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by MarkMc 6y ago
I'm super eager for the opposite reason: I want to go long. In 3 years people's travel habits will mostly be back to normal, and AirBnb has a very strong competitive moat
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I'm willing to be that Airbnb has good long-term growth prospects. Is there any way I can bet on them before they are listed on the stock exchange at the end of the year?
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This part resonated with me: When I was an intern, in one of the training presentations, a senior banker told us to distinguish between the process and the results. He said that we should focus on the process, which we can control, rather
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McLaren College | Mumbai, India | Online Teacher | Full-time | REMOTE "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" -- Steve Jobs to Pepsi CEO John Sculley, 1983
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Revenue flat; EPS down 29%
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This is actually a rather interesting question because of second- and third-order effects. Most people will tell you that a Coursera certificate is useless for getting a job, yet the folks at interviewing.io found it was very strongly corre
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Show HN: A Hacker News mobile app with crowdsourced pictures and subtitles(mclarentimes.com)
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Hmm so a probe can't sling-shot around another planet to do a U-turn?
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> social media platforms are extremely durable until the next hot new thing comes along. This is exactly why I sold my Facebook shares a few months ago. The next Instagram might not sell to Facebook so cheaply, or the sale might well be
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Show HN: A Hacker News mobile app with crowdsourced pictures and subtitles(mclarentimes.com)
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Ask HN: Siteuptime.com but running my JavaScript every 5 mins?
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McLaren College | Mumbai, India | Online Teacher | Full-time | REMOTE "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" -- Steve Jobs to Pepsi CEO John Sculley, 1983
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> It’s more money for Apple I'm not sure that would be true with a share of revenue set at 6%. Maybe 15% or 20%
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You download the app and it hints that you can sign up, but doesn't have a button or link to do so. How frustrating! This is the sort of crappy user experience that Steve Jobs would have railed against. No doubt that he would accept,
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McLaren College | Mumbai, India | Online Teacher | Full-time | REMOTE "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" -- Steve Jobs to Pepsi CEO John Sculley, 1
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For anyone in India who is finding their current CS education ineffective: Please consider applying to the online software development bootcamp I founded: https://McLarenCollege.in We don't charge any up-front fees. We only
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Suppose that Facebook found in a particular country it could legally pay women less than men for work of the same value. Should it do that?
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True, but on the other hand allowing podcasters to make significantly more money will increase supply and you will have more podcasts to choose from with higher quality. Consider what would happen to the quality of books if copyright couldn
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There is a similar story described by Robert Cialdini in his classic book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion [1]: "In 1985 Ethiopia could justly lay claim to the greatest suffering and privation in the world. Its economy was in
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The comparisons with Rosa Parks are a bit rich. By refusing to stand on the bus, Parks did not make millions of dollars or put other people's lives at risk.
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> Also, this project had zero value on my resume. It would be different if MIT could grade it for me, and certify I did well This is hugely important not just on the CV. The feedback you get from grading helps you understand what mistake
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Move over, Zoom. This magic interface is the future of videoconferencing(fastcompany.com)
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Just curious: What's your preferred React component library?
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I've been looking for something like this for months! It's so painful using Zoom annotation tools with a mouse
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by MarkMc 7y ago
Lots of people here are pointing to Philip Tetlock's book Superforecasting which describes these forecasting problems, and also a more rigorous, scientific approach to forecasting. Interestingly, Tetlock's 'superforecaster
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How Long Will Coronavirus Live on Surfaces or in the Air Around You?(nytimes.com)
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Actually I wrote just such a solution: https://whiteboardfox.com It's a canvas solution, but if you have a stylus with a table then you can get pretty good outcome: https://s1.whiteboardfox.com/s/27e946
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The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication(basecamp.com)
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This could be a thought-provoking question, but it's undermined by the racist, unsympathetic language at the end.
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> I believe they said the additional testing will be ready Monday, some places were ready Friday. For those places not ready by Friday, I wonder how much effort was put into being ready by Saturday or Sunday instead of Monday...

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