Naritai

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by Naritai 10y ago
I have long wanted to investigate advanced methods of reducing noise transmission between rooms; it seems to me that's a area that will clearly need improvement if we really expect cities of the future to be towers and condos instead o
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by Naritai 10y ago
I'm not saying it's a _good_ idea :P
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by Naritai 10y ago
what if the business plan is 'get acquired by another company looking to get into the self-driving car business'?
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by Naritai 10y ago
I'm a complete idiot when it comes to what drug is going to have what effect on me. That's why I consult an expert: a doctor.
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by Naritai 10y ago
Unfortunately there is also a profit motive in yellow light times [1]. This can cloud the decision-making significantly. [1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/redlight/ct-yell...
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by Naritai 10y ago
I sincerely hope there will be such a technocratic solution to this problem. Recall that there was a trend in the late '00s where cities shortened the yellow light time so they could reap greater fines from red light cameras. Having
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by Naritai 10y ago
Another article asserted that _Uber_ sees tax savings from the options over 100,000. I'll find it if I can (I'm currently on a hotspot on Caltrain). You're implying that the savings should be to the person, which is a diffe
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by Naritai 10y ago
An "inaccurate real estate database" is still a "real estate database".
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by Naritai 10y ago
Don't most open source agreements ban taking code and re-using it in for-profit enterprises?
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by Naritai 10y ago
This may just be a reiteration of other commenters, but a for-profit enterprise would just buy liability insurance, and then bake the cost of that liability insurance in the sales price.
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by Naritai 10y ago
Right, so no medical institution in their right mind would buy that device. Paying a little more up front for what is effectively a permanent insurance policy is a no-brainer for any large organization.
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by Naritai 10y ago
I haven't found info about this company, but many countries from South & Central America, as well as Indonesia and the Philippines, are all major sugarcane exporters.
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by Naritai 10y ago
the eBay analogy would be that nothing stops people from posting the exact same product on multiple sites at the same time. If I were looking at something on eBay, and I could do a quick google to find that same product on another site for
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by Naritai 10y ago
This is addressed elsewhere on this thread, but I'll repeat: drivers have no compunction about having multiple apps open at the same time. Nothing ties them to Uber.
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by Naritai 10y ago
That would only be relevant if demand curves had a duty cycle of 50%. As OP mentions, in the warm parts of the world demand peaks during sunny times (thanks to AC), so there is good alignment.
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by Naritai 10y ago
This is a terrifying outlook and an affront to common law stretching back to the Magna Carta. I sincerely hope you never come close to me or my data.
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by Naritai 10y ago
I agree that there are a lot of other cultural issues as well. However, I'm happy to say that these cultural attitudes are slowly changing in the US, and (at least in large cities) it is becoming 'ok' to be a working mother.
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by Naritai 10y ago
I'd like to see a citation that subsidized childcare is ineffective. Here, for a counterpoint, is one saying that subsidized childcare _does_ increase birthrate (note, incidentally, that this comes from WSJ, which is not normally a bi
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by Naritai 10y ago
...by dramatically increasing supply?
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by Naritai 10y ago
IANADoNTL (I am not a Dutch or Norwegian Tax Lawyer), but I bet there's a ridiculously complex set of rules governing what constitutes 'taxable food'.
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by Naritai 10y ago
I one spoke with a woman from the Netherlands who was surprised that these perks are not taxable. According to her, in the Netherlands perks like shuttles to work or company-provide food are taxable.
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by Naritai 10y ago
I've seen a lot of criticism of the Apple Watch on HN, but never before have I sent it asserted that the pricing was predatorily low...
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by Naritai 10y ago
It's about time to market and processes allowing for quick iteration. Items of great relevance to any startup.
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by Naritai 10y ago
I worked for a large company (in the US) a few years back, and they're in chipmaking so it's common to staff up / down based on market conditions. So what the management would do is, keep a list of people to eliminate in the
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by Naritai 10y ago
Exactly - the fact that the price is in acquihire territory is the real news. Playing it up as a 'success' is nothing more than marketing spin. The issue is, both AngelList and PH have a vested interest in letting people think t
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by Naritai 10y ago
True! But they're filing the suits in the full knowledge that the existence of the suit itself will reduce the value of their holdings. So they must not be very optimistic about the future value of their investment.
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by Naritai 10y ago
400M isn't that much. Per Glassdoor Theranos has 790 employees; assuming that was before layoffs and the numbers in the news (~340 layoffs) are accurate, that's 450. Since it's an R&D company in Palo Alto, average total
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by Naritai 10y ago
So there have been several suits from investors / lenders at this point. I read earlier an interesting point that these suits are essentially Theranos' investors & bondholders for priority in the inevitable bankruptcy. Because
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by Naritai 10y ago
I don't know why the IEEE is always such a downer about employment, but this article is stretching it the furthest I've ever seen. VW layoffs, especially if they come in the form of factory reductions / closures, could hardl
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by Naritai 10y ago
Rarely if ever are the laid-off people talented in the same area that those who are acquihired are.

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