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by Denzel 9y ago
You're conflating the basic unit economic principles of fixed vs. variable costs. And you're ignoring the breakeven point. A company that loses money on every unit sale has no breakeven point (Uber). A company that makes money on
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by Denzel 9y ago
I had a similar experience with Sony back when I was younger. Although, I did purchase the PS2 legitimately. Something went wrong with the disc reader after a year or so. Sony told me to send it in. Then they sent me a replacement PS2 to ke
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by Denzel 9y ago
When the win column is bigger than the loss column, you're a winning team.
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by Denzel 10y ago
Thing is, I didn't show my dad the comparison (I didn't even know it existed until he told me). He came across an article independently and watched the video for himself. He's also much more concerned with acceleration -- the
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by Denzel 10y ago
Thank you for that! That does indeed lend more credence to the hypothesis... especially since Musk is known to have studied Henry Ford's life.
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by Denzel 10y ago
Thanks for answering Oliver. I understand the statistical point of view (as a member of the tech community). However, I think that argument is falling upon deaf ears across the general population. You still get a "yeah, but..." wi
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by Denzel 10y ago
What are you (or anyone in the space) doing to advance the public's perception of the viability of self-driving cars? Whenever I speak to laypeople about self-driving cars their mind immediately shoots to the 1 million+ ways that thing
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by Denzel 10y ago
I like this idea, and I'd enjoy hearing more about it. (Email in profile if you're interested in discussing further.)
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by Denzel 10y ago
I'm interested in this. Whats your progress so far? What techniques are you using; can you point me to any research papers? Best of luck on your project.
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by Denzel 10y ago
Minor correction, Gwynne said that this rocket only took 4 months to inspect. The rest of the delay was due to pushing the launch schedule back after one of their rockets exploded, with payload atop, during testing. You are correct, they ar
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by Denzel 10y ago
Thank you, I couldn't agree more. Now we just need to get these people to stop calling themselves venture capitalists, and start using the correct term: growth capitalists. When your first criteria is literally a derisked company, i.e.
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by Denzel 10y ago
> So the product marketing strategy would be to place Product-X in places where it would likely be found by people pursuing that particular need or desire. That's like... the exact definition of good advertising. And that's wha
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by Denzel 10y ago
This represents a very narrow and naive worldview of what advertising accomplishes. I don't feel as though you're coming to the table with an earnest and open mind. And therefore, at this point in time, the purpose of good adverti
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by Denzel 10y ago
You'll enjoy these two videos from Alan Kay and Uncle Bob Martin, respectively: "Is it really 'Complex'? Or did we just make it 'Complicated'?" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY
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by Denzel 10y ago
Your point is not lost on me. The one thing I'll note is that ads and tracking are orthogonal. Although tracking is meant to make ads more useful in theory, there are issues in practice, as you said. Nonetheless, it's not really h
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by Denzel 10y ago
Let's take a step back. I want to see how you think I should solve this problem... I have a startup with a new product. No one knows about the company or the product, but they have a basic desire. That desire can currently be fulfilled
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by Denzel 10y ago
I can understand your last point. The reason I urge people to use a cautious hand when using such a broad stroke of the brush (ad-blockers/calling for an ad-less world) is because I'm not sure they're considering the third-or
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by Denzel 10y ago
Your definition of ads as "useless things which only annoy" that offer no "utility or value" is amusing. It presupposes that you know of everything that exists in the world: thus you can use search to fulfill your needs.
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by Denzel 10y ago
Wow, this is why HN is awesome. Just wanted to say thanks for Art of Memory! It's helped me a lot, especially the discussion forums.
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by Denzel 10y ago
It's not so difficult as to require a course. Literally, the Art of Memory website and forum will do you well (they even discuss more advanced techniques on there such as Gavino's Massive Memory Palace). I can confirm that within
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Ask HN: Learning how large companies (500+ employees) are run
3 points by Denzel 10y ago|0 comments
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by Denzel 10y ago
Elon Musk demoed Tesla's battery swapping capability a few years back: https://youtu.be/FE81S26XG8c . I'm not sure if it's gone live at any supercharging stations yet. Maybe someone else can confirm rollout or
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How to Hire a Software Developer(8thlight.com)
1 points by Denzel 10y ago|0 comments
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by Denzel 10y ago
You can eliminate the impedance mismatch entirely by using the specification as your code [1], as Alan Kay's Viewpoints research team did. ;) [1]: http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software..
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Robust Composition: Unified Approach to Access and Concurrency Control [pdf](erights.org)
2 points by Denzel 10y ago|0 comments
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by Denzel 10y ago
That's serendipitous. I've been reading Mark's dissertation [1] for the past week, as well as Rees's paper [2] on W7 (his full O-Cap Scheme language). A lot of great ideas. The ideas behind Mark's E represent a crit
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Web-Key: Capability-based security for web servers(waterken.sourceforge.net)
1 points by Denzel 10y ago|0 comments
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by Denzel 10y ago
Calculating the present value of a perpetual annuity seems appropriate.
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by Denzel 10y ago
I've thought about your "de-schooling" point a lot. I think building software to support teachers is orthogonal to de-schooling the system. Because there's too much cruft, I don't think you'll ever get contempo
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by Denzel 10y ago
You're absolutely correct with respect to the differences between assessments in higher ed and those in K-12. K-12 is outside my wheelhouse. Although your point of entry is interesting. I'm wondering what the lead time would be be

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