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by gdudeman 10y ago
Twilio went from $33m to $59 Q1 '15 to Q1 '16. That's huge growth - and is a lot to like. Virtually every company that is growing at 80% YoY runs unprofitably. Here's why: compounding. They're growing 80% YoY becaus
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by gdudeman 10y ago
I fully agree that manufacturing is largely automated in Western nations, but I disagree with your assertion that hand crafted stuff will save us. $250 hand crafted goods are a tiny and shrinking part of our economy bought by wealthy indivi
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by gdudeman 10y ago
Agreed. Automation is also replacing service jobs.
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by gdudeman 10y ago
The robotics and machine revolution has already hit the US. Car manufacturing: We still build cars here, but we don't employ nearly as many people. Logging: contrary to popular belief, the spotted owl didn't destroy logging jobs.
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by gdudeman 10y ago
Interesting corollary: the upper floors sell for far more than lower floors. My understanding is that often upper floor tenants will subsidize the lower floor tenants - the lower floors exist in order for the upper floors to be high.
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by gdudeman 10y ago
This is a perfect example of a positive externality. We tend to try to make the producers of negative externalities pay for the problems they create for the rest of us, but we rarely pay the producers of positive externalities for the benef
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by gdudeman 10y ago
I agree - this could be tricky. One solution for restricting advertising would be to allow consumers to sue drug companies for false claims or for misinforming doctors.
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by gdudeman 10y ago
This is good for Apple: It's a good incremental revenue opportunity. Facebook makes a lot of money helping app developers find their way to installs. This could be good for developers: If Apple follows this to its logical extent, the
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by gdudeman 10y ago
This is a good analogy, but I think your takeaway is wrong. In software development, we change the team structure if we find that multiple teams do the same thing for the same customers. So, in this case, redraw the state boundaries.
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by gdudeman 10y ago
Spot on with the too large / too small argument. I think the key point you allude to here is that there is nothing sacred about 50 states or their boundaries. The article suggests exactly the parent's argument: decentralize power
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by gdudeman 11y ago
Sure, but there are areas where there really aren't many 2 bedroom houses or they aren't really representative of the local real estate.
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by gdudeman 11y ago
Ha! That's the feedback that inspired the price per square foot for this map.
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by gdudeman 11y ago
Agreed. It's an imperfect measure. I lobbied to put both on here, but then you end up with an unreadable map.
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by gdudeman 11y ago
It might seem that way, but it isn't. I'm guessing you have one or two additional criteria on your search, but there are a bunch of homes currently for sale that match your stated criteria: http://www.estately.com/
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by gdudeman 11y ago
Here's one for DC: http://www.estately.com/washington-dc-real-estate-by-transit...
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by gdudeman 11y ago
We're using price per square foot. We are a member of the MLS, so we have every home and condo for sale. You know what looks crazy? Not factoring in size. We did it and it looked really goofy. (I'm the founder of Estately)
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by gdudeman 12y ago
This is sort of a silly problem since Twitter started at 100% off-Twitter and has exceeded all predictions at bringing people into their own experience. There are numerous, straightforward solutions to this. Twitter can require third party
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by gdudeman 12y ago
We let people search by specific school and we are considering adding school district ranking soon. We've had a bunch of users requesting it.
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by gdudeman 12y ago
Hi mrfusion, we unfortunately have strict licensing restrictions on our data. Sorry!
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by gdudeman 12y ago
This is awesome. I love analysis like this. Funny enough, something very similar to this was the impetus for me starting Estately. Early on, we had a bunch of wild spatial queries that would let you even filter by distance to specific trans
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by gdudeman 12y ago
Close, except Estately gets access to MLS data too. (Founder & CEO here)
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by gdudeman 12y ago
I'm sorry to hear this and I'd like to get to the bottom of why Estately wasn't updating fast enough for you. We monitor Estately's feeds very closely. When we do head-to-head testing, we're ahead of Redfin with upd
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by gdudeman 13y ago
It's fine to call something bullshit if you can back your assertion up with data. However, calling something bullshit with unsupported assertions is, well, bullshit.
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by gdudeman 16y ago
The question a resume should answer is "would I interview" not "would I hire." And my answer here, were I looking for a designer who is creative, who could implement designs in HTML and CSS, and who could work with Rails, would be absolutel
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by gdudeman 16y ago
Ignition, the lead in the final round, has stated that they made over $50m on the deal, so probably triple that valuation - $10M was on a $25-40m range. http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/12/ignition-backed-her...
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by gdudeman 16y ago
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