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by gmarx 10y ago
Marissa Mayer's house always has a couple guys in an SUV parked outside with the engine running. Someone told me there have been credible threats made against her. Maybe that is the key. The Steve Jobs way of doing it makes sense if yo
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by gmarx 10y ago
I spoke to a guy who interviewed there a long time ago and he said the crazy level security was in place back then. He called the security guys secret service because he thought it had something to do with her father being a senior state de
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by gmarx 10y ago
The guy who originated the quote is clearly wrong (at least in medicine where it matters)
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by gmarx 10y ago
How often does that happen? I feel most people kinda like or are neutral on most other people. I can't remember the last time I met a developer I thought I couldn't work with because of his personality
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by gmarx 10y ago
Not so (if I understand your point). They were using the competitor systems on a few drops of blood. I read they were diluting the blood and then correcting the results. This is doing the same thing without the tech in the hopes that they w
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by gmarx 10y ago
I doubt it can but if you did a large number of blood tests with finger stick and a large number at the same time with a regular blood draw you could put that data into some machine learning and see if you could figure out an algorithm to c
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by gmarx 10y ago
You underestimate the magic of machine learning! :0...kidding. Sort of. I suspect they thought there was a software solution to this problem (and for all I know there might be)
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by gmarx 10y ago
Isn't this just a combination of generally admired startup behavior (fake it til you make it) combined with a business on which people's health might depend? When I read that they were using regular lab test machines to perform th
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by gmarx 10y ago
Thanks!
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by gmarx 10y ago
Does anyone know if there is a relationship between Aspergers/Autism spectrum and suicide? I know one person who I think is on the spectrum, doesn't know it, and suffers serious depression at least in part due to her lack of socia
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by gmarx 10y ago
When I was young the idea that high fiber reduces colon cancer risk was very high profile and based on pretty stupid studies. Later when more rigorous studies failed to find an association, no one noticed. It's like antioxidants and a
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by gmarx 10y ago
“Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.” ― H.L. Mencken
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by gmarx 10y ago
Ha. Yeah, it's amazing how often people use this phrase when they mean "I find it illogical that people disagree with my politics". Actual critical thinking, a skeptical examination of assertions and data, tends to be called
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by gmarx 10y ago
I wasn't complaining but I do consider this comment quite sad. Realistic but sad
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by gmarx 10y ago
So many of you are so ready for your Facebook interview. And I believe none of you. Unless you have ever quit a job without having another one to jump to, because you concluded that your current employer couldn't possibly ever get valu
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by gmarx 10y ago
"Successful candidates should clearly demonstrate that their priorities are company, team, and self — in that order"...right there you are creating a selection bias for exactly the kind of people you claim not to want. No-fucking-
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by gmarx 10y ago
Tried three times and like one. Pretty good. Sounds like Helmet
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by gmarx 10y ago
When you redoubled your efforts was she also redoubling her efforts in parallel? I'm curious because the way I see these stories almost universally implies the relationship quality is down to the man's effort
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by gmarx 10y ago
I'm the guy who consider finance a waste of math and physics grads. Now I'm reading this and thinking "what an idiot. He thinks its crucial to society to make best use of MBAs". Then I realize I'm making a similar j
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by gmarx 10y ago
Most hilarious item is where the author states that we should have a conversation about whether startups are society's best use of our brightest graduates, i.e. Harvard Business School grads. Somehow after years of complaining about fi
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by gmarx 10y ago
The result does not surprise me at all. I realize this was not the kind of study that would pass rigorous review. I am surprised the author thinks this is a surprising result. The kind of people who do technical interviews have been taught
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by gmarx 10y ago
Brilliant Jerk? I wish I were hiring. That sounds great
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by gmarx 10y ago
If you didn't know you were in pain, you weren't in pain. If you didn't know your hair was on fire, your hair wasn't on fire. I suppose if you squint hard enough you can make any of these support the authors contention.
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by gmarx 10y ago
Do you have enemies? Does a typical person have enemies?
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by gmarx 10y ago
Genius. Let's write that screenplay!
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by gmarx 10y ago
I don't remember their story in detail but I think they started as a couch surfing alternative. Given the rule of supply and demand I'm guess there was not "no hotel rooms available" there was "no hotel rooms availa
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by gmarx 10y ago
I see your point but that implies that on rare occasions hotels are sold out at a specific time and place. I don't think that is the problem AirBnB solves
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by gmarx 10y ago
It's a charming ideal that I think is vanishingly rare in real life. I also can't see how the hair on fire thing fits with any of the top startups and ex startups I know. In fact I dare say the rapidly rising user count is a separ
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by gmarx 10y ago
Stars
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by gmarx 10y ago
You don't have to take the oath to be a doctor in the US. Also, have you ever read it? Abortion is a no-no

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