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by GCA10 7y ago
This is ingenious! It's worth noting that the course creator, Shu Uesugi, is a minor legend in both Japanese and U.S. circles.
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by GCA10 7y ago
Even at my level of play, being able to stick XI (or its equivalents) onto a triple-slot with a second X??? word on the other axis is maybe 3% of the game. Success comes from astute tile-balancing and relentless pursuit of bingos. Which mea
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by GCA10 7y ago
Actually (WSJ alum here) our long-ago training was to lead the story with the percentage change in net income, no matter what. The assumption was that in a congested world, that was more likely to be the most useful metric. And it was a sim
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Blitzscaling Author Reid Hoffman Reflects on WeWork(linkedin.com)
3 points by GCA10 7y ago|0 comments
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the king always can change the taxes Yes. That's always struck me as the central problem. Outside investors have a claim on Aramco's earnings power, until they don't. Since you don't really get meaningful voting rights
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by GCA10 7y ago
I had no idea CalFile existed, and I've been filing taxes in California since 1997. Thanks for weighing in! The Pro Publica reporting about TurboTax's efforts to suppress the free option is eye-opening.
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Thanks! That's very helpful, and shame on me for not visiting Wikipedia first. That said, the error bounds listed on Wikipedia for a model-generated guess at melting temperature, etc. are gigantic. At room temperature, copernicium migh
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by GCA10 7y ago
So if we've got 29 seconds to study copernicium atoms' properties before half of them have decayed into something else, is that sufficient time to create and cluster enough of them to know anything? There must be some way of defin
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by GCA10 7y ago
Yes. The smugness in the exclamation mark is quite funny in a way that keeps me grinning for way too long. It's a bit like a three-year-old declaring "I've got shoes on!"
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"He never ever learned to read and write so well, but he could drive enough current to win a Nobel."
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As much as we'd like to draw a sharp line between "Real Businesses" and "Frauds," so much of it actually comes down to whether you can match your ambitions to the amount of money you're likely to raise. Think a
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by GCA10 7y ago
Everything that looks like genius from a distance is 95% craft when you see it up close.
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by GCA10 7y ago
This article treats all types of announcements as being equal. Not so! A hazy announcement like "I'll be doing more to fight climate change" may indeed be empty virtue signaling that leads to nothing. But what about a more pr
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by GCA10 7y ago
Thanks. Connecting the dots, I'm guessing that travel to various ranch operators ate into your gross revenue. But, hey, it's the right way to build the business. And it sounds as if those trips made it an unusually enjoyable proje
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by GCA10 7y ago
Any idea what the yearly gross income from duderanch.com might be? Or the selling price at the exit? I love the narrative. I'd love it even more if we had a glimpse of whether this ultimately settled in as predicted ($25k/year) or
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by GCA10 7y ago
Those are all good ideas. They're very much in line with the ways that airlines (United), credit-card issuers and hotels (Marriott) try to leverage their big customer pools. Execute them well, and you can pick up some "free"
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by GCA10 7y ago
Leaving aside all of the headline-making entertainment of Adam Neumann being Adam, the real problem here is that WeWork really doesn't have much in the way of enduring network-effect advantages -- even though it tried so hard to convin
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by GCA10 7y ago
All good points. At the same time, there's a bit of "No True Scotsman" going on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by GCA10 7y ago
On the merits, yes, We is not a tech company. But bear in mind that the company has gone to extraordinary lengths to cloak itself in the unicorn-tech narrative. It masquerades as a platform for other services; it ascribes its losses to a wo
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by GCA10 7y ago
Naphta, actually, but the allusion to Thomas Mann's Nobel Prize winning book is brilliant in any case. Now there's whole pool of literary names that can be attached to future features, product roll-outs, etc. Project Pepercorn alo
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by GCA10 7y ago
I guess if Google can be inspired by the mathematical term "googol" and then choose a variant spelling, it's okay for Naptha to be inspired by the hydrocarbon product "naphtha" (note the second "H") and ch
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Never too old to excel: a startup and its 60-year-old CEO(linkedin.com)
1 points by GCA10 7y ago|1 comments
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by GCA10 7y ago
You're right that late night coverage right now is an issue. I think weekday service stops at 11 p.m., and it doesn't go past the early evening on weekends. But this is a start.
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by GCA10 7y ago
Some people can't afford to own a car. The bottom 20% of Americans, according to Federal Reserve data, have household income of $16,000 or less, and total net worth of $7,000 or less. Finances get excruciating at that level. So if you&
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by GCA10 7y ago
It takes a bit of scrolling down in the original article to get all the details, but they have done the decent thing and allowed you to use Via in either direction. From paragraph 16: one end of the trip must be to or from the light rail s
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by GCA10 7y ago
I'm liking this idea, particularly as a low-cost, MVP version of Lyft/Uber that could solve some transit needs of people on really tight budgets. A case in point: There's a big Safeway grocery store right by the Othello light
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by GCA10 7y ago
It's now the lead story on the Drudge Report. So it'll be chattered about for a while, whether we like it or not. The oddities of space law are perfectly suited to Saturday morning banter. This case turns out to be extraordinarily
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by GCA10 7y ago
In terms of corporate Walmart, absolutely. But it's annoying as can be -- and even scary -- to employees at those stores. Customers too. Walmart's real objective with a very public suit like this is to make sure that customers and
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by GCA10 7y ago
Way back when, I used to do some volunteer work for the Better Business Bureau, which put out similar messaging in regard to everyday consumer complaints. It also was a business-funded group that, in hindsight, tried to accomplish three thi
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by GCA10 7y ago
That's artful! Your salary request is very reasonable assuming you've got the kinds of skills Amazon wants. Which is obviously the case. But your housing parameters will freak them out. I'm seeing that the average house withi

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