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Yeah, it's too bad the author didn't choose the title "OKRs don't work for Sales targets" or "You need Sales KPIs separate from (Engineering) OKRs". We would have gotten different discussion.
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> superior method to MCMC Superior in what ways? I could imagine simplicity for many problems. Roughly "here, replace your complex simulation with this magic function approximator". But for problems where you're calculatin
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> if you looked at the cost for private offices vs. cubicles, they were about the same, and that must be the case because the market will equilibrate ... How? That is, through what mechanism?
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Ahh, you mean the original Squatty Potty ads: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q It's definitely bizarre. I assume they were going for memorable, but your report sounds like it failed at the basic goal: remember
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At the beginning of a company, it's all hope anyway [1]. Investors are sophisticated enough to quickly reason about basic margin opportunity, and decide if the company could ever be profitable, even if the founders have no real busin
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Disclosure: I work for Waymo. > There was a collision on Geary Boulevard where a Waymo vehicle detected a speeding car during a left turn and stopped, rather than accelerating to escape. That's their worse accident so far, and the o
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Their write up is a little confusing, especially when combined with your statement. > The imagery starts with panchromatic plus 4 color aerial imagery that was collected at a native GSD of 3.8 cm, which enables accurate removal of aerial
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> behind a bar with a clientele ranging from Nobel laureates to homeless people taking a shower in the bar toilet Berkeley?
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All that's true enough, but do you agree with the original statement: > Google was born into an economy that was just starting to recover from being bad. I don't think being grad students at Stanford and then incorporating in 1
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Using unemployment as a reasonable signal, I don't think 1996 is that connected to the 1991 recession. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=YUZM Sure, it was still above 5% in 96 nationally. But strongly down from
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> while Google was born into an economy that was just starting to recover from being bad. Huh? Google was started in the mid to late 90s (incorporated 1998 but started earlier at Stanford). It was quite literally during the peak years of
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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey for others
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> You can't open a 40GB scene entirely in GPU RAM on any single-GPU system, laptop or otherwise, because there aren't any 40GB+ GPUs. The second revision of the A100 has 80 GiB of memory: https://www.nvidia.com/
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Covid fraud task force ‘not best value’ for UK taxpayers(ft.com)
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> Then he saw the bananas. He really wanted bananas. He wouldn't ask for bananas. So I grabbed a bunch and put them in the basket. > "Are you rich?" No. I have a good student job. "Are your parents in government?&q
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GCS launched publicly in 2010 [1]. That's still 4 years after S3, but it's not "recent". [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Storage
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Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28086265
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Good to know! The diversity on the shop floor is an excellent point. I'm curious if you perceive white-labeling as a stepping stone or a reasonable destination. That is, it seems like you'd prefer for customers to buy directly
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It's not "from" HBS. HBR is a publication. While both authors likely have HBS affiliation in their past, I think neither was at HBS at the time of this particular article. They seem instead to have created some other manageme
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PrintNanny seems neat! I'm curious though about the business plan going forward though (after the beta). My assumption would be that PrintNanny is currently targeting hobbyists and smaller 3d printing services. I say smaller, because
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In the US, a lot of the electrical grids were corporations (e.g., Con Edison on the East Coast is from Thomas Edison's company). I'd never looked it up before, but the predecessor to PG&E in San Francisco was the San Francisco
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Hmm? Why guess? Each provider has public sites with graphs of demand and generation. Here's the CalISO one: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx showing a funny camel shape today of an 8AM m
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Disclosure: I used to work on Google Cloud. If you want, there are plenty of JSON proxies including Cloud Endpoints [1]. I also do most things with manual curl'ing, and relied on the Google APIs to have these kinds of "Fine, we&#x
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Previous discussion of NPR article covering the 1980s push by Norway to get Japanese people to accept salmon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10243823
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Yeah, Denmark is the wrong example. Sweden is the right one: https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=EUR&to=SEK&view=10Y
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Have you tried renting? I love the folks at GoCamp [1] (no affiliation, I've just rented from them) and they've been great even after getting acquired by Storyteller. [1] https://gocampcampervans.com/
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Not mentioned in the article or in prior discussions, but Scala seems "dead" to me. Or at least extremely niche and unlikely to take off. AFAICT, Scala has basically been replaced by Go for backends and Kotlin (or just plain Java)
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The actual memo is at https://archive.vn/Lmu9g which is more interesting than the summary.
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Nobody mentioned it yet, but the original Short Circuit is actually quite good as well. There are plenty of cringeworthy bits, especially Fisher Stevens as an Indian person in "brown face", but the movie overall is a classic. htt
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If you read my comment about the Kubrick/Spielberg film, you'll see a note on the Wikipedia page that Kubrick apparently referred to the film as Pinocchio!

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