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by bthomas 12y ago
This is great, but would be much more helpful as an annotated doc that explained why the various phrasings were chosen, as well as what was left out and why. What's the best platform for that? It can't be Word comments...
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Proposal for Creating SF Muni’s First True Rapid Subway Line(newmunimetro.com)
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by bthomas 12y ago
Something like this that that could operate efficiently on 100M+ rows would be hugely valuable in biology
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by bthomas 12y ago
But you don't need to be a fucking lawyer to...?
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by bthomas 12y ago
The article refers to Google sequencing healthy genomes, and I think I recently read something about Google running a longitudinal health study on employees (a la the Framingham Heart Study) - anyone here familiar with what they are doing?
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by bthomas 12y ago
Not sure if this is what OP was getting at, but it's possible that the attack vector will baloon if more 3rd party apps are pressured to provide logical scripting interfaces
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by bthomas 12y ago
I've never understood the dynamic between 23andMe and the FDA. It's just information - what's to stop someone from setting up the same service in Bermuda? Would they really stop Americans from mailing a spit kit somewhere?
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by bthomas 12y ago
Understand it's hard to explain. I'd list the canonical use cases, so people know whether to dig in to the docs.
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by bthomas 12y ago
There's no evidence here that successful seed companies are more likely to look like bad ideas than unsuccessful seed companies. If 4/5 black swans look like bad ideas when they start, but 4000/5000 of this year's startu
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by bthomas 12y ago
Does Tinder identify fake accounts to Facebook? Tinder has a huge problem with spam already. I'm ashamed to say that I'd be inconvenienced if my Facebook account was disabled; don't want to have to re-sign up for all my other
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by bthomas 12y ago
Suggest switching font weight 200 to 300 - still light, but readable
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by bthomas 12y ago
I'm curious if anybody has an example of how one of the designs in this book informed one of their own designs. I love the motivation for this book in theory, but started reading it and couldn't identify any explicit benefits to m
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by bthomas 12y ago
A lot of the "real money" startups generate is from selling services to other startups and tech companies - particularly in the YC ecosystem. It's possible that revenue will slow in a crash and start a nasty cycle.
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by bthomas 12y ago
Is there room for legislation to ensure at least some liquidity in employee stock? I hate turning to government, but the current system makes it literally impossible for an employee to value options.
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by bthomas 12y ago
Surprised at all the focus on introversion in the comments. I'm 26 too and have always been social and extroverted - I can totally relate to this post. These are near-universal struggles. Most people wish they could make more friends w
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by bthomas 12y ago
It's certainly memorable though, and that must help his personal brand. I don't like it either, but I wouldn't dismiss it as a bad idea from his perspective.
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by bthomas 12y ago
How common is this - are there any well known examples? (If so, they're not in wikipedia!)
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by bthomas 12y ago
He makes an interesting implicit argument - that it's okay to use patents to block established players from innovating with you, but not to block new startups from challenging you.
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by bthomas 12y ago
.001% is enough...
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by bthomas 12y ago
Do any of these services have a good workflow for pay what you want downloads?
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by bthomas 12y ago
Is there a good alternative to Rapportive?
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by bthomas 12y ago
Does Uber Black Car really subsidize UberX? I find it hard to believe that UberX isn't profitable alone - Uber just takes 20% of fare.
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by bthomas 13y ago
How much does Mark Cuban have now? (350K as only Angel)
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by bthomas 13y ago
Worth noting that the initial discovery - identifying the common sequence motif - is a purely computational problem.
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by bthomas 13y ago
Could it just be pagification? Each question in the quiz loads a new page
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by bthomas 13y ago
Well said. I work in the field and am looking for more hackers to join. I'm happy to talk with anybody that might be interested - email in profile
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by bthomas 13y ago
On the other hand, I'd rather have one Twitter than three BlackBerrys
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by bthomas 13y ago
I think "end game" is more appropriate than "long game"
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by bthomas 13y ago
One theory for the "why" - I find it takes a higher cognitive load to understand someone with a strong accent. As a result, I don't digest the message as well and I'm subconsciously biased against complex conversations.
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by bthomas 13y ago
Naive legal question - is this API considered copyright infringement? Could they charge for it? Similarly, are you allowed to create an endpoint for "products for sale at Whole Foods" assuming you collect the data legally?

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