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by pdq 10y ago
I'm in the middle of Chaos Monkeys, and am enjoying the author's excellent prose, while walking through the sausage factory of startups. There's also some interesting YC insights, as the author's startup went through it
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San Francisco marijuana use scores highest in the nation(bloomberg.com)
2 points by pdq 10y ago|0 comments
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GPLGPU Walkthrough(latchup.blogspot.com)
83 points by pdq 10y ago|3 comments
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by pdq 10y ago
I still don't understand the SolarCity part. Tesla is atop the best rated electric cars, and has a good trajectory toward that product line future, with lots of innovation ahead. Successful companies like Apple focus on best-in-class
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by pdq 10y ago
Pomodoro technique [1]. Break your time/tasks into 25-minute chunks, where you focus on a single task (no context-switching, pauses, breaking). Rinse, repeat. I use Flat Tomato on the iPhone, and I can track how many pomodoros I compl
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Sam Altman – a world with trillionaires is inevitable(techinsider.io)
7 points by pdq 10y ago|6 comments
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This Farm of the Future Uses No Soil and 95% Less Water(youtube.com)
5 points by pdq 10y ago|0 comments
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by pdq 10y ago
Right, the standard procedure is to carve up the app into the open-source piece, and then the "enterprise" / "commercial" pieces which will be closed source.
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by pdq 10y ago
It does seem like a direct conflict of interest. This will be interesting to watch if there are any challenges from the SEC.
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by pdq 10y ago
Yes, that is static analysis. But that is vastly different from standard fuzzing. It's pretty simple: if you execute the program code, whether directly on a processor or in an virtual processor/emulator, it's dynamic analysi
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by pdq 10y ago
Fuzzing is black-box dynamic testing. Static testing explicitly means you are not executing the program, whereas fuzzing requires generating stimulus, feeding it into the program at runtime, and seeing if it crashes/hangs. https:&#x2
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by pdq 10y ago
There's a startup in Austin doing a similar keyboard product: https://gest.co/ Personally I'm skeptical on the accuracy and usability of these keyboards.
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by pdq 10y ago
For a valid experiment, the term should be a control variable on subjects: - 0 years (ie no income, as per current) - 1 year - 5 years - 15 years - life For example, it's possible subjects knowing they will get zero or one year of BI c
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by pdq 10y ago
This metric is not quite accurate, but Google Trends [1] gives a decent overview of how Twitter has been on the decline for the past 3 years. Instagram has surpassed them in search traffic. Snapchat is more than a year away, but given how
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by pdq 10y ago
This is called a warrant canary. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
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by pdq 10y ago
I was about to post but saw yours, so I'll reply with basically the same position. ---- This will be a contrarian opinion, but personal insurance, in general is a ripoff. You are taking a monthly bet (ie an insurance policy) against an
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by pdq 10y ago
Link: https://password.kaspersky.com/ I'm impressed by the password cracking estimation with the Tianhe-2 Supercomputer. A 10-character password containing uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and numbers, which is e
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by pdq 10y ago
An instant nationwide fingerprint background check would have a big market opportunity. Not sure why that hasn't been created yet (to my knowledge). Checkr is just a standard background check, of which Uber/Lyft already do simila
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by pdq 10y ago
This is a prime example of Regulatory Capture [1]. "That means nearly all every e-cigarette on the market — and every different flavor and nicotine level — would require a separate application for federal approval. Each application cou
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by pdq 10y ago
I think a more accurate analogy: ZeroHedge is the 4chan of financial news. Especially all the sarcastic headlines, account names, and comments.
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by pdq 10y ago
Per #1, you are correct in theory. However I can counter with Amazon and Tesla, which have been increasing revenue rapidly but making losses for years. And their stocks are near all time highs. So I would say Wall Street prefers profits,
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by pdq 10y ago
Note: this article is from February 1, 2016
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by pdq 10y ago
The long term value of gold is based on the price of mining new ounces of gold. Likewise, the long term value of Bitcoin is based on the price of mining new coins, which is based on the mining network. The only way Bitcoin would go to zero
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Checking in on the Great Intramural VC Unicorn Bet(mattermark.com)
1 points by pdq 11y ago|0 comments
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by pdq 11y ago
It does seem like an overly aggressive move. Unfortunately the company and its investors didn't clear this situation years ago with a release document, and then GM didn't do their complete due diligence, so the defendant now can d
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by pdq 11y ago
Verilator, which is also open source, is a much higher performance simulator, as it compiles Verilog to C++ first, rather than traditional simulation like Icarus. http://www.veripool.org/wiki/verilator
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by pdq 11y ago
Is this "technology" just a fancy version of Franzia, aka inexpensive box wine?
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by pdq 11y ago
The solution in the future will be driverless cars, shared driverless vans, etc. These should improve overall commute times, since there will be fewer accidents and denser transportation. Also people will be able to spend their commute ti
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When LLCs Make Sense for Startups(siliconhillslawyer.com)
1 points by pdq 11y ago|0 comments
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by pdq 11y ago
That's real. See Keurig 2.0 and its DRM technology. The good news is the market has avoided it, and the regular K-cups (non-DRM) have won.

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