WingH

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by WingH 9y ago
On the other hand, spending most of your time learning new syntax as opposed to actually solving creative problems makes one more like a glorified factory worker.
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by WingH 9y ago
Care to share type some examples of data you've found that was used to produce financial forecasts?
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by WingH 9y ago
Why is YipitData not very good?
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by WingH 9y ago
Very very early was a decade ago when they were looking for investors :)
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by WingH 9y ago
Me too. I always tend to wake up the exact same time (right down to the minute) every single morning, no matter how early or late I sleep. And I don’t set an alarm clock and use blackout curtain.
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by WingH 9y ago
What are some examples of interesting market analysis you can do this with this data?
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by WingH 9y ago
“Today it's nothing that any HNer taking CS classes at university couldn't do over spring break.” How can any HNer do this if it relies on classified metadata? And how does Palantir even get this classified metadata? their custome
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by WingH 9y ago
What I find irritating is this constant portrayal of them as this “secret, data mining, all-knowing” technology company that can predict anything. even though everyone saying they don’t know how Palantir works under the hood. So yeah I defi
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by WingH 9y ago
Also the fact most US maps show Alaska and Hawaii semi-separately makes me think its 50 plus 2.
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by WingH 9y ago
A Mandela effect that stuck with me was that North/South Korea were detached islands a bit south of Japan, but detached from China. That and the fact the US has 52 states not 50
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by WingH 9y ago
Yep I am calling man-made gems “real” diamonds from now on. Der Bers, take that! (I hope your social listening catches this)
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by WingH 9y ago
Tons of people live in the Lower East Side with affordable rent. Think Chinatown, etc. Of course that is not where people usually associate with Manhanttan..
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by WingH 9y ago
I would do that too. But the notion of getting paid for your data, when its worth so little by itself is not appealing.
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by WingH 9y ago
But the value of my data alone probably is worth less than a dollar to Google and Facebook. Given the choice of getting paid a dollar, or using it for free (in exchange for them using my data), I would choose the latter. Only in aggregate i
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by WingH 9y ago
this is true. Take 10 million couples and maybe 1 in 10 million, this happens, and this is what we hear in the news. We never hear about the wife that lives 10 more years after their 85+ year old husband dies.
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by WingH 9y ago
Also, it's much easier to jump from 10 employees to 40, rather than from 1000 to 4000. So this list is very biased.
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by WingH 9y ago
A good example is this image in your homepage: https://www.airshiphq.com/dist/static/media/control-targetin... This image serves absolutely no useful purpose (What is it?). It would've been much useful t
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by WingH 9y ago
Reminds me very much of what Eckhart Tolle says. “You are not your personal history. You are not your story.”
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by WingH 9y ago
In addition to ETFs, why not go 1 step further? Offer hedge funds too. Amazon has a ton of data on which consumer brands are overperforming every quarter. Use that data to make investment decisions.
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by WingH 9y ago
No thanks, I'll take tax shelter over all of the above :)
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by WingH 9y ago
Yes, there is often times a lot of money to be made (see Buffer and their dependency on the Twitter api). People say you shouldn’t start a business depending on a 3rd party, but what if your only profitable idea depends on one?
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by WingH 9y ago
Is there such a thing 'escrow as a service' in face to face transactions?
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by WingH 9y ago
I agree. That ship has sailed long ago for me. I actually liked Google Talk, when it was incorporated to your email. Then they came out with something called Hangouts that does GodKnowsWhat.
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by WingH 9y ago
There is an opportunity cost in playing though. There might be a 10% chance of $1 million but what if it required giving up $100,000 in opportunity costs?
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by WingH 9y ago
I have this issue as well. I just over-allocate nodes to my cluster so every node is comfortably below a disk usage threshold rather than waste time on optimizing this.
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by WingH 9y ago
Nobody gets fired, but nobody gets promoted either.
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by WingH 9y ago
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by WingH 9y ago
“He hesitates when it comes to sales because he does not see himself as a sales person.” isnt this a warning sign to you? at such an early stage you simply dont want just a “strategy” person who doesnt want to get his hands dirty
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by WingH 9y ago
I thought I was the only weirdo that prefers to interact with random strangers rather than people I know on Facebook. I miss the days of IRC and AIM screen names. Now we have "real name policies"...
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by WingH 9y ago
“I think we need each other." This is the epitome of cognitive dissonance. Deluding oneself into thinking Facebook "needs" them, when in actuality it's Facebook with 1000 times the power. Did anyone seriously believe thi

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