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by cosmie 10y ago
Because that tiny company somehow roped in $120mm in funding. And after Bloomberg did a story on it, people realized how absurd it was.
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by cosmie 10y ago
Sanctions against a company, sure. But sanctions against a lawyer, up to and including the threat of disbarment, threatens a person's entire career and livelihood. Not that you can't find a lawyer willing to stomach the risk of wa
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by cosmie 10y ago
Was that for an inbound, outbound, or blended environment? Having dealt with Five9 for a high volume outbound use case, their API integration and the number of actions which can unintentionally block dialing for a campaign while processing
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by cosmie 10y ago
They're the current technological solution, but they're essentially proxies to condense a naturally occurring process into a more efficient process; weight machines and treadmills provide an efficient method to work out whatever
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by cosmie 10y ago
And years of regulatory red tape. Moving from current -> self-driving legal and regulatory framework will be one battle. Moving from that to a driverless model will be much larger. And those updates have to percolate through federal, sta
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by cosmie 10y ago
Every company I know in the space is a company that we've had at least preliminary conversations with (seeing if there's any potential relationship to either purchase from or sell to that company). Just having that conversation re
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by cosmie 10y ago
> If that's a secret then how would they find out? You don't. I've worked in data acquisition in the past, both buying data and selling it. Sometimes as the original source of truth and sometimes as a middleman th
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by cosmie 10y ago
Is your policy a standalone policy or bundled with another policy, where the marginal overhead of the renters policy is lower? Also, the $100k liability coverage you're referring to is more likely than not personal liability coverage,
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by cosmie 10y ago
I agree that it'd be nice to know which data point was used for audience building. > I use a different email, different name, no phone number, no address on FB... I don't get it. Not sure if phone number can be used for
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by cosmie 10y ago
Facebook isn't targeting you, Amazon is. Amazon is targeting you on Facebook for things you just browsed on Amazon's app. If you're logged in during your browsing, Amazon knows who you are. If you're not logged in, th
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by cosmie 10y ago
> 95% of the time I solve my questions through iterative SQL queries in a few hours, while I see most people using laborious statistical methods the first chance they get. The issue seems to be a mismatch between your posting an
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by cosmie 10y ago
It depends on if the employee is exempt or nonexempt[1], not just if they're salary or hourly. The majority of professional positions are exempt, salaried positions. Even in California, they'd be exempt from any overtime eligibili
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by cosmie 10y ago
The cost of renting a home is about the same as the interest on a mortgage _when you purchase_. If you purchased around my house two years ago, your mortgage would be less than $800. But current rates have it at about $1,300. As a rental, y
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by cosmie 10y ago
For additional seasons of their existing shows, they already have sunk costs for sets, props, and all that jazz. I don't know much about the economics of production, but I'm sure there's some sizable cost savings from leverag
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by cosmie 10y ago
> You want to raise kids that can pay for college by themselves? Be wealthy in the first place and reap all the implicit rewards that come with it. Or be poor and reap all the implicit rewards that come with it. I came from a lo
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by cosmie 10y ago
When I was little, my mom was given that advice by my pediatrician to break my picking eating habit. While it can be effective, I'd caution you to dig into the source of the pickiness before trying it. In my case, it was a texture thin
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by cosmie 10y ago
> What is better? Having a job to take care of kids? Or telling the story to your kids about how you left a place because you didn't believe in what the company believed/ was doing/ etc? It seems the latter would let
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by cosmie 10y ago
There's no reason these scrapers couldn't be coded to identify fields, insert plausible but synthetic data that'd validate, and submit forms. At least in the case of lead gen forms where payment details aren't required.
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by cosmie 10y ago
+1 for Tom Bihn. I have the Western Flyer travel bag (the lightweight Halcyon variant, not ballistic nylon) rather than a backpack: https://www.tombihn.com/collections/travel-bags/products/wes... A present fo
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by cosmie 10y ago
BuiltWith[1] and Wappalyzer[2] offer this as a service. For software with client-side exposure that can be discovered during scraping, BuiltWith has pretty solid coverage (at least when I used it ~1 year ago). I don't know if those ser
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by cosmie 10y ago
While this is somewhat true, what it hides is that Ticketmaster is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Live Nation[1]. Live Nation is essentially the largest music promotor and owns or operates a huge number of venues. The majority of Ticketma
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by cosmie 10y ago
It actually shocks me how many senior marketers have no idea how to do this stuff, but then again that is my marketplace advantage. A lot of senior marketers come from traditional marketing/advertising backgrounds. Where they w
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by cosmie 10y ago
It's very situationally dependent. I don't market myself the same to any two companies, because my value to a company is dependent on the company itself. As a boss early in my career put it, I excel in the role that every company
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by cosmie 10y ago
It's also just indicative of differing expectations. IT and programming evolves at an incredibly rapid pace. Technically proficient people are used to continually shifting tools, best practices, and thought paradigms. If there's a
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The reason "marketer" seems so common is because those who are good at marketing are inherently good self promotors. Making them far more visible than other, less common examples. Anecdotally, supply chain and business operations
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by cosmie 10y ago
In the case of my kid, it's almost always to listen to music, not for screen time. I have several Chromecasts throughout my house, and she knows exactly how to connect to each of them with the Spotify and YouTube Kids apps. So she&#x27
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by cosmie 10y ago
The mom? I have a small child that's been coming up to me with my phone and trying to nonchalantly guide my finger to unlock it since she was 4. She's never done it in my sleep (that I know of), but I don't for a second doubt
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by cosmie 10y ago
We do. Albeit they're scattered within several federal and state level agencies, with differing jurisdictions and enforcement policies. Some examples: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/ https://www.ftc.gov&#x2F
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by cosmie 10y ago
This seems really similar to 15Five[1]. What is the main difference between the two of them? [1] https://www.15five.com
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by cosmie 10y ago
1. Could you provide any links to similarly high quality content or services like Clerky that are geared towards setting up an ideal lifestyle business structure (such as consulting and a smattering of low-revenue SaaS products). Particular

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