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by automatwon 10y ago
My primary use case for Dropbox, actually, is getting videos onto my iPhone. You can't simply drag and drop a video file into the phone as a mass storage device. With ITunes, the sync feature purportedly sync the video to the device, a
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by automatwon 10y ago
The 60,000 employees at Google seem to be making "great money". That seems like several Tons.
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by automatwon 10y ago
I worked in data science at a tech startup that focused on remittance ($1 billion ARR). I was also offered a position at an early stage bitcoin startup in Vietnam, one of the top 'send countries' for remittance from the U.S. This
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Vietnam to launch Derivatives market in early 2017(reuters.com)
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How Amazon Innovates in Ways That Google and Apple Can't(vox.com)
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by automatwon 10y ago
I live in a microstudio condo building in SoMA, San Francisco. Rent is ~$2000. It's always surreal to see this old lady with an asian "carrying pole" in the elevator. There's no rent control here or government sponsored
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by automatwon 10y ago
Sure salaries are based on local market, but the issue is companies are pondering why the local market is having a "shortage" to begin with. You can argue people must accept local market salaries if they want to live in a certai
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by automatwon 10y ago
Thanks, that was a good summary. If you're someone of a less represented class, and you tend to refer your buddies from the same gender/race, you're going to get better bonuses than your overly represented peers. Does this co
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by automatwon 10y ago
I significantly reduced watching Youtube after the Youtube channels I watched started optimizing for revenue. I gravitated to YouTube in the beginning because it felt disestablishment, and less commercialized. Now, it is the establishment.
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by automatwon 10y ago
It would be a great setting / inspiration for a video game, too.
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by automatwon 10y ago
What do you find clickbait about this article's title in particular? The 'nightmarish' part?
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by automatwon 10y ago
Is there not a "low-tech" solution to this already? Like an invite-only forum that extends invites to people who share an idea in the public thread? With increasingly more access as users continue to contribute ideas that receive
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by automatwon 10y ago
Is this grocery charging 'Whole Paycheck' prices? The fact that they invest into this well-produced video, while referencing Amazon GO, located thousands of miles away in a different country, suggests their target demographic are
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by automatwon 10y ago
The first thing I thought of when I saw the title was "Lamborghini". Indeed, the article would have that picture to start with. It's funny that this was my first thought, but it says a lot about perception of Dubai, in genera
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by automatwon 10y ago
I empathize celebrating a work project accomplishment. On the other hand, I'm perplexed by the dilemma of tarnishing my company's image, given all it's recent tribulations, devaluing my equity as a result. Maybe I'm givi
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by automatwon 10y ago
It seems HN is not interpreting your proposition as sarcasm.
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by automatwon 10y ago
LD provided a lot more ... that would have been more expensive for us to build vs buy we implemented most of LD in a 24-hour quarterly hackathon we hold What's the breakdown of 'most' vs the remaining? 80/20? Alterna
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Google, Facebook sued for providing 'support material' to Pulse nightclub gunman(engadget.com)
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by automatwon 10y ago
I'm viewing the article without logging into Facebook. In the comment / response section where "X, Y, Z, and a billion others liked this", the first person is 'Priscilla Chan', which I'm guessing is the s
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by automatwon 10y ago
I heard a rumor / theorem that Apple planned to announce iMac / Mac Pro What did you intend by using the term 'theorem'?
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by automatwon 10y ago
One sentence in particular from his opening dedication to ... reads as both guidance and encouragement for all future translators: "I haven’t aimed for a fancy style or padded the book out with long sentences or pompous, pretentious w
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by automatwon 10y ago
I’ll get to spend all of my time writing code that I could finally be proud of. I’ll get to code things the right way — not the jank ass way these ass clowns do things. I’ll have a build server for continuous integration and have automated
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by automatwon 10y ago
Uber can survive, but will it survive as a global monopoly? Taxi companies survived as local monopolies.
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by automatwon 10y ago
Facebook has network effects. I use it because my friends use it. I don't care if my friends use Uber, if a different Taxi company offers me the same service for cheaper.
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by automatwon 10y ago
First and foremost, simplicity. The code is shorter and more manageable. I don't know if functional program is SIMPLE as much as it is CONCISE. I didn't see the word monad, fold, or reduce anywhere in the article. Is a functiona
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by automatwon 10y ago
HN community seems to lean towards building a sustainable business Do you mean relative to the startup scene / community in general? The general population? Other tech / startup online community? Or did you mean within HN itself
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by automatwon 10y ago
Could they even be off by a factor of 10? I used to work in Data Science. I definitely agree with this sentiment. Sometimes we did statistical calculations of 'confidence'. Personally, I rarely felt confident, due in part to my
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by automatwon 10y ago
No. But I can recommend a book that, through first principles and thought experiment, fortified my belief that efficient allocation of resources can be net positive for society. Nowadays, many people, it seems, feel Finance is a zero sum ga
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How to Use Mobile to Disrupt Your Industry: T-Mobile, Remitly, and ReachNow(youtube.com)
1 points by automatwon 10y ago|0 comments
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by automatwon 10y ago
It will be equivalent to society if the private company persists with their subsidized prices. Consumers will stop reaping the price benefits once the private company becomes a monopoly, and changes their prices accordingly. You can say, we

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