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by huac 7y ago
Bakkt just launched their warehouse today: https://news.u.today/news/bakkt-warehouse-is-now-active-for-... , so the timing makes sense
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by huac 7y ago
Ethiopia is at least 62.6 million now ( https://ethiodailypost.com/2018/02/20/ethio-telecom-mobile-s... ) -- guess is that many of these numbers are not kept up to date.
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by huac 7y ago
anyone know what strike price WeWork employee offers were at? guessing anybody who joined since the last round is underwater
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by huac 7y ago
very few men would do this either
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by huac 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
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by huac 7y ago
here's the context: https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/twitter-is-blocked-in-chin... (h/t idlewords)
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by huac 7y ago
what underlying asset would you buy the options on? if it's just on the overall market, then what advantage is there for wework to do that versus an individual investor?
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by huac 7y ago
it'll be super expensive to hedge -- the higher the volatility of the underlying asset (here, the number of people who pay for a desk or whatever), the more valuable/expensive an option on that asset is. but I also don't thin
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by huac 7y ago
they're probably not accounting for HFT. that's not unreasonable to expect. > So buying stocks in companies with good financial health is not profitable? everybody has the same common sense, prices reflect all available informa
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by huac 7y ago
https://www.theinformation.com/go/4146dbb37f bypasses paywall
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by huac 7y ago
yep, it is, new york is one of the states where that rule applies
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by huac 7y ago
movies are profitable for some of the parties in the chain, but the theaters specifically must pay so much in licensing fees that they don't make much on a given ticket.
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by huac 7y ago
+1, this is very cool, but would love for the BlazingDB team to show benchmarks here
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by huac 7y ago
The richest people are the ones who advertisers really want to reach (in the article, the hypothetical beer ad sells at $2 CPM vs the hypothetical private jet ad at a $2000 CPM). At the same time, the richest people are the ones who can a
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by huac 7y ago
Google doesn't, Facebook does: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/facebook-doesnt-make-much-mone...
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by huac 7y ago
not necessarily, money has velocity; market participants don't have $145B to spend, they spend a fraction of that and then reconcile balances at the end of the day. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_(finan
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by huac 7y ago
they released earnings simultaneously and those earnings lowered revenue forecast for the rest of the year. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/01/square-earnings-q2-2019.html
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by huac 7y ago
try aluminum-free deodorant to avoid the staining. you're right that fabric quality won't make a difference here, but the deodorant quality will :)
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by huac 7y ago
this is known as a "gusset" outlier pants also have this feature, makes biking or just walking around a breeze
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by huac 7y ago
I have the slim and strong, they are very solid and worth the investment IMO. Fills two niches for me: part of a one-bag for travel, and a comfortable pant to wear while biking. I've had them for two years now and they've helped u
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by huac 7y ago
outlier (similar to MW) does as well -- their reasoning is that the factories in Portugal are the ones which are able to do the highest quality work at their scale
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by huac 7y ago
lots of VC money does, in fact, come from retirement funds (e.g. Calpers, the CA pension fund) and from university endowments.
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by huac 7y ago
I saw that they are Israeli companies, but what ties do they have to Israeli intelligence (beyond, I suppose, that their Israeli employees had previously done mandatory military service)?
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by huac 7y ago
i think the UI for unison is very good, after the initial config and setup, 90% of the UI is just the changelog. you can then relatively easily choose how to sync.
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by huac 7y ago
people are more likely to check their venmo push notifs than email i suppose you could just block them to unsubscribe?
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by huac 7y ago
the most effective way I've seen is to have a specific data eng team which builds core tables, drawing on data from different teams. they work with producer teams to ensure data quality and completeness, and work with consumer teams to
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by huac 7y ago
"it wasn't as convenient but it worked" - this is the story of every single dead product. Zunes were less convenient than iPods and iPhones. Books are less convenient than Kindles. AltaVista and Yahoo Directories were less co
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by huac 7y ago
well, facebook and google have that much power (at least wrt the many 3rd party layers), but literally nobody else does :)
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by huac 7y ago
purchase price < funding amount, investors had liquidity preferences, probably only a couple employees (if any) got anything
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by huac 7y ago
are you suggesting that data scientists use C++ for day to day work? those libraries have first-class wrappers in Python (there is R support, but not at the same level).

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