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by pgodzin 9y ago
Just saw thus addressed in the comments: > Great question. We get this one a lot and have been approached by quite a few developers who say they could easily build us something like this. Is it possible? Sure. Would it be better? I doubt
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by pgodzin 9y ago
It's interesting that they employ a dozen flight searchers who manually look all day. Are there any flight prices APIs that can be scraped, looking for significant outliers?
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by pgodzin 9y ago
But what would make 2B people use an open blockchain-based technology vs a closed proprietary one?
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by pgodzin 9y ago
In terms of market size sure, in terms of active users, I'm skeptical. Best case is that the decentralization is seamless and creates no friction. There are already closed protocols that enable almost everything you would be able to do
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by pgodzin 9y ago
> And since these systems are open rather than proprietary, we’ll see applications bigger than Facebook. I think this vastly overestimates how much the vast majority of people care about this
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by pgodzin 9y ago
> UPDATE (1:53pm): And here’s Nintendo, confirming that the company does plan to ship more SNES Classics, but only this year. We aren’t providing specific numbers, but we will produce significantly more units of Super NES Classic Edition
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by pgodzin 9y ago
At early stage startups, not at public companies like Tesla
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Airbnb Tries to Behave More Like a Hotel(nytimes.com)
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When it comes to board seats there's only one socio-economic background that matters.
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by pgodzin 9y ago
Not sure why we immediately need to jump to the trope that a more qualified male candidate would be passed over. You're treating a seat on the board as if were some sort of technical role with hard skills. It's not - it's a r
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by pgodzin 9y ago
Not sure what straw man you are arguing against, certainly never said it would "magically solve issues around sexism" or that "alone" is "enough to change the toxic culture". We are talking about the role of bo
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by pgodzin 9y ago
It's crazy that hiring a woman to be the second woman on a board is considered "diversity hiring" though. It's not a super minority that is being looked for to tout diversity, it's half the population! I'm sure
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by pgodzin 9y ago
This was said in person though?
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by pgodzin 9y ago
A woman with a perspective on the diversity and culture they need to create seems uniquely qualified for the role.
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by pgodzin 9y ago
Really can't make this up. The board has spent months trying to figure out how to deal with their culture issues, and minutes into the all-hands presenting their findings, he says a disparaging offhand comment about women.
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by pgodzin 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530797
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by pgodzin 9y ago
I think Giants fans would treat their players better if the team was 11 games over .500 instead of under and if their best reliever wasn't league average. I'm not saying all fans are rational, many are emotional/ignorant and
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by pgodzin 9y ago
Of course performance matters, just not for voting for a meaningless game (that was stupidly given meaning). Schwarber isn't going to be suddenly become thrilled with how well his season is going just because he finishes fifth in ASG v
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by pgodzin 9y ago
The theory has always been that those sluggers would be the ones driving people in, rather than counting on the guys behind to drive them in. So it's an interesting tradeoff - more people on base with worse hitters behind them who may
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by pgodzin 9y ago
All Star voting doesn't mean anything other than popularity
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by pgodzin 9y ago
Sure this year he has been terrible. But he was also the leadoff hitter much of the year he was healthy on the WS-winning Cubs last year. Other examples are Carlos Santana, George Springer, etc http://www.espn.com/blog/
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by pgodzin 9y ago
You really need to pick your spots as a hitter there. For power hitters like Rizzo, opposing teams would LOVE if he bunted against the shift instead of swung for the fences. If he does it even more often, you put your 3B on the grass. Getti
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by pgodzin 9y ago
There's been a trend recently to put high OBP bats at leadoff regardless of their speed (see Kyle Schwarber)
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by pgodzin 9y ago
Sorry, didn't mean it was necessarily reflected in MVP voting from the old guard of writers, more in modern sabermetrics. Trout for example, a perennial 30/30+ candidate, his speed, baserunning and defensive play are a big part of
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by pgodzin 9y ago
I think speed will still be valuable as stolen bases continue to decrease across the league, as long as those hitters can still get on base at a .320+ clip. But speed is what makes players who can do it all, like Altuve, MVP candidates now.
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by pgodzin 9y ago
Sure, more area to cover but also a lot more time to get there. It's less trying to hit to the outfield, but rather hit homeruns. The problem is that it's easier said than done, and the old philosophy (look at Ichiro for example),
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by pgodzin 9y ago
It's the Washington Post
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by pgodzin 9y ago
I think the point of it being presented at I/O was a new API that lets Youtube streamers sync up the "superchats" with anything they want in the real world.
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by pgodzin 9y ago
Looking forward to a more interactive demo of this tech. The headline is ridiculous though - I can use a RNG for a handful of frequencies and create a sound humans have never heard before.
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by pgodzin 9y ago
With how much Google had previously invested in Uber, without the Waymo lawsuit it's safe to say this deal would have been struck with Uber instead. Has nottt been a good few months for Uber, and Lyft has really taken advantage.

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