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Persistence Through Revolutions [pdf](davidyyang.com)
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A Heavyweight Merger(physics.aps.org)
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by hardtke 6y ago
Burlingame, one of the wealthiest cities in the Bay Area, has a decent mix of multifamily and single family housing. The last time I checked, it was about 50/50 renters owners. Given the exorbitant prices to buy a house there, the re
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Fairness in AI: An Intent and Impact Perspective(linkedin.com)
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by hardtke 6y ago
Stephen Hawking did not have an important theory with an experimentally testable prediction, similar to the current crop of brilliant string theorists (Ed Whitten, for instance). Alan Guth should have the Nobel Prize, in my opinion, for hi
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by hardtke 6y ago
I don't think that changing driers to employee status will necessarily give them health benefits. I'm not an expert, but while ERISA generally requires uniform benefit options for all employees in a similar class, the companies c
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by hardtke 6y ago
The problem with any discussion of "ranking" students is that it is impossible to define the ranking system. Is the goal to produce the highest GPAs at Yale? To maximize future donations? To produce the greatest number of Suprem
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by hardtke 6y ago
There is a frenzy of people buying houses in Tahoe right now so they can work from there, but many will be disappointed to find that the internet service available will not allow them to work successfully. We have a cabin in a neighborhood
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by hardtke 6y ago
This thread is completely missing the draw of TikTok, at least as it pertains to my teenagers. TikTok makes it fun and compelling to create content. My teenagers will actually go places with their friends to "make TikToks." The
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by hardtke 6y ago
I highly recommend The Song Machine (Inside the Hit Factory) by John Seabrook. The author describes the modern reincarnation of the Brill Building that pumps out pop hits using methods that we would not call songwriting (Max Martin, Dr. Lu
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by hardtke 6y ago
This could be the nail in the coffin for Apple with regards to Spotify's antitrust complaint in Europe.
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by hardtke 6y ago
The cost of sending a letter to any address in the US is the same. The cost of delivering that letter varies wildly. Think New York City vs. rural Alaska only reachable by plane. If USPS did not have monopoly, they would be severely underc
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by hardtke 6y ago
My kids' private school recently sent out a $500 per student tuition credit (about $650K for the entire school). I see now that they got a multi million dollar PPP loan (which will be forgiven). Their revenues were unaffected by the
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by hardtke 6y ago
This merger might trigger an antitrust case. Although people who order stuff might have lower fees through economies of scale, restaurants and drivers could be negatively impacted (more of a monosopy). At some point we need to start conside
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by hardtke 6y ago
A similar argument could be made for a whole host of subscription services (gyms, television, etc.) but I think they all keep the subscription model because the mental transaction cost of buying a small amount of the product creates a huge
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by hardtke 6y ago
Former pizza delivery person (long time ago). Pizza works better economically because it transports better (stays hot longer) and has higher volume. I used to load up 5+ deliveries for the same small area of town. The dispatchers were ho
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by hardtke 6y ago
Automatic Labs is owned by SiriusXM (market cap $25B).
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by hardtke 6y ago
Regarding #4, with the ubiquity of call blocking, I don't see how it is possible for them to reach 90% of the people that may have been exposed, especially once people find out that picking up that phone call means you will be in quara
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by hardtke 6y ago
A difference between drug discovery and technology is that in the case of drug discovery product-market fit is not as much of an unknown. If your drug works, there will be a market, it is pretty easy to estimate the size of the market, and
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by hardtke 6y ago
Statistically reliable purchases studies are very challenging. People have multiple credit cards and sometimes pay cash. If you are buying a car you don't put it on the credit card. Additionally, you have multiple cookies/MAIDS
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by hardtke 6y ago
Measuring the effectiveness of brand advertising on YouTube is more difficult that measuring TV/newspapers. TV and newspapers have higher repetition at an individual consumer level so the "which newspapers do you read?" or &
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) Data Dashboard – County of Santa Clara(sccgov.org)
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by hardtke 7y ago
The thing I took away from Capital in the Twenty-First Century was his conjecture that the post-WWII (until about 1990) period was one of the few times in history that prosperity was widely shared with workers. The era that I consider to b
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by hardtke 7y ago
But given that it only applies to a limited geographical region with free movement in and out not restricted it is unclear it will have the desired effect. This policy needs to be at the state or national level to be effective.
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by hardtke 7y ago
Aren't all of these factors true for China today?
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by hardtke 7y ago
Compared to Spotify, SiriusXM has lower content costs (favorable statuatory licensing rates and a larger fraction of exclusive owned content) and a better user demographic (wealthy middle age Americans). Their churn rate is negligible.
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by hardtke 7y ago
Isn't the issue that Apple charges 3rd party manufacturers a licensing fee to use their proprietary designs? This raises antitrust issues (using dominance in one market to control another market).
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by hardtke 7y ago
Not true. A primary care physician at Kaiser makes a bit over $200K if they work full time AFAIK. Average American makes about $50K. Considering the 4 years of med school and 3 years of residency they are not overpaid. Specialists are t
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by hardtke 7y ago
I have 2 friends in their 40s who are primary care physicians at Kaiser (one in Bay Area, one in Sacramento). Both have dropped down to 60% time (3 days per week), explaining that 60% time is actually 40 hours. In the last few years Kaise
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by hardtke 7y ago
Before Uber, I used to call taxi dispatchers in Oakland to get a ride to the airport from my house. The taxis would rarely show up. One day I was getting a ride home in a taxi and I asked why this was the case. The driver explained that

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