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by bgilroy26 6y ago
This is a huge opportunity. It would serve a great need to create a structured, low-pressure activity for potential business partners to participate in as they socialize over video chat. Given the potential to democratize socializing to for
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French electric company cuts power to Amazon distribution center(translate.google.com)
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A friend of mine from High School who has totally devoted her life to bottom-up organizing for social change made a FB post of these organizations which she recommends because she says that's where your money goes the furthest. --- Law
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
The internet is so great
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
What is your favorite historical Czech movie? Which one do you think was the best executed?
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
>Anyone ever seen a repository of tasks? I’m imagining finding something I’m interested in and subscribing to the daily tasks for that topic? This is such a cool idea! I think things like Awesome X lists for X technology to learn[0] or F
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
He has a lambda calculus talk in python[0] that is just as good. Just a great educator. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkCLMl0e_0k
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
This is great, thank you for sharing!
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
Thank you! This is awesome
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
What was last decade's big vqporware?
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
It seems from your description that it would be possible to capture the teenage market with artists who are independent from any existing label and own the music rights and thus run a streaming service with greater than 26% gross margin.
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
Thank you for the link, it's very helpful in understanding the business side of these things. It seems like ASCAP and RIAA are the power players in the arena rather than BMG/Universal and all of them?
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
I was surprised that Spotify had such a low profit margin -- 26% -- and I found an article[1] that explains that royalties are the biggest factor. They go on to explain that Netflix's solution to the royalties squeeze has been to launc
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
Stephen Strogatz's lectures are good for dynamical systems. https://youtu.be/ycJEoqmQvwg
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
A union is different from a church, club, or being a consumer some place because it is at your job and is part of how you generate income. Non-union employees get the same pay raises union employees do, a rational actor in a non-compulsory
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
In 2017, Fenty Beauty found an underserved market (dark-skinned women and high-quality makeup) and made a killing selling them what they wanted. If you relied solely on history and stereotypes, you would believe nobody could make $500 milli
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
Most stereotypes are lagging indicators that do not tell us about the future, as the history of Fenty Beauty makes clear.
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Border security, policing, military spending https://www.ft.com/content/9ce05a54-c424-11e9-a8e9-296ca6651...
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
>Unions are a layer of bureaucracy, red tape and an entity that cares more about the Union than anything else. These descriptors cover most human organizations. Churches, clubs, businesses.
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
It is a sleeping giant of a problem. I share your issue. In college, friends would end my stories with "...and then you found 5 dollars?" because after a series of digressions, I had never arrived at the point. I think practice wi
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
I think we will look back on this period of American universities (between say the 1980s and whenever the NFL gets a basic minor league) as a great aberration. College sports were meant to be clubs of enthusiasts from the student body, not
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
Math contests feature prominently in the Cardano-Tartaglia dispute, an important chapter in the history of the discovery of the cubic equation. http://brain.caltech.edu/ist4/lectures/Cardano-Tartaglia_Dis...
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
A car service app that the public uses has a large surface for regulatory enforcement. When NYC wants to catch illegal car service activity they have police or the taxi commission post people at the airport. Incorporation somewhere without
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
I wonder what you think of Brick (2005)
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
That was a great read, thank you!
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It was a lagging effect of the bubble. The 'build anything, people will buy it' approach resulted from people's excessive faith in housing and the widespread idea that prices could only appreciate, which I take to be the tru
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
The movie Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, Jimmy Stewart, 1959) attempted to publicize the "irresistible impulse" factor of the insanity defense
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
Raymond Hettinger has a great video introduction to SAT solvers in python [47m] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GP9OpZPUYc
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
I think the big moment, if it comes, is when you can envision the difference between how people value the asset in question and how that asset is actually valued. In the case of the housing market, most people in 2003 pictured suburbificati
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by bgilroy26 7y ago
Roomi is a business centered around connecting roommates https://roomiapp.com/

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