exelius

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by exelius 11y ago
> raising brand awareness about autonomous vehicles. IMO this is Uber's biggest strength. Once autonomous driving becomes even remotely real, investors would just be able to buy a bunch of cars, build a thin framework around some fl
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by exelius 11y ago
> Car Culture Well, "car culture" was invented to sell economy cars - nobody gets excited over mashed potatoes, so they had to invent something sexier. I don't think anyone legitimately believes that the auto industry is g
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by exelius 11y ago
Yeah; which is why ideas on their own are worthless. Any idea worth having has been had a million times before: you become rich by converting that idea into a profitable business better than anyone else has.
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by exelius 11y ago
> travel seems like a weird black hole for entrepreneurs. Not that weird at all actually -- it's an easy to understand business with an overly-complex buy flow they think they can fix. It's the kind of problem that many entrepr
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by exelius 11y ago
These are the types of problems that a 22 year old with a BS in Comp Sci are capable of solving. Which is why both spaces are so crowded: there isn't really anything difficult about the business, the consumer experience sucks, and they
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by exelius 11y ago
> What does that $70MM buy for investors? A brand. They're building a brand that is synonymous with "mattresses by mail".
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by exelius 11y ago
No, I never did really. Programming an elevator sounds very tedious, but it never sounded very hard. Elevators are heavy equipment, and there are edge cases around safety near heavy equipment: I'd rather not have to learn those first-h
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by exelius 11y ago
At the end of the day, language is a set of auditory approximations that allow us to share ideas that we have in our minds with others. As a philosopher, I interpret this as our inability share a complete thought, with all its intricacies a
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by exelius 11y ago
The BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries are all grouped together because they all have very large populations (Russia is the smallest at 140 million) and rapidly modernizing economies. In other words, they're actually big eno
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by exelius 11y ago
> Need? I guess not. But I think the point is that those things manifest themselves in a healthy market/economy/society, a healthy innovative market. If you're not advancing technologically, then you have no hope for your
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by exelius 11y ago
It's only political suicide if you have no political capital (aka favors that other people owe you). This is how politicians can get away with things and not get impeached or voted out of office.
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by exelius 11y ago
> Chinese companies are the only ones that can serve Chinese customers I don't agree with this; but Chinese companies are in a much better position to do so, and China is where the growth is. > Clean energy in 20 years: in 20 yea
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by exelius 11y ago
> Edit: To clarify, I am supposing that perhaps more English-speaking knowledge workers would be trained in the future. As a side effect of US immigration policy and the hot job market for knowledge workers over the last 20 years, an ext
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by exelius 11y ago
I don't know why you are getting downvoted; you're absolutely correct. Note that while the below sounds racist; I'm referring explicitly to the governments themselves. > There are challenges to investing in either China or
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by exelius 11y ago
> Coupled with lack of global consumer brands, corruption, pollution, demographics issues, global slowdown, carry trade unwind, rising us interest rates... You don't need global consumer brands when your country is the size of China
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by exelius 11y ago
I'll answer your question: no, the venture model does not make sense in capital-intensive industries. The entire premise of venture investing is to beat established competitors by leveraging technology to be more capital-efficient. It
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by exelius 11y ago
DFS is more like the stock market: the skilled players take advantage of suckers and get richer, while the average schmuck only wins by not playing the game (and just investing in index funds). The difference between them is that one provid
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by exelius 11y ago
Bayesian probability is catching on because the technology has finally caught up to the point where it's feasible. Thanks to the web and the proliferation of big data, we now have enough observations that Bayesian models can be trained
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by exelius 11y ago
> It was big news when it came out that Verizon was doing this to mobile data connections. Because the other ISPs were sneakier and were only injecting their tokens when the user was visiting a site that was paying for the service. Other
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by exelius 11y ago
> These regulations should be fairly basic: pass all IPv6 traffic unmodified, pass all IPv4 traffic unmodified except for NAT. Erm, pretty much NOBODY does this - even today. Every packet you send out from your ISP has (and has had for a
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by exelius 11y ago
Nobody can judge their own interview performance - engineer or not. The hard part is that you as an interviewee don't really know what the interviewer is looking for. You may have nailed the back half of the interview, but you don&#x27
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by exelius 11y ago
FS is a bit of a special circumstance -- you are expected to understand complex financial instruments well enough to write code around them, so a background in investment finance is almost required. There are few places to learn about inves
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by exelius 11y ago
But what is the marginal cost of doing that work? Could the landlord hire someone to do it for multiple apartments? How much would the value of that service be vs. what people are willing to pay on Airbnb? Let's be honest; marketing th
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by exelius 11y ago
> so the like button no longer works as an upvote system. I don't think it ever worked as an upvote system. I think that many users have that expectation, but Facebook has never really used "likes" alone to determine news
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by exelius 11y ago
Yeah; but either way it seems like trouble for Facebook's business model. If their algorithms are sending their users into a feedback loop of "too many ads, I'm not going to use this as often" then it breaks the cycle of
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by exelius 11y ago
I have noticed a pretty strong trend among my friends on Facebook: many are active users through their 20s, then they hit 30 and it's radio silence except for wedding / baby photos. My news feed is also nearly 50% advertisements a
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by exelius 11y ago
App store availability aside (many apps are available on iOS that are not available on Fire's outdated Android derivative), Android tablet apps are kind of crappy. Apple wouldn't be able to get away with their premium pricing if t
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by exelius 11y ago
Actually a "smart" washer and dryer would be nice -- I wouldn't mind getting notifications that my laundry is done (because it's on a different floor and I don't always hear the little song it plays). But really tha
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by exelius 11y ago
I'm thinking that if you're in the market for a $3600 Internet-connected fridge, you can afford and would just rather have the iPad. I don't know enough about the Fire to say whether it's a piece of garbage or not; all I
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by exelius 11y ago
I don't know about that; the moment those coins are suspected to be compromised, you'd get a near-immediate run on BTC. So yes, there are a lot of Bitcoins available, but stealing them would undermine the entire system their value

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