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I hope he keeps that guest pass - it is going to become a collectors item in decades to come.

I suppose if the new 'venture' is for-profit it might give credence to the view that Altman and the board diverged because of his desire to turn OpenAI toward exactly that.

There are many, many life lessons I have drawn from my youth spent playing poker semi-professionally. Perhaps the most consistently useful one was that, as mentioned in the article, one's performance should not be assessed purely on the outcome.

In poker, you can play perfectly and still lose. That is true in almost every field of life. Or, to give it more nuance, you can play exceptionally well and only win a little, whereas someone has had greater luck can play relatively poorly and win a lot.

This led me to look up whether the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands), and therefore the British Government, received any money as a result of the .io domain.

It appears not. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io

[1] https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldtoday/writtens/11...

They've been testing it in India for around 2 years, but had been held up in releasing it more widely there by regulators.

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/whatsapp-pay...

I'm not sure this is really reflected in reality, perhaps aside from the 65+ generation. I grew up in Scotland, and it was very much a beer drinking culture.

Yes, just as earth nations currently have leverage against hundreds or thousands of ships of freight corporations.

JK Rowling's commencement address is exceptional. One of the best speeches I've listened to.

The point about 'getting used' to poor features, or indeed even bugs, applies not just to video games but any type of software you work on for a long time (especially personal projects, where you don't have a QA team).

This will no doubt be familiar to many of us on HN.

There is a free McDonald’s restaurant in the corporate headquarters, but there’s also a deli counter which has fresh sandwiches, as well as a counter for other hot meals (chilli, chicken curry (UK) etc.

Source: work for McDonald’s head office.

This could obviously have a substantial impact on challenger banks like Monzo (which I use and love). Not least because it would get around the regulatory challenges they face in the US.

Perhaps Jobs didn't appreciate the full extent to which their product would transform humanity, but that is not necessarily the same thing as him not wanting, or opposing, us using our iPhones as much as we do.

I understand the desire for a backlash on smartphones, but their ubiquity is simply a demonstration of just how much utility we derive from them.

Possibly the 2002 FIFA World Cup, which was held in Japan/South Korea that year.

This is a fantastic idea. Ignore the negativity, particularly from the "what about the men" comments.

Super cool!

On the demographic map of respondents, you say England when you presumably mean the UK. There is a difference!

The headline and tone of the article implies that they have evidence of some underhand or nasty behaviour by Sandberg. But there is none - having the political intelligence to make the most of a photocall does not make you a bad person.

For frequent flyers, FlyerTalk is excellent.

It could also be described as the birthplace of WhatsApp, in which one of the co-founders asked for 'thoughts on my free iphone app'[0], which is amusing in retrospect.

[https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology/952359-tho...]

"There will be no content club in my life time with $4 billion revenue...you are on drugs if you think that".

Netflix revenue last year was $11.6 billion.

Fascinating interview.

Funnily enough, I had a meeting with Nick a few months ago (about Brexit) and he mentioned being out in SV as part of work his organisation was doing. I suspect that may have not been the full truth..

His organisation, Open Europe, employed 6 people. I wonder if they will follow him to FB.

For what it's worth, given his domain expertise (particularly the EU), I think it is a fantastic hire.

Sorry I should clarify - not that much cheaper than private hire taxis I meant, ie Addison Lee.

Uber aren't profitable as it is (and their prices aren't that much cheaper than taxi's in the UK - so they can't just price hike without losing large numbers of customers).

I assume their strategy for profitability now, in the UK at least, is just take VC money until driverless cars are legalised.

Uber in the UK's prices aren't that much lower than standard taxi's, and they're not profitable as it is.

The strategy now must just be taking VC money until driverless cars are legalised.

It'll be interesting to see how they integrate LinkedIn with Yammer (if they do at all). Particularly with the launch of Facebook at Work recently too.

I was in Berlin earlier last year and I was surprised at just how excellent the taxi's were, especially in comparison to the UK. As you say, all clean, high quality cars.

Where is the feedback shown? I have submitted "Too" and it says one person has left feedback but I can't see it anywhere (I am logged in with the account that submitted).

I know someone with a verified status on Twitter and they did not pay anything.

Their wikipedia page[1] appears to have been edited by the founder too. (In which the company is described as a "multinational").

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livecoding.tv

Those numbers would be impressive for a good restaurant, not a site 10's of millions of MAU.

Otherwise known as the will of democratically elected governments.

While I share your sentiment, the case with MS was different because they were coercing hardware manufacturers into not bundling Netscape by threatening to revoke their Windows licence. Google aren't revoking access to their other, primary product if you use Yelp, Bing Maps etc.