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by kosei 10y ago
A friend of mine's family had 3 of these (father and two brothers) that they'd bought over the years as the whole family had gotten into the taxi business. Medallions were supposed to be their nest egg in the same way many people
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by kosei 10y ago
I never understood why this model (giving an app away entirely for free) wasn't considered predatory pricing. Especially for the companies who can bankroll a business with a loss for a long enough time to gobble up market share.
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by kosei 10y ago
Seems like micropayments would be tough for a newspaper unless it could leverage a massive audience already with credit cards enabled (see iTunes, Amazon, etc). Otherwise the barrier to get customers to enter their payment information would
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by kosei 10y ago
Original WSJ article referred to in this post: https://www.google.com/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/exclusiv...
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by kosei 10y ago
Seems like an odd thing to say if you're running for governor: "At one point, Thiel said, perhaps jokingly, that he’d be “fine” with California seceding. “I think it would be good for California, good for the rest of the country.
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by kosei 10y ago
My mommy used to go to the store for me: Amazon My mommy used to do errands for me: Task Rabbit My mommy used to sell my stuff at garage sales: OfferUp
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by kosei 10y ago
Hope this is as fantastic as this sounds. Many cities are starting to make this data publicly available, and the potential impact to urban planning, traffic reduction, parking and more is enormous. That said, what's Uber's commerc
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by kosei 10y ago
If you have an iPhone 6S with this problem you can get it replaced: https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/
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by kosei 10y ago
It seems more likely that this is an example of Elon Musk doing a good job of PR - interacting with a popular social media influencer (Loic has 129k followers) to drive forward his plan. I would be surprised if this was not something that w
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by kosei 10y ago
Amazon Game Studios has been around for a few years now (released a facebook game back in 2011) and a few mobile games. Their strategy has been a bit different from Lumberyard, though, which seems to focus more on console/PC as well as
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by kosei 10y ago
This reminds me of the ESPN article in 2012: "SEPT. 10, 12:30 P.M., CASINO DE MONTREAL "Hi, this is Phil Ivey," he says into his phone, from the back of a limo sent by Casino de Montreal. "I need you to transfer $1 milli
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by kosei 10y ago
I felt the same way. If the authors did more to control for additional variables, then it was not clear in this article and that is fairly critical in terms of assessing the validity of the article's claim.
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by kosei 10y ago
I hadn't heard that before. How interesting! Do you have a source or a book that talks about this history more?
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by kosei 10y ago
Agreed. The company is much more likely to do what's best for the company at the expense of the delivery people or the restaurants, based on their track record.[1] [1] https://www.thestreet.com/story/13248764/
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by kosei 10y ago
I don't understand how you could take out $2m and expect not to go to jail or to have any consequences for your actions. That blows my mind.
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by kosei 10y ago
This article focuses entirely on cost of living through home pricing, however there are many additional areas impacted. First, perhaps most importantly, Washington does not have state income tax. Additionally, there are differences in price
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by kosei 10y ago
Exactly. I think the writer is taking issue with trying to use it as a more exact science, and calls it out for being within 20% of the sale value 90% of the time, which I think is pretty reasonable considering the high amount of subjectivi
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by kosei 10y ago
Considering a Zestimate doesn't take into account anything about the aesthetics or actual character of the house, being off by 20% doesn't seem like it is that much. People respond to more than just the pure square footage and nei
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by kosei 10y ago
Agreed. If you're going to try to do any sort of data-driven study, citing a sample size of 3 houses per market is ineffective and very likely to be misleading.
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by kosei 10y ago
Amazon headcount from mid-2015 said over 24k in Seattle: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2015/07/ex...
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by kosei 10y ago
Unfortunately not surprising, but saddening. "Our results indicate that female channels are characterized by words about physical appearance, the body, relationships, and greetings while male channels are characterized by game-related
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Gendered Conversation in a Social Game-Streaming Platform (Twitch)(arxiv.org)
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Tech experts propose reserving stretch of I-5 for driverless cars(seattletimes.com)
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by kosei 10y ago
My favorite passage from this: "a man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance." So very true.
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FiveThirtyEight’s 2016 Pollster Ratings(projects.fivethirtyeight.com)
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by kosei 10y ago
WG Cells (DropForge Games) | Lead Platform Engineer | Bellevue/Seattle, WA WG Cells is the mobile development and publishing arm of Wargaming.net (World of Tanks). We're looking for a Lead Platform Software Engineer who is passion
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How the Average Triumphed Over the Median(priceonomics.com)
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by kosei 11y ago
Let me just say that there are game studios that are not run in this way. They may be hard to find, but they do exist - mostly outside of the console space - and I've worked at two of them and know of others. If the OP lives in the Sea
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The Risk I Will Not Take(bloombergview.com)
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by kosei 11y ago
Since this, Uber has responded: http://qz.com/632440/uber-explains-why-a-search-for-rape-in-...

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