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"With the 730,000-square-foot lease, Facebook has acquired more than 2.2 million square feet of office space in the city for thousands of employees in less than a year, all of it on Manhattan’s West Side between Pennsylvania Station and the Hudson River."

"The timing of the deal’s announcement was somewhat of a surprise because Facebook, which had expressed interest in the Farley Building for months, has given most of its employees the option of working from home during the pandemic. Even after the pandemic subsides, Facebook has said that within the next 10 years up to half of its roughly 52,200 employees across the country would work from home."

I think that sentence is good, it's just a matter of changing the 'to' to 'and'.

"Y Combinator represents the union of two ideas that had not previously been combined: the application of mass production techniques [and] startup funding."

Beautifully made and well-structured video. In just 120 seconds, they effectively:

I. Set the stage by showing a trend.

II. Describe two premises and derive a logical conclusion from them.

III. Show a product that not only is the objective answer to the conclusion above but also fits perfectly into the initial narrative.

The "click bait headlines" are part of their substance. And, in many instances, it is the substance -- as it's the only part of the article people do read.

Maybe something that could easily be interpreted as social mockery and making fun of people = crossing the line.

It's not a fair treatment for someone who has made an enormous contribution for startups and is already paying a big price for past mistakes. It can also harm/dilute the cause women are rightfully fighting for.

Where I come from, "Gambiarra" sometimes has a bad connotation -- in the sense that it was not well thought. So, maybe, a lazy hack?

Probably the origin of the expression :)

Ha, when I read the post title I knew it would come from a (Brazilian) Portuguese author.

The way I would explain "Gambiarra": it's a quick fix that relies heavily on an ad hoc solution instead of following the generally accepted principles for solving a problem.

Cool, thanks for sharing that.

YouTube video where the author of the text covers the same idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8KoqciAtlQ

How about the company itself taking their product out of the market because it's making people sick?

Our bodies having to break down food is not necessarily bad. For example, it allows you to receive a steady stream of nutrients throughout the day, instead of getting it all at once and being deprived later on.

True. Also many times they don't tell the real story of what's really inside their packages.

That's why I started the sentence with "if you care about maximizing the quality of your product" -- it's a trade off. If you are ok with getting the average stuff, it's absolutely not necessary to customize your own MRP. The problem is, in the supplement industry, "average" often times means bad, so at least do a little research on any off-the-shelf supplement you're about to buy.

Agreed. Personally, I take supplements as a way to complement my normal diet -- not to substitute it. Once in a while, when it's not possible to have a real food meal, those MRPs can be also very handy.

It requires you a little more upfront work indeed but once you have your stack mixed and stored it gets as practical as with any other MRP.

Soylent’s product itself has zero novelty in it. Meal Replacement Powders (MRPs) have been around for decades and are popular among the bodybuilding crowd. The only “innovation” Soylent has brought to the table was being the first company to market MRPs to geeks and hipsters -- and that's it. Personally, I've never tried their product because the ingredients they use seemed average/fudged at best (and I tend to avoid brands that pop out of nowhere with a lot of hype). Tip: if you care about maximizing the quality of your dietary supplement, research and buy each ingredient individually, and then mix it all up yourself.

Every time I listen or read Obama talk, I become a bigger fan of the guy.

It is easy to be a critic of private venture backed companies valuations as these investments are done considering where the world could be in the future vs where it is now. These kind of bets requires not only financial models but also unique vision and a lot of guts -- traits hard to train but present in most of mankind's big achievements. So it's no wonder those bets pays really well when they succeed.

Of course, if you're not a fan of how the private venture backed companies game works, you can always do a traditional business and use profits as the only source of growth. That's the beauty of our current system: it's not perfect but it still allows you to choose whatever path you want to and still have a good chance to make it work.

Found a way fix to the problem: just got off the phone with Apple support and we are going to change the "ç" for "c" and the "ã" for "a". It's good enough for me and it's going to be updated in 24 hours.

Yes it works in a UILabel on the app. The quick solution would be to change the name of the company but unfortunately we can't do that unless we legally change the name of the organization as well (I think).

Thanks for showing me that app. We are using literally the same character in our name, I will try to get in touch with them.

It can make sense do grow the biz dev part of the business in the US while hiring the engineers in Brazil - this is what Waze did (replace Brazil with Israel) by the way. In Silicon Valley people refer to this kind of company structure as the "israeli model".

Instead of simply copying US businesses Brazilians should innovate in markets that make sense for Brazil. Focus on local customers in services that can be expanded worldwide.

Interesting point of view. Do you have any example about that in mind?

Bill Gates doesn't have virtually 100% of his fortune actually stored in his house, does he?

On the bright side: if keeping his anonymity was Satoshi's main reason for not touching his BTC fortune, now he and his family will finally be able to use all that money and take benefit from it - well deservedly.

Software developers interns do software developing related stuff, just as lawyers interns are do law related stuff, and so on. Apart from different market prices for their respective labour, I'm failing to see the difference between supposedly "real" internships and "false" internships according to your definition.

"[...] not old enough to actually hire yet because they're still finishing up the traditional college experience"

Isn't that exactly the definition of what an intern is?

#2: Don’t have an unfair equity split

This made me wonder if Facebooks' initial cap. tablet would be considered an unfair split?

Knowing how to do business networking is a talent and a skill that can be trained, so I would say being well connected is a subset of this thing called meritocracy.

Dear OP

Yes you have the right to not be contacted by Google if you don't want so.

But may I advise you to not get pissed by the fact that your labour force and intellect is being greatly demanded. Disturbance apart, you should be thankful.