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by Dwolb 11y ago
I think the bigger story with bots will be the aspect of a business that the user doesn't interact with, namely the backend. As businesses seek to provide their services wherever users are (any platform that can take user input) we&#x2
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Your use of Uber does increase value for other users. Every incremental user increases the probability that someone will need a ride at any given moment, allowing fewer drivers to profitably service an increasing geography. This means bette
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by Dwolb 11y ago
What's the limiting factor when designing to a constellation? Otherwise, what's improved about the chip or firmware to be able to move from 256QAM to 512QAM?
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by Dwolb 11y ago
It looks like you can search Delaware's database if anyone has a spare $20 to pull information. [1] [1] https://icis.corp.delaware.gov/Ecorp/EntitySearch/NameSearch...
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For what it's worth, the YC app video mentioned in the complaint here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_P6oXe1YI90
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Just a side note, I saw the founder of Pandora speak and he said their mission is to create a middle class for musicians by making it easier to discover, listen, and support non-hit artists. I'm not sure if their plan had a broader str
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by Dwolb 11y ago
I dunno, I feel like this is a mash-up between GrubHub and Amazon. Postmates is cool because they have the logistics to get you your food but they ALSO have the integration with the store menu and ordering system (maybe in the future, real
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The issue is the opposite. It's a problem this data is collected for innocent people. It is indeed very similar to the government hiring millions of police and placing them everywhere (but even worse!). This effects society negatively
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I don't think it's that simple. I believe people do care if they're getting tracked, for what reason, and for the possible repercussions. We can compare the issues between a marketing on Facebook re-targeting you and the gove
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Honestly, just strip coax away the outer sheath to expose the inner conductor. Make a loop with the exposed inner conductor and solder back onto the sheath. Increase the loop size or turns for lower frequencies.
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Agreed. The underlying assumption seems to be the employees at Google can spin up billion dollar businesses at will. ...which begs the question if I were able to spin up a billion dollar business at will, why would I work for salary and a m
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by Dwolb 11y ago
Hey great work. I like that people are re-thinking spreadsheets as users get more technically inclined to use more sophisticated tools. What do you think about fixing R notation to not describe cells, but the named array? i.e. instead of Av
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Agrees on the location density point - the route for the driver has got to be near perfect for their model to work. The dispatch system is an interesting thought. I wonder if it fully aligns with their delivery time promise. I think the dis
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Instacart are thinking very well about their business operations well but I still am apprehensive on their unit economics. The numbers given are $5.99 for a single delivery fee or $149 for an annual subscription. In Atlanta they're ma
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Instacart are absolutely not subsidizing until creating their own automated warehouses. Pick and pack for groceries is really hard due to the high variety and expensive and the margins are really small. Instacart are trying to capture the t
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by Dwolb 11y ago
Yes the payout calc by company is cost to the company of an exploit, but with a repeated game scenario. i.e. you can't look at the bug and payment in a vacuum, you have to factor in future bugs. So the cost is the value to the company
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$100M would be a steal! FYI the Dreamliner was estimated to cost more than $12B to develop.
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This is really cool and after reading the article, I'm left with the desire to ask a bit more. A game like 2048 is pretty straight forward and after you figure it out (i.e. you understand the 4 pieces of advice the AI figured out) the
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by Dwolb 11y ago
Why are they throwing even more complex solutions at the complicated procurement procedure? Couldn't the solution be to simplify the procedure itself?
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Note, the SEC has a protocol for all whistleblowers. Here's the largest ever award [1] and the wiki article on the topic [2] (sorry for mobile link). I asked my accountant friend about whether he'd ever consider whistleblowing if
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by Dwolb 11y ago
My favorite description of an MBA is "summer camp for adults". Yeah you're not going to suddenly come out of an MBA as a master of the universe, but you're going to learn some cool topics, immerse yourself in your choice
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I hear you. It's telling though you know the product is already on Amazon. You can imagine people going straight to Amazon if they know the product is there.
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Ah good point. I missed he was saying it was low from Alphabet's perspective. Personally I believe it's a play to keep Google's search intact - as more people go straight to Amazon to find products, it could move people away
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Yup this is it. Google's bleeding money on these initiatives to preserve its crown jewel: search. More and more people are using Amazon and other services first to find stuff they need - which means lower engagement with search and low
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It's not that low... Amazon appears to do about 7B in EBITDA on about 100B revenue. I'd bet AWS is propping that up a bit with its really high margins. If you compare them to another grocer (which they kind of are), their numbers
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In addition to wiseleo's comment, the key thing I think they got right was the weekly digest. It's never too frequent, it's relative, interesting, and fresh. It was important to get the digest right because it granted Quora p
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I was curious what viewpoints more technically-inclined perspectives might provide. On initial reading, it felt like the CEO was convinced of the initiative by a consulting group (the major hint was the estimate on allowable attrition rate
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Gearing Up for the Cloud, AT&T Tells Its Workers: Adapt, or Else(nytimes.com)
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That's a good point and one that's starting to change a bit with the rise of integrated health systems (payor and provider integration). Intermountain Healthcare is one such organization.
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Gosh, I'm surprised and impressed at how non-traditional Bloomberg's digital content is. I've never seen a big name increasingly take these kinds of liberties on a continuing basis.

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