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by objclxt 10y ago
> It's "tenacity", but I can't imagine conversing with autoresponders is very effective. Particularly at the bottom end recruitment can be a scummy industry (just like anywhere that's sales and commission led, I
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by objclxt 10y ago
> Or if there are patents that would block a startup. Given patents usually expire after twenty years it seems very unlikely there would be anything still valid for CRT manufacturing (at least for these arcade machines from the 80s. Ther
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by objclxt 10y ago
> NYC used to have "Chinatown buses" that ran underserved routes for a fraction of the price. NYC and the MTA prosecuted them and got rid of them The implication in your comment seems to be that the MTA went after the Chinatown
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by objclxt 10y ago
> would writing down results from a roulette wheel in a notebook be cheating? If you've been to Vegas, casinos tacitly encourage this by showing the last 100 spins of the roulette wheel and displaying "statistics" about th
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by objclxt 10y ago
Slot machines and blackjack are very different. > I know you are allowed to use those blackjack cheat cards at the tables in Las Vegas but what if I started using a calculator and my own crazy algorithm? Is that fraud? They're not r
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by objclxt 10y ago
> I would also venture that in 2004 noone had or needed a direct feed to the NSA, the Internet would already do. In case you do not remember, how 2004 was, by 2000 you have Expedia, Travelocity, Priceline, Hotwire, Tripadvisor all launc
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by objclxt 10y ago
Ex Machina's budget was around $15 million, that's extremely low.
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by objclxt 10y ago
The Dreamcast had second screen gaming and that was released three years before the GameCube. There may well have been other devices doing it before then as well. But Nintendo weren't the first.
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by objclxt 10y ago
That article is four years old. Facebook's app architecture has changed significantly since then, as has the speed at which JS can execute.
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by objclxt 10y ago
> (Incidentally, anyone mentioning purchasing power or worker costs doesn't know what they are talking about. Paris, Hong Kong, Spain and Singapore are all wealthy nations with costs far closer to India and China than to the US.) Yo
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by objclxt 10y ago
Normally when people say “statistically” and provide a citation you expect it to go to an actual factual source, and not more of the author’s own opinions and assertions.
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by objclxt 10y ago
> At least anecdotally, here in SF Lyft is almost always more expensive than Uber. Really? I took three trips this weekend, price checked both apps, and Lyft was consistently cheaper. There is definitely a price war going on.
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by objclxt 10y ago
> Or that Google, Uber, Tesla, etc wouldn't already be taking these numbers very seriously and doing everything to minimize them? Given that we know existing car manufacturers have faked or covered up safety data in the past, you&#x
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by objclxt 10y ago
> For starters, immigration is a key issue for Silicon Valley for which Thiel can be a voice of reason to influence the new administration. I don't know if immigration is as much of an issue for Palantir, given many of its clients
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by objclxt 10y ago
> China has the same level of regulation as other industrialized countries. I have to assume you've never driven or been driven in a major Chinese city, because while this may be technically true in practice it is very much not. Car
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by objclxt 10y ago
> The Venetian cleared >$300 million after costs in 2014. It'd be a pretty bizarro-world decision to jeopardize that for more money. They also had to pay $50 million dollars the previous year to the government as a settlement for
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by objclxt 10y ago
> I'm not quite sure why where the sources of funding from the people who are suing them are relevant. Because there are legal and ethical restrictions on third parties paying for your legal representation. When a third party pays f
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by objclxt 10y ago
In the UK about ten years ago Coke launched Dasani Water only to have a complete PR disaster when two things happened 1. The UK isn't used to the idea of bottled water from the tap, versus a spring, which caused some mockery which may
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by objclxt 10y ago
> their sample size (6,000) is pretty small to be generalizing to all Americans Not really. It has been a while since I took a statistics class, but a sample size of around 4,00 will give you a 99% confidence rating for the entire US pop
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by objclxt 10y ago
> ultimately I want to be able to automatically extract data, such as product information from ecommerce sites A little OT, but although you could probably train models to figure that out, many (if not most) eCommerce sites should alread
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by objclxt 10y ago
> You don't want to hire someone who has been working as a chief architect for the last 10 years. It's not about their age. It's about the fact that they are way overqualified That's not necessarily true. Maybe they b
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by objclxt 10y ago
> as far as I know not because they wanted it, but because the studios they license from demand DRM. Yet, they seem to have lost most of their "movie studio" catalogue and are now focusing on originals. Many of Netflix's &
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by objclxt 10y ago
> They'll have theirs default and most people won't bother changing it. Except in order to have Google services and the Play store you need to agree to a license with Google, which can easily mandate you not replace their stock
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by objclxt 10y ago
> "We have decided to close our clinical labs" ...or, perhaps more accurately, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has banned Elizabeth Holmes from running any kind of blood testing laboratory[1]. It seems a little od
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by objclxt 10y ago
> The majority of the people working in that office already live in London, so when they moving in to pricey flats in Battersea, they're moving out of similar priced flats elsewhere. Most of Apple's current offices in London ar
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by objclxt 10y ago
> there was some damning evidence, if true, supporting the case that it is a conspiracy The evidence is an affidavit from Assange himself. Not many people would consider an affidavit from the accused "damming".
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by objclxt 10y ago
I don't know what table you're looking at, but there have been no new orders for A380s this year, and last year only two planes were ordered.
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by objclxt 10y ago
> as though it's some big surprise that an auto manufacturing giant is able to produce something at scale much quicker than a scrappy upstart I'm not sure I'd call Tesla a "scrappy upstart". They're a public
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by objclxt 10y ago
> If data is the differentiating factor in this game, Google has less of it! If you're talking about Uber and Left, I think Google currently has them beat in terms of data on a global scale, given how long they've been collecti
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by objclxt 10y ago
> the only credit cards where interchange is 2-3% are those that pay 1-2% in cash back or reward points/miles. Non-reward credit cards and gift cards start at 0.65% in interchange fees otherwise. Those differences in credit card f

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