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by L_Rahman 11y ago
For most American companies in China, this is true. For Apple it is not. From Ben Thompson at Stratechery: This is a very big deal. Feel free to ignore anyone making snarky comments about China’s average monthly wage being the same as the
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They tried this and even piloted a program at Princeton. It failed. There a lot of non obvious tactile ways that student use textbooks that the Kindle can't accommodate.
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by L_Rahman 11y ago
To everyone proposing places like Nashville and Dallas - do you have any idea what it's like being a not-white person outside of the major coastal cities? It's a miserable experience. You go from seeing a lot of people who look li
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by L_Rahman 11y ago
Not a GS employee, but I work in the industry. Fixed-income securities (like the bonds in question) went from being the most profitable division for investment banks to one of the least. Major banks around the world and shutting down or sig
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by L_Rahman 11y ago
This confused me as well. Based on my skimming, the paper doesn't speculate on why this appears to be true, but it's very interesting that the researchers observed this phenomenon at all.
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by L_Rahman 11y ago
The study used Lentivirus as the delivery mechanism, but ex vivo. I imagine an in vivo study would be the next step, and I'm interested in seeing its outcome.
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I work at a PE-owned company (over 20 years in PE ownership now) and the strategy is to seek growth, not to cut costs by shedding headcount. Caveats: 1. This is anecdotal evidence, and many PE firms actually do buy companies with the intent
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by L_Rahman 11y ago
Yup. 10 days paid time off is the de-facto standard for just about every company based in this country. Some people negotiate additional PTO as part of their compensation package but I don't need to tell HN that engineers are notorious
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by L_Rahman 11y ago
Funny you mention Oculus as an example of non-funding driven innovation: > In 2011, Luckey got a dream job working as a technician at the Mixed Reality Lab (MxR) at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Tech
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Any chance you have a URL to a transcript or video of this lecture?
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> Google has a big automatic driving research operation, but to make money from it, they will have to get into the auto business in a big way. That's a huge, risky investment. Also, making cars has lower margins than search ads, whi
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I know more than a few people who pay for Amazon Prime VOD, Netflix and HBO but choose to pirate shows that could stream easily from those services. Why? Because internet bandwidth for video streaming at home is a joke that forces you to wa
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It is legally mandated now, and the fleets have till 2018 to implement automated truck-tracking. I work at an enterprise hardware company and we get lots of inbound customer inquiries from logistics companies in the trucking space.
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by L_Rahman 11y ago
I was in Shenzhen and Xiamen for 2 weeks in April, and am headed back there in a month. This time I'll actually be living on-site at one of our partner manufacturer's factory towns. It's difficult to wrap your head around the
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Some advice: - Don't call your leather full grain cow "crust". The word crust has negative connotations and should not be used for describing shoe leather. - Describe your sole stitching pattern - are you Goodyear welting, Bl
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I found the American university and its distribution requirements for engineering majors to be a nice counterbalance to my A Levels. My A Levels were in Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Studied biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins,
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by L_Rahman 11y ago
This is pretty much how some of the better known standardized testing regimes work - SATs and the British O and A level exams.
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From a different comment in this discussion: > They were a whole genre of poems called "adhama kavyas." Literally, in Sanskrit, it means 'inferior poems'.
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Because the people who can afford to pay to not see ads are the users who are the most valuable to advertisers. The subscription price to run no ads at all is therefore likely higher than the ad supported one.
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I don't often see projects by Hopkins alums on HN, so it was a pleasant surprise to see the Peabody show up as the first image on Panellum. Thanks for taking the time to build this.
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Median or average cost of living doesn't necessarily translate across the entire population. Technology employee salaries skew towards the higher compensation edge of the distribution. If you assume that the income inequality in China
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Every other password manager is an extension on top of a browser whereas Chrome itself is the browser. This means that non-Chrome password managers have many constraints that Chrome does not.
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More of a very light pink than red. I've definitely mistaken a pork chop for a chicken breast when glancing through my fridge.
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Yes. The typical pork chop in the United States contains so little fat that it is closer to a chicken breast than a fatty cut of beef.
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You just brought back memories of getting home from school and slamming a plate of "deshi murgi bhuna" and rice. I always found it interesting that the scrawny and flavorful chickens co-existed with the bland and plump ones. Haven
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The only notable recent entrant I can think of is Spreadtrum from China. But I don't know that it counts as a startup when it is backed and partially owned by the Chinese government.
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The utility of this report is in having all of this raw data condensed into a single, authoritative entity. Think of it as detailed notes from your very attentive classmate. You may have absorbed most of the information by osmosis. But havi
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My key takeaways: 1. Global mobile penetration: 5.2 bn active mobile subscribers worldwide, but only 40% have smartphones. Given the apparent ubiquity of smartphones in India and China, this was surprising to me. This is a fairly significan
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It'll be interesting to see whether Kara and Walter get absorbed into TheVerge or continue existing as a separate entity. Personally, I hope it's the latter.
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Stories about the resurgence of cooking techniques that eschew modern technology have me wondering how much of the flavor and taste improvement is actually because of the technique itself. > With gas-assisted smokers, pitmasters can load

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