I'm noticing a lot of very positive stories bout Snapchat (WIRED --- Snap’s IPO Made Its Employees Millionaires—Why Not DJ Khaled?, CNBNC --- Here are all the ways Facebook has copied Snapchat). What's going on here? Is Snapchat using PR firms to prop up the stock after the analysts downgraded the stock earlier this week?
same here -- I've downloaded and have been using it ever since. It is very similar to Lark, the chatbat as a personal weight loss coach. I really like the general "nudge" approach that both apps are taking.
Very true --- and "the rabbis with the Conservative movement" are really a small minority compared to the Orthodox strands (Modern Orthodox, Haredi, Religious-Zionist, etc.)
Whether or not this particular attack happened with unencrypted vs. encrypted communications is irrelevant. I'm sure if we look at terror suspects and attacks in the past year across the world --- some of them used unencrypted means to communicate and others that use encrypted means to communicate. 99.999% of people aren't terror suspects. The real question is the following: how do we fight against the remainder without comprising our values?
I've worked in both residential and commercial real estate a couple years back, and I agree. The software that people use on a daily basis truly sucks.
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In regards to the statement that, "no one, and certainly no one in science, has figured out how to patch the leaky pipeline." I think YC/Sam Altman might be able to address that leaky pipeline with the YC Research initiative, especially because they will be funding researchers do research without the things this article mentions (ie. high stakes of tenure, internal politics, etc.)
Samsugn is one of the world's largest distributor in terms of smartphone shipments --- but, it's quarterly profits have been down for the past 5 quarters. So, I wonder where they could focus on to reverse that trend.
The article, stated, " The major objective of the paper is to show that in the end the importance of technological change in economic growth depends largely on how TFP is defined and measured. T"
seems like there's a lot we are just discovery, and there's more room to learn from what we don't know
reminds me this: " Google's chief engineer, Ray Kurzweil, recently told MIT Technology Review that he envisions a cybernetic friend* based on deep learning that listens in on your phone conversation, reads your emails and tracks your every move so that it can tell you things you want to know even before you ask."
Fred Turner, said "It is not quite self-delusion, but there is a habit of thinking of oneself as a free-standing, independent agent, and of not acknowledging the subsidies that one received. And this goes on all the time in the Valley."
This is in contrast to this article, that states, "Drones can help in two ways: They can safely gather more information about fire conditions than is currently available, and they can send that information to firefighters on the ground quickly." --- http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/19/technology/innovation/fire-f...
I think the Fed's easy money policy of low-interest rates prop institutional investors to park money with VCs for higher returns --- the combination of low-interest rates & lots of money in the valley enable SVB to capitalize on start-ups, unlike other banks. Curious to know if it was the same during the dot-com bubble
"The bank is aggressive in courting investors as well, part of why it has become the 'first call' bank for many of them, said James Slavet, a Menlo Park, Calif., venture investor with Greycroft Partners."