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by pakitan 9y ago
> And you know what I would kill for? A display of how long a video is before I play it Every youtube video thumbnail has that in the lower right corner.
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by pakitan 9y ago
What it seems is that you have read neither Dan's blog nor the article you're commenting on. He did hire real trainers.
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by pakitan 9y ago
The market cap figure is meaningless precisely because of the lack of liquidity. You could make your own bitcoin clone, put it up for trade at some unknown exchange for $1000 and claim that you have a $17B "successful fork".
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by pakitan 9y ago
It's basically a PR piece for a Japanese company. Shows a spraying drone, a drone on wheels that can show you a video of how well your asparagus is growing, and a drone collecting images of onion fields, that can be analyzed by AI for
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by pakitan 9y ago
Here is a direct link for those like me who are wondering where can they actually read the book: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
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by pakitan 10y ago
Interchange is the fee that card companies charge for every payment. That's something you have no way of avoiding. It hovers around 2-3% for credit cards and less for debit cards. Usually the most cost effective way to process card pay
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by pakitan 10y ago
You're talking about power, oculusthrift is talking about capacity. Of course big money has the power. But spending that big money in a non-wasteful way is a very hard job. What would you do if you were the head of Ford and had $100B t
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by pakitan 10y ago
> Tesla's car business is very profitable No, it isn't. Gross margin isn't profit.
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by pakitan 10y ago
The "lucky" friend was just for juxtaposition. The point of my post was not about the role of luck or lack of it in getting a job.
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by pakitan 10y ago
It is jealousy and it's fully justified jealousy. It's not just some buddy who makes more than you, because he was lucky getting a better job. The person in question is incompetent, 100% not fit for the job, a fraud and adds negat
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by pakitan 10y ago
Actually, there are things I believe, based on no studies at all but that's why they are called beliefs. The evidence bar for UBI must not be just high but extremely high because of the profound effect it can have on societies, for bet
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by pakitan 10y ago
Maybe I should have but even if I did, that wouldn't have changed my opinion and the in vitro/in vivo analogy still stands. The described pilots are limited in scope and period or have strings attached. This has nothing to do wit
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by pakitan 10y ago
The Bill Gates comment sounds shallow because Bill Gates getting $13K is certainly not the problem. The problem is that this version of UBI essentially takes money from poor folks and gives it to middle class, well-off people. Someone who w
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by pakitan 10y ago
I'm gonna guess that the "evidence" is programs where limited number of poor people were given money, no strings attached. I think that was some program/study in Africa. And the results were good but that has nothing to
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by pakitan 10y ago
> We're automating away industry after industry. There already aren't enough jobs to go around, and that will only get worse from here on out. Japan is one of the most "automated" countries. And they have 3% unemploym
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by pakitan 10y ago
Libya was doing just fine until "the world" decided to deal with it. Some might say the same about Syria as well.
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by pakitan 10y ago
If one lacks education in the first place, they don't have much to de-, do they?
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by pakitan 10y ago
Do you really think it's possible to de-educate any further people who think the moon landing was faked?
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by pakitan 10y ago
You can only determine the exact IP revenue when someone is paying explicitly for the use of that IP. If, however, I'm selling, say, a very complex machine, where I hold a patent over a small component of that machine, how would you de
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by pakitan 10y ago
I'm curious if you have any statistics about the different interview styles/processes. Obviously it's hard to figure out the false negatives (good engineers you didn't hire) but how about false positives? Also, is homewo
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by pakitan 10y ago
To add some anecdotal data, even when our company was at #1 for our main search phrase and when there were fewer PPC competitors, we were still getting more traffic with PPC + organic, rather than leaving it just to the organic listing. It&
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by pakitan 10y ago
I don't see how this can be a viable strategy, if the effect is so well known. These things only work as long as few people are aware of the pattern.
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by pakitan 10y ago
> You'll pay something between what it's worth now and what the market thinks it will be worth one day That sentence doesn't make sense. I think you're conflating worth/value (subjective measures) with price (ob
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by pakitan 10y ago
If I think something will be worth $100 in 10 years I won't be paying $100 for it today. That's not how finance works. There is a risk and interest premium. Sure, if you think the risk is zero, then yes, Tesla may not be overvalue
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by pakitan 10y ago
> You're comparing the valuation of horse and buggy companies in the 1910s to Ford. You mean there are no other companies selling electric vehicles? And clearly, if, say, Mercedes, doesn't have electric model now, it's abs
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by pakitan 10y ago
All those companies can pretend that they are part of the "new economy" where valuations are not bound by mere fundamentals like revenue and profit. Tesla, on the other hand, can't do that. They manufacture a tangible product
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by pakitan 10y ago
Yes, indeed, turns out BI just cherry-picked the worst part.
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by pakitan 10y ago
> A Google site-reliability engineer starts work at 9 a.m., leaves at 7 p.m., and works in the evenings until about 10 p.m. He's on constant alert because he must respond to urgent pages within 5 minutes. "Go home at 7pm with
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by pakitan 10y ago
I think you're missing the point. No one is saying that developers should be ok with getting less money when they can get more. The point is that as an employee, you bring certain value to the company. And that value is often capped no
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by pakitan 10y ago
> If institutional partners treated MOOCs as a marketing exercise for their university's brand Top universities already have plenty of brand recognition and get way more applicants than what they can accept. The monetary value of an

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