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by newlyretired 9y ago
Also relevant to this platform -- if your business is more successful when your customers are more successful, and they tell you that, and together you can measure that... you might be in a good place.
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by newlyretired 9y ago
I second this. If a company is building their product off of other people's work, I believe they need to honor the spirit and intention of their predecessors. From the comment below, it sounds like maybe an Apple-like strategy to buil
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by newlyretired 9y ago
I think you underestimate the lengths to which some people will go for fame.
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by newlyretired 9y ago
Non-incremental advances require a lot of wasted-path R&D. If any of Intel's projects creates a generational leap, it will pay off handsomely. When the way forward isn't clear, I like to use the concepts from path finding al
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by newlyretired 9y ago
For the curious, Eris is the ancient Greek god of strife and discord. Is this an alternate spelling of Ares?
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by newlyretired 9y ago
Check out beergraphs.com, it has lots of different normalization lenses that might get you what you want. Founded by some baseball stathead writers, so takes a lot of the same approaches to data.
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by newlyretired 9y ago
If you're discussing the reality of the problem instead of the perception of it, the median household income would need to be adjusted for cost of living. I'd need nearly double a nice salary just to afford the same lifestyle in
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by newlyretired 9y ago
Many people believe this is an overstep on the government's part. These people believe it's not the government's job to be paternalistic and nudge people into the "right direction". This is based on the complete ab
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by newlyretired 9y ago
The actual number of eligible voters was about 250 million in the last presidential election, up from 235 million in the 2012 race. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_St...
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by newlyretired 9y ago
> Person gets into the driverless car way too intoxicated and passes out/overdoses/dies in the car -- need physical help? > So now we have driverless cars effectively classified as emergency ambulances - so assuming the CARN
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by newlyretired 9y ago
I never really understood the significance of the Bombadil interaction, except to underline how ancient a world this was, and how much more power everyone had compared to hobbits. Would you help me understand why the scene was so important
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by newlyretired 9y ago
What's a reasonable cost per word for specialized content? EG, something about a specific field (although doesn't require a college degree to write, some specialized knowledge would be good). I've seen about 20 cents per wor
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by newlyretired 9y ago
http://www.fast.ai/2017/09/08/introducing-pytorch-for-fastai...
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by newlyretired 9y ago
200cal/day is about 20 lbs./year, not accounting for adaptation.
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by newlyretired 9y ago
I doubt it was specific to the exact MRR number. More likely their growth stalled using the methods that were taking up all of their time (direct sales, word of mouth). For some $N MRR (magic point where you look for scalable channels), N
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by newlyretired 9y ago
Rent prices in Chicago are half of SF, according to crowdsourced data from Numbeo's cost of living calculator. https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
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by newlyretired 9y ago
Twilio has nearly a $3 billion market cap right now, and their signup/churn/usage rates give them a good idea on the growth potential for this market. Nobody I know is a Twilio engineer, but nearly every backend developer I'v
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by newlyretired 9y ago
You don't think property coops are at a high risk of acting like current HOAs?
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by newlyretired 9y ago
Yes, usage longevity is another factor to consider besides sound quality. However, I was replying to OP, who specifically was talking about the signal loss due to BT encoding. I countered with the fact that analog lines also experience lo
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by newlyretired 9y ago
I've done a lot of scraping in my day, and I've found that lxml/requests is 2-3 OOM more resource efficient than a Selenium based browser. That JS/rendering engine is HEAVY!
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by newlyretired 9y ago
Bureaucracies are inherently risk averse; that is what it sounds to me like you ran into. You have my sympathy for it. I think it's wrong and a net loss to society, but I also have no impetus to criticize a banking/finance compa
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by newlyretired 9y ago
Even if they were selling, I would think it's a net loss for society that they cannot fully participate in banking. My point was more about OP's presentation of why they could not participate. It's pretty clear they'r
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by newlyretired 9y ago
Analog headphones are lossy, I trust compression algorithms to improve more than I believe manufacturers will use more expensive, higher quality materials and connections at the same price point.
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by newlyretired 9y ago
According to your own site[0], it sounds like Stripe declined to continue to serve you because of an association with a cannabis business. (That's a sub-optimal reality, but I think it's disingenuous to state that it was because
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by newlyretired 9y ago
My point wasn't to deny your experience, only to comment that even for your specific experience it's impossible to be so confident as to state it was Vitamin C that prevented illnesses. I'm happy you found something that work
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by newlyretired 9y ago
Point 3 seems to be a case where correlation does not imply causation. Basing an advertising campaign with an oblique reference to the issues at Uber* doesn't mean the campaign is effective. * most people I talk with are only vaguely
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by newlyretired 9y ago
What makes you think it was the Vitamin C that prevented the cold? It could as easily have been your belief in the Vitamin C cure that prevented the colds.
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by newlyretired 9y ago
I'm reading Haidt's "Happiness Hypothesis" right now, and in one section he identifies life circumstances which people never adjust to (i.e. excluded from the Hedonistic treadmill effect). A long commute is something he
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by newlyretired 9y ago
I just finished all 3 of Taleb's major books, and I took a slightly different interpretation of his Black Swan concept. I am very interested in reading criticisms of his that focus on the material -- most that I've read thus far