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Measuring Price Discrimination and Steering on E-Commerce Web Sites (2014)(personalization.ccs.neu.edu)
3 points by cfield 2y ago|1 comments
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by cfield 3y ago
How about glitter nail polish? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6986327
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Relationship between imprisonment and crime rates (2015)(pewtrusts.org)
1 points by cfield 3y ago|0 comments
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by cfield 3y ago
fwiw, for the RT-AC68U, ASUS currently[0] recommends downgrading the firmware to the version at this link: https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-AC68U/FW_RT_A... To downgrade, they pointed to th
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by cfield 4y ago
In recognition of their absolute blame for any collision, Navy captains are reported[0] to joke with their ship-steering subordinates: "In case anything goes wrong, call me so that I can see the end of my career." --- [0] A
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by cfield 4y ago
The landing was beautifully smooth — an impressive feat by any measure. The best video of it I've seen so far is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2fQkJGbRcA Another perspective is at 1:24 of this video: https:&#
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Colleges scramble to recruit students as nationwide enrollment plunges(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by cfield 4y ago|4 comments
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Books Recommended by Paul Graham(kevinrooke.com)
3 points by cfield 5y ago|0 comments
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by cfield 5y ago
Indeed. The uncertainty inherent in the universe we understand today and in all human endeavors is difficult to contend with in code. In the main, contracts serve to reduce uncertainty and to attempt to manage uncertainty that can't or
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by cfield 6y ago
And, more specifically, the interpretation of that phrase (as it's defined in the AstraZeneca/EU contract) under the laws of Belgium by the courts located in Brussels, Belgium.[0] Assuming this aspect of Belgium contract law suffi
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If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance. (2018)(technologyreview.com)
17 points by cfield 6y ago|9 comments
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by cfield 7y ago
Canons of legal construction exist because of ambiguity in human language. Here are a few that illustrate common imprecision in language.[0] Conjunctive/Disjunctive Canon. And joins a conjunctive list, or a disjunctive list—but with ne
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by cfield 7y ago
Perhaps.[0] Or perhaps not.[0] ----- [0] https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2019/lead-vs-lede-...
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by cfield 10y ago
Lee Filters has an online color shift calculator to help select filters to convert light to the desired temperature. It even gives suggestions on filter combinations to get to the desired color. http://www.leefilters.com/lig
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by cfield 10y ago
Got it. With those numbers, the returns are ~1.86x for the investors of the $565M. ($3B * ($565M/$1615M) / $565M).
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by cfield 10y ago
It looks like the $1B figure is a pre-money valuation for the $500M raised.[0] If so, that results in a 2x exit for those investors.[1] This assumes those investors don't have rights that would entitle them to more than their pro rata
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by cfield 11y ago
I imagine the graduate degrees Hewlett and Packard earned at Stanford were, for their time, at least equal in prestige to a Stanford Ph.D in 2000. Assuming Wikipedia can be believed: Hewlett - 1939 Stanford "degree of Electrical Engine
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Lawrence Lessig to Explore a Run for President as a Democrat(nytimes.com)
8 points by cfield 11y ago|0 comments
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by cfield 11y ago
My sense is that, by definition, evidence of ways the future will be different than the present is always weak, particularly if the evidence you're looking at is data.
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by cfield 11y ago
What is the legal issue?
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by cfield 11y ago
This is one potential outcome of AngelList syndicates[0], which is I think one reason they have been vocal[1] about the SEC's implementing regulations of the securities reforms (including crowd-funding) that Congress called for in the
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by cfield 11y ago
I think it's simply that it's harder to find buyers for that kind of stock. And finding buyers for stock in a high risk enterprise is already a pretty difficult task.
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by cfield 11y ago
Yes, the board is elected by the stockholders. Absent an alternative structure, default corporate laws provide for the directors of a company with only one class of common stock to be elected by majority vote of the stockholders. However, t
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by cfield 11y ago
I don't think this has ever been a throwaway term during an acquisition in cases where the investors proceeds were higher under their liquidation preference rights than they would have been under their pro rata stockholder rights. Thin
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by cfield 12y ago
I think limited scope is exactly the point made by skriticos2. I don't doubt that a private entity is as capable of scope creep as a massive federal government institution. But I suspect mission-fatal scope creep occurs with less frequ
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Why dogs are such sloppy drinkers(news.sciencemag.org)
8 points by cfield 12y ago|0 comments
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by cfield 12y ago
Indeed, she credits your blog post for giving her "confidence that someone else had done it before" (and noting that your situation "was way worse")! I'm glad you both took time to share your stories. There are so m
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by cfield 12y ago
Given the broad geographic footprint of the HN community, I'm curious what folks here think about how much of a role that a tolerance of failure plays in Silicon Valley's track record of supporting commercial innovation. I don&#x2
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by cfield 12y ago
I believe you can explain the difference by understanding Sam to mean "important to the founders". As he explains, this is the source of the motivation to persist, despite the risk and downsides discussed by Dustin.
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by cfield 12y ago
Accepting that we all have implicit bias but saying that it doesn't play a significant role in who YC accepts seems to suggest that the YC application review process is able to overcome implicit bias. This may be true to some degree b

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