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by ggg9990 9y ago
In general, borrowing money is useful and rational in many types of business growth. VC is correct in the situation where there are “winner-take-most” dynamics and where investment today creates a long-duration profit stream. Things like Fa
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Feckin' gross, I definitely do not want some Amazon dude rooting around in my refrigerator.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Not everyone has their car in a place where the window is likely to be smashed. I live in a place where windows are smashed frequently but work in a place with a parking lot patrolled by private security. I'd be perfectly comfortable h
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by ggg9990 9y ago
If Amazon provided the delivery box it could easily reduce costs. The delivery box could automatically open when the delivery person approached it, it could have transceivers to improve robotic delivery in the future, and it could be size-m
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I like this. There’s no way I’d let an Amazon bozo into my home but I don’t mind them leaving stuff in my car which is much less risky. I’d prefer that they only get access to the trunk but I think most cars are set up the other way (able t
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It’s because the Cambodians here are a self selected of people who were willing and able (whether money, family support, or hustling skills) to start their lives anew. The blacks are descendants of people forcefully abducted, who were selec
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Gender equality in China is much better after decades of the one child policy. Businessmen who would have raised their sons to take their place raised their daughters that way with no sons. I work with powerful Chinese businesswomen and the
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by ggg9990 9y ago
How could the one child policy create a gender imbalance? Every child born has a 50% probability of being either gender.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I already had my privacy settings where I wanted them (about 90% of the way to “fully public all the time”)
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The average successful entrepreneur is in their 40s, but the founders of the absolute most massive tech companies were mostly in their teens or 20s (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and in a previous generation companies like Dell and Co
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The entire car is revolutionary. It’s like the iPhone - there wasn’t a new scientific discovery behind the iPhone but the sum of the product was clearly revolutionary. That much was obvious to anyone who picked it up in 2007 and had even th
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I have plenty of food in my refrigerator more perishable than green juice, and no QR-code reading iOS app, and have still managed to avoid killing myself with food poisoning.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Except Nespresso is $150 for the machine and $1/drink, not $700/$5, and the coffee market is much better developed than the green juice market.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
If you could lower the price of a Ferrari to the price of a Camry it would be a tremendous success too. You can make a business selling to Katy Perrys and Beyoncés, but not at a $700 price point, and not by raising $100m in VC.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
How many people from automakers would Tesla need to hire to hoover up all this knowledge?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
By that logic, shouldn’t any company whose services could be politically consequential get out? Then doesn’t that deny the population the tools they could use to influence their country?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I can’t think of any attacks now, and there may be none, but you can see the consequences of Google’s high level approach to APIs in the fact that Facebook snarfed up entire call histories for Android users but not iOS users.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Ugh, I always hate hearing the griping from the people who didn't win the Nobel Prize. Get over it, it's not an objective listing of the best scientists of all time. It's a human-driven process driven as much by circumstance
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I think socially liberal movements have made so much progress, at least on paper, that they are running out of things to do. They went from fighting for the vote for women (50%), then Jim Crow for blacks (13%), to marriage equality for gays
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I’m a loyal iPhone customer who likes the fact that Apple doesn’t give out API access willy nilly to apps and instead operates on a default-deny model. I’ll deal with the slightly inaccurate Uber dot.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
In the suburbs there is a lot of regulation and that’s a good thing, but there are a lot of places in the US where you can build with literally or virtually zero building codes. (Except, usually, for septic).
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It’s not even possible to avoid on-prem. Stripe Home is clearly searching repositories.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Mine isn’t working either. I also use Ubuntu / Firefox and also the computer isn’t plugged in, so there’s that.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
If Bill Gates takes a fancy to a $100,000 mountain cabin and the owner doesn’t want to sell, he could offer $10 million for it, but that doesn’t increase the market value of the cabin.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The volume would be insanely high. Like blimp sized.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Between my parents, my wife’s parents, my wife, and I, there are five engineering PhDs. IKEA is fun for us. I’ve been called over to help with IKEA when it looked like the couple was about to get divorced over it.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Washington was an exceptional man who walked away from near-total power. It’s only been done a few times in human history.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
All major tech companies are going to make the GDPR tools available globally for fear of accidentally misidentifying someone as not covered by the GDPR. Facebook will not be an exception regardless of what they are saying now.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Does the Tinker board have a pinhole camera module like the Raspberry Pi?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
What camera do you use with the Tinker?

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