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by hodder 11y ago
People often point to the "ghost cities" like Ordos when declaring China to be in a massively overbuilt real estate bubble. Yet studies such as those done by Mckinsey below predict 350M more people moving to cities by 2030 [1]. Gi
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by hodder 11y ago
I'd recommend anyone looking for their first job out of university to consider strongly a job at a supercorp. Starting a start up will be much easier with a network of professionals, a pile of personal savings, and it is way easier to
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Education Company Udacity Is Tech's Latest Unicorn(fortune.com)
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by hodder 11y ago
Remember people work at these organizations. To assume that "BP" wanted to obscure environmental damage implies intent on behalf of employees. I can assure you, BP did not want to spill the oil and they didn't want to do a
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by hodder 11y ago
The USGC is already home to large quantities of oil digesting bacteria, and that is largely why the ecosystem has recovered to the extent it has.
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by hodder 11y ago
What makes you say Baidu is not technically competent? Andrew Ng's work alone seems to be on the cutting edge of machine learning and voice/image recognition. While Andrew Ng's work gets a lot of press, there appears to be o
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by hodder 11y ago
"And of course once you've legalized the selling of marijuana, you're potentially openings the doors for other substances" I agree you've got to start somewhere. I find the argument that marijuana is a door opener t
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by hodder 11y ago
This analysis misses the knock on effects of the oil economy. In Calgary or Edmonton for instance, the centre of the oil economy in Canada, all jobs depend on oil. If you don't work in oil but work in a geographic region fuelled by oil
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by hodder 11y ago
38% of the float of King Digital is sold short. Looks like it will be a very tough lesson for some short sellers today.
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by hodder 11y ago
[1] Winterkorn studied metallurgy and metal physics at the University of Stuttgart from 1966 to 1973. From 1973 to 1977 he was a PhD student at the Max-Planck-Institute for Metal Research and Metal Physics, where he received his doctorate i
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Profit Margins in a “Winner Take All” Economy(philosophicaleconomics.com)
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by hodder 12y ago
As a user of Google search and Android, I want Google to bundle services. Android would, in my opinion, be impaired if it didn't include Google play, gmail, chrome, and Google Maps. Similarly, Google search would be worse for me if it
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by hodder 12y ago
How do you plan to compete with existing solutions such as those from Taser who have scale and established ties to enforcement agencies? How do you plan on selling to government agencies who only deal with established (high credit) vendors?
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by hodder 12y ago
https://github.com/trending
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by hodder 12y ago
Marco Arment appears to have done pretty well on the Tumblr aquisition. "As for me, while I wasn’t a “founder” financially, David was generous with my employee stock options back in the day. I won’t make yacht-and-helicopter money from
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by hodder 12y ago
I've never been, but you will likely get free stuff. In 2013 everyone attendee got a Chromebook Pixel (and the new Pixel was just announced). The free stuff alone may justify the ticket price. http://thenextweb.com/goo
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by hodder 12y ago
I am a beginner programmer, but I am curious what this is all about so I have signed up. Hopefully I can learn something from this even if I am just am just a fighter but no star.
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by hodder 12y ago
I created my resume in notepad with no formatting. It has served me well. With most job applications now demanding you fill out proprietary forms, I usually have to cut and paste into the fields supplied. I also have a simple pdf version w
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Ask HN: JavaScript Style Guidelines?
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Magic Leap, Google's $500 Mil Investment in 'Cinematic Reality,' Will Have Films(businessinsider.in)
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Xiaomi's Ambition(stratechery.com)
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by hodder 12y ago
I'd be interested in an outline of these subsidies (in the US) if you have a source.
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E-Commerce is a Bear(medium.com)
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Asian Brown Cloud
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by hodder 13y ago
I highly suggest you read Paul Graham's essay about the "Daddy Model of Wealth". http://paulgraham.com/gap.html Wealth is not a zero sum game.
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by hodder 13y ago
The anthropomorphism of bacterial evolution makes the article hard to follow for the layman (me). Can someone familiar with bacterial evolution please explain to me how the use of antibiotics leads to superbugs? I am clearly misunderstandi
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by hodder 13y ago
This is great! Thanks! As a beginner, figuring out what to learn, as opposed to how to learn, is a struggle. This provides a pretty great roadmap and explains how things fit together. As for feedback, you could potentially add: -Hartl tut
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1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision(en.wikipedia.org)
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by hodder 14y ago
http://longbets.org/1/ "Second, this phenomenon of ongoing exponential growth through a cascade of S-curves is far broader than computation. We see the same double exponential growth in a wide range of technologies, including communicatio
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SEC says companies may announce key data on social media(finance.yahoo.com)
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