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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
Still trying to parse that slide and I am mostly baffled by the line where "(6) Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women." I know the slide needs more context, but even so, it is a very disturbing statement to make
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I think WSJ got to play the role where they finally pull the trigger on this company, to help it move along to its demise. Sometimes you hope the management and the board get the message and unwind things when the reality shows you that th
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
UCSF does not operate at the scale LabCorp and Quest do and hence cannot benefit from economies of scale. Also, Theranos might not have the option to outsource to one of the big two, and hence operates with the smaller entity, which charge
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
You should try and see how easy (as in NOT at all) it is for a researcher to get research funds. Once (s)he gets them it is like new lease on life. Without such funds you have very slim chances on progressing. So, I would say it is a big d
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
The main assumption made by Cory Doctorow is that the autonomous cars will be fully automated and under the control of somebody other than the driver. That scenario - with a Uber-like owner of a point-to-point fleet of self-driving cars -
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Could not help thinking about the stark contrast between Hotz and the Theranos "entrepreneur": a. self-funded vs. VC friend funded b. demo-ing the product (try it and 'feel' it) early on vs. hiding behind a ton of marke
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
Based on a comment in this thread which suggested that USPS would be a prime (no pun intended :) ) candidate for a partnership, especially due to the existing real-estate infrastructure. If we think about it: USPS can very easily deliver le
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
I believe your scenarios (especially the "truck dispenser") address the market Amazon has in mind: the suburbia. If you notice, both video examples show the drone delivering at a house. It seems obvious that an urban setting is di
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
The same happened to me in Chicago this past Sunday. Can't say I didn't like it but it was weird to get a package on a Sunday. Especially since I want forewarned that it will happen and I just got a phone call that my package is d
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
Kids have to be picked up at 3pm or, if you want to keep them for the whole day in school, at 5pm. Unless you hire a nanny, 5pm becomes a hard stop for you, no matter what start-up life you dream of having. Then, during the week-end, your
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
Apple is moving full steam towards enterprise. All these partnerships with IBM and the like are to push iOS tablets into the corporate world. iPad Pro is at a perfect price point and feature set for businesses. Healthcare, retail and enter
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
You're actually giving up $200. Quite a good chunk of change. And no discount for my meta data passing through Google.
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
The culture described is by design one that fits an aggressive growth business model. The simplest way to describe it is that you do your time at Amazon the brand and then you downshift in a higher role at a second tier company. The same, f
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
One immediate question is when and what constitutes a drinking problem? When is it too much. There are some medical classifications stating that one glass of wine per day constitutes alcoholism. Is that true, or does it make any sense?
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
Romanians are to EU what Latinos are to US: running and fighting for a chance to improve their lot in life, whichever way they know how.
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The auto industry will very quickly have to learn from the aviation industry in terms of integrating all these diverse information systems safely and securely. One difference is that cars are way more accessible than planes to be tampered w
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
There is a tax provision where if your house is unfinished (by way of not having the house painted or the exterior fully done) then you are tax exempt on the house. Until the house is completed, which might be never.
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
The main problem is the small taxable base, meaning tax evasion in Greece is a serious problem. By increasing VAT you make sure that you actually increase tax revenue quick and in a uniform way across the entire population. It makes your b
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
One of the issues during the trial was for KP to show that she had options outside the firm and that her dismissal was not detrimental to her career. The CEO of Reddit gig came in nicely to prove just that. Even if she was just an interim
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
There's an argument to be made that the debt forgiveness came after the realization that maybe the WW2 was also a result of the crushing debt imposed on Germany after WW1.
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The reason the Marshall plan was put in place for Germany was to stop the Russians getting the upper hand in Europe. The choice was between letting Europe become a communist utopia or help the Germans and hence keep EU in the western world
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
I agree with your point. And it is true that the austerity measures have hit the most vulnerable in the society. But I found it problematic to maintain that the whole Greece is made of "deadbeat dads", my point being that the Gree
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
And for that these states accept the uniform monetary policy developed at federal level. Greece can have an argument if they would accept the same. But if you want to be independent from a fiscal point of view, then assume the whole thing.
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
Only 300 of the area’s homes claimed to have swimming pools, which require owners to pay a luxury tax. But when officials looked into the low number, using Google Earth to scan the back yards, they found the number of pools to be closer to
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
It's like everybody all of the sudden will come to the conclusion that paying their mortgages is somehow a humiliating and oppressive endeavor. Nobody is really familiar with what the "oppressive" terms really are, but every
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
so why then don't you judge the actions of police on a case by case basis and choose tomassign them to all the white people? Does that make you racist?
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
why does he make his decision to return to UK to be related to racism when he himself admits that it was a purely personal motive?! To me this is incoherent and manipulative race baiting in order to puff up his article for clicks. The fact
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
"My decision to come back to Britain was prompted by banal, personal factors that have nothing to do with current events; if my aim was to escape aggressive policing and racial disadvantage, I would not be heading to Hackney." Not
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
I have sympathy for you but does it benefit society at large that you bought some comic books 20 yrs ago and did not yet sell them and still keep them in the attic?!
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by mnglkhn2 11y ago
One important aspect to take into account is the fact that a company 's size is determined also by the size of the market it operates in. In US or China you'll get megacorps while in tiny countries the size will be way smaller. I

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