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by idoh 5y ago
Yes, there are huge opportunities for small / medium data. Maybe 90%+ data problems are in the small size range. The biggest pain point is converting the insights from the analysis into an actionable plan that actually improves things.
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by idoh 5y ago
It matters, but choice of major and taking advantage of opportunities matter more. After your first job, for most career tracks, nobody asks what your school / GPA was.
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by idoh 5y ago
I don’t know much about Alex Karp. What’s the story?
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by idoh 5y ago
A - The concept of present value isn't a problem, it's more like a fact, derived from the time value of money. It's like saying gravity is a problem. B - Construction is resource intensive, no doubt about it. Without this tec
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by idoh 5y ago
I don't know if it is really a problem, more like a tradeoff. Reinforced concrete costs less and enables shapes that are impossible without it, with the downside that the buildings last 50 years instead of 100+ years. The present value
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by idoh 5y ago
Agreed, and it's a very weird type of conspicuous consumption. You can't really hang the NFT on your wall, or drive up to a fancy dinner in an NFT. I guess you can brag about it?
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by idoh 5y ago
I bought some proxies to use in different EDH decks. The quality of the fakes was actually better than the real ones (anyone who follows MTG will know what I’m talking about). Using a microscope it was pretty easy to tell them apart, based
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by idoh 5y ago
As a side thread, regarding Jeanne Calment, here's a more in depth article about whether she was actually the oldest person in the world: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/was-jeanne-cal.
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by idoh 5y ago
Yeah, maybe the ISA asks for too much. It is reasonable to find ways to align the incentives between students, schools, and employees. So in that way the ISA as a concept is plausible.
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by idoh 5y ago
That's too bad. I'm rooting for Lambda School, they are trying hard to innovate in the area of education. Maybe ISAs are the future, maybe not, but the traditional university track of spending out $100K+ is clearly not the future.
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by idoh 6y ago
What does it do, what user segment are you looking at?
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by idoh 6y ago
Sounds more like you want to do Product Management than Product Owner, the latter of which I believe is more about running the agile process. I don’t know the secret sauce for breaking in. I’m sure that once you are in your background will
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by idoh 6y ago
Doesn’t that just shift to whom the burden falls? The people paying the mortgages have forbearance, but the people who would recieve the payments aren’t, and that should have some type of impact, right?
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Why hasn’t the US economy done worse with Covid?
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by idoh 6y ago
Judges get final authority to approve plea deals. Most of the time they do but it is not automatic.
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by idoh 6y ago
yes, like you said, covid will never go away, and there is more awareness of the problem of airborne viruses in enclosed spaces like an office.
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by idoh 6y ago
I'm much more interested in how the ventilation works. I'd pay for some device that measures air quality, e.g. something that shows whether covid-sized particles are floating around.
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by idoh 6y ago
Fair enough, I didn't mean to imply that the entirety of waterfall was just that one line. The point was that scrum, with all of its flaws, was meant to correct a then existing perceived bad practice.
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by idoh 6y ago
Agile Scrum was created as a response to Waterfall. Waterfall was, generate a giant spec, like 50-100 pages, then set the developers on it.
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by idoh 6y ago
I did not do much law practice, so hard to say. I miss writing well thought out documents. In the tech / corporate world people have very short attention spans so I only write out a couple of bullet points, and I wish there were people
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by idoh 6y ago
I sort of did it, trained as a lawyer, got into e discovery, then became a product manager (that’s now doing some data privacy related product management, so there is some crossover). Most of my law school friends have had a pretty rough go
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by idoh 6y ago
How could you break up Twitter, what's your plan?
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by idoh 6y ago
What a legend! Janitors are outsourced now, and I wonder if the outsource everything makes the work your way to the top journey a lot harder.
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by idoh 6y ago
Hacker News is about the idea not the individual.
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by idoh 6y ago
Bitcoin is complicated: - buying and holding actual coins feels feels like investing in other nonperforming assets, like other currencies, or art, or gold - the world does seem to need / want a decentralized store of value that bitcoin
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by idoh 6y ago
When is that going to happen?
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by idoh 6y ago
Excess mortality seems like the best way to track the pandemic because determining whether someone died of covid can be debatable sometimes, but there can be no debate over whether someone died.
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by idoh 6y ago
How about this: - Change the way we commute: Tesla - Change the way we work: Zoom and other remote work enablers - Change the way we eat: Beyond / Impossibe and other meat substitutes
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by idoh 6y ago
This is a frustrating article, because it does not say how dangerous alcohol is. Maybe alcohol raises the risk of certain types of cancers, but only by a very tiny amount. Relative to other risks, even other risks from alcohol, do we really
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by idoh 6y ago
I did Chess 5334 problems, still working my way through that. As a total rookie, doing some puzzles and playing games really helped me. The main issue that I had was that at some point, I didn't know what to do, other than grind out a

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