MarkMc

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by MarkMc 9y ago
So your body experiences 1.44 g horizontal plus 1 g vertical, giving total 1.75 g. Is that right?
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Electric cars will fake it. For example, the electric BMW i8 has fake engine sounds and this guy loves it: https://youtu.be/EoojNzIL2cQ?t=241
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That sounds odd. Why don't roofers increase their fees until supply matches demand?
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Dystopian? Yes. Unlikely? No. Right now you have US military personnel sitting at a desk in Ohio launching missiles from a drone in Afghanistan to kill bad guys. Why wouldn't they also use killer robots when they become available?
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Not sure about Facebook, but Google don't yet look at my photo stream as much as I would expect. Recently I saw an ad for cat food even though I don't have a cat (and Google has all my photos going back 3 years).
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I suppose it would be good for Facebook if Android had the capacity to show a log of which apps used which phone features when. eg. 12:36pm Google Maps used the location feature 12:48pm Instagram used the camera 1:16pm WhatsApp used the mi
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I agree Google's revenue will not grow 20% annually forever, but I don't see any problem with my 10-year projection. When I watch YouTube I see about 30 seconds of ads for every 10 minutes of video content. I could easily see this
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Page Weight Matters (2012)(blog.chriszacharias.com)
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Good point - I missed that. Your comment reminds me of a story [1] about how a Google engineer once significantly reduced the size of the YouTube video page but average load times got worse . Turns out they were getting lots of new users f
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I'm actually a Google shareholder and yes I do expect continued 20% growth, at least for the next decade. But increasing the ad/content ratio is only a small component of that growth. Here are my estimates for the major component
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Part of the gap can be explained by: (1) Increasing income of internet users, (2) The average user spending more time on the internet, (3) Google getting more effective at matching advertisers with Google users
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> There's no evidence any of this actually works, There's plenty of evidence that taxing a product reduces demand for that product > and most people aren't interested in a government that tries to dictate what they shou
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> Maybe they don't care about color and horsepower but they might care about other features It's instructive to look at the current offering of ride sharing / taxi / hire-for-a-few-days car companies. Uber offers a ch
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> If Waymo's tech is years ahead of the competition ... then I think a lot of the self-driving companies and car manufacturers in the US will be having cold sweats...I see this lead up enabling Waymo to capture significant market sh
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Wow. Yesterday it seemed that most people on HN felt level 4 self driving on public roads was at least 5 years away. Today that estimate needs to be revised. Seems the future is coming faster than we thought.
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Although most of its sales are outside the US, I believe that in reality Apple generates the vast bulk of its profit in the US - specifically in California. Let's say an iPhone is sold in the UK, generating a $200 profit. How much
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My point is that almost all of Apple's profit is in reality generated in California, even if its sales and accounting profits are booked overseas. So I'm comparing US-based profit with the US Federal tax rate. Let's say an
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Income before tax: $13.9 billion Income tax: $3.2 billion So Apple's effective tax rate is 23%. Honestly that's better than I expected, but still less than it should be. Federal corporate income tax is 35% and California adds 8.
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Also insane that a company with revenue of $36 billion per year is growing that revenue at a rate of almost 50% per year.
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Springbok Solutions Ltd | C++ Developer | London, UK | Full-Time or Part-Time | REMOTE | £50-60K I’m looking for a C++ developer with at least 3 years experience to help me port a large macOS Objective C++ application to Windows. You must b
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Even with the side effects and risks it might make sense for almost everyone who is aged 60 to take aspirin every day. There is now good evidence [1] that if 10,000 people aged 60 took aspirin for 20 years there would be: 174 fewer deaths
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I find the advice given by Cancer Research UK in your first link quite strange. They seem to accept that if 1000 people aged 60 took aspirin for 20 years there would be: 17.4 fewer deaths from cancer and heart attacks 2.4 more deaths from s
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Here are two more studies suggesting that aspirin reduces cancer [1] [2]. The second is from 2014 but is particularly compelling because it assessed whether the drop in cancer was worth the increased risk of stomache bleeding. The head of t
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Here is something that could reasonably occur in 1 year: - Number of people connected to internet grows by 7% - Average income of existing users grows by 2% - Amount of time on internet spent by average user grows 7% - Number of ads served
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I'm a shareholder in Google so you won't be surprised to hear that I'm more optimistic about Google's future prospects. As an aside, here's what Fortune magazine said about the Coca Cola Company in 1938 : “Several
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Well my stepmother has a cat, and I may have been using her WiFi. But I was logged into YouTube as me, and the videos I watch would not be of interest to her so Google could be very confident that they were indeed advertising to me. (By t
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Given its size, Google's growth rate is incredible. What's more, they still have a long way to optimise ads. I was recently shown a YouTube ad for cat food, but Google should know I don't have a cat because it has my entire
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Alphabet Q3 Revenue up 24%(cnbc.com)
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Consider negative gearing: This is a tax break given to investors who do not live in the house. Eliminating this tax break would be beneficial to people who want to buy a house to live in because they would suddenly be competing with fewer
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> "I want afforable housing for my children that doesn't make my property prices drop!" There is actually a very simple solution to this problem: build up.

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