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by peterjlee 9y ago
There are more extreme versions of these all over Seoul. Usually there's a 5-story mall with grocery store, clinics, super market, etc. Then on top of that there's a 30-story apartment building with some outdoor grass area. You ba
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I think VC-funded hypergrowth raise your company's chance of failure. However, it also raises the chance of a big exit. Hence, high risk, high return. VCs are in the business of investing in high risk, high return companies. So it&#x27
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Rent control is only available in units built before 1980. So renters who were not lucky enough to find a rent controlled housing has an incentive to vote against rent control. Though, any politician who leans one way or the other will piss
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by peterjlee 9y ago
What's the alternative though? It's not like Microsoft and Yahoo's email/calendar services are much better. Use a paper calendar and run your own private email server and hope you never have to run for president?
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I think of cryptocurrency as a wild wild west of high risk investing (aka gambling). Companies like Coinbase is in the business of selling you wagons and oxen so you can participate if you wish. I think the real problem is that this became
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I got curious how it compares to Saturn V. Low Earth Orbit Payload: Falcon Heavy: 140,000lb, Saturn V: 260,000lb Launch cost: Falcon Heavy: ~$140M, Saturn V: $185M ($1B+ in 2016 dollars) It blows my mind how crazy Saturn V was and it was 50
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Have you tried Samsung Gear VR with Galaxy S8? S8 has the latest and greatest mobile display with one of the highest pixel density in the market. However, when I use it in a VR headset, I can still see the pixels. It may be good enough for
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by peterjlee 9y ago
So are they gonna introduce Facebook Pro for $9.99/mo? I gave up and just pay for YouTube now. I rarely watch videos on Facebook though.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Software is relatively easy to scale. Manufacturing small electronic devices can also be scaled by outsourcing to factories in China (even Apple does it). Scaling automotive production seems a lot harder. There aren't a lot of car fact
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by peterjlee 9y ago
The US male average life expectancy is around 77. That includes early deaths of low income people with poor access to health care, very obese people, teenage drivers. In fact an average US male who reaches the age of 65 is likely to live un
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I was looking for a way to see the lyrics of a song on Spotify. The official Spotify help page recommended using SoundHound instead for lyrics. SoundHound can listen to the music and show you the lyrics in real time line by line. That was p
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Trying to build what I wanted with the limited Lego parts I had always forced me to be more creative.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
With orders of magnitude less processing power. Government projects just cost more..
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I can see a Gravity Gate happening when Andromeda Patriots tweak the Earth gravity simulator of their home stadium to gain an advantage.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
As a human driver in California, I honestly don't know how to drive in the snow.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
This is basically what's happening in S.Korea. Instead of investing more in security, banks are offloading the duty to the consumers. They issue a private key and ask for three different layers of password/pins nobody ever remembe
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Federal government buys Twitter and makes your twitter handle your national identifier. I'm sure Trump is fine with that.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
The reason SSN became a form of ID in the first place was because it's the only way to track a person across all states. If I get a loan in California, then move to Arizona and apply for another loan from another bank, the new bank sho
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I use Sequelize. I write migrations in Javascript using Promise chains. It does take some trial and error to figure out how to add join columns or create the join table so Sequelize knows how to work with it.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I think to have good comments, you need to build a good community. I sometimes see the same article shared across HN, Reddit and Facebook. Some sites have better comments than others..
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I think wizards call this a normal camera.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Hi Peter, what effects do you think Trump's new policies on immigration will have on OPT/H1B engineers in Silicon Valley tech companies? My friends freaked out when he was first elected but so far they're saying not bad as th
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Here's a good NPR Planet Money episode on how transferring money works. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episo... Apparently, back in the days before ACH, banks met u
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by peterjlee 9y ago
When Kitkat came out, they decided it was mutually beneficial and didn't pay each other.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Mostly existing homeowners. More houses mean decrease in their rent income. Also the influential people in city politics probably already own homes.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
>Ms. James pays $1,000 a month in rent for her three-bedroom house, compared with $1,600 for the one-bedroom apartment she had in Alameda. She was forced out of her original apartment but unless she had a new situation that required her
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I was using Spotify then jumped ship to Youtube Red and used Google Music for about a year. But their music curation wasn't good so I jumped back to Spotify. Then I got tired of watching Youtube ads so now I just pay for both...
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by peterjlee 9y ago
So a Hooli Box?
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by peterjlee 9y ago
My guess is that voters who actually care about city level politics or influential people in the city are already home owners. For home owners, building more housing means a decrease in their home value so they have no incentive to push mor
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by peterjlee 9y ago
How can you tell if a jet is flying at full altitude? Is it actually visible?

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