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by entee 7y ago
This seems to be a theme, but I wonder how it passes muster with any semi-smart VCs. Don't they ask about this? If the unit economics are so obviously bad, how did they get through in the first place?
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by entee 7y ago
Isn't that frequently the case though? The number of times I've walked into a building and been captured by some security camera must be enormous. Maybe the resolution is lower, but 1.) that may not matter that much, they can stil
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by entee 7y ago
Find My Friends rarely works reliably for me. It regularly says the person can't be located, while if I use services like WhatsApp this never happens. It's also way slow, I've tried meeting people while we were both on the mo
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by entee 7y ago
So the result would then be something like the flash crash? I share your understanding of the article, it’s not about “index bad active good”, it’s about, “is there a problem when a lot of investors have to move quickly”. I wonder if there
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by entee 7y ago
I have in fact ridden motorcycles, you’re still arguing a niche case. Fine, there exists some cyclist who wears a motorcycle helmet. It’s a bad idea for the vast majority of cyclists.
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by entee 7y ago
This is incorrect. Most cyclists rarely sustain speeds beyond 20mph and will not regularly see speeds beyond 30-35mph. If going downhill on a road bike, amateur cyclists hit mid 40s occasionally on weekend rides. For reference the maximum s
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by entee 7y ago
Motorcycle helmets are just not ever to be worn while biking. They are designed for vastly different forces at vastly different speeds than a bike helmet. Not to mention that they will breathe very very very poorly, though I'm a little
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by entee 7y ago
It's often not clear whether the energy went into the helmet. It could have cracked something internally or substantially weakened the EPS under the plastic shell without it being super visible. Better to not risk it: serious crash, re
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by entee 7y ago
MIPS (you seem to know this, but many might not) is an internal layer in the helmet, usually a very thin rigid plastic layer, that has some elastic nubbins/supports between it and the outer helmet styrofoam shell. This means that the i
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by entee 7y ago
It’s my understanding that Obama had a specially locked down device, not just the off the shelf blackberry/iPhone.
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by entee 7y ago
The point is simple: to paraphrase Marie Kondo, does it spark joy? There are many things a human is better at, for example creativity and art. Maybe a computer will eventually be a better painter, but it's impossible for a computer to
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by entee 7y ago
I agree with you, but I'm curious as to why french bread in stores is universally less good than french bread from dedicated bakers (places like ACME, a Berkeley based bread producer, that sell to larger stores such as Safeway I would
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by entee 7y ago
I think the OP was focusing on Santa Clara the city/county not the university. Either way my understanding is that the aerospace industry was the root of the tech industry and was based out of the South Bay, notably Moffett field. I wo
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by entee 7y ago
That's all very fair. The Q I usually ask of all candidates onsite is a design, "give-me-pseudocode/prototypes/class outlines" question which I find infinitely more useful in probing how someone thinks than whiteboa
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by entee 7y ago
There are also very tough plastic liners you can put between the tire and the inner tube. At some point picked up a 1 cm cut in the the tire that this inner layer not only prevented a puncture but kept the whole tire/tube/wheel to
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by entee 7y ago
Thanks for your candor, I generally had this sense. If we had something like, “we usually ask for a take-home but a pointer to a code sample you’d be willing to discuss will work.” Would that be acceptable? My logic on the take home was tha
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by entee 7y ago
I was worried about that for senior candidates, and if I had a good recommendation or had some sort of screen call with them I’d usually skip the takehome. Very occasionally the candidate came in and just was wildly off, but usually it was
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by entee 7y ago
No if you look at the chart from the NIHCM about halfway down the article, you see that 3% of total costs cover the first 50% of people. The top 5% of people account for about 50% of spending and the top 10% account for 2/3 so convenie
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by entee 7y ago
The article actually provides data that belies this line of argument. 50% of healthcare users account for 3% of the cost. Essentially all that preventative care or routine care is actually quite cheap on a systems level. It's not actua
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by entee 7y ago
And what if you happened to not be able to save? Or if something was too expensive for your savings? Or if you chose the wrong savings vehicle and the stock market tanked just when you needed that new hip? How much should you save? How do y
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by entee 7y ago
You had me until you said the tax collector has an incentive to increase the effectiveness of health services. Currently the largest medical payer in the US is medicare, a government program. It is also one of the most expensive programs th
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by entee 7y ago
Robots are absolutely useful, and major companies are building out massive robotics facilities to accelerate drug development. The point is that it's not a magic solution. It still takes a bunch of staff to run, and (much less apprecia
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by entee 7y ago
I very well might! Send me a note at ntilmans at anagenios.com, lets have coffee or something!
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by entee 7y ago
In grad school we bought robots because we thought they would make us faster. With very few exceptions they didn't, I was still faster with a multipipettor than our robots. This was because: 1.) Getting the robot to behave means it has
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by entee 7y ago
Mostly it's hard to get from "here's a protein" to "here's a drug for that protein" for a variety of reasons. 1.) It's hard to know whether the candidate drug will bind. This is because while the phys
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by entee 7y ago
The reason this logic fails is because income and healthcare costs are on different curves but of similar (or far greater in the case of healthcare) magnitude. Say you start out your career making $30K as a barrista and end up making $150K
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by entee 7y ago
There's no reason an insurance provider can't manage a guaranteed cost every year. It's basically just an offset on the risk curve. You could look at health insurance like a buyer's club (we negotiate prices for a large
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by entee 7y ago
It's important to remember that an insurance company has very little to zero incentive to lower costs. The only incentive an insurer has is to ensure costs are predictable. It doesn't matter if costs go up 20% next year as long as
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by entee 7y ago
It’s true ladders are mostly leg. It’s not the best analogy perhaps a better one is pulling yourself up onto a box. You wouldn’t put your hands close to the center of the body, you’d have them out wide as you push. Not sure what you’re refe
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by entee 7y ago
Generally for freestyle you want to follow these rules to avoid shoulder injury: 1.) Don't cross the center line of your body with your arm. If you were climbing a ladder you wouldn't ever do that. Freestyle is kind of like climbi

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