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by mifeng 9y ago
Those are all important jobs that are being done today using non blockchain methods. How does blockchain perform better at sub critical mass?
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by mifeng 9y ago
> Banks dragged down by capital obligations from Dodd-Frank regulation are looking everywhere for cost savings. Name a single bank who is using blockchain in an essential component of their operations (not just a proof of concept). Go on
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by mifeng 9y ago
Me too. On my Pixel, messages will randomly appear either in: * Allo * Hangouts * Messenger (Android) * Messenger (Facebook) * WhatsApp It's like SMS-Roulette.
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by mifeng 9y ago
Why would an object classifier matter? If my plane is about to crash, do I really care whether it's a mountain or a building?
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by mifeng 9y ago
I read that Deseret News is doing something like this, but since they target a faith-based audience, they can transcend local borders. Front page does look very local: http://www.deseretnews.com/
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by mifeng 9y ago
Have you tried selling a new, unproven product to an entrenched industry like construction? I have, and it's much harder than refactoring spaghetti code or learning Haskell. >To bring them into the fold, the team started running su
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by mifeng 9y ago
This works for more technical or earlier stage startups but it's much harder as you scale.
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by mifeng 9y ago
This post focuses on the problem, but it's also a huge opportunity to build a product that can integrate from a bunch of different SaaS and provide a BI layer. I'm sure lots of folks are trying to do this, but I haven't seen
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by mifeng 9y ago
> "My guess is that doubling down on a bet with Warren Buffett for the next 10 years would hold greater-than-even odds of victory." Great Ted, so instead of complaining about why you lost, just make the same bet again at even h
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by mifeng 9y ago
Re #2: I remember hearing about WhatsApp from my friends in 2009 or 2010. They said, "it's basically BBM that lets you communicate with non-Blackberry phones for free." Since those of us who had Blackberries used BBM non-st
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by mifeng 9y ago
Great insights. Given the investment in time and money required to simply get to prototype, how did you develop the conviction to plunge ahead into the business at the outset?
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by mifeng 9y ago
I'm glad that we only raised a small amount and that subsequent amounts to raise capital failed. This is because we were eventually acquired, which turned out to be a decent outcome for us and our investors. Had we raised more capital
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by mifeng 9y ago
Yeah I'm surprised that the just picked a single year (2010) instead of the 10 year average prior to 2012, the year ACA took effect. Agree that the housing crash likely elevated bankruptcies. A number of states have laws where even if
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by mifeng 9y ago
I'm happy someone is going after this space. I felt compelled to start something in this area after almost getting scammed for owner's title insurance when I bought my house. The industry shouldn't really exist.
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by mifeng 9y ago
This is great advice for anyone building a feature that utilizes visualization. I wish I had asked myself "what do users want to find?" instead of "what do users want to explore?" the last time I built a dashboard. Perh
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by mifeng 9y ago
Talk about a problem of the same type as those likely being faced by the interviewing company.
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by mifeng 9y ago
CMBX, as a quote in this articles says, is a blunt instrument. It's a composite of 20 deals, each of which has a portfolio of different property types (office, retail, lodging, etc) A better method is to trade single asset retail CMBS
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by mifeng 9y ago
You're not the target audience for this article. It's the average, non-technical Gizmodo reader. To that person, this paragraph conveys the insight that both code and coders aren't fungible. You'd be surprised how many
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by mifeng 9y ago
I think for this to work, the service would need to train for a long time on each individual person, because our brain waves are different. In other words, my brain waves when I mentally think of the word "cat" are totally differ
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by mifeng 9y ago
This page is awesome. You're missing a few other ones... Amazon Lex comes to mind.
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by mifeng 9y ago
This is called stack fallacy, the "mistaken belief that it's trivial to build the layer above yours," as coined by this blog post from a while back: https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/18/why-big-com
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by mifeng 9y ago
"University students go to sleep later than most people, neuroscience research shows" - the next mind-blowing revelation in this series of articles.
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by mifeng 9y ago
Great answer - I completely agree.
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by mifeng 9y ago
>If there were several Uber drivers near an Uber rider but one of those drivers was also frequently available on the Lyft network, as seen by the Hell program, Uber’s ride-dispatch team was supposed to “tip” that ride request to the driv
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What’s the Maker of Post-Its Doing in the Ankle Monitor Business? Struggling(bloomberg.com)
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by mifeng 10y ago
As a former founder I do think there's truth to Altman's advice to tackle big/hard problems rather than small/easy. Rationale: - you develop unique expertise and skills that are more valuable (ie more acquihire rationale
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by mifeng 10y ago
The history of probability-based lottery hacks is long and rich. Here's a Planet Money podcast episode about it: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/13/462982983/10-11...
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by mifeng 10y ago
In 2009 and 2010, I worked for a similar private equity fund that also raised a billion dollars to invest into infrastructure and real assets. A few random things I learned: * While a billion dollars may seem like a lot of money, it's
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by mifeng 10y ago
I think the problem is that the industry hasn't created a product management layer that interfaces between non technical business folk and the technical data scientists. In software engineering, we don't expect the customers to sp
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by mifeng 10y ago
After a certain number of reviews, Glassdoor becomes a more honest reflection of a company's actual state than anything else. It's certainly more truthful that marketing fluff pieces like this.

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