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by melvinmt 10y ago
What people don't tell you is that directness also has a cost. The Dutch directness of "GTFO my country" what minorities are confronted with daily is not quite contributing to any minority's happiness (it's a big re
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Yes, exactly. That's why GCE should be as important to Google as AWS is to Amazon while arguably both have a different "core business".
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> Google is a product psycho, this is not their core business So you're advocating we should trust the book vendor?
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> Every other attempt to dethrone has been too technical minded I think. You've just triggered a favorite quote of mine: "The single biggest failure of leadership is to treat adaptive challenges like technical problems." -
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Yes, but the referrer is different ;) Thanks @aresant!
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I mostly read business management books, but since most of them can be summarized in a couple pages (or a single big blog post, really) I just skim and skip through the hundreds of uninteresting anecdotes and simply stop reading after I gra
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> I'm not going to waste my time with responding to this. And yet, you did.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
If you're human, you're 99.999999% likely to die.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
So about $1.44 per hour, that's reasonable-ish.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Hmm, I just upgraded my ancient account (2008) to the family plan with no troubles.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
#neverforget Color once raised $40MM pre-launch... anything can happen in SV.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> It's just impossible to "bid" on traffic via Facebook and win out over companies that have far bigger budgets Yes, impossible on the most broad and least targeted campaigns. But there's almost an infinite amount of
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by melvinmt 10y ago
This (and Andreessen's article) is quite insightful of knowing when you're on the right track or not, but it's more like a "you know it when you see it" kind of advice that is not very helpful in terms of how to g
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by melvinmt 10y ago
I have once written some thoughts on immortality ( http://melvinmt.com/the-immortality-paradox ) and I came to the conclusion that while we basically always act like we're immortal in our whole decision making and lifest
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> The U.S. Congress is also pretty damned incompetent at its duties. People seem to forget that the American government has been made "incompetent" by design. The Founding Fathers never wanted a strong government.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> I feel like these founders just want to start something... anything... Wantrepreneurship... I've been there too. Taking some time off is definitely the best cure but $1.8M in the bank is very tempting to keep diving into anything
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by melvinmt 10y ago
The price of ETH just went from $20.45 to $14.01 in the last 24 hours... I just got out in time and am gonna wait this out a little bit :) https://www.gdax.com/trade/ETH-USD
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Yeah that was the first thought that popped in my mind. If a big chunk of the market is (still) growing illegally, why would they ever come out and join a marketplace?
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> On iOS, with regular touch on the camera you get the camera. 3D touch - you get the ability to specify the camera you want before loading the app. Every time there's a thread about 3D Touch on HN, I learn new things. Which tells a
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Will check this out next time I'm in an Apple Store...
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Pro doesn't stand for Professor or anything. If you have 30 years of experience with something, then generally speaking, you're a pro.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> If the pilot goes well, we plan to follow up with the main study. If the pilot doesn’t go well, we’ll consider different approaches. Interesting. What are the metrics to determine the success or failure of the pilot?
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by melvinmt 10y ago
What a coincidence, I just bought ETH today with BTC from my Coinbase account. Does this mean I can hold ETH in a Coinbase wallet soon?
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Sounds like a perfect spot for Adult Summer Camp: http://campgrounded.org
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by melvinmt 10y ago
I'm guessing most people over 30 can not commit to a 3-year full time study, but it's weird indeed that they're not even allowed in.
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> There are no school fees: running costs for the 10 first years (estimated at 20 to 50 million euros) have been personally funded by Xavier Niel. 42 will train each year one thousand students... There are so many billionaires and millio
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by melvinmt 10y ago
Debunked by what exactly? Can you prove/guarantee it's not happening? While I don't have any other evidence than my pretty specific anecdotal experience to prove it's true (in addition to what friends in the airline indu
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by melvinmt 10y ago
> Rates are not raised because you've been browsing them for awhile That's exactly what they do. If you're browsing for plane tickets and you're a bit undecisive (like me), don't be surprised if the prices go u
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So it's about $0.02 per click. That is a bit expensive.
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I whole fully agree with the points you make but I want to point out that for engineers in Silicon Valley, it's less dramatic to get laid off than you make it sound (I've been a part of a couple and I've had to lay off people

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