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Initial input, resulting Text by GTP-3, and final edits Would be essential to gauge the GPT-3 skill. Is there any way to obtain this?

Great quote made back in 2009 "I can see the politicians of the time running on a platform that said, "Keep the barbarians out! More walls to defend the empire"."

Also "As things stands, we seem to be blithely following the same path that the Roman Empire followed. Our leaders are unable to understand complex systems and continue to implement solutions that worsen the problem. As the wise druid was trying to tell to Marcus Aurelius, building walls to keep the barbarians out was a loss of resources that was worse than useless. "

Travis Kalanick might be upset... All the way to the bank, as a holder of huge equity and majority voting power (so he seems to have the capacity to reinstall himself as a CEO when/if he finds it fit) who surely has negotiated nice conditions for himself in any liquidity event.

It's 2 am in Russia, but still...

JOE KENNEDY, a famous rich guy in his day, exited the stock market in timely fashion after a shoeshine boy gave him some stock tips. He figured that when the shoeshine boys have tips, the market is too popular for its own good, a theory also advanced by Bernard Baruch, another vested interest who described the scene before the big Crash:

"Taxi drivers told you what to buy. The shoeshine boy could give you a summary of the day's financial news as he worked with rag and polish. An old beggar who regularly patrolled the street in front of my office now gave me tips and, I suppose, spent the money I and others gave him in the market. My cook had a brokerage account and followed the ticker closely. Her paper profits were quickly blown away in the gale of 1929."

It seems that (for obvious reasons!) the bulk of the action is happening in US and China. However, I am also surprised that currently transaction volume in currencies of Brazil or Russia exceeds those in Euro or Yen...

If you kindly find a way to post the (paywalled!) original article in the Information it would be much easier to continue the discussion! Thanks!

Assuming (can't check myself, content is locked for me!) that quote from The Information (re: 20% accepted and and 20% stay) mentioned in comments below is true, I agree that CNBC phrase "Only 4 percent of people who sign up to drive for the ride-hailing service are still driving a year later" while being factually correct sounds misleading, even though they directly link to the original content!

Therefore, I ask the admins to change the link to the Information page!

Also, it would be nice if anyone can (for people like me who are NOT subscribed to The Information) kindly copy and paste here the whole original Information article. Thanks!

I would be happy to ask the admins to change the link to the Information page, although point is that this link is locked for me! Assuming that quote from The Information (re: 20% accepted and and 20% stay) is true, I agree that CNBC phrase "Only 4 percent of people who sign up to drive for the ride-hailing service are still driving a year later" while being factually correct sounds misleading, even though they directly link to the riginal content!

"This morning I told the Uber team that we're actively looking for a chief operating officer: a peer who can partner with me to write the next chapter in our journey," Kalanick said in a statement. As far as I recall the "taxi tape" [1] Travis might rather prefer TWO female COOs who could partner with him :) right at the back seat of Uber Black limo :) [1] Quoting https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2981388/uber-travis-kalanick-b... "Kalanick had been filmed boasting of his work ethic with two women on the backseat of the car before rowing with the driver"

I totally agree, I've mentioned in earlier threads that it seems to me that Uber is Groupon v2 having its Zenefits moment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13788642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13585025

It seems to me that Uber here is facing its "Zenefits moment".

Yes, the Streisand effect in action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

My friend and CEO of fido.ai Michal Wroczynski reposted this article with an IMHO important clarification "Conflict is something to embrace. Narcistic Assholes don't have conflict with you - they are just lying all the time. No asshole rule is the most important advice for startups." Based on my personal experience I couldn't agree more!

Can this data mean that a significant part of "gig economy happens to be a fad, similar to 3D TVs or Groupon? I.e. that value of relevant companies could and would soon significantly shrink, just like it happened with Groupon and its clones, after they went through the whole body of SMBs (for most the deals were NOT profitable) and the deal-seeking individuals. The main difference being that attractive pricing for the labor-sharing and capital-sharing platforms was funded and subsidized by VC money, while for Groupon and clones money for reduced pricing went out of pockets of SMBs...

Quoting from http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-january-4-2017-...

Bitcoin's gains have been buoyed by renewed interest from China, where money is rushing out of the country as its currency, the yuan, continues to weaken...

According to a recent Business Insider Intelligence briefing, citing data from Cryptocompare: "In the first 24 hours of the new year, over 5 million bitcoins were bought in Chinese yuan, equating to $3.8 billion. In contrast, just 53,000 bitcoins were bought in US dollars."

