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by adevine 11y ago
Agreed. I thought this quote from the article was pretty lame: > Because once the patient has those test results, more likely than not, they're going to need a doctor's opinion to decipher them and to know what those results me
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by adevine 11y ago
> It would be trivial for the thermostat to figure out if your phone is connected to your home network Which is exactly what the Honeywell Lyric thermostat does (albeit with geofencing) and it works great. My dad has a Nest, and I knew i
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by adevine 11y ago
Exactly! When I see all the hand wringing around twitter, I'm surprised how rarely it's mentioned that the natural market size for twitter is just much smaller than Facebook's. My theory is that there is basically a personal
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by adevine 11y ago
Not really. "The irony of this approach is that the lower interest rates are, the more people need to save to reach their retirement goals." That statement doesn't necessarily assume people are just socking their money away i
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by adevine 11y ago
But that's only for the long term. If you are in retirement, where you need to spend your savings, you want to keep your money in low risk assets. Central banks are trying their hardest to minimize your spending income by giving you
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by adevine 11y ago
Wut? There are charities, and there are businesses. If you expect Yahoo to be run as a charity, why should Yahoo's owners be the ones who must provide this? Put it another way. Let's say you had 100k that you were able to invest i
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by adevine 11y ago
Agreed. In general, I find there are two types of layoffs: 1. Layoffs where an entire industry is downsizing, and not everyone who was laid off will be able to find jobs in the same industry. I have immense sympathy for these folks - in man
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by adevine 11y ago
This law is beyond stupid. So if the driver drops off a fare, and then checks their app, and immediately sees a request for a ride nearby, instead of going to pick up that rider, they have to go BACK to the garage?
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by adevine 11y ago
> i.e., they might cruise around hoping to be near a ride, which medallion limits exist to prevent. I'd be interested to see how the extra traffic caused by drivers cruising around compares to the extra traffic caused by drivers nee
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by adevine 11y ago
There are rules about what makes a worker an employee vs a contractor, and they mostly center around control - if the company controls how the work is done, you are an employee. In Uber's case, while there are a lot of things that po
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by adevine 11y ago
I wonder if that has led to some of these very-VC favorable deals with large liquidation preferences. Rather than take an investment that has lower valuation, a founder takes an investment in which a lower percentage goes to the VC, and thu
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by adevine 11y ago
WebVan isn't the right analogy - a real estate bubble is a better one. In the .com bubble, no one was really sure how things would shake out, so there were lots of companies who wouldn't have succeeded no matter how big they got (
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by adevine 11y ago
If I were them, I would try a non-technical (or at least mitigation) strategy: put a sign in their yard or on their front door that says "Sorry, we don't have your iPhone" and a description of the problem and screengrabs&#x2F
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by adevine 11y ago
Completely agree, and that's also a reason why the internet is making it hugely difficult for large swaths of society to compete - what used to be many smaller markets, each with room for its own winner, is now a single giant market (f
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by adevine 11y ago
Totally agree, especially with the concept of universal basic income. Over the past couple years I've come closer to the conclusion that the middle class is pretty much doomed, and it will take a big change in our economic system to co
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by adevine 11y ago
I would argue that Snapchat and Instagram occupy VERY different niches than Facebook. Most importantly, virtually everyone who uses Snapchat or Instagram also uses FB. Google thought they had enough clout to win the "general all purpos
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by adevine 11y ago
I don't buy the arguments in this article. For example, the whole part about why Google failed with Google+ is just wrong IMO. It wasn't that Google wasn't capable of building a good social network. If anything, I (and most p
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by adevine 11y ago
However, that is not what the author means in the context of the article. It seems to me that she is using it to refer to experienced developers who are fed up with the change in software toward the "brogramming" culture (though g
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by adevine 11y ago
But does anyone actually do that? Given all the bitcoin speculation and volatility, what percentage of transactions are actually someone paying for goods and services vs trading for hard currency to speculate.
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by adevine 11y ago
I hear this a lot, and I think it's wrong. Sometimes you just have too much information to fit on a phone screen, but which should still be available. For example, I see people argue for tabs, but if your app fundamentally has a lot of
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by adevine 11y ago
There was. Older Android phones had a physical "MENU" button that would show additional actions for a screen.
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by adevine 11y ago
"PG knows his stuff." No doubt, but PG's "stuff" is specifically around how to find and nurture startups to be successful. It's not necessarily his stuff to understand how optimizing for his particular line of
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by adevine 11y ago
It's not really correct to say "Wall St loses its shit." I think it's more correct to say that the extremely high valuations to start with are predicated on the idea that these companies can expand well beyond their init
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by adevine 11y ago
> Checking in is definitely pretty dead - but the personal value of Foursquare for me is that they track where I go without any input from me. You can view your "location history" in the app, and for me it's ~90% accurate,
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by adevine 11y ago
Only if you have specified Content-Security-Policy headers in your response, without also specifying "unsafe-inline": http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/content-secu...
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by adevine 11y ago
Evolution most certainly DOES get stuck in local maxima: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cO1a1Ek-HD0 . Also, it's quite easy for me to imagine an animal like an angel, with arms and wings. Tetrapods only have 4 limbs to w
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by adevine 11y ago
Because your options are usually: 1. Try to do it yourself or find another service, which will usually result in much higher cost and a worse implementation, or 2. Use the Google API, with the cost of lock-in. I think the best solution is t
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by adevine 11y ago
Yes
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by adevine 11y ago
I disagree. The situation with Uber is this "well, should I tip in cash?" limbo. I've seen a bunch of articles recently about how some travelers are shocked to learn they have a less than 5 star rating from Uber drivers becau
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by adevine 11y ago
It's very easy to imagine this happening, mainly because the economic incentives line up for everyone involved. If you are a garage owner, you could create a "networked self-parking car only lot" - benefit for you is that you

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