hershel

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by hershel 12y ago
It's really hard to make money on those fields.Very very few do, and i don't expect it to become any better.
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by hershel 12y ago
> The main fields of human endeavor will be culture, arts, sciences, creativity, philosophy, experimentation, exploration, and adventure. Some of those , like arts and philosophy and exploration and adventure would not generate an income
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by hershel 12y ago
True , some of those points i didn't take into account, but: > Similar trip I once read a research paper about "demand responsive transportation" that simulated such route aggregation in realistic traffic over a large part
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by hershel 12y ago
> in my country people are stopping using buses, and doing some kind of car sharing can you share more details? it's interesting.
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by hershel 12y ago
Not as same, but relatively close: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888339
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by hershel 12y ago
Public transport win by costing the same price, for a much better experience and that's where uber is going: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888339
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by hershel 12y ago
This guy gets the wrong impression because he doesn't understand that uber is growing to something totally different: 1.Uber recently started to offer it's uberxl suv service, which carries upto 6 passengers and in sf costs $5 bas
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by hershel 12y ago
On a $10 fare , UBER gets $2(or $4 for 2 trips) , the driver gets $8 For the $16 trip, let's say UBER gives $10 for the driver(instead of ~$8), and takes $6. UBER still comes ahead. And don't forget the huge lockup it gets - which
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by hershel 12y ago
Two ama's: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ypjd5/hi_reddit_iama_... http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ztruj/iama_uberx_driv...
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by hershel 12y ago
AFAIK, not at scale, which makes all that difference in that kind of business.
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by hershel 12y ago
I think the author is wrong about the possibilities for UBER raising prices. One such option combining trips of 2 passengers(or more) who seek a trip from similar starting locations to similar destinations. Such option could easily increase
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by hershel 12y ago
Stanford did some research on using large screen displays and google glass to increase safety in medicine, using smart adaptive checklists and good UI design: http://hci.stanford.edu/research/icogaid/ This might a
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How to build the Secret Service’s “sarcasm detector”(gigaom.com)
1 points by hershel 12y ago|0 comments
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by hershel 12y ago
> Gmail seems like an obvious entry point ... but it would go against their business model (they could no longer mine your emails). A few ideas why google won't mind encryption that much: http://www.reddit.com/r&#x2F
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by hershel 12y ago
There's a difference between revenue and valuation. In this[1] example of taxi companies, valuation is 3x the revenue. And the great potential of the company will show once they find a way to offer efficient shared transportation servi
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Industries Apple Could Disrupt Next (blogs.hbr.org)
1 points by hershel 12y ago|0 comments
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by hershel 12y ago
Currently , the most practical way for secure communications looks like textSecure, which is a mobile IM app that is easy to use and install , and relatively easy to convince others to communicate in.
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by hershel 12y ago
http://www.ersatzlabs.com/ claim to offer intuitive deep learning.
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by hershel 12y ago
There are diminishing returns to house size, like most other things in life.
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by hershel 12y ago
The comparison is between being middle class in 1950 to being poor today.
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by hershel 12y ago
Today poverty comes with some extra baggage - lower access to the healthcare system and much worse healthcare results, increased crime rate, low social status , higher stress, etc. Not everything in life is about possessions.
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by hershel 12y ago
They can use a simple subset.
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by hershel 12y ago
Maybe they don't care about your email(they have plenty of data) as long nobody else can use it for ads ?
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by hershel 12y ago
> "Smart" component selection with no understanding of the underlying complexity of the technology is a sure way to ensure you end up with crap that's 30% more expensive and 50% more power hungry than it should be. Can you
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by hershel 12y ago
I think the cheapest chips it runs on cost $3 in 1K volume.
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by hershel 12y ago
> Information is only valuable if it's asymmetrical That's very true. The question is - how do you use the internet(which i believe is more suited than book stores to that task), to find such valuable asymmetric information ?
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by hershel 12y ago
Analog electronics is a unique, not representative case.I think it depends greatly on the field and application. Some applications are too complex for math, so you just have to create really good simulations, like for example in wireless co
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by hershel 12y ago
I can imagine such "practical engineering" online degree being formed, which will give one the ability to create systems that combine multiple domains of knowledge. Having people with such capabilities is highly useful in many s
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by hershel 12y ago
There are better ways to learn about new products on the web, so ads suck more.
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by hershel 12y ago
I'm not sure that coming from the field is a requirement to getting good ideas(in important fields). Being able to learn subjects deeply and communicate with subject matter experts , do in depth market studies of potential customers an

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