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by aresant 7y ago
UBER masks this real number across many of their general line items. EG they put ~$300,000,000 of the "Driver Incentive" cost into "Cost of Revenue" line item that represents: - "Any amount paid to a driver that exc
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by aresant 7y ago
Yep - $3.2b is the headline cost of sales and marketing in 2018. In 2019 that number as of Q1 has shot up to a $4b+ run rate: https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det... - - Even more interesti
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by aresant 7y ago
Uber's marketing / customer acquisition cost is their highest non-driver line item by a significant multiple. They spent ~$3,200,000,000 ($3.2 billion) on sales & marketing in 2018 of which ~$1,800,000,000 is direct media &#x2
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by aresant 7y ago
I'm not going to fight this one to the death but I have direct experience in this marketplace. It is much more nuanced than "let's be centralized" and the idea of handing it all over to an agency is a joke. Marketing &#x
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by aresant 7y ago
In a two sided marketplace customer acquisition and marketing are absolutely fundamental. Uber operates in >600 major cities across the world at this point. 1200 employees would indicate about 1 person per market per side of the market.
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by aresant 7y ago
From a non-paywalled source (1): 1) These cuts appear to be exclusively in the marketing department taking department from 1,200 to 800 - that is a BIG ASS cut of 33% [EDIT from 25%]. 2) Seems like this was a warning shot by CEO Khosrowshah
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by aresant 7y ago
Actually an interesting project and in the authors follow up article he explains his motivation vs standing for the “click bait” knee jerk: “Most readers saw it for what it was: a proof of concept to spark discussion about the use of open s
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by aresant 7y ago
Yes, it's supported in the steam version ($25) https://store.steampowered.com/app/314650/SpaceEngine/
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by aresant 7y ago
If you have even a peripheral interest and are in the Bay Area come to the meetup / race referenced - all are welcome! It’s surprisingly fun and they serve an awesome BBQ lunch - both me and my 7 year old son enjoyed the program immens
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by aresant 7y ago
Can’t upvote this enough. But basic issue is lack of a mechanism to execute a truly controlled study. EG even within a single town population with 5G on every telephone pole there will be massive differences in: - physical distance from 5G
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by aresant 7y ago
PS - there’s also samples of the original journals that are mentioned to read here - https://www.jordanmechner.com/backstage/journals/
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by aresant 7y ago
So I’m reading this article and going to myself “Stripe Press” - wow sounds like a cool little indie book press wish I had free time to pursue something like that, maybe when I retire from my busy, important life . . . And then reading down
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by aresant 7y ago
More early protos in the same spirit: 1) A proto Mac LC from IDEO - https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21652/lot/188/ 2) Several other unused protos from Hartmut Esslinger @ FROG - https://www.
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by aresant 7y ago
If any Cameo employees are on HN please note that clicking "Visit Ice-T's Page" is a broken link :)
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by aresant 7y ago
Handful of interesting points: a) Scoot raised something like $47,000,000. This article reports a cash and stock deal of $25,000,000. b) Scoot launched in 2012 and spent their first 6 years renting mopeds and electric bikes, only recently l
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by aresant 7y ago
Flux is amazing I just posted below, always surprised this is not a default install for devs. thank you for the authorship!
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by aresant 7y ago
Mentioning Flux - a free blue light reducing app that is beautiful and functional - as I’m always surprised how many people haven’t heard of it. Takes exactly 5 mins to get used to it and after working with flux on I’m amazed how overwhelmi
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by aresant 7y ago
A restored pair that illustrates the appeal - https://collections.mfa.org/objects/122170
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by aresant 7y ago
Awesome video of the drone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HJtmx5f1Fc
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by aresant 7y ago
https://www.jbenad.com/flyingv appears to be the original source and PhD candidate behind the design with great info / pictures / etc.
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by aresant 7y ago
This is on the heels of Stratolaunch deciding not to pursue the design and development of their own launch vehicle in January of this year.(1) Instead they pivoted to customizing their massive airframe to launching Norththrop's Pegasus
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by aresant 7y ago
In a past life I helped optimize >$1b of online transactions as a CRO professional and learning to objectively "write well" could be quantified in two ways: 1) Message Density - there's a great quote attributed to Mark T
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San Francisco now has the highest salaries in the world(sfgate.com)
4 points by aresant 7y ago|2 comments
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by aresant 8y ago
This article is a long winded view of the sophisticated behavior modeling ad-targeting networks that google and others employ - long on hand wringing and short on solutions. Stratchery published a beautiful, irreverent proposal earlier this
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Better Language Models and Their Implications(openai.com)
1 points by aresant 8y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 8y ago
Angel investing is for everybody :) But fits squarely into the "5% of investible assets" category, aka HIGH RISK. Two things about angel investing I wish I'd had a better grip on when I made my first handful: 1 - Very high ri
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by aresant 8y ago
Do they release these as executables ?
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by aresant 8y ago
Three points of interest: 1) Full developer announcement on their Patreon page -> https://www.patreon.com/posts/25343688 2) They are putting on steam largely because of the USA's shit healthcare system "af
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by aresant 8y ago
“The brain has simply changed in an orderly way that now allows us to sing the song or recite the poem under certain conditions. When called on to perform, neither the song nor the poem is in any sense ‘retrieved’ from anywhere in the brain
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by aresant 8y ago
Calvin - give your content marketing team a raise - or yourself since it's your byline :) This is an outstanding breakdown and I loved the "highlight" strategy. Composition feels a lot more like high quality / expensive

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