Balaji S. Srinivasan
Angel investor. Cofounder of Earn, Counsyl, Teleport, Coin Center. Previously CTO of Coinbase, GP a16z. I hear this Bitcoin thing might be kind of a big deal.
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Balaji Srinivasan and Glen Weyl on Identity, Governance, and Radical Markets — Venture Stories
Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis), angel investor and entrepreneur, and Glen Weyl (@glenweyl), economist, Principal Researcher at Microsoft, and author of Radical Markets, join Erik for a fireside chat. They talk about:- On which topics they agree or...
SF wants startups to behave, so why did it reject the 'nice guy' of e-scooters?
Skip tried to be the “nice guy of the scooter industry,” but City Hall denied its application to keep operating in San Francisco. Why? Because it didn’t format its pages correctly.
Max Perrin on TikTok
I risked a lot for this so it better go viral😂 #foryou #fyp #extreme #awesome #viral
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
As noted, TikTok is bringing Twitter-like behavior into the real world. People risking their lives and those of unsuspecting others for likes.
“I risked a lot for this so it better go viral!” vm.tiktok.com/x4oCwP/ pic.twitter.com/MURrbxLzfj
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Announcing Crypto Startup School Instructors
Last month we announced a16z Crypto Startup School — a part-time, seven-week educational program that will run from February 21 – April 3, 2020. Today, we are excited to share a list of instructors that will be featured in the …
A Community's Twist on Genetic Tests
A sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews has deployed a unique screening program that aims to avoid the marriage of two people who are at risk of producing offspring with lethal genetic diseases.
SF loses Oracle's huge OpenWorld tech conference to Las Vegas
Oracle is relocating its major OpenWorld tech conference from San Francisco’s Moscone Center to Las Vegas next year.
Ra of Earth on TikTok
#hawaii #cliff #trailrunning
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
There are stunts I’ve seen on TikTok that are pretty dangerous. This is a mild one.
An online crowd will clap for things that people around you would not applaud.
The remote crowd doesn’t have skin in the game, doesn’t have to clean up the mess.
vm.tiktok.com/xuoKky/ pic.twitter.com/e6z5OpCUub
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500 Headlines About Bitcoin
In the old days, copywriters wrote 100 good headlines to get one great headline. For bitcoin, I wrote 500.
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Publication ready Jupyter Notebooks
About Sharing jupyter notebook results
Balaji S. Srinivasan
@alex That’s more analogous to peer review by other scientists.
Take a look at Jupyter, which lets you push a button to recreate a PDF from all the raw notes and source
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Reproducibility - Wikipedia
Balaji S. Srinivasan
Over the last 20 years, reproducible research has gained traction in fields that involve heavy data analysis.
The key is giving readers the ability to reproduce every figure and graph themselves.
What would that level of rigor look like in other areas?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproduci… pic.twitter.com/9jGcjXrYex
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Age of Invention: Exploding Telegraphs
Welcome to my newsletter, Age of Invention, on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation in general. You can subscribe here: One of the major arguments of the book I’m writing is that inventors’ talent for public...
Protesters Are United by Something Other Than Politics
Consumer concerns are increasingly driving many public demonstrations.
‘I lost my £193,000 inheritance – with one wrong digit on my sort code’
Peter Teich sent his cash to another Barclays customer, but offered it him just £25 as a token gesture
Inside Our Apple App Store Ordeal
It all started with the price.Peter Schulz, who leads our product and engineering teams, walked into my office and told me that we couldn’t charge what we had planned for our upcoming news app because Apple had “tiers” of pricing app developers must...
The Fascinating Story of the Texas Archives War of 1842
Far from consequential, the battle over where the papers of the Republic of Texas should reside reminds us of the politics of historical memory
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
Why is Houston not the capital of Texas? Because Austin resisted the people who came to take the archives (including the land records) back to Houston. Possession of the general ledger was the key requirement to be the legitimate government.
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Instagram 'Worth' More Than the NYTimes
Can you make that work in your head?
Balaji S. Srinivasan
“At a market cap of $950M the New York Times is ‘worth’ less than Instagram.”
Actually a good article. Zuck probably regretting that he didn’t buy NYT too back then at that price. Alternate history!
thenextweb.com/insider/2012/0… pic.twitter.com/bgncdolw3Z
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Instagram is acquired by Facebook | Hacker News
Balaji S. Srinivasan
“Can someone please tell me how Instagram's actual content is worth anything?...Seems like mostly a huge waste of cash.” news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817850 pic.twitter.com/1vsLLqJwh4
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