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by bernardom 11y ago
It's even weirder clicking on the story, thinking "wait, I remember this," and then reading your name on the intro :-) (Thanks again for writing this up, Jacques!)
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by bernardom 11y ago
I don't understand the distinctions perfectly, but as far as I can tell, Favor is a service of people who will walk into a restaurant and order whatever you want. Grubhub is, I think, more directly connected with the shop. I think they
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Team USA Kickstarter for Giant Robot Duel(youtube.com)
3 points by bernardom 11y ago|0 comments
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by bernardom 11y ago
Favor has been doing pretty well here in Boston, though I believe they use multi-modal transportation (bike, scooter, motorbike, or car). I wonder whether that's enough to make them operationally superior vs. uberx drivers?
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by bernardom 11y ago
OK. Is that bad, in this case?
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by bernardom 11y ago
There's a startup for that! http://pigeon.ly/ The Planet Money podcast about it is great. A former inmate who wanted to solve the phone call problem, and expanded to other prison-specific issues.
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Are you smarter than other NYT Readers?(nytimes.com)
2 points by bernardom 11y ago|0 comments
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by bernardom 11y ago
You kind of have to tell the story now. It sounds too interesting.
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by bernardom 11y ago
> Time to get out the yellow pages and do some research! The.... what? :-)
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by bernardom 11y ago
It's also really hard to have unpaid internships legally: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf
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by bernardom 11y ago
You guys have to have the worst "apply now" form experience of anyone on this list. I gave up.
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by bernardom 11y ago
Tough industry to stand out in: https://angel.co/rental-housing
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by bernardom 11y ago
I don't know why it does that. I get the blacked out page on both Chrome and Firefox.
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by bernardom 11y ago
If you can get this to display right, you have a better browser than I
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Vermin Supreme (wikipedia)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by bernardom 11y ago|3 comments
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by bernardom 11y ago
I always take UberX, I usually talk to the driver, and I almost never hear complaints. (The sole exception: when they lowered prices here in Boston). It's usually lots of praise. I also often meet new drivers who are in love with the i
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by bernardom 11y ago
If you're assuming they can't replace those GS students with other students who are capable of paying full price, you're wrong.
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by bernardom 11y ago
I met a guy at a party who started a news outfit[1] trying to simplify FOIA. He had stories like this galore- such as meeting gov't employees in person at conferences, saying his name, and seeing their eyes grow big. Apparently frequen
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by bernardom 11y ago
This seems illegal. Any lawyers here? Two reasons: 1- Offering money for someone to commit a crime. If somebody obtains the details illegally, Wikileaks would be liable for that. 2- Interfering with the executive branch's negotiation o
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by bernardom 11y ago
I have no background in this, but wouldn't the energy need to go into something? Like making the trees thicker or something like that?
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by bernardom 11y ago
Thanks, this is helpful. You mention having marketing by the time you hire the VP Sales, and you link to a few posts on hiring VP of Sales- do you have any links/thoughts on hiring marketing?
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by bernardom 12y ago
Best quote ever: "With the acquisition of Van Tuyl, Berkshire now owns 9.5 companies that would be listed on the Fortune 500 were they independent (Heinz is the 0.5). That leaves 490.5 fish in the sea. Our lines are out."
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by bernardom 12y ago
Why would you want to? There can't be that many countries in which one would want citizenship. Especially given that some of them (or is it just the US?) have horrible tax consequences even for expats.
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by bernardom 12y ago
One of the famous tricks in ops consulting is to disconnect the knobs. Shift A likes this oven temperature, shift B likes that oven temperature, etc.
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by bernardom 12y ago
Who stands to benefit from growth? Everyone. The population is increasing, so we need economic growth to at least maintain employment. This reminds me of something a friend mentioned when we were talking about American exceptionalism and th
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by bernardom 12y ago
That's really interesting. Did he expound on why he thought this was the case? I agree; as sama said, the volume of inventions made here are highly disproportionate to the population share. Laser, semiconductor, airplane, assembly line
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How does a spray bottle work?(home.howstuffworks.com)
2 points by bernardom 12y ago|0 comments
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by bernardom 12y ago
First, congratulations. Second, let me focus on the management point. You wrote: "I managed an entire team of 10 people without ever missing a deadline of the whole team, and now they brought in an engineering manager" a) Do you t
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by bernardom 12y ago
Cool- thanks for the response. The only thing I'll add is that there are very useful classifications beyond how the regulators see it. That data are much harder to get, but very useful. For example, RIAs are a world unto themselves, bu
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by bernardom 12y ago
A really good place to start (before scraping various data sources) would be to explain how the output will be organized. For example, it looks from the bottom of the map that they're classifying institutions as: * Consumer Credit *

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