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by mv4 8y ago
I really really need to get one of these now. Is anyone at GTC right now?
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by mv4 8y ago
Yeah that $0.14 per ride may sound reasonable, until you realize (as someone pointed out earlier) that it's essentially a EC2 t3.xlarge for one whole hour. Now, imagine that your model requires a 4CPU, 16GB RAM server to handle just o
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by mv4 8y ago
I agree the load will fluctuate - but will mostly follow predictable patterns daily and weekly. However, that's what the cloud's elasticity is for - and AWS makes it easy (and inexpensive) to expand and contract when implemented c
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by mv4 8y ago
... and of course, linear is both a blessing and a curse. Lets you predict/project and buy reserved capacity nicely - yet you never truly get to enjoy the efficiencies from scale.
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by mv4 8y ago
I would think the bulk of it. Given their ride volume, they should be way past the fixed costs for stuff that has to be there before the 1st ride takes place. API load should be mostly linear as well. Back office, internal reporting, etc an
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by mv4 8y ago
Their model should scale linearly, because everything can be clustered/sharded by geo so nicely, and the scope of a typical transaction is one passenger vs a few dozen potential drivers. That does not significantly change as they gro
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by mv4 8y ago
Some quick math: last I heard, Lyft was doing 1M rides a day. That's 1M transactions per day, or "only" 11 transactions per second. Of course there's lot more (assuming 10x) supporting transactions to enable one ride - s
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by mv4 8y ago
That chart is a marketing tool, nothing more.
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by mv4 8y ago
They created a GUI in VB and tracked the IP address.
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by mv4 8y ago
Back in 2015 two rogue U.S. Secret Service agents, Shaun Bridges and Carl Mark Force, were caught and sentenced to prison for stealing funds while investigating the first high profile darknet market the Silk Road. Shaun Bridges plead guilty
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by mv4 8y ago
what type of business/service, if you don't mind sharing? I've always found "no VC" stories incredibly inspiring.
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by mv4 8y ago
Selling a used book? Different scenario. Same product (ISBN), nothing for Amazon to do.
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by mv4 8y ago
Yes, it may be impossible to create a filter to detect new (previously unseen) copyrighted products on the platform. However, once a copyrighted product has been through a dispute and the owner has been established by Amazon - it's co
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by mv4 8y ago
This quote: "Watching the debate, I figured the answer was that it didn’t quite get it, but I wasn’t positive. I couldn’t tell the difference between an AI not being as smart as it could be and an AI being way smarter than I’ve seen an
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by mv4 8y ago
I am beginning to wonder, seeing the increased rate of hedge fund liquidations this quarter.
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by mv4 8y ago
MS Money.
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by mv4 8y ago
Based on the details you shared, I would use the same advice that's typically given to lottery winners. Speak with a trusted lawyer, then a financial advisor. Set up a low risk, income-generating structure. Once the dust has settled, y
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by mv4 8y ago
this quote: “The python was a legitimate business purchase,” van Drunen says. “But the steak was for his family barbecues.”
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by mv4 8y ago
I ended up automating my brain hack. I found that some tasks can be complex, overwhelming, or just plain unpleasant. So I wrote a script that looks at my To-Do list, and gives me a series of top-ranked articles by people who already complet
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by mv4 8y ago
too late.
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by mv4 8y ago
I've always felt that a good contract should look like code - that it should "compile" and "run" without errors.
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by mv4 8y ago
awesome, thank you.
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by mv4 8y ago
I've been looking for something like this, thank you. Do you mind sharing what type of hosting you use, and what kind of VPN traffic it supports?
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by mv4 8y ago
Brilliant. Best of luck to you.
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by mv4 8y ago
Stay hungry, stay foolish. Someone said that.
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by mv4 8y ago
"When you are 50 to 60 years old, spend time training and developing young people, the next generation," Ma added. "When you are over 60 years old, you better stay with your grandchildren." https://www.cnbc.co
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by mv4 8y ago
When I interviewed at FAANG, I would often ask them the same questions they ask me. Very effective.
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by mv4 8y ago
It's not particularly hard to make an electric car (there are plenty of DIY projects). It is, however, extremely hard to make an electric car that's safe, ergonomic, attractive - and also performs well. As much as I admire the ori
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by mv4 8y ago
Have you tried using special "high endurance" SD cards on your Pi?
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by mv4 8y ago
I forgot to mention - this happens almost every time I use an insurance company. I understand this is anecdotal, but they surely seem to be making a lot of mistakes [always in their favor].

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