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by kozikow 8y ago
I know many European startups raising money from American VCs. Open Delaware C-corp and hire European programmers remotely. Either via consulting agreements or wholly-owned European subsidiary. Our company (tensorflight.com) did that. After
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by kozikow 8y ago
How come JetBrains didn't raise bazillion VC dollars, while their code completion and tools like refactoring are the best option for most popular programming languages?
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"the chicken now count for 23bn of the 30bn land animals living on farms." - it's not fair to compare count rather than mass. Single pig weights 20x more than single chicken according to google search. https://outl
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by kozikow 8y ago
Drones are overrated in my opinion. Most of the "map an area" use cases are more cost effective via airplane pilots doing their miles. Most of the "monitor an area" use cases are more cost effective via CCTVs.
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There are good reasons for that: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/world/europe/poland-escap...
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I think some of situations like that are simply caused by standardized POS systems being used. Some greed was probably involved as well, but I've a few similar situations, where tip was asked in non-tippy scenarios after business adapt
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The codename is "deep learning PC" :P.
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It's funny that co-pay I am paying for a service in the USA is comparable to a full private treatment with the same quality in Poland, where I grew up.
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For most use cases it's more cost effective to use existing, slightly old imagery. On the other hand, for some use cases, it's necessary to get a very fresh image and commision an airplane flight (or drone if the area is very smal
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by kozikow 8y ago
> Which providers are there? In the "high spatial resolution" - i.e. 50 cm per pixel or less the well-known providers everyone is using are Digital Globe, Airbus or Nearmap. Above 50 cm it starts to get hard to confidently see
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by kozikow 8y ago
We indeed pass the cost of imagery to customers, but it's flexible. I.e. given the location and customer requirements we have a decision tree that picks the best image source from multiple providers based on freshness, spatial resoluti
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by kozikow 8y ago
Not defending grab, but osm has lots of false negatives. Satellite image does not have to be outdated - you can get less than 6 months old satellite image accurate enough to extract roads and buildings from Digital Globe or Airbus. Shameles
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The same concept was also a part of one episode of Origin, the show by youtube.
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Start a startup?
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> Due to the scope of wildfires, fire insurance is untenable. That's why for catastrophe risks like wildfires you have reinsurers talking that risk - e.g. catastrophe reinsurance market in Bermuda.
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> "I think homeowners need to be paying fire insurance costs proportional to fire risk" Wildfires are already covered by property re/insurance. The problem is that risk is badly priced, as modeling for wildfires is current
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IMO the key factor is that so many investors are in California and investors prefer to have a founding team locally accessible. What else? Talent? Yes, but at a cost that is becoming unbearable for early-stage startups. Customers? Maybe if
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by kozikow 8y ago
> Exercise should be enjoyable or people will not do it. This is what finally worked for me. I died of boredom jogging or lifting weights. You have to find a sport that you enjoy. I have friends that were unfit and finally climbing did i
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by kozikow 8y ago
Personally, as a technical founder that learned some sales and is still learning, I would say that the biggest mistake I initially did is picking wrong sales "role models". All "role models" for sales I knew were akin t
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by kozikow 8y ago
Insurers with more data can create incentives to stay healthy. E.g. insurer could tell you "if you lose 10 pounds your insurance is going to decrease by X".
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I would say that almost all Americans outside of technology think it only means a person breaking into computer systems.
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Not replaceable in a sense that there are some people that are only reachable over WhatsApp and Messenger.
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by kozikow 8y ago
I deleted messenger, Instagram and app, but not WhatsApp. Sadly it's not replaceable yet :(.
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by kozikow 8y ago
I stopped using Facebook and Twitter. Same as majority of people who did the same, I report being happier and more productive.
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Isn't it? It's hard to interpret https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-googl... otherwise.
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You can do it with Gmail to some extent already. E.g. instead of using myemail@gmail.com I would use myemail+facebook@gmail.com. Gmail ignores anything after the plus. As someone mentioned, marketing companies usually share just the hash of
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by kozikow 8y ago
Check out virtualspeech
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I didn't use manual labeling during pilots for ML-based service and I regret it after the fact. Your customer cares about a business value. From my experience using buzzwords like "AI" will only get your foot in the door, but
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Another version of "do both" I have seen and been guilty of is "let's just keep supporting X in case it will become relevant in the future". Actually sitting now and deleting part of the code that should have died a
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IMO it depends on the person. I know some people who would thrive in the startup environment but would be annoyed in big corp. And vice versa. Matching your work style to the company style will matter more for your work enjoyment than a bit

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