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by georgeglue1 9y ago
The original comment might not be from a native english speaker. Presumably, they mean 'How difficult is it for Apple to clone this feature?' It is likely incredible hard to do well by themselves from now, but there's a chanc
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by georgeglue1 9y ago
There are massive economies of scale. If Google is first to mass market, they will have a large information lead. From there, their cars could take better routes and handle more edge cases. There's a similar network effect and economy
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by georgeglue1 9y ago
Is there vertical integration in the shipping + container industry? I imagine Hyundai, Maersk, etc. could buy or start some container manufacturers, but it sounded like in the article that they were just going to unhappily deal with it.
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by georgeglue1 10y ago
To further appreciate what a giant Arrow was, this is a good overview with a couple of other examples as well: http://www-siepr.stanford.edu/ArrowShovenMay09.pdf
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When Others Die, Tontine Investors Win(nytimes.com)
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by georgeglue1 10y ago
That’s why we made the decision to ditch the Demo Day — and why I encourage others to rethink how they support innovation. Notably, the article doesn't call for others to abandon Demo Days. They're just giving a case study on th
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by georgeglue1 10y ago
I think it might be: Alt(ernate) + A(li) + Ba(ba)
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by georgeglue1 10y ago
The officially pegged rate also significantly differs than black market rates in Venezuela.
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by georgeglue1 10y ago
This is a shame. Globalism is good for people overall, and the US has almost instantly lost a lot of credibility and influence in the region (especially in contrast to China). EDIT: I'm amazed to see all other comments so far are anti-
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by georgeglue1 10y ago
The article states that around $200 million is expected to go to a repurchase or secondary sale from current employees. This seems like a nice thing that airbnb might have to regularly do from here on out. But yeah, the core of your questio
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by georgeglue1 10y ago
I'm not sure what to think about Mark's non-answer to: "So can you tell us about some of the hardest parts in the history of the early history of Facebook?" (He basically says the hardest point was not selling for $1 bil
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Show HN: A pretty animation from the weekend(georgelu.github.io)
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by georgeglue1 10y ago
Actually, Intuit is one of those mega-companies that could run a successful hedge fund (or sell data/access to one), but has too much to lose in their core businesses to allow them to sell data. The Mint data set might be worth, say, 8
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by georgeglue1 10y ago
Actually, I worked at Mint for a little while when my previous startup was acquired into the Intuit fold. Surprisingly, Intuit actually never sold any Mint user data (including anonymized or batched data). The Mint data set isn't actua
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by georgeglue1 10y ago
Does Plaid have billing data? Ostensibly, that was the motivation for Intuit's Check acquisition. It's also interesting that Intuit runs their own massive aggregation effort that they haven't attempted to product-ize...
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Inside Vitol: How the World's Largest Oil Trader Makes Billions(bloomberg.com)
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by georgeglue1 10y ago
Also note that nearly every computer science or electrical engineering grad of the last 30 years has taken multiple courses in C. This obviously gives it a big leg up for employer demand, etc.
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by georgeglue1 10y ago
if this actually is a honey pot (which seems likely), it's surreal/bizzare that the site admins asked wannabe hitmen to set their cars on fire.
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by georgeglue1 10y ago
Hi all, I made Borel with a couple of friends as an experiment. In particular, I spent much of the past two years as a technical PM supporting marketers and marketing tools. There's a funky analogy between the APIs/Packages I woul
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Show HN: Borel, on-demand data analysis in 24 hours(borel.io)
3 points by georgeglue1 10y ago|1 comments
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by georgeglue1 10y ago
This is not referring to the Uber you're probably thinking of. The top shareholders (Glenn Kaino, Scott Sassa) are not exactly who you'd expect. :) http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/26/ex-friendster-ceos
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How Nike Lost Stephen Curry to Under Armour(espn.go.com)
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by georgeglue1 11y ago
I'm preaching to the choir here, but the obvious third case the author omits is 'semi-technical folks who don't want to deal with the friction of a new environment', which is not so offensive. And 600 million 5+ year PCs
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by georgeglue1 11y ago
Does anyone have any sense if squatters ever hide elaborate rooms/false walls in public spaces? I've always been fascinated by this...
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The Surprisingly Deep Influence of Trashy TV Dance Parties(atlasobscura.com)
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by georgeglue1 11y ago
You simply log into the Bloomberg/AP/NYTimes account, post some fake economic or political news, and then call in some options you purchased the week before. If done intelligently, this is incredibly difficult to trace. There is r
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by georgeglue1 11y ago
I mean, Intuit has moved its core accounting products to the cloud a while ago as well right? I'm not sure I understand how Xero is connected to Quicken-type services.
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by georgeglue1 11y ago
Good migrations between old teams and projects. JIRA fails when new teams need to be created and non-trivial numbers of old tickets need to be duplicated/migrated. It's messy, and context is always difficult to manage. Also, accom
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by georgeglue1 11y ago
Yeah, mostly dying sooner or under worse conditions. A lot of terminal patients have many months prognoses. People can seek pain relief, mental health services, etc. that they might not be able to pursue if they take a risky procedure.
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by georgeglue1 11y ago
Doctors have egos and incentives that could lead to terrible patient outcomes. For many terminal cases, there are still well optimized/studied systems and procedures to prolong and improve quality of life. Unless a patient doesn't

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