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by mrosett 7y ago
The article makes it clear that he's looking to hire more people, but a) finding people and training them takes time and b) if he hires too many, he has to fire them later (and incur substantial costs related to that.) Let me reframe
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Those exceptions are somewhat useful, but they're not enough. First, he may be in the clear legally, but that doesn't mean he has no legal risk. Some enterprising DA could try to dispute that that his price increases could be just
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by mrosett 7y ago
One angle that this article missed: anti-price gouging sentiment has a lot to do with why the factory isn’t running 24/7. Imagine if he could charge 10x his normal price (ie $1/mask, which is much less than the value a mask provid
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by mrosett 7y ago
I'm sensitive to complaints about Zoom's privacy/security shortcomings. I wouldn't have an important conversation on the platform. But Zoom clearly offers the best videoconferencing product along many dimensions: ease of
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by mrosett 7y ago
Ha! Case closed I believe.
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by mrosett 7y ago
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22763057
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Europe, which has a per-capita GDP ~1/3 lower than the US.
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by mrosett 7y ago
> That may be because their holding down a job while in school, have kids, or dug them selves a hole by spending to much time playing video games / at parties etc. Interesting. I saw the opposite; people who are struggling don'
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by mrosett 7y ago
How much mentoring do you think goes on at your average school? My assumption is the motivated students seek it out, but the 5x/week kegger types probably get very little.
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by mrosett 7y ago
Each month, the US treasury spends close to 4x (~$370 billion) the stockpile of cash that Apple has accumulated over decades ($100 billion.) It's a whole different level.
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by mrosett 7y ago
Don’t take prescription drugs without a prescription. In particular, don’t take an overdose of illicitly obtained forms. I’ve criticized Trump plenty during this outbreak, and I’m worried that he and others are over promising chloroquine’s
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by mrosett 7y ago
No it’s 6.0006 feet. Obviously.
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by mrosett 7y ago
Really? PCR was pretty new at that point.
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by mrosett 7y ago
I think there's a sense that this time it's different. When you lose your job because the government decrees that your company shut down... well, it seems pretty clear that the government should have to help.
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by mrosett 7y ago
Thanks for the great work you do on this site, today and every day. Moderating is never easy, and I imagine that it's only gotten harder recently.
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by mrosett 7y ago
Basically anything even vaguely scientific in the US still uses metric units.
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by mrosett 7y ago
The marketing spend actually scales faster than linearly. These companies do a lot of direct response advertising where acquiring the marginal customer becomes more expensive as you scale up.
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by mrosett 7y ago
You realize that if someone gives away X dollars, it reduces their tax liability by <X?
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by mrosett 7y ago
The only clear error was this sentence: > However, Levandowski, had disputed the ruling. The second comma is unneeded. It’s not a comma splice though. There are some really long sentences with awkward commas, but I believe they’re gramma
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by mrosett 7y ago
It was 500 a few months back when I got it.
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by mrosett 7y ago
It sounds like you have a story here about Stripe Atlas, although I'd understand if you're not eager to share.
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by mrosett 7y ago
I love WeWork collapse porn as much as anyone, but the author of this piece is sloppy with the details. > All the while, its valuation (as calculated by Goldman Sachs) inflated to $90 billion. You don't get to count the numbers ban
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by mrosett 7y ago
This is unfolding amazingly quickly.
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Agreed. Totally unnecessary
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by mrosett 7y ago
I’ll second this recommendation. I wrote a summary of my thoughts on the program after I graduated in 2017: http://writing.maxrosett.com/reflections-on-the-georgia-tech...
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by mrosett 7y ago
Well shit. They’re going to give it the Mint treatment, starting with the free tax software. I can’t blame the founders for selling out but this one stings.
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by mrosett 7y ago
That made me chuckle when I saw it
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by mrosett 7y ago
This is pretty weak. Just a list of feature requests. I’d be interested in an actual list of bugs since there are surprisingly many.
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by mrosett 7y ago
Ah - I momentarily forgot that the Met Office is in a country where “pound” is a measurement of money, not weight. This made me curious. Apparently supercomputers can weigh 1 million pounds [0]. So a billion pound supercomputer in the US wo
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Your AI Will Embarrass You(towardsdatascience.com)
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