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by dcolkitt 8y ago
Option 4: Uber uses the expertise, infrastructure, and brand it built in ridesharing to expand into the becoming the de facto standard for timely last mile delivery. This is why UberEats is such a major strategic focus for the company. It&#
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by dcolkitt 8y ago
There's either two possibilities for the self-driving future. 1) Hardly anybody owns cars anymore. When we want to get from point A to point B, we just call a driverless car from the network. But this type of service is a natural monop
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by dcolkitt 8y ago
Why couldn't the same logic work in the post-self-driving future? If I own a self-driving car that sits in my garage from 8 PM to 8 AM, why not just put it on the Uber network and have it make money while I sleep? As long as people sti
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by dcolkitt 8y ago
So, what we know from industrial psychology isn't that experience doesn't add value. It's that high IQ people learn faster. This makes sense when you remember that intelligence is broadly defined as the ability to learn. Whil
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The research shows that structured interviews do have better predictive performance than unstructured interviews. But that effect is entirely mediated by their higher correlation with IQ. In other words, structured interviews are better be
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by dcolkitt 8y ago
Can't agree with this enough. The most consistent finding in industrial psychology is that general cognitive ability is by far the best predictor of job performance in virtually every role ever tested. Even jobs that don't seem co
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by dcolkitt 8y ago
Although the US doesn't have much higher GDP levels than Western Europe, it has substantially AIC (average individual consumption) levels. That is the median American household doesn't produce much more than their European counter
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by dcolkitt 8y ago
I could be wrong, but I assume that Google mostly does this because of the huge amount of malicious garbage bot traffic on the web. Once you go fully anonymous and private, there's no way to distinguish you between the hordes of malici
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by dcolkitt 8y ago
A lot of good advice on here. Let me add another point, maybe just consider negotiating an acquisition. Yes, it does kind of suck they stole your idea. But the fact that they have $55 million in funding, probably means they're willing
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by dcolkitt 8y ago
As long as you have free and open competition, then profit-maximizing companies will always out-grow companies that leave money on the table. It's the same concept as natural selection. It'd be great if organisms didn't strug
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Disagree, it does distort the market because it increases the monopsony power of the overseas purchasers. With zero frictions between the cross-border trade in prescription drugs, a drug manufacturer would have to set a uniform worldwide pr
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by dcolkitt 8y ago
> If you want to pirate movies and chat on facebook at the same time, you're probably gonna have a bad time. Not really. There's not a single documented case of a major VPN user ever receiving a copyright infringement notice. D
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by dcolkitt 8y ago
Considering that Apple is a US company, and that millions of US citizens use Apple products, US intelligence agencies should be securing these devices. Not compromising them. The US has such an overwhelming military advantage over North Kor
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Average compensation for software engineers in NYC is $150k+ a year. Add in benefits and payroll taxes, etc. and you're looking at $180k+ Office space leases for around $75/year in NYC. A cramped open floor plan requires 80 square
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Not really. When people buy Office 365, they're primarily purchasing a the MS Office product, and the cloud just happens to be the mechanism of delivery. That doesn't really make this cloud revenue. Imagine if MS was forced to &qu
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by dcolkitt 8y ago
The classic book in this area is The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks. It was published in 1975, but is just as relevant today as ever. Another great resource is The Architecture of Open Source Applications series. (Available for free onli
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> Python does just fine with concurrency. Can you explain to me what the GIL is and how it works... > guy who built a HFT fund using python. I mean, maybe you and I have definitions of HFT. But I'd say the base minimum to compete
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Long-time HFT and stat-arb trader here. Not really your target market here, but I have a few suggestions that you may or may not find useful. - Don't write the core platform in python. The lack of support for concurrency is going to bi