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by marcell 9y ago
Thanks for the info. One more question if you have the time: to what degree are you limited by data, vs. other factors? If you could have 10x the training data, would that 10x your performance, or are other factors in the way (eg. compute,
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by marcell 9y ago
Hi Oliver, a few questions: (1) Will these cars have a Voyage employee in them to supervise? (2) What are your driver intervention rates, eg. compared to Waymo? [1] (3) Is there anything unique about The Villages, FL that makes it easier (o
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by marcell 9y ago
On the one hand, I cry every time the open web loses a bit, and certainly AMP is a loss for the open web. After all Google is essentially trying to make the web its platform. But as a user... I love, yes love AMP. All of these complaints ab
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by marcell 9y ago
AMP preloads pages before you click them, which means it's much faster than mobile. You could argue that a browser could preload Google search results before you click them, but: (1) those pages could be giant, and loads 10 giant pages
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by marcell 9y ago
The US is a large country with poor and rich areas. Older airports will be dirtier than newer airports. Generally public transit will be worse as most people drive cars. Also, per capita GDP is comparable or lower than parts of Western Euro
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by marcell 9y ago
> 3. This happening is from my perspective just a quick look behind the curtain of the Digital Currency infrastructure problem as it exists today. There is no good way in, or out of digital currency at the moment, and the ones that exist
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Didi Chuxing, China’s Ride-Hailing Giant, Agrees to Buy Uber Rival in Brazil(nytimes.com)
1 points by marcell 9y ago|0 comments
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by marcell 9y ago
I used to have this opinion so I know where you’re coming from. I live in Mt View and I bought a condo about ten years ago. Since then traffic has been getting worse, and they put in some fairly ugly developments. A few things changed my mi
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by marcell 9y ago
I like people too but not random train passengers. They smell bad, are unattractive and grouchy. I don’t want to strike up conversations with randos. They make the train dirty. I don’t think this makes me “elitist.” The reason rich people
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by marcell 9y ago
The main disadvantage of serverless though is the need to learn an entirely new tech stack, and one that is locked in to AWS. Migrating a large (or medium sized) Django app to Lambda has non-trivial cost in terms of engineering time. Also t
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by marcell 9y ago
About 1/3 of households itemize deductions, including myself. I live in a two bedroom condo with two kids, I consider myself "middle class." Itemizing deductions is much more common in high tax ("Blue") states due t
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by marcell 9y ago
Those ads are probably to pay the news companies, not Apple. They probably don’t get any money from Apple so they need some revenue to justify licensing their content for Apple news.
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by marcell 9y ago
Those numbers you posted are probably inaccurate. The true numbers really depend on whether you itemize your deductions, and how much. This particular tax bill substantially raises taxes for people who itemize, in particular states with hig
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by marcell 9y ago
You have to go city-by-city to get approval. It's painful even for a company with infinite money like Google. And Comcast will (also with infinite money) will fight you city-by-city. Not only is city-by-city approval painful, it is als
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by marcell 9y ago
> Who were these early contributors, how much did each get, and why do they get to have 12.5% of the entire economy on day 1? Why does Larry Page or Google Engineer #1 own billions of dollars of Google stock? Because he was there on day
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A Tax Tweak for Silicon Valley Workers Awaiting IPOs(bloomberg.com)
1 points by marcell 9y ago|0 comments
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by marcell 9y ago
From the article: > But it did not work with Snapchat and Evan Spiegel, who seems to have turned down Facebook’s $3,000,000,000 without hesitation or second thought. I think it did work out pretty well for Evan Spiegel and Snap Inc., sin
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by marcell 9y ago
The article claims error rates were comparable: > However, the two approaches have comparable patient outcomes and lengths of hospital stay, the study showed.
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by marcell 9y ago
> A software company building hardware is Google, and it's Pixel phones show FWIW Google has put a lot of effort in the hardware of their datacenters, and in that sense they're a hardware giant as well. Compared to their data
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Ask HN: How to do small business sales?
2 points by marcell 9y ago|2 comments
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by marcell 9y ago
Maybe a matter of taste but I think the Model 3 looks much cooler than the Bolt: Bolt: http://www.chevrolet.com/content/dam/chevrolet/na/us/english... Model 3: https://electrek.files.word
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by marcell 9y ago
Indeed; for crypto trading, your unit of account matters a lot. I'd recommend using BTC as the unit of account, so you aren't counting 100x+ USD increases.
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by marcell 9y ago
You risk negative returns on the property, or losses compared to your opportunity cost. If you had $1 million in 2007, it would have been more profitable to invest it in Google than to buy a two houses in Mt View and rent them out. That is
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by marcell 9y ago
Perhaps they did some things better, but in terms of pure population increase I don't think it's comparable: Vancouver 2010: 603,000 Vancouver 2016: 631,000 Vancouver increase: ~28,000 SF 2010: 805,000 SF 2
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by marcell 9y ago
Geography definitely impacts it. There is substantially cheaper housing in the East Bay, compared to SF/Peninsula. However there's no good way to get from the East Bay to where the jobs are: you are limited by one of three bridges
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by marcell 9y ago
Whenever these threads come up, the NIMBY pitch forks come out. I 100% agree that we should build more housing in the Bay Area, but some perspective is helpful. The Bay Area is already one of the most densely populated regions in America:
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by marcell 9y ago
> since the gravity is 14 percent of Earth's gravity, just a little less than at the moon Isn't this a non-starter? Low gravity can be harmful to humans over long time periods, due to it's effect on your bones and muscles.
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by marcell 9y ago
I thought the reduced diameter needed for cars allows lower cost/faster tunneling. Also, making it for cars solves the "last mile" problem that makes public transit unusable in suburban settings.
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by marcell 9y ago
I know very little about rockets and 3D printing, so maybe someone can answer two things for me: 1. Does 3D printing make sense for large projects like rockets, which will be used in extreme conditions? I thought it was more for prototypes.
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by marcell 9y ago
Not to take away from your point but people have different strengths. Zuckerberg is bad at social skills but (evidently) a great hacker and amazing at business strategy. It took Jobs a long time to master business management that allowed Ap

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