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by alehul 8y ago
While I understand the sentiment towards banks as they pay you loads and it's clearly relatively dull work, can people not be genuinely interested in Palantir? If I recall correctly, Palantir had low salaries relative to Google and FB,
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Thanks for the link! It seems reasonable that there should be some regulation on "x miles per incident" before autonomous vehicle companies are allowed to move forward from carts to full-sized cars. Based on the stats that have be
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> Such vehicles would not be street legal. On slow roads, I've often seen them driven around summer communities. It would be silly for the government to not allow this. > They would not be safe for passengers. The above commenter
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Thank you for this comment. I've had this thought so many times and you've phrased it more eloquently than I ever could have thought of. I grew up in a poverty-heavy community, where people often felt hopeless, and believed that e
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by alehul 8y ago
As someone who briefly concentrated in Philosophy, your professor sounds awfully idiotic. Not even for having a wrong perspective whatsoever, but to be teaching a class about reasoning and simultaneously claim the role of god, where all rea
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by alehul 8y ago
So do we know whether Disney actually killed lemmings for a film? There's some people claiming that 'most survived' and others accepting that they were killed. While I'm not much of an animal rights activist, killing ani
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I just read through that out of curiosity, and it says the Japanese sent in a leaflet demanding surrender within 24 hours, or "no mercy" would be shown. The Chinese did not respond. While Nanking was an awful massacre if not genoc
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by alehul 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13579226 is one example. In addition to the article, HN is in near-unanimous agreement on this issue from the contribution of many H1B visa holders. I've seen it pop up many times.
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by alehul 8y ago
This is more likely Thiel's idea (Luckey's backer on both Anduril and Oculus) than it is Luckey's. Thiel's companies Palantir Technologies, Valar Ventures, Mithril Capital, Lembas LLC, Rivendell LLC, and Arda Capital are
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There could be a causation link between alcohol and suicide, but whether suicidal thoughts lead to alcohol or alcohol leads to suicidal thoughts is unknown. Alternatively, both alcohol and suicidal thoughts could be the result of a 'hi
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I think the argument is more so that the military killing 'bad guys' will protect 'good guys' in America long-term, if not civilians local to the country in question. Not commenting on whether that's accurate; just
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Very true! This is only possible through Sweden's standardization of tax rates — it's more like if the federal government directed the taxes they receive immediately to the local jurisdictions, but the federal government still set
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by alehul 8y ago
As a Swede living in the United States, I can agree that the average person has a higher quality of life in Scandinavia! I don't think it's possible to have that in the States, though; the country doesn't seem meant for it. T
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by alehul 8y ago
It could be the case, but quite unlikely. As Buffett is a value investor, there's a very simple set of rules he follows that I recall learning from a similar-minded portfolio manager: 1) set a price the company should be valued at 2) p
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by alehul 8y ago
I'd be interested in the metrics used for 'brand value'... I'd much rather buy something from any local retailer than from Alibaba which is notorious for knockoffs, which would make it appear their brand has a negative v
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Lisbon Is Thriving. But at What Price for Those Who Live There?(nytimes.com)
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If I'm understanding correctly, it seems similar to saying that there's been progress in math because there's been progress in physics [1] and economics, both of which are largely based on math. I think it would be more accur
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by alehul 8y ago
> When I traced my lineage back to Charlemagne Can you expand on how you were able to do this? I'm really interested in genealogy and I'd love to learn more about my own history. I figured AncestryDNA would be a good place to s
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by alehul 8y ago
Does anyone have an idea roughly how long this would take to build? I'm new to CS and I'm always seeing all these cool projects I want to work on, but I don't know how much of a time commitment it really is to build a side pr
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> sit down in a warm or hot room While I agree with everything else, I'd have to vehemently disagree with this. Studies [1] have shown that warm temperatures severely diminish our performance on complex mental tasks. As some example
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Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to get at. Thanks for the clarification!
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Most people are responding to the trading-related side of the coin, so I'll offer some advice on analyzing a market for the purpose of building a startup. It's quite hard to find good resources on the internet for this purpose; wh
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I'd argue that agreements mean much less when genocidal dictators can obtain nuclear weapons. Also, even if a situation ends, we'll always feel that it's decently probable it can happen again throughout our lifetimes. Ex: Any
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by alehul 8y ago
The cost of support has to come from somewhere -- is either Amazon or Google generally cheaper for cloud computing? (I know ~nothing in this area). I could definitely imagine a market for both a cheaper service that's lacking support a
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by alehul 8y ago
Could anyone here comment on Amazon Robotics? What would I expect as a SWE working there? Is it different (better/worse) than Amazon as a whole?
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by alehul 8y ago
Off-topic, but you seem to have a lot of experience in this! Would you either have some more resources you could suggest on building hospitality software, or could you be open to giving some advice to an aspiring founder in the space? My em
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by alehul 8y ago
As an American with family in Russia, I think you're underestimating the conformity of opinion developed in countries that aren't America. We're unique in the amount of diverse cultures and perspectives that we have in large
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Anyone have a non-paywalled link?
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From the most recent a16z podcast featuring Ray Dalio, "Machine learning is merely finding the statistically best use (conclusion?) of the data."
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by alehul 8y ago
> Netscape in 1995 with 50-year-old Jim Clark would be an uncommon example Don't forget 23-year-old Marc Andreessen as a cofounder. This is a really interesting trend! Thanks for pointing it out.

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