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11y ago
Tapping in to the users' social network is definitely a great way to cut down on scams.
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11y ago
How will you handle people that say "you mean pinterest?" (btw, love pinboard!)
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11y ago
How is this better than craigslist or stubhub? What are you going to do that they aren't/won't/can't? How will you get users?
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11y ago
How big is this market?
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How will you target people who are more-or-less well served by linkedin? > Ex direct stream to github projects blog articles about your work The vast majority of people won't have this, what's the value for those people? How wi
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> they will be able to learn better using visualizations This claim sticks out to me. Have you validated it? How do you know that people will actually be able to learn better or faster? Are you sure that's what's missing from t
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11y ago
Wow, that's madness. You've definitely found a great market to modernize. How big is this market?
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How do you get reliable data? How will you make money? Do people actually care about the environmental impact of their purchases, or is it just social signaling? Could you capitalize on signaling with social media sharing of "I just of
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11y ago
Why do you think proximity is the most important factor in friendships? Or does proximity and ease-of-hangout trump other factors for friendship like common interests? How will you get people to use your platform? What's the advantage
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11y ago
I think this is a fantastic idea! The wedding industry is huge, expensive (and getting more and more so), and I've heard horror stories from friends when they picked the wrong vendor. I'm confused by your use of the words "co
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11y ago
Have you considered using police databases or radios to mine incidents? Calling the police should be your top priority when witnessing a crime, how can you tap in to that mindshare? How will you deal with critics that say you're actual
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11y ago
How will you work with authors to make these books? I would wager that most authors don't know HMTL5/CSS3. What would be the incentive for an author to work with you vs. a more traditional publisher? How big is this market compare
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11y ago
Can you explain a bit more about how the current system works, and how your software would make it better? Are the distributors and wholesalers going to save more/make more money by using your software? How?
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11y ago
I've heard of various media companies attempting this for at least the past 10 years; has something changed recently that makes now the right time for this to work? (This wouldn't be the first time cultural and technology changes
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11y ago
This looks great! (And I'm glad my library, bitmerchant, is getting some use!)
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11y ago
Thanks for the reply and references, I'll try to integrate them into the post soon!
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11y ago
I (the author) cross-posted this to medium, since apparently comments on facebook notes are not public: https://medium.com/@sbuss/gun-violence-research-f20b2adc18cb
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11y ago
I'm a bit confused by your bundler-cache. It seems you must be running `bundle install` at runtime, because you can't mount that volume during build. Am I misunderstanding?
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11y ago
Google voice search also has anaphora, or backreferences to previous searches. For example voice search for "Who was the first president of the United States?" then after you get the result do another voice search for "Who wa
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11y ago
For those wondering about the name, "yun" (云/雲) means "cloud" in Mandarin.
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I had the same thought, but am curious if you've solved the following problems: Would you bake the private key into the container or set it at runtime? If you set it at runtime how will two containers in different places know who to ta
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11y ago
I vaguely remember seeing it many months ago, but my memory has been known to lie to me. This may very well be the original source, thanks!
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Every time I hear about the amazingly low accident rates in current generation self-driving cars I'm reminded of this joke (unfortunately I can't remember the source): Grandpa, what did you do before self-driving cars? Well, we ju
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12y ago
> Keep in mind, for a human mission, you want to minimize time, rather than deltaV. Gravity assists will take a lot of time, as you spend a lot of time waiting for the encounter. True, but we could throw the big ship with all the supplie
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12y ago
Don't get discouraged if you can't learn Mandarin in one year. Unless you're taking daily classes and living in a Chinese speaking country, you are likely to take about five years to achieve a passable conversational ability,
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I asked a friend of mine and Kindle engineer for an amber-hued backlit kindle about six months ago. He thought it was a good idea, so maybe we'll get one in another year or so.
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> Why are formal papers so tedious to read? Imagine how much time we'd waste as a group if he written this as a paper. This is a huge problem in the academic field. Papers are written in academese, not because it's a particular
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I like the idea of constant temperature feedback, but I'm not going to switch out the pans I already have. I'm inspired to tear apart an IR temperature gun, place the sensor above each burner and mount the guns' readouts to t
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12y ago
True, nuts were a good choice. Unfortunately the cashews and almonds supplied at my office were all unsalted and I couldn't be bothered to buy my own for the brief trial.
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For anyone who has access to the paper ( http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1900694 ) and is skilled in reading medical research papers, I would love to know if they account for snacking. When I briefly tried a low-carb
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