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by dandare 8y ago
My story is rather typical. I have built something visionary that everybody liked but nobody needed. I hated the very idea of selling something that is not finished so I never validated the product with customers. How could I explain to the
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by dandare 8y ago
Can you present any solid evidence to support your "plainly apparent" claim?
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by dandare 8y ago
> The question of whether or not Snowden was a Russian asset all along has been raised and debated. No evidence has been found that he was, just as no evidence has been found that he was a spy for China. ... We can’t know. Wikipedia: Fea
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by dandare 8y ago
Is my comment really patronizing and dismissing?
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by dandare 8y ago
I have no evidence, only gut feeling, but I believe the "threat to Western liberal democracy" as defined by "Trump, Brexit, and rise of populism and extremism" is not caused by the Credit Crunch but by the decade of Rusi
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by dandare 8y ago
I am surprised that $1.5 trillion does not look as big as I expected in the perspective of 1 year US federal budget https://us.wikibudgets.org/w/united-states-budget-2016
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by dandare 8y ago
I don't understand why is there not more competition / options in the BaaS area. User management is stable, almost boring functionality required by every single product.
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by dandare 8y ago
Battery, the side brush motor and all brushes. And I accidentally tore off the top sensor - I had to solder it back.
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by dandare 8y ago
> Additionally, you should be able to answer most of these questions—all of which a candidate is likely to ask you: • How long is the sales cycle (from first conversation to closed contract) on average? • What is the typical deal size (i
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by dandare 8y ago
Shameless plug. Please give me feedback. https://us.wikibudgets.org/w/united-states-budget-2016 I would like to create laymen oriented central repository for all public spending data of the world. * Hosting problems -
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by dandare 8y ago
3 story house, 2 kids and several rags here - our Roomba changed our lives. It forces you (and the kids) to clean all toys in the evening, it will clean the living room every night and then I carry it to other stories as I see fit. I have a
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by dandare 8y ago
I suppose every robot cleaner eats loose cables. My Roomba 700 does. And socks :).
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by dandare 8y ago
The most impressive thing about Roomba is its physical durability. My Roomba must have traveled many many miles over the past 5 years and it looks battered like WALL-E. I have replaced all the peripherals over the time but the gear goes str
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by dandare 8y ago
> Many of the largest companies in the world started in markets so small they looked like toys. Over time, each of these companies grew their markets or created new ones to dominate. A typical VC (elevator pitch or pitch deck) asks for t
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by dandare 8y ago
Am I the only one who thinks this is unreadable? var on = !afind($(id), collapsed()); (on ? addClass : remClass)($(id), 'coll'); where function afind (x, a) { var i = apos(x, a); return (i >= 0) ? a[i] : null
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by dandare 8y ago
In my country, the pediatricians almost uniformly recommend lowering sick child's fever with cold towels or lukewarm showers. I never understood what is the point of lowering the fever below 103F. What is the evidence for this? What is
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by dandare 8y ago
Element added to the DOM is not rendered immediately? for instance, this works as expected, the button will be blue: function myFunction() { var btn = document.createElement("BUTTON"); var t = document.createTextNode(&quot
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by dandare 8y ago
I don't understand the purpose of setTimeout(/* ... */, 0) (or setImmediate). If I want a function to execute immediately I will call it directly, not via setTimeout(0). What am I missing?
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by dandare 8y ago
How about the tolerance paradox? Tolerant society that tolerates intolerance will cease to be tolerant.
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by dandare 8y ago
Do you know what is Ad Hominem argument? For the record I don't manage people, that was a parable.
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by dandare 8y ago
This may be an unpopular opinion but I don't believe BS jobs are prevalent in the private sector. Of course, bureaucracy exists, but that is hardly a new thing. There are outliers, but this is far from the pandemic presented here. Some
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by dandare 8y ago
This doesn't make a sense to me. Why not instead of a crane use a rope into a deep well with a shaft with a conveyor belt?
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by dandare 8y ago
> "In the past decades, the governments have so overwhelmingly failed that Greeks blame everything that goes wrong on the state," This hypocrisy makes me angry. Those governments were not forced on poor Greek people by bad Jews
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by dandare 8y ago
Honest question: what is affected by the mining capacity? The speed of transactions? The price of transactions? The creation of new coins?
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by dandare 8y ago
Question: is the analogy of thermal energy as particles flying around and bouncing into each other just analogy? At what temperature would the particles fly at the speed of light? > Above about 10^32K, particle energies become so large t
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by dandare 8y ago
> “Most cryptocurrencies have been overvalued for a very long time,” said Samson Mow, chief strategy officer at blockchain developer Blockstream Corp. This reminds me of the "Not Even Wrong" attribute of String Theory. How can
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by dandare 8y ago
I kind of started to believe in chemtrails, except the poison sprayed over the world is probably digital, not chemical. That is the only way I can explain this worldwide slide into cretinism so perfectly captured in this article. I would li
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by dandare 8y ago
The word "capitalism" is totally redundant and rather shows the authors bias. > ‘Surveillance capitalism’ was the term coined in 2015 by Harvard academic Shoshanna Zuboff to describe this large-scale surveillance and modificati
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by dandare 8y ago
Can you please link to one of such numerous examples?
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by dandare 8y ago
> (race/gender-based) adversity in education usually has the effect of reducing your chances of succeeding in exams, admissions, etc. How would that work? If we talked about oral exams or job interview then surely there can be a bia

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