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by nrao123 11y ago
This is common in India as well. Almost every village in India has a government school which provides free education. However, most of these schools have "less than stellar" facilities & infrastructure. However, some of the la
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Thumbtack.com – Is Google Making Money on Organic Search?(goodonmaps.com)
1 points by nrao123 11y ago|0 comments
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by nrao123 11y ago
So- if we reduce the price gouging for the un-insured through regulation, then one of two things 1) the return on assets (ROA) go down to uneconomical levels & hospitals go bankrupt (1) - See examples 2) Costs for insured population (e.
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by nrao123 11y ago
Whenever I see examples of reported price gouging in sensitive industries like Healthcare, I try & pull up the financials of the companies. Two of the biggest owners of these hospitals are Hospital Corp. of America (Ticker= HCA) & C
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by nrao123 11y ago
Before we read too much into the NYT Journalist's article, here is another view: For an article that talks in excruciating detail of the cataclysmic effect Delhi’s air has had on the health of the author’s child—and the ethical dilemm
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by nrao123 11y ago
I am not sure how this is a pump & dump scheme. Covester (backed by USV and acquired by Interactive brokers) has a similar model. Wealthfront's predecessor -KaChing-(backed by Benchmark) also allowed you to replicate trades of smar
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The Great Decoupling(avc.com)
66 points by nrao123 11y ago|66 comments
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by nrao123 11y ago
Thanks for doing this. Hopefully, this will help reduce the problem of the Web of Alexandria that Brett Victor talked about: 60% of my fav links from 10 yrs ago are 404. I wonder if Library of Congress expects 60% of their collection to go
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The Web of Alexandria(worrydream.com)
5 points by nrao123 11y ago|0 comments
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by nrao123 11y ago
Yes - I think we are roughly saying the same thing. Misjudged ratings on 1) Underlying borrowers 2) Securitized tranches (e.g. Credit rating of Z tranches and lower tranches) 3) Re-securitized tranches (e.g.CDOs)
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by nrao123 11y ago
Securitization & Need for yield are two diffetent concepts. I can reach for yield by taking on more risk (e.g. get into financing late state internet companies) and not just buy high risk securitization products. Securitization has exis
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by nrao123 11y ago
The theoritical benefit of securitization is to sell the exact type of risk to whoever wants that risk. For example - say you take part in a peer to peer lending market and give a loan to 100 people. You go through a life changing event (e.
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by nrao123 11y ago
Any stream of cashflow that has a reasonable amount of predictability will try to be and can be securitized given demand from end buyers. Things that have been securitized include your credit card payments, mortgage payments, auto payments
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by nrao123 11y ago
This is pretty cool! What I am really dying/desperate for is a group chat feature within Gmail where the chat rooms are permanent. I thought it was the biggest opportunity for years. Slack built a billion $ plus business of group chat
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by nrao123 11y ago
Please don't pattern match the wrong things. Fighting /Crashing Cars/Impulsive could be said of any of the greatest founders including Steve Jobs/Bill Gates. I am not saying that fighting / crashing cars is a pre-re
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by nrao123 11y ago
I actually think their UX is the best UI I have seen from an Indian website/app. When it first came out, the UI was way way ahead of anything from CommonFloor, MagicBricks, 99 Acres etc. That in turn put pressure on other real estate s
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by nrao123 11y ago
I think the technologies he means that feel gradual & then will suddenly accelerate are Bitcoin (he is invested in Coinbase) , Virtual Reality (Previous investor in Oculus) & Commercial Drone Applications (Invested in Airware)
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by nrao123 11y ago
Apparently Bill Maris of Google Ventures hadn't yet spoken to David Byttow of Secret when he spoke to New York Times. He changed his mind after the conversation with Byttow. Its only fair on NYT's part to reprint the Maris's
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Andreessen Horowitz, Dealmaker to the Stars of Silicon Valley(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by nrao123 11y ago|0 comments
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by nrao123 11y ago
David Simon is a national treasure. The Wire had lots of scenes on how metrics & incentives screwed up Baltimore city. Here is a great scene talking about metrics/stats from The Wire - https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by nrao123 12y ago
Google's revenue formula is: CTR x CPC x # of Searches. If number of searches & CPCs are under pressure then they will continue to tinker with CTRs by changing ad formats & screwing with the user experience: https://
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by nrao123 12y ago
How would you characterize: Doordash, Instacart, HomeJoy, 7CupsofTea...
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by nrao123 12y ago
Here is a list of some famous people concerned about AI: http://pansop.com/1002/ This includes Shane Legg & Demis Hassabis who co founded Deepmind, an AI startup
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by nrao123 12y ago
I saw 7Cups of Tea (a YC backed startup) on HN sometime ago offering to provide listening services. http://www.7cupsoftea.com/depression-help-online/ Have you tried it?
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by nrao123 12y ago
I am not sure if what the Huangs did is considered Insider trading. Majestic Research (Bought by ITG Research) provides anonymized credit card data to Hedge Funds to make investing decisions. Check out: http://www.itg.com/in
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SpaceX’s Next Frontier: Landing a Rocket on Earth(nytimes.com)
5 points by nrao123 12y ago|1 comments
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by nrao123 12y ago
Because of Robots- the whole world may move to a 3 day work week. Here is Larry Page on that. “If you really think about the things that you need to make yourself happy—housing, security, opportunities for your kids—anthropologists have be
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by nrao123 12y ago
The Uber article that you referred to as Nate Silver is not actually by him. Its by Ashwath Damodaran (The NYU corp finance prof) http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/uber-isnt-worth-17-billi... His basic assumption was
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by nrao123 12y ago
Things in Japan maybe a little different. The office lady seems to perform the same function as the architect/contractor does for Toto toilets. From one of Patio11's old comments on the Japanese toilet industry: Toto's prima
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by nrao123 12y ago
This is a really great article. This part is so good: The spreadsheet embodies, embraces, that end, and ultimately serves to reinforce it. As Marshall McLuhan observed, “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” The spreadshee

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