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by fjp 8y ago
I know this could be overcome by me being less lazy, but my favorite thing about Google is the results I get without ever having to click a link. This is especially true for searching things like TV shows, actors/directors, athletes, e
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by fjp 8y ago
Those issues end up being reflected in the multiple. Revenue * multiple is just a common way of talking about it, especially because companies within the same industry tend to have similar multiples. In reverse if you notice two public (sin
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by fjp 8y ago
God damn it takes a long time to get jobs like that but it's SO rewarding. I'm currently in a job that was essentially obtained through "convince someone you can do it". I think I probably viewed 30k job listings on Inde
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by fjp 8y ago
"Being right early is the same as being wrong"
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by fjp 8y ago
GP just means that effectively that's what will happen. just like wow churches push money through think tanks and orgs that donate to political campaigns. The money will never go away it will just get darker and darker and darker.
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by fjp 8y ago
we're getting super off topic here, but my understanding is that 'black' is actually becoming more PC and acceptable largely because many black people are neither African nor American
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by fjp 8y ago
Ah yes, the past 40 years of wealth gains will trickle down on us any day now!
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by fjp 8y ago
As a recent XS buyer (upgrade from iPhone 7) my strategy is just going to be waiting 2 or more upgrade cycles before buying again. I still value the ecosystem and trust Apple with my data more than anyone else, especially in the case of iMe
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by fjp 8y ago
Yeah, I meant Constitutional law trumps state law but states can also decide to keep doing it, betting that the federal government won't bother to enforce.
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by fjp 8y ago
Because California passed bills clearly delineating how, where, and in what quantities pot growing and selling can be done. The state issues licenses. In America, this is federalism at work. States can choose to do things that the federal g
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by fjp 8y ago
No I work in telecom and he's not onto anything. It's technically impossible for one, and the ROI wouldn't be there even if it was. The ROI on spray and pray is high enough. (EDIT: Not as high as like actual legit telecommuni
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by fjp 8y ago
I think we're totally fucked. I'm young and my friends are generally smart and tech-savvy and they pretty much all have the "I have nothing to hide" mentality or "if the government really wanted to they could get it
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by fjp 8y ago
It's amazing what I'm hearing in this thread compared to all the gushing articles a couple years ago about how WeWork had sed "algorithms" to perfect the use of space for the modern worker. I guess I should get used to t
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by fjp 8y ago
Private lending actually destroys money supply, contrary to the "money multiplier effect". (Fed recently admitted this was bullshit) that has been taught for a long time. Government/public lending creates money supply
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by fjp 8y ago
JFC it's because hair stylists use chemicals that can be dangerous if used incorrectly!!!
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by fjp 8y ago
reddit.com/r/im14andthisisdeep
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by fjp 8y ago
Because the private equity firms invested in them would rather them fester and rot than offer them to low-income people in need.
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by fjp 8y ago
Yeah I agree. I don't see how withholding information here leads to a fairer outcome.
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by fjp 8y ago
From outside San Francisco, it looks like SV is a giant circle jerk of these exact problems you're talking about. I'm actually much more likely to believe that a startup elsewhere in the US is focusing on the important things beca
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by fjp 8y ago
It only operated at a loss because they were plowing massive amounts of money into their delivery infrastructure. Revenue matters more than net income
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by fjp 8y ago
I use it at work and as far as I can tell it's just a web app where you can move cards around. I do like the fact that it's simple and snappy and doesn't have a shitload of options and features no one wants that cause it to l
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by fjp 8y ago
I know this is true when the debt is issued by the currency issuer & denominated in that same currency, such as in the case of the United States. Is that also true in the case of say, Italy's debt denominated in Euros or Illinois s
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by fjp 8y ago
> If you can't explain the model, it means you don't know the assumptions that went into the model's output This is true, but there are many, many kinds of models that have basically zero explanatory power but have higher
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by fjp 8y ago
Correcting these issues in a logistic regression is something you learn in undergrad stats classes and something any professional would do as part of their modeling.
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by fjp 8y ago
When I was leaving I was under the impression that they were no longer hiring new non-professional services devs in the Provo office
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Worth noting that their engineering org is in Seattle
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by fjp 8y ago
More info to explain some of their marketing speak (Experience Management! Creating a category!): They are by far the leader in being able to create surveys for serious research. However, since so much of this segment is owned by academics
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by fjp 8y ago
I used to work for Qualtrics. I think Qualtrics and maybe LucidChart was a rare exception to the rest of the tech scene in Utah, which is pretty much "build a slightly different version of something at already exists and sell the shit
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by fjp 8y ago
Sure you should be required ID to vote but only if it is way, way easier to get ID. I think you may underestimate just how hard it is to obtain ID in most of America. First, you have to locate the 5+ forms: birth certificate, multiple bills
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by fjp 8y ago
I found codefights.com to have the most relevant exercises. I have used it for interview prep and just to get a new language under my fingers. Other sites just haven't cut it for me. Some are heavy on arbitrary math puzzles with little

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