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by huac 8y ago
so they can get headlines like "lyft pops 21%", that's great publicity
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by huac 8y ago
how many cities have the density of san francisco and new york?
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by huac 8y ago
"We review the number of monthly active users (“MAUs”), which we define as a logged-in Pinterest user who visits our website or opens our mobile application at least once during the 30-day period ending on the date of measurement [...]
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by huac 8y ago
that's everyone's branding, not just the S-1 :)
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by huac 8y ago
I felt the same way when driving through Cuba: some billboards, but all with government propaganda, and none advertising products.
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by huac 8y ago
how are they outsourcing software?
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by huac 8y ago
various incentives, e.g. waiting for more liquid cash to come in, also your property tax is tied to home value when you purchase the home, so if you bought a home in the 80's/90's and still own it, you're paying pennies
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Subscriptions as price discrimination(hingeloss.com)
2 points by huac 8y ago|0 comments
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by huac 8y ago
they've lied about metrics before: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17989712/facebook-inaccu...
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by huac 8y ago
uber has lots of sales and ops folks and it makes lots of sense to use salesforce then.
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by huac 8y ago
My strategy of avoiding this banner paid off: https://cl.ly/224133cb505d
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by huac 8y ago
being a household name is very weakly correlated to "getting that SV money" (an exception being household names in machine learning, where you will indeed make all the money)
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by huac 8y ago
my copy of "cracking the coding interview" was fake, the pages and cover were photocopied and misaligned, etc. my friend also got a fake copy from amazon with the same characteristics. it's pretty crappy because the author is
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by huac 8y ago
> all prices need to be +\- 50% of what Medicare pays. This is actually close to what happens with private insurers- they negotiate with a hospital to pay n-times what Medicare pays for some set of treatments. So why does Medicare pay th
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by huac 8y ago
I've heard that the median is a magnitude of order less than that; most of the bonus is going to management.
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by huac 8y ago
would you consider hacker news to be anonymous?
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by huac 8y ago
that's not true, patagonia offers embroidery themselves: https://www.patagonia.com/corporate-sales-silk-screening-emb... they DO refuse to do corporate orders for certain companies, e.g. oil companies / oil banker
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Airbnb booked $1B in Q3 2018(cnbc.com)
2 points by huac 8y ago|0 comments
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by huac 8y ago
if you are willing to pay for private email, why not any of the dozens of existing ones? e.g. protonmail or fast mail? there is little differentiation available for them here.
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by huac 8y ago
How are they going to make money from that?
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by huac 8y ago
the security state in the US has grown substantially since 9/11 and created very significant changes in american politics and society. ICE is a very easy example, pre-9/11 it would have been unthinkable to keep migrant children in
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Introducing Spaces on Quora(blog.quora.com)
6 points by huac 8y ago|0 comments
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by huac 8y ago
yeah, issue is that if you're inputting more than ~500 rows, you'll be rate limited :|
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by huac 8y ago
You can cache the results of an rmd cell, and you can also share the rendered version of the doc first. You're right that there's a higher emphasis on "run the whole thing," and I think that that's a conscious (and
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by huac 8y ago
your project also seems to play much more nicely with git!
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by huac 8y ago
yeah, i have a use case now where we pull data from a database, manipulate it, and then have a final table/csv/dataframe/whatever. the problem is then how to share this with non-technical users. in an ideal world, this would
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by huac 8y ago
couple factors - growing inequality: more people at each end of the spectrum; rich get richer (and have more income for food delivery), poor get poorer and lack full-time job opportunities (and are more incentivized to take low income, inse
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by huac 8y ago
no chargeback fee is interesting
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by huac 8y ago
this is just a proposal, the firms can walk the number down later, it's in their favor to put up a high number so that they get free advertising (like this) and a better chance at winning the IPO mandate
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by huac 8y ago
135k is almost what many new grad software engineers make now, before considering stock. those numbers look very wrong

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