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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
Working at a startup with a solid but not dramatically-better-than-the-others product, but an amazing sales org, did it for me. (Said startup is now worth many, many billions of dollars)
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
No, but other client-side measures could.
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
At least in my personal observation, it seems like star ratings elsewhere on the internet (I'm thinking particularly of Airbnb and Google Maps reviews) are probably pretty close to bimodal: by and large, people essentially use five sta
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
> Only if you think your home is a lemon will you consider selling to Zillow. What if Zillow just makes an offer that’s high enough that you think it’s unlikely you’d do better if you went through the hassle of looking for other buyers?
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
> Zillow gave homeowners a free put option: Whenever Zillow's offer was above market, the homeowner would take it; otherwise the homeowner could freely ignore it. Sorry for the possibly dumb question, but doesn’t this just describe
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
> So can I live my life and worry about own family and not someone’s I don’t know? Unfortunately, no. We live in a society where sometimes we have to take collective action to prevent collective harm. Taking personally inconvenient measu
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
I’m all in favor of making our cities more pedestrian- and transit-centered, but isn’t this a little of an unproductively absolutist stance? Is there much of a difference between a shareable self-driving car and a tram?
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
Is the Lord’s Prayer “straight-up youth brainwashing” too? I went to schools in the US and UK where we said the pledge on occasion in the former and the Lord’s Prayer on occasion in the latter, and they both seemed like harmless traditions.
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
More about his team’s work: https://www.chromium.org/teams/rendering
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
re "holding up the fix", another possibility is that Waymo wasn't aware of the problem, right? If the cars were able to---albeit slowly---cope with the closed streets through this kind of cumbersome queueing in a dead end and
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
Disagree with the premise - you don’t have to sacrifice productivity to put time into finding good music. For one, you don’t have to do your music research during working hours. But even if you do, it doesn’t mean you’re trading off product
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
I'm sure this is true to a certain extent, but it'd be interesting to see how it varies in degree. For instance * do some companies have good enough insider risk controls to make it expensive or risky to access particular kinds of
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
Many of those juicy emails are from before the past few years' wave of tech lawsuits. At least at the entry level, I think a lot of the "don't say the word 'competition'" training started as a reaction to rel
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
I got a reasonable amount of value out of skimming Blind during a recent switch from big tech to a more niche role. The amount of signal definitely drops (as does the signal-to-noise ratio) but it was still useful to a certain extent.
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
> Apple really believes that their OS and Store are godsend to developers, Or, at least, their lawyers have decided that is the line of argument likeliest to lead to a victory.
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
The desired outcome here isn't "persuading Apple to budge." It's using the democratic process to arrive at legal changes that make businesses cease an abusive practice. The first step on that road is better public awaren
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
It's possible simultaneously for something to have a large societal cost, and for it to not affect any individual person enough to change their decisionmaking.
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
In that case, why not allow a camera replacement with a factory reset?
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
Is it potentially a little narrow to frame "one large corporation... profit[ing]" as the main result of consuming the water? They're also: - producing useful things - employing people to do said production (and design the pro
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
> Governments won't pay one highly skilled person 250k How can we change this? As a taxpayer, I'd be perfectly happy allocating some of my tax dollars to pay efficiency wages in situations like the one in this post, where hirin
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
Gotta say, "launching four civilians to orbit" definitely conjures up a certain mental image!
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
Happy ending here: he was admitted to the country a week later, on his second attempt, in time to start classes. (I'm not making excuses for the---dire---state of our immigration policy as a whole. But I was happy to see that this part
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
> How can you regulate conspiring? It seems to work pretty well in practice: testimony from other participants in the conspiracies, technical evidence (just because E2E-encrypted messaging exists doesn't mean it's the sole choi
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
If they're _too_ lax, wouldn't their premiums eventually go up?
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
Should the first one be Google _Talk_, or was there another pre-Hangouts feature called Chat too?
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by imajoredinecon 5y ago
The author has 3 children, and that's a _household_ income of $150000. 150 grand is not a huge family income to support 2 adults and 3 kids; as a country, we give people tax breaks to encourage having children and to help support peopl
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Sorting Out Utah Alcohol Laws Could Leave You Tipsy (2002)(latimes.com)
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by imajoredinecon 6y ago
I was! Looking at the reception, the single exclamation mark evidently wasn't quite enough to connote that. Ah well.
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by imajoredinecon 6y ago
Rent controls!
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by imajoredinecon 6y ago
Is it just me, or is the wording hugely misleading? > To opt-out from our anonymization of your personal information to perform data analyses, please provide your Mastercard or Maestro payment card number What we're opting out fro

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