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by exelius 9y ago
I don't see them getting into passenger travel; the quickest way to trash your brand is to be a telecom or an airline. Low margin, undifferentiated services that consumers need, but require high capital investments... your investors wi
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by exelius 9y ago
That’s because food is easy to grow. Stone Age people seem to have figured it out. Medicine is much harder..
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by exelius 9y ago
All guarantee basic care and allow you to buy up to better care[1]. Yeah, some things that are quality-of-life impacting but not life-threatening (like say, knee surgery) can have really long waits, but everyone gets seen. You don’t have pe
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by exelius 9y ago
Airlines suck because it’s an undifferentiated service. Consumers aren’t willing to pay much extra for better service, and the lowest ticket price wins. It’s a race to the bottom on price, so features and comfort get cut in exchange for cos
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by exelius 9y ago
Medicine cannot be managed by capitalism. Elements of the industry can, but the basic elements of care giving and treatment basically amount to “pay me or die”. The moral hazard in withholding care from some to be able to raise prices on ot
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by exelius 9y ago
I really wish it worked that way; but agriculture still has a number of scarce resources (namely land and water) that will require the adoption of productivity-increasing tools to boost the productivity of a given plot of land or to increas
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by exelius 9y ago
Yeah, that ride is over. Google's rep is fucked with a lot of top schools anymore. Don't get me wrong; it's still a good company to work for, but getting a job at Google in 2017 is like getting a job at Microsoft in 2007. And
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by exelius 9y ago
Looks like this is only for approved Google News sources. It’s a good start, but I’d be worried about relying on something like this.
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by exelius 9y ago
Honestly I think they’re using the helmet as a prototype for a smaller device that will eventually be built once someone solves the “wearable vision” problem.
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by exelius 9y ago
At least it’s not running with the cringe titles this article had on CNN: “Don’t tell kids, Santa is dead!” I’m being serious.
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by exelius 9y ago
In the corporate world, this is seen as a feature. I’m not kidding you — the fact that documents can’t be viewed offline easily is touted as a feature since if a laptop is stolen, the valuable data won’t be there (supposedly).
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by exelius 9y ago
It already has. I have multiple Fortune 500 clients who hired some offshore teams to rebuild their core VBA/Excel workbooks in GAS. Google provides ample support when you pay this much. In the early days Sheets wasn’t as good; but I wo
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by exelius 9y ago
Sewer and water are the big tent poles there because you really can’t put it off for too long (see Flint, MI). Which usually requires tearing up roads.
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by exelius 9y ago
People would just stop using Office then. Google has seriously eroded Microsoft’s dominance here — I’ve worked at a few major companies who have switched and Google is a far more cloud-native solution. It’s honestly more intuitive to the wo
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by exelius 9y ago
The world is never black-and-white. It’s unfair to judge a man on how we interpret him at the end of his life. He came from a time when “consent” wasn’t really a concept a lot of men understood. He more than anyone helped to normalize human
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by exelius 9y ago
I would just say that like any celebrity, there is Hugh Hefner the celebrity pimp and Hugh Hefner the man. In public, he literally was the Playboy brand. He had to be seen living this “man of leisure” lifestyle that looks so tacky today,
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by exelius 9y ago
We need to switch the mentality of our police units. Right now, the mentality is that of a soldier who is going to run in, kill or lock up all the bad guys and save the good guys. This black-and-white view of policing ends up getting a lot
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by exelius 9y ago
Phones are very much unlike PCs in a lot of important ways. First, is that phone users value weight and size above all else. Regardless of what that means to each individual user, it does mean that any design compromises will need to come o
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by exelius 9y ago
President @realDonaldTrump would beg to differ.
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by exelius 9y ago
Disruption is nothing new; it's been happening for millennia. I think the pace of modern disruption is much faster than in the past -- but IMO this has more to do with global population levels. Technology was an enabler here, but rea
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by exelius 9y ago
If I want to manipulate a device, I'll buy a raspberry pi. My phone isn't a playtoy; it's something I need to just work transparently. Really though; there's very little you can't do with an iPhone as long as you&#x
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by exelius 9y ago
Benadryl in the US is diphenhydramine, which definitely does have drowsiness as a side effect. It's also pretty hard to OD on.
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by exelius 9y ago
Apple knows this; in fact, I'd say it's their core business strategy. They did this before with the iTunes Music Store, and they will continue doing it as long as they exist. Apple focuses on the mass consumer as their sole and pe
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by exelius 9y ago
Any *coin fiasco would take the government years to figure out. Nobody is even sure if the laws on the books would cover some of the scenarios that are popping up. A lot of it would be solved if people really understood what they're bu
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by exelius 9y ago
I'm divided over the whole ICO thing. On one hand, I don't think that Bitcoin, et al are ever going to replace fiat currency. But shares of stock are a perfect analog to what he's trying to do; and I think the SEC will see ri
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by exelius 9y ago
You also end up with a mess of VBScript code that isn't versioned. When something breaks and someone calls IT, it really helps if IT knows the system exists. In a large organization, supporting disjointed business processes (or worse,
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by exelius 9y ago
> The problem here isn't temp agencies it's companies that would be doing bad things anyway hire their full time workforce though temp agencies to create level of abstraction that helps avoid liability. The problem is worse tha
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by exelius 9y ago
Dunno this is really a huge deal -- they're different tools with different purposes. I've always viewed Mesos as a bare-metal orchestration platform. From there, you can deploy k8s, VMware, Linux KVM, whatever to the nodes under m
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by exelius 9y ago
That's kind of indicative of another American value; namely "my money trumps your knowledge".
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by exelius 9y ago
Ehh, it's more of "I don't use that service, so why should I pay for it?" We as a society have stopped looking at our tax dollars as an investment in the future. Public education is one of the best investments we can mak

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