Kinda just a worthless piece of PR for ReelSurfer. Why is this on the front page?

What the hell that lady was spending half of her retirement account on one investment. That is horrible financial planning no matter how the stock does.

Their whole story reads as an elaborate squeeze page. "Earn $10 Million a Year on Ebay now!"

I would rather learn if there was a porn site bigger than Netflix.. as Netflix currently uses around 30% of US bandwith [1]

1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395372,00.asp

CNN isn't news anymore

Just pack an unloaded firearm in your bag and declare it. They will sure as sh*t not be losing that bag.

Or just fly Virgin next time ;).

"Why aren’t you offering a Digital Download or DVD reward?

I wish I could give you all everything you want. Unfortunately, giving away the movie could scare off the good distributors for movies like this, because the theater chains insist on having the “first run” of movies before they are available on DVD or digitally. I want all my fans to be able to see this movie in their hometown theaters on the big screen if they want to. I hope you like the rewards I am offering, and if there’s something you don’t see on the page, please comment and let me know."

It is pretty simple--why would someone buy the rights to his DVD to only find out that the top 20k fans of his who would be buying that DVD/Download already have it.

Double Robotics seems to steal the show at the end though.

Google Ventures is part of this round of investment and prior rounds too.

> If there is anything else we can do - please let us know: happycustomers@instacart.com or (910) 817-2278

I wonder what it is like to be really upset and then email an alias called happycustomers when you really aren't happy.