automatwon

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by automatwon 10y ago
It's necessarily bad if the private company aims to be a monopoly.
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by automatwon 10y ago
Yes. The role of government is to ensure people can afford basic necessities. When government is competitive with private companies, it's to ensure prices are affordable for people. Uber wants to eliminate competition alltogether. If t
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by automatwon 10y ago
Are light rails subsidized by government? Or by VCs?
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by automatwon 10y ago
Would saying "Go to the RIGHT hospital and you're 3 Times more likely to live?" be equivalent?
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by automatwon 10y ago
In what way is 'Senior Technical Intern' Senior? I wouldn't go as far as saying that's a red flag, but I'm a bit skeptical of that title. It's a negative signal to me that it's not, in fact, a senior role.
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by automatwon 10y ago
They created this culture where people came from certain schools and certain backgrounds. That is a very, very hard culture to change. What kind of 'background'? Economic? Social? Education? They're inter-related, yes, but
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by automatwon 10y ago
It's great if the higher up executives / managers starts valuing security, and are more open to the idea of reallocating more company resources (employee time) accordingly. How will this pragmatically trickle down to middle manage
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by automatwon 10y ago
I've actually worked at Amazon in the past. My experience wasn't that bad. And I'm a actually a Seattle native! For some reason, the traffic there never really bothered me.
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by automatwon 10y ago
Oh I love SoCal. It's just that my current employer is based out of San Francisco, and there is more opportunity in the company. I definitely try to be headquartered in LA if I ever form my own startup.
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by automatwon 10y ago
people will mainly decide by price. They have, they are, and they will.
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by automatwon 10y ago
I think the unit economics work out, but perhaps not to the level their current valuation suggests. Yes. I agree. This is the qualification that was needed as to not make an overstatement.
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by automatwon 10y ago
Can you explain how you arrived at the deduction that NO taxi service could exist? I agree : (1) SOME taxi service has to exist. By "work out", we mean profitable, if not non-negative (2) the unit economics of Uber at the current
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by automatwon 10y ago
Funny thing. I remember reading about this a while back. There were particular regions in Seattle that would be unaffected. I'm not sure how accurately the predicted boundaries were, but I remember my apartment being 10 feet away from
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by automatwon 10y ago
I'm an opportunist, and not an idealist. I will gladly take subsidized rides, while VCs continue to cover my fare. Uber is consistently cheaper for me than Lyft. If pricing was equal, I will choose Lyft without hesitation. If I knew wi
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by automatwon 10y ago
I have both apps installed. I use the one that offers me the significantly better rate. Edit: Not just better rate, but better economic advantage. Money + Time. I'm not too rigorous about the precise trade off, but ideally, I will act
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by automatwon 10y ago
If I ever create a startup, I would definitely move to SoCal. It's cheaper. There's more diversity. The restaurant scene, in my opinion, is better, too.
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by automatwon 10y ago
Uber seems like they were extremely reckless YES. I live 10 feet away from the garage. I've noticed over the past few months that they've been ramping in typical startup fashion: hockey stick growth. After reading about Lyft&#x2
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by automatwon 10y ago
This growth creates opportunity. Startup jobs, big company jobs, drone programming in Clojure
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by automatwon 10y ago
1 billion accounts. I'm curious: Has there been a bigger data breach, in terms of user volume?
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by automatwon 10y ago
I wonder how much weather affects success, both for companies and individuals. I worked as a Data Science engineer in Seattle (startup), and just moved to San Francisco this year (Google). I know this sounds trivial, but I think the more pl
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by automatwon 10y ago
Might as well live in Washington at that point. No state income tax, while there is Oregon state income tax. Then again, Washington has sales tax, whereas Oregon does not. I used to live in Portland, and some peopled lived / worked in
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by automatwon 10y ago
It can run C++? Cool. Can you run a web browser instance in it? Then you'd have a web browser, running inside an operating system, running on top of a web browser, running on top of an operating system. Potentially, this operating syst
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by automatwon 10y ago
The previous years they always let us choose the "give it to charity" option and I never did. But I much rather a kid in a poor school get a chromebook... I'd probably vote for my taxes to go up more... it's psychologic
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Apple Macbook Pro 16GB RAM Limit – The Truth(youtube.com)
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by automatwon 10y ago
⊆ {"Money", "Power", "Respect"}
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by automatwon 10y ago
Is a KeyValue database not a hashtable in the cloud?
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by automatwon 10y ago
This article is a great way to build up confidence to short Yahoo stock
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by automatwon 10y ago
My old company, a fintech startup, hired our business analyst intern for a full time position. SQL and Excel were the primary requirements, and programming was a nice-to-have.
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by automatwon 10y ago
Disclaimer: The plural of anecdote is anecdotes. Context #1: I am Asian. It was during intern recruiting season, at a campus recruiting fair, when I talked to Palantir. I felt the 'interview' with the campus rep went well. In the
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by automatwon 10y ago
It would be convenient if you have an income or savings in Bitcoin. Wait, people save money in Bitcoin? If they are saving Bitcoin hoping it will go up in price, then why are they spending Bitcoin, instead of just Yen?

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