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   by beambot 10y ago

   Using Mark's name gives the headline virality. That's about all I read into it.
2. 1292.▲
   by beambot 10y ago

   I know what brokers ostensibly do . I'm asking: Why do we need healthcare insurance brokers in this day and age? If the answer is "we might not", then entrenched middlemen shouldn't be propped up by outside lobbyists,
3. 1293.▲
   by beambot 10y ago

   Why do we need the brokers at all?
4. 1294.▲
   by beambot 10y ago

   > It's an environment where they can rapidly iterate on what the most "click-worthy" stories are and dial in the content to meet audience expectations. Ha! That literally describes most websites... including some factors
5. 1295.▲
   by beambot 10y ago

   Does the train have a bathroom...? Old trains used to just dump out a hole and onto the tracks.
6. 1296.▲
   by beambot 10y ago

   Probably true for alien life we discover. But also possible: any life that discovers us may very well be more advanced than us by a similar margin.
7. 1297.▲
   by beambot 10y ago

   Genuinely curious: You think business school profs serving on the boards of big companies is "sad"? If I wanted to get an MBA, I would prefer to learn from people who have actual real-world experience rather than studying with so
8. 1298.▲
   by beambot 10y ago

   In this context, calling professors "educators" is like calling lawyers "paralegals." Professors are academics . They are being paid for their professional, informed opinions based on knowledge and years of study. Thi
9. 1299.▲
   by beambot 10y ago

   I guarantee the lawyers are making way more than $1000 per hour... so why vilify the professors?
10. 1300.▲
    by beambot 10y ago

    Maybe this is why Snapchat is so popular: Because you don't have a shit-ton of businesses targeting you to cram ads down your throat?
11. 1301.▲
    by beambot 10y ago

    Seiko built similar thermoelectric harvesters for their (very!) limited run of Thermic watches in the late 1990s: http://www.travisdeyle.com/blog/2007/03/12/thermo-electric-g...
12. 1302.▲
    by beambot 10y ago

    So make another Ask HN post: "Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Monopolized Browsers for our devices"
13. 1303.▲
    by beambot 10y ago

    That big fusion reactor causes global warming. Shut it down!
14. 1304.▲
    by beambot 10y ago

    So... Innovator's Dilemma?
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    by beambot 10y ago

    This example fails in my experience. You know not to call international in the middle of the night only after jumping through the mental gymnastics of timezone differences anyway. You'd have to do the same with a single time base.
16. 1306.▲
    by beambot 10y ago

    Did that for a trip to Hawaii, and it was amazing. No itinerary, no plan. First couple of days were super chill: wake up, eat breakfast, snorkeling / swimming for an hour or so, then relax and read on beach all day and eat poke. By day
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    by beambot 10y ago

    Electric cars with stickers would not be eligible for the new dedicated bus route under my system. :)
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    by beambot 10y ago

    They should rip up the train tracks and just do dedicated bus lines on the same routes. The delay between trains (esp Caltrain in late evening) is laughable. Heck, most of the freeway HOV lanes are full of corporate bus routes during rush h
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    by beambot 10y ago

    If sites made it clear that your patronage while stripping out ads was unwelcome, would you voluntarily stop using all those websites...? Or would you hide behind the "running on my machine" argument while gleefully skimming th
20. 1310.▲
    by beambot 10y ago

    So let's just assume the worst, right?
21. 1311.▲
    by beambot 10y ago

    It's not hard to imagine the solution: fall back to sane defaults like every other system not connected to the cloud.
22. 1312.▲
    by beambot 10y ago

    I wasn't disagreeing with you... it is a luxury: peace of mind, being a patron of quality engineering, and having someone to call when shit breaks. Plus, good marketing helps. Seems like a good business strategy to me...
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    by beambot 10y ago

    Are you sure about those shipping costs to a residential address...? Professional installation? Process and guarantees from a reputable American OEM? Breakdowns and warranties? I think you're missing a lot of costs beyond the raw mater
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    by beambot 10y ago

    Anyone who thinks you can easily up and sell a small pre-product company for $100M lives in a different reality than I do...
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    by beambot 10y ago

    There are undoubtedly other efforts that could benefit from parent's CS skills -- much more than just at this company: university labs, startups, non-profits, etc. We need more people to combine CS with other fields to make this world
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    by beambot 10y ago

    I would posit: your perception of "total douche-ness" (your words, not mine) are largely driven by marketing and/or culture. Glass definitely failed in the marketing, branding, and roll-out departments (among others) -- but t
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    by beambot 10y ago

    Indeed you could. And sometimes you'd be right; other times you'd be dead wrong. If you could be right even half the time, you'd be rich as all get out. Which is why I would suggest: Don't make overreaching bold predic
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    by beambot 10y ago

    Famous last words. Reminds me of the old adage: "640k of memory is all that anybody with a computer would ever need." I already know a lot of younger folks that are pumped about the Snapchat glasses... (I'm not saying you&#x
29. 1319.▲
    by beambot 10y ago

    Lots of things alter your subjective reality: reading (books, news, Reddit), watching TV and movies, imagination, travel, drugs, art, music, meditation, diversity, etc. The reasons for why people seek them out are just as varied. Not sure w
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    by beambot 10y ago

    Why actively trade against a moonshot -- Would you have done the same against NASA for the moon landings...? My understanding is that short positions are not merely passive; they can have a detrimental effect (in aggregate) on a company&#x2