In retrospect I find this 3-days-old publication quite... amusing)) "... I [SC CEO and Musk cousin L. Rive] asked, 'Elon, hey can I have a family discount' and his answer is, 'Yeah absolutely. Go to TeslaMotor.com, buy the car online, and the price you see there is the family discount,'" Rive told Tech Insider. "Everyone gets a family discount."

So there you have it: Musk does not believe in preferential treatment for family members.

"I give Elon credit beyond the fact of being the best entrepreneur in the world — he treats everyone the same. Everyone. There’s no nepotism at all," Rive said. http://mobile.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-response-when-so...

"Blood in the Water"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d42uIBcjviU

Pity that the title "There will be blood" has already been used for a 2007 movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/

according e.g. to the stories linked below and many previous reports, Uber actively aims to reduce the number of cars on the road, and its efforts, especially Uber Pool will reduce the oil consumption and, as a result, oil prices... And now they get the largest investment yet from a party that is NOT interested in falling oil prices... What am I missing here? https://newsroom.uber.com/us-new-york/taking-1-million-cars-... http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/may/31/...

I have great respect for Garry Tan. However, I find the key quote on "how profitable Hollywood can be at best" a bit strange, and want to correct his statement below based on specific data. Here's the quote "...11X return on capital. That's the highest grossing film ever made, and a good proxy for how profitable Hollywood can be at best." Since 3,800X return on capital for Peter Thiel's FB investment is an obvious outlier/best case scenario, let's compare apples to apples and take the best case for Hollywood-type investments: "Paranormal Activity With just $15,000, the visionaries behind this project created a movie that took in a worldwide gross of almost $197 million." That sounds like 13133X return to me, which is even greater than 3800X... See http://www.businesspundit.com/10-most-profitable-low-budget-...

For some reason it reminds me of this http://www.google.com/patents/US20060071122 Full body teleportation system US 20060071122 A1 ABSTRACT A pulsed gravitational wave wormhole generator system that teleports a human being through hyperspace from one location to another. I know, it's an application only, but still))

That's it. It seems we've reached peak startup accelerator.

Just in case, here is a fully annotated Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II http://tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-2-ideas-products-t...

Here's one more secret Goldman Sachs tape)) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX7TWstSV_E

I am wondering: how would Oculus compare with this http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/09/19/sony-dreams-of... especially taking into account the obvious PS4 synergy...

Oh, and I've predicted it a week ago)) https://www.facebook.com/Rocking.IT/posts/760010057395213 while sharing another link http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/10/forget-the-apple-watch-thin...

Firstly, luckily for everyone, Silicon Valley is not equal to TC, and best startups in SV != startups that got the most votes from TC Disrupt judges.

Secondly I strongly support the POV that throughout decades of SV history the biggest successes weren't (and aren't) usually the ones with the most hype, the most money, or the most hyped TC publications behind them!

2014 And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 Is…Alfred! "Disclosure: CrunchFund invested in Alfred, but Mike Arrington was not a finals judge, nor in the judging room" Of course, it's a "once in a lifetime event" that happened in 2014, a pure coincidence and there is absolutely no conflict of interests)! However, to be 100% sure there is no repeating pattern here let's check...

2013 And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 Is… Layer! "Disclosure: One of Layer’s seed investors is CrunchFund, an early-stage VC fund cofounded by Michael Arrington, who also founded TechCrunch." http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/11/and-the-winner-of-techcrunc...

2012 And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Is… YourMechanic! Impressive list of investors includes "CrunchFund (disclosure: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is a general partner of CrunchFund), SV Angel (disclosure: judge David Lee is managing partner of SV Angel)..." http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/12/techcrunch-disrupt-sf-2012-...

2011 And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 Is…Shaker Disclosure: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is an investor in Prism Skylabs and is a pending investor in Shaker. http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/and-the-winner-of-techcrunc...

As I've predicted, no pattern, you can have any color car win TC as long as it is black (aka backed by, you know...)

Disclosure: I am not trying to mix correlation with causation here, just reporting facts and suggesting to discuss those facts. This comment is meant to start discussion on fair play on the most prestigious global Startup competition, and I have no personal positive or negative feelings or other type of bias to any entities or personalities involved.

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Thanks for the tip! It saved me an extra click in IE (while not being logged into Quora), I wish I could edit the link in post!