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The 87 Most Essential Tools for Data-Driven Product Managers(indicative.com)
2 points by mblevin 11y ago|0 comments
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How the Plastic Bag Became So Popular (2014)(theatlantic.com)
2 points by mblevin 11y ago|0 comments
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by mblevin 11y ago
Except most people's natural reaction when they don't understand other people's value systems is not empathy - it's criticism. It happens on a much lesser level with food, music, movies, etc - the reaction from a non-fan
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Unicorns vs Industry Titans: How the Fortune 500 Approach Technology Innovation(indicative.com)
4 points by mblevin 11y ago|0 comments
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by mblevin 11y ago
Rocket Internet are the biggest ones, but there's a lot following this strategy. Fabrice Grinda, a prolific entrepreneur/angel coined the term "International Idea Arbitrage" years ago. See: http://www.fabrice
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by mblevin 11y ago
This is 100% a decision in line with much of the core premium Windows audience - corporate employees who use Excel and other programs with numerical data entry on a daily basis. There has been massive encroachment of MBP and MBAs into the c
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15 tech jobs that pay over $100,000(businessinsider.com)
2 points by mblevin 11y ago|0 comments
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by mblevin 11y ago
Rule #1 of the internet - if you're not a consumer and you're not paying for something, you're actually the product.
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Baltimore’s Toxic Legacy of Lead Paint(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by mblevin 11y ago|0 comments
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Why Ken Jennings’s ‘Jeopardy’ Streak Is Nearly Impossible to Break(fivethirtyeight.com)
100 points by mblevin 11y ago|57 comments
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by mblevin 11y ago
Exactly - the theory of course is that Zenefits will be able to eventually negotiate down the rates and match or beat Trinet, but right now it's basically doing "awareness arbitrage" - especially with something that people on
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by mblevin 11y ago
I would argue that this is actually the fundamental innovation here - shifting of the cost from the employer to the employee. With Trinet, you get negotiated rates that are pretty fantastic - but all the employee sees is an outdated interfa
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by mblevin 11y ago
Brilliant from a PR perspective though for your average NYT reader. I would kill to get an article like that written - it's lengthy, detailed, has an accurate representation of the actual function of the app with tone a that's not
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by mblevin 11y ago
Exactly - given an average of 500+ friends and years of being active daily or weekly for a large chunk of that time, the probability that you've at least witnessed an embarrassing incident is many orders of magnitude greater than just
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by mblevin 11y ago
My sample-size-of-a-few take is that it's a combination of factors: 1) The probability that a Facebook users at somepoint has had a bad experience with rogue Facebook app publishing personal information (or even an accidental acceptanc
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by mblevin 11y ago
Not paid directly - it's a combination of 1) brands being top of mind 2) what people / robots will recognize and ever so likely potentially to share or what will have the tiniest bit of extra SEO juice. #1 only comes from a lot of
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by mblevin 11y ago
Openstack + spare capacity in a colo facility + a bunch of few years old servers offloaded in a facilities auction and you can build one pretty quickly. Tech isn't the hard part - barriers to get a service up and running are dropping d
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by mblevin 11y ago
Yep - the article itself isn't terrible exciting outside of the core AWS numbers, but this now serves as the place for the HN community to talk about it - because the numbers are what's interesting.
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by mblevin 11y ago
TL;DR on AWS - $1.57b in revenue in Q12015 on $22.72B total ($5B annualized for AWS) - $265m in operating income (net loss for Amazon as a whole was $57m) Looks like revenue was slightly lower but operating income quite a bit higher than mo
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Bip.io – For People and Robots(bip.io)
1 points by mblevin 11y ago|0 comments
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by mblevin 11y ago
The best-case scenario here is articulated well by Tyler Cowen in "Average is Over"[1] - new, future blue-collar equivalent jobs are going to be created to interact with and train the Cambrian explosion of narrow AI applications a
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by mblevin 12y ago
Don't forget the author (Erik Sandberg-Diment) of that piece's FIRST comically wrong prediction about the imminent failure of Microsoft Windows (and general non-command line interfaces): http://www.nytimes.com/1984
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Meerkat is dying – and it’s taking U.S. tech journalism with it(bgr.com)
3 points by mblevin 12y ago|0 comments
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by mblevin 12y ago
The real question for me is: Has Tony Hsieh completely lost his fucking mind, is this the future and we just don't know it yet, or is this all part of some elaborate plan to fire everybody or stage some sort of internal company cleans
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by mblevin 12y ago
That would be great - but companies are going to be exercising right of first refusal and changing option plans left and right long before that happens. Actual price transparency (with low volume that will further distort the differences) f
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“Tidal is Dead on Arrival”(lefsetz.com)
6 points by mblevin 12y ago|1 comments
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Diet Soda Drinkers Are Disappearing(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by mblevin 12y ago|0 comments
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by mblevin 12y ago
This is actually the most insidious misperception that a wide swath of people appear to have about American education. It's not that the government spends too LITTLE money - it's because it spends too MUCH without any in the form
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Northwestern Mutual to Buy LearnVest(forbes.com)
1 points by mblevin 12y ago|0 comments
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The ‘War on Coal’ Comes to the Supreme Court(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by mblevin 12y ago|0 comments

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