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The Kremlin Wants to Nationalize Russia’s Tech Firms Like Yandex and Mail.ru(foreignpolicy.com)
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Climate change: California solves batteries’ embarrassing problem(vox.com)
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by kposehn 7y ago
Your questions around which types of companies you insure are very narrow - are you only focused on a specific set of startups or are you able to insure more broadly yet?
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I Spy: The Sleeper Agent(foreignpolicy.com)
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by kposehn 7y ago
That’s the thing - you run these test with individual campaigns in many channels. Digital gives you the ability to test this at scale as you grow your advertising, thus you can gauge with high confidence exactly what advertising is scaling
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by kposehn 7y ago
Not quite. One tool with FB lift tests is to make a lookalike audience. FB will then split that audience in two for you so you have a test and control group. The original test required two ad accounts and keeping your overall advertising st
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by kposehn 7y ago
Geo tests are useful for sure, but also require a lot of data to get statistically significant results. Any noise in your data (seasonality, PR, etc) has to be taken into account as well. They’re harder to execute in general but can work we
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by kposehn 7y ago
Yep. Lift tests are solid gold. A lot of people pan FB ads but the reality is they can be very incremental. The flip side is that not every campaign, targeting strategy or ad will be incremental . You have to test and retest your way to it
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by kposehn 7y ago
Reliably someone comes along every few months to question digital ads. I always come back to analyses of incrementality as the real proof. Take an audience of X people. Divide them in two. Show ads to your test group, don't show to con
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by kposehn 7y ago
You’re correct. Not sure why you were being downvoted.
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by kposehn 7y ago
Ah, it’s up from last I checked. Thanks!
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by kposehn 7y ago
Actually, the longest regular Swiss trains seem to top out at 44 cars. This is because of passing siding lengths being much smaller than other countries such as the US. There are longer trains that are scheduled on routes with longer siding
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by kposehn 7y ago
Yep. They routinely run fairly long trains over the Lotschberg and Gotthard lines through the base tunnels that I’m pretty certain are approaching 256 axles, but I have yet to see any with more. Most likely the main transalpine lines now al
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Chipotle Will Offer Free College Tuition to All Employees(fortune.com)
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The Maraschino Mogul’s Life (2018)(newyorker.com)
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A 'Null' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell(wired.com)
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A Man at the Controls of the World’s Largest Steam Locomotive(atlasobscura.com)
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Hunstable Electric Turbine claims greater output than electric motors(autoblog.com)
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by kposehn 7y ago
Note: this title has not been editorialized :)
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A Phishing URL to give you nightmares(reddit.com)
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How does a self-driving car work? Not so great. – Washington Post(washingtonpost.com)
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by kposehn 7y ago
Oh, they certainly do this; but they could also do it vastly better than they currently do.
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by kposehn 7y ago
And over time Dropbox ended up creating unique features and a value that stands on its own. In this case, the Apple ecosystem limited Apple’s thinking and both Box and Dropbox were able to move to create unique value. And frankly, good for
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by kposehn 7y ago
Nah, it’s not out of business, but the point about there not being much of a fundamental differentiation from Instagram that gives it unique value stands. That may change over time as these things aren’t set in stone of course.
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by kposehn 7y ago
I definitely agree they can handle some things better. After all - why not try and buy out those little app makers to add more great talent? There’s a ton of PR/brand/goodwill to build there and it’s a total lost opportunity. And
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by kposehn 7y ago
I’d say an attempt was made by Microsoft to render the web browser a feature of Windows. That didn’t pan out in the long run as (a) a web browser was a horrid file browser, and (b) IE just wasn’t that good. Because they tried to make it a f
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by kposehn 7y ago
Yep - plenty of people will prefer one platform over the other, such as yourself. But in the end the only thing that really stands to differentiate them is the network, not the app, as either one can duplicate the other’s functionality at t
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by kposehn 7y ago
If you’re making something people use because Apple doesn’t make it then you don’t pass the test, and there’s zero reason Apple shouldn’t do it themselves, especially if they can do it better. To stay relevant, don’t expect to plug gaps i
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by kposehn 7y ago
This is an example of what I call "Feature vs. Product." A classic example is Snapchat and Instagram. Snapchat was never something that stood on its own, as everything that made it unique would easily be duplicatable by Instagram,
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by kposehn 7y ago
I actually wondered at first if it was a falsely liveried (or IFF’d) airliner at altitude that has optical/sigint equipment on it. From the angle it wouldn’t be feasible, but it was an interesting idea.

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