albertshin

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by albertshin 7y ago
Samsung started off as a small trading store / company and later became a sugar refinery. Lotte (another Korean conglomerate) started off selling gum during wartime. Even Nike initially started off with Phil Knight simply being the imp
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by albertshin 7y ago
As an aside: I recently had an agency/contractor reach out via a LinkedIn connect request with the "personal message" being an ad for their services. I have a few startup things I've founded/co-founded on my profile
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by albertshin 7y ago
I agree they could probably build out the hardware and software, but they'll be getting a wealth of data from this which is pretty invaluable.
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by albertshin 7y ago
Sounds like a strategy credit! https://stratechery.com/2013/strategy-credit/
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by albertshin 7y ago
Appreciate the really detailed reply!
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by albertshin 7y ago
I've just recently started practicing more with Headspace and have realized this is what I am being guided towards. I wonder has this affected the way you feel more positive emotions like happiness, joy? Or what about empathy?
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by albertshin 7y ago
Probably grooming it for enterprise use cases/customers
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by albertshin 7y ago
True, on second thought, I found myself saying let's Skype soon and end up using some other app during facetime...
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by albertshin 7y ago
You wager they'll shut down the consumer facing portion too? It's a fairly decent brand. Although I guess with VoIP so ubiquitously free (WhatsApp, etc) I'm not sure how they monetize these days...
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by albertshin 7y ago
It will be absolutely hilarious (yet somewhat plausible) when people start making cases / skins for these cards.
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by albertshin 7y ago
If you have a 100k ARR business and someone offers 5-6x* rev today, why not check out early and move onto the next one? * Don't know what trading strats trade at
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by albertshin 7y ago
Discredits a whole field -- doesn't post any papers that he attempted to replicate.
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by albertshin 7y ago
Can't believe something like this (md5) wasn't flagged during tech diligence by any of their investors (GV, General Atlantic, Battery, DST Global, etc)...
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by albertshin 7y ago
I haven't touched base with these lenders in a while but I thought p2p lenders like fundingcircle only offer term loans?... Do they offer credit lines and revolvers now too? Curious how that works out in the p2p space.
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by albertshin 7y ago
thanks! didn't know about xdotool
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by albertshin 7y ago
I wonder if it's just McKinsey is the bad apple in the mgmt consulting industry or if NYT just has more inside sources there than at other firms. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/world/asia/mc
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by albertshin 7y ago
How are you emulating the clicking?
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by albertshin 7y ago
Sure - agreed that I may have simplified a bit too much for the sake of illustrating the apples ($) to oranges(%) comparison u/thundergolfer was making. Still, I highly doubt that the asset allocation of the median investor of the bott
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by albertshin 7y ago
Sure the power law holds in the stock market value ($), but you're confusing that it will hold with market returns (%) as well. The rate of return (%) has been better for pension funds, IRA, 401ks invested in market wide index funds th
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by albertshin 7y ago
How does someone create something like this? Is there a reverse sort by view count or something like that?
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by albertshin 7y ago
Welcome to Googleville. It's been a while since I've read cyberpunk novels like Cryptonomican, but I feel like the reality of corporations becoming villages and societal entities is slowly getting there anyways. Your move, We.
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by albertshin 7y ago
Yes. There's convenience in not having to find / pay / be restricted by parking.
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by albertshin 7y ago
> As far as the trade war is concerned, I think it's a little premature to assume that it will drag on and increase in its scope and scale. Apple has pull in D.C., and the interconnected nature of the global economy will likely ensu
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by albertshin 7y ago
I agree. The font feels somewhat ... awkward. The dotted i's are the same height at lowercase d's (see "ideally"). And then the capital letters are shorter than lowercase l's (see "Plus"). Then you've
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by albertshin 7y ago
Seconded. There was actually a study related to this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188691...
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by albertshin 7y ago
Give Putnam's Bowling Alone a read if you haven't already
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by albertshin 7y ago
Is checkout speed really limiting factor in grocery store growth though? Like are people that sensitive to the few extra minutes (at most) at the checkout counter they'll switch where they shop? I personally can't see myself switc
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by albertshin 7y ago
OP is saying that their family sacrificed a lot to live and attend school in a geographic area that was probably catering towards wealthier people. The new system will be unfair for people like OP as their socioeconomic adjusted scores now
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by albertshin 7y ago
In my recent memory, Moviepass and Chase Bank already did this last year?... Not sure what makes this different
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by albertshin 7y ago
In boston. A few months ago, my phone died on me when I was just about to call an Uber. While debating walking instead, I checked with a passing taxi to see if he could take me to Central and asked how much it might cost around and quoted h

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