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by citrablue 8y ago
It's only been the last 5-6 years that baseball has really looked objectively at "what contributes to a win". Most front offices now use that information, but as of 6-7 years ago, it was not at all clear. Teams pay salaries
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by citrablue 8y ago
This is a glib and unhelpful response. Does your company potentially have access to data that may be useful in a legal investigation? Do you provide server side voice recognition services as accurate as Alexa/Google? My company would
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by citrablue 8y ago
Because the company can control the experience more than in a browser. No need to worry about AdBlocking. Also, they can nag you to allow push notifications. Companies like reddit and yelp are not focused on the customer experience. They
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by citrablue 8y ago
I'm pretty ignorant of this part of history. What were the policies that Reagan enacted that led to these results?
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by citrablue 8y ago
The amateur radio community emphasizes logging all contacts. It builds a habit, especially since a lot of community interaction is around (friendly) competitions of who can make the most distant contacts, etc. All informal, but it teaches
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by citrablue 8y ago
> Too much energy gets expended trying to convince/shame/punish the other side. None of it imho has produced outcomes or increased understanding. I find a better fit to take the (somewhat cynical) approach that each side is try
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by citrablue 8y ago
California has about 12% of America's population. Given how amenable the weather is for living outside of a house (little snow, rain, or cold weather in most population centers), I don't think a rate 2x the national average is un
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by citrablue 8y ago
It could also be the perspective that you can really only try to control your own lot in life. Is it not possible that by focusing on my own welfare, I am more productive and happier? And that by trying to float other boats, I am distract
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by citrablue 8y ago
The down payment on a house is a pretty large opportunity cost. (In the case of a small down payment, then the PMI is the relevant cost.)
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by citrablue 8y ago
His personal aesthetic care mantra has been repeated, unironically, all the time amongst some people I no longer hang out with. It's the "Gym Tan Laundry" (GTL from Jersey Shore) of its day.
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by citrablue 8y ago
I think the "side project" framing actually makes this problem more solvable, because you don't have to completely solve every aspect of the problem. It seems likely that developing an easy to measure metric would start to h
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by citrablue 8y ago
While this obviously also applies equally to Apple, Google, etc., I'm curious: do you think it also is the case with companies like RedHat? The recent MongoDB announcement made me a bit more sensitive and aware of the orthogonality of
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by citrablue 8y ago
On the other hand, maybe the cost to review an employment agreement will enter into the sub-$100 range. Or to draft an NDA for a startup, etc. The path from passing the bar to being a successful / well-paid attorney has been extremely
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by citrablue 8y ago
In some emergency departments, the physicians participate in profit sharing. I know of a few EDs where they add up all the revenue, subtract all the costs, and divide the rest into each doctor's paycheck based on how much that doctor
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by citrablue 8y ago
But they are not all equally so, right? Seems like dose response would be important to understand when evaluating for possible policy/intervention determination.
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by citrablue 8y ago
Users will give you the preferences that they think are important. Or are important at the point of that interview. Analytics can give you a decent glimpse of revealed preferences, which may or may not be what you're after. Whether or
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by citrablue 8y ago
What's the latest consensus on secondhand smoke and cancer/COPD issues? I thought the "I smelled cigarette smoke on the street" exposure was largely found to have negligible health effects. (I think the "my partne
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by citrablue 8y ago
If you turn them down for that reason, will you state is as the reason? Otherwise, it doesn't seem nearly as effective.
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by citrablue 8y ago
Assuming it's accurate. What I've seen, it's more smoke & mirrors on the part of the vendor. I suppose the question is this: is extremely noisy/probabilistic information better, or worse, than none?
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by citrablue 8y ago
If you are concerned with making a better product, you are going to need quite a bit of tracking and instrumentation to understand how to make a better product.
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by citrablue 8y ago
Mobile site doesn't load on desktop, try [0] if you're on desktop. Addressing this study, it was a N=1038, cohort study that seems to only have adjusted for education. Further, there's a link on your cited article to [1], wh
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by citrablue 8y ago
I also feel like when I smell someones body odor that I have unconsciously been forced to ingest their bacterial waste. Living amongst other people, we have to accept that there will be things we don't like about it.
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by citrablue 8y ago
They're more than descriptions because (most of them) make testable predictions about the world. Doesn't mean they're correct, of course, but making predictions is really important.
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by citrablue 8y ago
I disagree with your classification, although I suspect we agree in general. While these tidbits could minimize startup revenue, they don't minimize "value provided to customers". And it's good advice for anyone who wan
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by citrablue 8y ago
Notion.so, its awesome.
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by citrablue 8y ago
I'll second the recommendation for Notion.so. It's a neat piece of software developed by people who are unreasonably into making the killer note taking app. I use it to replace Evernote, primarily, but also for building requireme
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by citrablue 8y ago
Really? You want to blame cocaine and hard booze? 1 to many communications is useful. Many to many communications (email) is useful. Push comms are useful. People are responsible for what they do, and what they say. Be it drugs or (I can
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by citrablue 8y ago
Because they want your data in exchange for access to the service they provide? I get it, it's frustrating as hell, but I can understand their perspective.
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by citrablue 8y ago
Why not make it a traditional SAAS application that charges $10/month?
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by citrablue 8y ago
A list of these would be hugely useful to a large portion of the HN community, and I bet you'd get to use some of those projects gratis (or at least see them brought to market).

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