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by heurist 8y ago
As mentioned by the other responses, you are mistaken. Reviews can't be seen until both parties have submit their reviews or the review period expires. However, as a host I've encountered situations where I probably should have gi
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You can get 90% of that for a half or quarter the cost at a B grade office building, and not deal with noisy neighbors or occupied conference rooms. It usually takes committing to a contract, but if you're not ready to do that you prob
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Their social network and brand recognition is their moat for now. Hosts and guests trust Airbnb. An upstart will have overcome a lot of momentum to take on Airbnb in the broad market.
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Having to work full time for a salary to live a middle class life feels like unbounded indentured servitude sometimes. We have significant benefits over historical indentured servitude but the freedom is still lacking. 40+ hours of my week,
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Any organization has a lifecycle, governments included. There are thermodynamic constraints ensuring this. See Geoffrey West's "Scale" for elaboration.
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One day, Amazon, Google, and Apple will also die. It's the circle of life. Sears operated for 126 years - astounding in our era.
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I try to find the intersection of my interests. You'd be surprised by the opportunities that are available when you know what to look for.
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Our team has had great success with Elixir over the last year and ported core node services to it over the last few months. We are very happy with the results. There are some things we haven't been able to do with it, like intensive da
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What's the difference between a single government and a decentralized government? Under a single government there would necessarily be many subgovernments competing over resources, just as we have now under global capitalism.
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Are the built in graph algorithms useful these days? I tried neo4j a few years back and didnt find anything similar to eg networkx, which is the level of graph/network algorithms I use regularly. Neo4j made life much harder for me at t
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by heurist 8y ago
The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert Gordon. Really fantastic book about the changes in American society over the last two centuries. Argues that the impacts of new technology are decreasing over time. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walk
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I've been selling good data in a particular industry for three years. In this industry at least, the so-called "low-hanging fruit" only seems low-hanging until you realize that the people who could benefit most from the data
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Designing am organization and keeping it running well are incredibly difficult. What you see as encouraging poor behavior could easily be poor management. I have never worked at Google so I do not know.
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Joining a startup was death for my creative side projects. I get to be much more creative at work now than I used to but it's still work, and a lot more of it.
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As i understand it, there are new intensive organic farming techniques that are practically unknown to big ag and which produce similar yields with higher quality (by not destroying soil and ecosystems every year). I'd counter that the
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Loyalty programs do a bit more than the conventional punch card as they also track everything they can about you.
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I don't think anyone is saying it wouldn't. But it is worth noting that usage among teens in Colorado has been declining since legalization: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12&#
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Definitely will be looking there when I get the opportunity
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I'm logged out on my phone. Logged in through desktop in Chrome but have the "News Feed Eradicator for Facebook" chrome extension installed and am only logged in from my specific "personal" container in firefox, and
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One of my dream projects is finding a way to make software development non-sedentary. In my mind software can be designed around a space. Software can be an interactive system that you design and construct within a known space, maybe even u
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by heurist 8y ago
I spend at least as much time on HN as Facebook these days. (My relationship with HN is fine but my relationship with my phone is not as healthy as I feel it should be.) I think the problem is related to the fleeting mental rewards of surpr
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by heurist 8y ago
I think decentralization will be a bigger theme in the next decade. Crypto nerds got a huge amount of surprise money in 2017 and the smart ones seem to be taking advantage of it. Even if only a small fraction of those are pursuing worthwhil
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by heurist 8y ago
I'll take it a step further and say I don't think sequestration will work if economically productive materials or systems can't be made out of the resulting carbon. Humanity is too shortsighted to fix it without gain. It&#x27
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by heurist 8y ago
Another giant Fungus exists in Michigan: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/humongous-fungus
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State governors selected the zones over the last year.
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Opportunity zones are state-selected census tracts. I am more curious about the required "opportunity fund". I have not seen a good definition for that yet.
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I went camping in west Texas last summer and any lights we had on attracted enormous swarms of flying critters. I do not say that to discount you or OP but rather to console with the fact that there are still times and places where this occ
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by heurist 8y ago
That article isn't convincing to me. IQ testing has known issues and if they didn't control for age then the assertion might apply to the general populace right now but not as a general trend that will hold over time, especially s
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People are about as smart as they have always been. The world is just getting more complicated around them.
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You mean can only be bought before becoming the leader? Unless maybe the leader changes annually and is guaranteed to be unable to affect the lottery process, at which point at least the benefits of greed are distributed randomly..

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