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by maxlamb 7y ago
You would probably want to read "The Journey of Man" by Spencer Wells, great book on this topic.
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by maxlamb 7y ago
Why do you assume this question related to marketing at all? A company founder should always have an idea of what kind of people would most benefit/need the product, and target that audience first.
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by maxlamb 7y ago
heh?? most people have killed someone intentionally? That's a pretty bizarre/untrue statement.
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by maxlamb 7y ago
given the video of a Moscow supermarket in 1990 (link in the article) it looks like it's pretty accurate
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by maxlamb 7y ago
Large tech companies like Google push 2-factor auth to "increase" security, but this article shows that 2-factor auth with SMS verification opens up a huge security hole since the attacker can access your email if they can get you
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by maxlamb 7y ago
Some of his books contain pretty interesting insights, unfortunately his huge ego and his unwavering admiration for other egomaniacs like Trump gets tiring and leads to obvious contradictions that he doesn't explain. One of his main th
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by maxlamb 7y ago
I personally find the Oura ring to be great at tracking sleep stages and various biometrics during sleep like HRV and body temp change.
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by maxlamb 7y ago
That and mineral sunscreens with just zinc oxide which doesn't penetrate the skin (it does look like white paint so not the most photogenic, but that's kind of the point)
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by maxlamb 7y ago
I think schizophrenia is the much bigger problem regarding the homeless.
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by maxlamb 8y ago
Ethics? While true I think it will be more of a case study on sleep deprivation and the increased risk of making huge mistaken even for a "genius." I'm willing to bed 2hrs of extra sleep a day and delegating a bit more to hav
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by maxlamb 9y ago
I think he's referring to the fact that most traffic jams occur during rush hour, and if everyone worked from home traffic would be much more spread out over the course of the day, instead of the two usual peaks around 7am-9am and 4pm-
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by maxlamb 9y ago
The only financing that happens with a stock is at the point of IPO, which is obviously not applicable for these ancient oil companies. I'm not sure an oil company has issued more outstanding shares for financing in a very long time. T
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by maxlamb 9y ago
Aren't quality close relationships with friends and/or family the most determinant factor in a person's happiness? If most entrepreneurs feel they have to sacrifice that no wonder so many suffer from depression...
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by maxlamb 9y ago
I think since we are talking within the context of entrepreneurship, we can assign an objective definition as gold=financial/societal value, garbage=no financial value. So in for example, MySpace=garbage, Kickstarter=gold. I think it w
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by maxlamb 9y ago
The city caps rents for a large portion of renters, and there are strict laws against short-term rentals and subletting https://www.fastcompany.com/3053734/berlin-models-how-cities...
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by maxlamb 9y ago
Maybe we could have something in the middle, a bit like Berlin. There's got to be a middle ground between Detroit's $500 rent and most popular cities' $1500+ for 1 bedrooms.
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by maxlamb 9y ago
while on the subject, highly recommend this video on depression from Stanford's Sapolsky to understanding the underlying biological aspect of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc&t=1216s
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by maxlamb 9y ago
Can't answer all of them but a few thoughts: 1) Agile methodology was essentially developed by Toyota and its roots are inspired by Japanese philosophy 2) Microsoft's main philosophy at the time was essentially to "destroy&qu
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by maxlamb 10y ago
That's interesting, in my mid 20's the area above my ears also became itchy and flaky, inflamed, just like you describe, and it lasted for years. My hair started thinning out in that area as well, and I was generally not feeling w
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by maxlamb 10y ago
Google is a legal monopoly, by most definitions. http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-google-monopoly-2...
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by maxlamb 10y ago
Have you looked into Snowflake? Seems like their solution satisfies most of your requirements, including native ingestion of unstructured data. The one caveat is that all source data must first be loaded to S3. https://www.snowfl
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by maxlamb 10y ago
how about using an app like Trello for that?
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by maxlamb 10y ago
Yelp was founded in 2004, Uber in 2009 - they are not startups anymore. I think the statements are still holds true if we consider startups new companies that are less than 4-5 years old.
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by maxlamb 10y ago
Yep, and that sales technique is based on the well studied cognitive bias named anchoring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
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by maxlamb 10y ago
I think that's the major premise of the article, that the slow growth is due to the fact that percentage of the US economy invested in startups is TOO low.
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by maxlamb 10y ago
I would reverse the times... limit 5 mins of facebook/youtube for every 30 mins spent on side project.
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by maxlamb 10y ago
This may help: http://qz.com/770768/how-to-stop-procrastinating-with-tips-f...
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by maxlamb 10y ago
Very simple, the supply of people who want to be pastry chefs is increasing just as fast, thanks to the recent crazes (cup cakes, etc) and the explosion of reality tv cooking shows in the last decade that is making that career option a much
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by maxlamb 10y ago
Snowflake does have a relational database engine, it was actually founded by two Oracle engineers (who had worked at Oracle 15+ years)
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by maxlamb 10y ago
Although companies like Snowflake are bridging the gap between the two camps, with products that can natively ingest JSON and Avro, and makes it queryable via SQL allowing for joins etc.

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