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by kevenwang0531 10y ago
The counter-argument to our fear of planned obsolescence here is the ridiculous speed of technological improvement in LEDs relative to incandescent lighting. LED's cost per lumen falls by a factor of 10 every decade (see Haitz's
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by kevenwang0531 10y ago
DIY home security is definitely a large market. Every house in America has some form of subscription-based home security system mostly consisting of door sensors and a monitoring service. If home security startups can make a good-enough pro
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Planned Obsolescence and the Age of LEDs(newyorker.com)
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by kevenwang0531 10y ago
Hopefully this will speed up Fiber's rollout in San Francisco. I remember Google's announcement regarding Fiber in SF a few months back. This acquisition is a no-brainer for both companies!
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by kevenwang0531 10y ago
News media ought to pay more attention to the confidence intervals associated with these metrics. Uncertainty is always present in statistics and the revisions to these numbers rarely get reported (it was reported in this case to fit the to
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by kevenwang0531 10y ago
This is exactly why you leave biotech to PhD founders and not to undergrad dropouts. I remember my professor used to take pride in failing premed students because she thinks it will save lives!
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by kevenwang0531 10y ago
It's interesting that the article says the biggest foreign buyers of US real estate used to be Canadians. I bet a sizable portion of the Canadian buyers are in fact Canadian Chinese (also HK and Taiwan) who immigrated there in the late
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by kevenwang0531 10y ago
This is part of Amazon's broader strategy to completely upend traditional retail. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon follows up by launching physical stores in city centers to shelf these private label items, in addition to its Kin