Dwolb

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by Dwolb 11y ago
That assumption is the premise of "Inbox 0" which the author uses for inspiration. It considers email to be a ToDo list that any contact can post to.
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by Dwolb 11y ago
My non-profit's focus is on early childhood education in developing countries. It's sort of a long time to see a payoff but economically-speaking these are some of the most efficient education dollars people can spend (it's a
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by Dwolb 11y ago
A simple explanation is B-corps can have a charter which is at odds with the interests of shareholders while C-corps are fully aligned with 'maximizing shareholder value' e.g. "I've created a B-corp, named Betsy, which h
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by Dwolb 11y ago
Yeah I mean Tahoe gets crazy snow, but there are some things that happen to the road at super cold temperatures mixed with varying levels of rain or snow. I think these mixtures are more prevalent east snd north of CA.
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I think this disaster has something to do with the hold-up on train regulations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disas...
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>Bullshit... marketing budgets outstrip research, development and manufacturing all by very large margins... in most big pharma companies it's over 80-90% of the budget. I was pretty skeptical of this claim being true so I had to do
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I did some customer development on these treatment issues. One interesting anecdote was from a gentleman whose family was predisposed to a given disease which had a treatment pathway consisting of drugs A, then B, then C. Patients were not
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Agreed - but there are a lot of family businesses that do billions in revenue. A few off the top of my head are Cox Enterprises which does 17B in revenue and is owned 99% by the family, SC Johnson which does 11B and my understanding is it&#
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Perhaps this is possible with a software update, but it doesn't fix the standards to which the drone was mechanically constructed. Other commercial flying objects are rigorously safety tested for their ability to remain in the air desp
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As both a Lyft and Uber user, it feels as though Lyft is spending a lot more money to "drive loyalty" than Uber via $50 free promos. But I feel their targeting is off because loyalty doesn't appear to increase with more rides
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by Dwolb 11y ago
Hi Rishi, I'm a current student so please forgive my naiveté of any real-world implementations. You mentioned "My goal on the site is therefore give tools, but not recommendations." Do you have any plans to offer portfolio co
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Ah I like this explanation a lot. It's almost as if project task timing distributions are negatively skewed.
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I think with any of these sweet deals, founders really need to think, "What's in it for them?" This can help people understand where they might be winning or where they might be losing. For Google, this may be an attempt to g
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For sure that can be the case. But what does this mean then for the entire suite of Google services? Their entire strategy up until these new paid-for services predicated on giving people free services (Gmail, Docs, search) under the assump
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I think it's a decent argument to say there is substantial revenue to be gained. But by claiming Google will hit 100M users paying $10 per month seems lofty unless there's something really unique about an ad free Youtube experienc
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by Dwolb 11y ago
Does anyone have insight into Google's strategy on all these subscription services? Is it to legitimize previous tech endeavors to make sure they're sustainable in the long term? Does Google forecast subscription services will ma
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by Dwolb 11y ago
Really cool product! Lots of good feedback on the page so I'm sure that's exciting. A lot of people are mentioning video games, but another interesting use case for real-time streaming would be for running. There's tons of da
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by Dwolb 11y ago
Can anyone explain what force is recoiling the shooter's hand in the second video? Or is that gun computer-generated?
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Now I'm confused because FINCA themselves launch studies to understand their impact. Shouldn't they be countering data-based arguments with data-based arguments? From the article they link to FINCA's own internally developed
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One could argue the non-fans do not substantially subsidize NFL programming - Disney is able to capture most of this value internally as opposed to the specific leagues. i.e. the value from bundled programming profits don't get passed
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by Dwolb 11y ago
You make really good points all around. The part we're not so sure about is if there's no place for LIDAR when discussing autonomous driving. As you mentioned we'll have to see where economics takes over as cameras are much
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by Dwolb 11y ago
LIDAR is pretty cool because you don't have to do object recognition on the point cloud to know what you shouldn't be bumping into - since the data comes back "already 3D" you have distance and size information and just
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by Dwolb 11y ago
People write a lot about how much programmers should make. I think there's a couple of sides to the discussion which the author mixes together instead of separating out by stakeholder. (i.e. he discusses opportunity costs for all stak
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by Dwolb 11y ago
Once upon a time I did an electrical engineering internship on-site at an oil refinery. Part of my training was to learn about chemicals like HF and how dangerous they were to human life and what to do if exposed. Then I learned about how
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Does the essence of the term differ from an early adopter?
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Yeah you're right. It should say something like the payoff of debt owned by the creditor looks like being short a put.
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This is so sad. I'm surprised the team were able to rule out human intervention as whale beachings have been linked to military sonar exercises [1]. A human analogy I've read is to imagine if an alien spacecraft descended into our
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by Dwolb 11y ago
Right, but MM's "optimal capital structure" isn't taking into account if your company can't raise debt on the public markets while maintaining cash flow. Debt is essentially selling a put option on your assets, but
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by Dwolb 11y ago
I spent some time this summer learning about some of these issues if anyone would like a little context about the Philippines. Remittances are a way for overseas foreign workers (OFWs, think jobs like maids in Saudi Arabia) to send money ba
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by Dwolb 11y ago
I don't think it's binary choice. The statistics call into question if we should ever decide to launch a full scale invasion due to the threat of terrorism, but isn't arguing against ending safety measures currently in place.

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