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by hardtke 9y ago
The odd thing about the current market, compared to the previous periods of rapid appreciation in the Bay Area, is that few of the current owners seem to be cashing out and leaving. This is causing the inventory issues.
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by hardtke 9y ago
Music is fundamentally different the video. Video is typically consumed and monetized once. A piece of music is consumed over and over again by the same individual. From an artist perspective, they want their music to be widely distribut
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by hardtke 9y ago
This is very common in California because under this scenario your house is not reassessed for prop 13 property tax purposes. Your cost basis only goes up by the dollar value of the improvements (which you can easily understate). If you d
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by hardtke 9y ago
My market research (teenage kids) indicates that Instagram is their platform of choice.
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Something doesn’t ad up about America’s advertising market(economist.com)
60 points by hardtke 9y ago|66 comments
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by hardtke 9y ago
There is allegedly one study from the Rhode Island blizzard of 1978 showing an increase in deaths during the storm and abnormally low rates after, so the deaths were moved forward by a couple of weeks. Similar things have been observed wit
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by hardtke 9y ago
Another second order effect is the reduced supply of family sized units. Many 3+ bedroom units are occupied by older couples and single people who raised their kids there and no longer need the space but would find it much more expensive t
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by hardtke 9y ago
If robots.txt allows Google and Bing but nobody else, it should be ignored. If it blocks everyone, then I agree. We need to make sure that the next Google has a chance to succeed.
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Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake(pratt.duke.edu)
123 points by hardtke 9y ago|13 comments
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This data could be analyzed in terms of Gini coefficients. It would be much easier then to make arbitrary comparisons between companies.
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I've always tried to sit in on a few sales calls at any place I've worked and have encouraged people working for me to do the same. It's valuable to see your products from the Sales team and customer perspective. The surpri
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by hardtke 9y ago
What happens if these cars get in a situation where there is no legal way to move? For instance, the other day I was driving down the street and it was closed because of a Farmers market. Will they just sit there for hours? In gridlock,
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by hardtke 9y ago
We are already seeing that Uber/Lyft are causing declines in the usage of public transit, and there could actually be decreasing appetite for public transit investment. Compared to the rest of the US, the Bay Area is actually already
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by hardtke 9y ago
glmnet, one of the core packages for machine learning is written in Fortran. So are many of the linear algebra packages commonly used. It's not just physicists that still rely on this stuff.
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by hardtke 9y ago
A couple of years ago (in Oakland) we bid on some houses that were priced at the market rate or slightly over. In one case, we bid a token amount over the asking price, and were the only bidder. In the other case, we were slightly below as
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by hardtke 9y ago
The research mentioned from 2007 fascinating. Ticketmaster auctioned off a limited number of prime seats. The authors showed that the auction price for these seats was equal to the secondary market "scalper" price for these seat
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by hardtke 9y ago
There is a growing gap in life expectancy based on income, and many of the people collecting private pensions qualify as upper income. I doubt that companies will get much of break once that is factored in.
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by hardtke 9y ago
They likely want to implement a pay to link scheme for news articles. This would be similar to the way that every songwriter gets a small royalty when their song is played on the radio or on a streaming service. In the case of the songwrit
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Dan Ariely's Startup Lab(mailchi.mp)
69 points by hardtke 9y ago|14 comments
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by hardtke 9y ago
I'm surprised he didn't call out title insurance as a place for potential innovation. This insurance pays out at something like 1% of premiums collected. Historically, the customer acquisition was handled by making a large kick
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by hardtke 9y ago
Much of the Puerto Rican debt has been sold at a discount by the original lenders. The risk of default was already priced into those purchases.
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Federal Government 10-K (from USAFacts) [pdf](usafacts.org)
2 points by hardtke 9y ago|0 comments
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by hardtke 9y ago
The paper fails to discuss the fact that the data for a given patient is biased by the preliminary (likely unrecorded) diagnoses of the doctor. The doctors are trained to systematically order certain sets of tests depending on their prelim
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by hardtke 10y ago
It's hard to top antibiotics in terms of useful inventions.
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by hardtke 10y ago
The one place where the University and the Professor are perfectly aligned is the summer salary. Most professors are paid for only 9 months by the University. They need to pay the remaining portion out of their grant. This gives the Profe
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by hardtke 10y ago
A lot of these new buildings are in less desirable neighborhoods. SOMA is desirable from a convenience to freeways and work standpoint, but it does not have the charm of the more established neighborhoods. I wonder if some of the glut is
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by hardtke 10y ago
Uber seems to offer quite generous bonuses to drivers who complete milestones (e.g. $600 bonus for 100 trips in a week, for instance). Every time I've chatted with a driver in Oakland, it seems that the bonuses are generally in the $5
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by hardtke 10y ago
Error in the article: auto insurers also have negotiated rates with service providers, including body shops and auto glass repairers.
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by hardtke 10y ago
Somewhere in between. A simple question I use is "how do I decide whether to add a feature to a classification model?" Most candidate are fine until I bring up the topic of correlated features.
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by hardtke 10y ago
Companies that have a research division and a separate engineering team to implement the research ideas are rarely successful. Anyone engineer good enough to do the implementation will figure out they can build something better without the

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