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by blazespin 13y ago
Fair point! However, if it was a foreclosure it could have been sold at 4K + buyer pays owed taxes / liens. I'll agree though - the main thrust that Jamestown, NY RE is surprisingly low compared to elsewhere is an interesting one.
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by blazespin 13y ago
OP neglects to mention if there were any back taxes or water liens owed. Or if the house had been condemned. All I could find was one lot (not house) under 8K. http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Jamestown-NY/pmf,pf_pt/...
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by blazespin 13y ago
Fresh delivers same or next day. These fleets are stacked LIFO and sent on optimal routes which touch many customers. There's no reason they can't carry a mix of products.
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by blazespin 13y ago
Having sources in Amazon, I can tell you the goal here is not simply to deliver Groceries but rather to find a way to remove FedEx / UPS / etc from their cost of goods sold. The economics of Fresh are very poor for Amazon and likely will al
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Solving the ad-hoc team problem(firespotting.com)
1 points by blazespin 13y ago|0 comments
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by blazespin 13y ago
It's an interesting problem, looking for a solution to it myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5767447 I think a platform which allows you to work on smaller projects to build up your credibility could be useful.
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by blazespin 13y ago
I was surprised to find that it's a somewhat diverse team with a fair amount to lose if the paper turns out to be a fraud. This leaves the last two possibilities: - Rossi was somehow able to hoodwink fairly capable scientists (inject extra
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The cold fusion testing team, real or ringers?(forbes.com)
1 points by blazespin 13y ago|2 comments
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by blazespin 13y ago
Maybe not 98% of all VCs, but I do wonder about 98% of VCs who weren't successful entrepreneurs at some point.
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by blazespin 13y ago
Inspiring, but a prime example of Survivorship bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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Ask HN: What is the best open, social ad-hoc team management platform?
2 points by blazespin 13y ago|0 comments
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by blazespin 13y ago
I think we need to have some A|B testing around this. While I am a huge believer in this, my little finger tells me that Online students will perform worse when it comes to exam time. There is an energy to synchronous group learning you can
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by blazespin 13y ago
Cool. So instead of a hacker house, we need a hacker parking lot. Or even better, a hacker parkade. Like in RPO, but maybe constructed a little better so you can drive in and out.
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by blazespin 13y ago
And this is why VC loves young people.
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by blazespin 13y ago
In fact, most doctors would say that you should trust yourself more. Our bodies are generally pretty good at self regulating and telling us what we should or shouldn't be eating. If you look at something and find yourself salivating / ver
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by blazespin 13y ago
Important comment from Geordie on the dwave blog: "It’s absolutely possible that adding active error correction might help at some point, maybe even in the next generation. If that is the case, we’ll certainly try anything anyone can think
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by blazespin 13y ago
Check out the lecture notes as well, they are thoroughly just as awesome: http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/
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by blazespin 13y ago
Scott's gauntlet throw down: "Now, as for the difference between the 128-qubit machine and the 512-qubit one: based on the results Troyer explained to me (some of which, unfortunately, are not yet public), I see Geordie’s bet and raise it.
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by blazespin 13y ago
Not mine, Geordie's!
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by blazespin 13y ago
http://dwave.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/first-ever-head-to-hea... Geordie's reply to Scott's blog: "The majority of that post is simply factually incorrect. As one example, Troyer hasn’t even had access yet to the system Cathy benchmarked