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by Dwolb 11y ago
This is an issue for both doctors and pharmaceutical companies. Doctors hate it because patients may want a drug that's not optimal for them (but I saw if on TV) and it's bad for pharmaceuticals because they've had to become
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by Dwolb 11y ago
To become a 'Foxconn' of automotive is really an interesting idea. The model of designing a vehicle might have to become more constrained which cuts right into the core of the automotive industry's design processes and car mo
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by Dwolb 11y ago
Sorry about this, I'm struggling a bit. Isn't the "load observed over the life of an aircraft" just a statistical distribution? Therefore a maximum doesn't make a lot of sense. It would make more sense to talk about
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by Dwolb 11y ago
Is this 'the maximum ever observed in a real setting'? Could it be 'the maximum inputs ever recorded on earth and then used in my calculation'?
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My question pertains to the testing load. If different industries structure their tests differently, it doesn't make much sense to compare safety factors.
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My question would be, "What's 1?". I don't know if 1 is the mean, 1 standard deviation, 2 standard deviations, etc. I'd be really worried if 1 was "A fully loaded plane of 180lbs adults with two checked bags of
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by Dwolb 11y ago
In short, yes. It's your claim to the assets less liabilities of the company. Since Google is trading at around 30x equity, the value equity holders get in case of a sale would be about 1/30th of their market cap. I didn't l
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"By contrast, researchers estimate that the United States is home at least 15 billion adult land birds. Cats kill about 10 percent of them each year, according to the analysis." Does that sound right? Cats kill 10% of all adult l
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by Dwolb 11y ago
I generally agree with your statement but personally I'd pull back on calling start-ups as R&D replacements. There are certainly a few start-ups taking big R&D-type gambles, but I think most people are working in some sort of
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by Dwolb 11y ago
I think it's debatable. Is a one time bonus to employees long term or short term? Since it's equity and not cash it probably depends on the structure of the deal. It's only one tactic in the company's overall strategy fo
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Yessir you are correct. Thanks :)
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This is a little weird. Jack Dorsey is not a majority owner of Twitter and so he can't do whatever the heck he wants. Most companies would ask the board for approval to issue more shares for its employees - this did not happen. So the
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by Dwolb 11y ago
I'm missing something here. What is tying Karma and Vice Media to General Assembly to Google? Here's my logic: Too few developers are developing on Android as there are few profits to be had. As a result, the Android eco-system i
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by Dwolb 11y ago
In your experience is the risk of the real money managers unconstrained? It seems odd these guys have to hit these rates of return, no matter what. This same type of behavioral nuance comes up when looking at low vol strategies: empirically
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This is offtopic, but can anyone with design chops explain Bloomberg's thinking with their page's design? It's not traditional, but I think I like it.
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The Most Successful Land Conservation Program in U.S. History Is Expiring(slate.com)
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In economics we might also say his actions have 'negative externalities'
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I would surmise the answer is N-1 where N is the number of separate gull groups. A species would then consist of two gull groups who can mate and this answer assumes there are no mini circles or triangles in the ring. No idea the academic a
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by Dwolb 11y ago
I feel like this move is too early for Netflix strategy-wise for non-power users. Yes, it may be the case that their early adopters plow through premium TV, but I'd like to investigate more to understand if people choose Netflix to ha
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by Dwolb 11y ago
I know it's really common to say that ideas are cheap, but I feel as though this line is too reductionist. I feel as though there are different levels of ideas. Yes, it's really easy to just say whatever ideas are on the top of
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by Dwolb 11y ago
I get that it's isolating, hard to trust people, and difficult to find tasks rewarding when you can have everything you've ever wanted ...but it can't be all that bad because this problem can be self-remedied. Theoretically N
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by Dwolb 11y ago
It's not really a societal advantage, it's an investor one. If you're an equity holder you expect some return on capital you've contributed. If you're Twitter, this means returns on current products/services or
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by Dwolb 11y ago
The other piece of the equation is the decision behind financing with debt vs equity. A company may choose whichever financing is 'cheaper' for them. Therefore if equity financing were chosen due to it being 'cheaper' th
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Do you know who the money is going to? Is the market heavily fragmented or consolidated? It'd be interesting to know the economics for the owners and then the city as well (with taxes).
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I think your model is really cool and seems like it would work better for the Bangladesh context than the US context (as a comparison to Instacart). Do you think Chaldal will have a net positive impact on society? How do you envision thin
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by Dwolb 11y ago
I think this concept has far reaching effects on optimizing white collar operations if you're able create social features based on the data. I'd want to know who else in the company is using this data? Who has used it on the past
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It would have to be true that the price VISA is able to charge is in excess of the total customer benefit. But then no one would buy VISA's services because it is not worth the money they would have to pay. If this were a drawing, tota
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The point I was attempting to make was VISA does provide value. This value is estimated as the price clients pay plus the estimated benefit clients receive. This previous post also mentioned that you would be able to provide the same valu
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This argument is silly. Value is determined by price and benefit. If VISA were not providing value, then no one would pay for their services. However this is not the case and we can find through unverified online sources that, "VISA
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by Dwolb 11y ago
I think one thing to consider is the attacker's leverage. In the physical world, an attacker might attack one victim at a time. However in the digital world, the attacker could attack multiple vehicles in a similar amount of time.

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