phrogdriver

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by phrogdriver 5y ago
Growing up in the midwest prior to working FAANG in the Bay Area, this is my exact experience. With a graduate degree and making ridiculous money, I and my peers had no realistic path to homeownership on any reasonable time-scale in the Bay
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by phrogdriver 5y ago
It is even more striking that it's written in the first person, so the error sounds like it's coming from the monk and not the writer. For the HN reader not aware, the Cistercians "broke away" from the Benedictines in th
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Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600(oyc.yale.edu)
2 points by phrogdriver 5y ago|0 comments
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by phrogdriver 6y ago
Marketing spend, especially online, is one of the most studied inputs to business strategy. Long term lift studies of both brand and direct response advertising show that it absolutely drives consumer behavior. Whether or not that's go
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Epically Nerdy Interview with Elon(jalopnik.com)
2 points by phrogdriver 6y ago|0 comments
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by phrogdriver 6y ago
So interesting to back into the numbers through partial information. This was also a good look at what good into the manufacturing process. https://blog.jonasneubert.com/2021/01/10/exploring-the-suppl...
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Moderna Vaccine Manufacturing Tracker(eqvanalytics.com)
8 points by phrogdriver 6y ago|1 comments
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Facebook's Libra is renamed Diem(diem.com)
2 points by phrogdriver 6y ago|1 comments
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Hedging (1942)(youtube.com)
3 points by phrogdriver 6y ago|0 comments
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Faceapp: Privacy Warning Issued over App That Lets Users Turn Themselves Old(independent.co.uk)
3 points by phrogdriver 7y ago|0 comments
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by phrogdriver 9y ago
I used to work at a startup called Trusker doing the same thing, I can't give your comment enough up votes on 1. not very tech savvy, 2. margins were low, 3. too much hand holding and I would add 4. a 1200 mile trip between commercial
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Verizon just raised a big warning flag for Yahoo(washingtonpost.com)
66 points by phrogdriver 10y ago|47 comments
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
I think the founder would disagree. He's working on this specifically because he finds self-cathing difficult and cumbersome.
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
>We are always wary of guiding for mean reversion. But, if we are wrong and high margins manage to endure for the next few years (particularly when global demand growth is below trend), there are broader questions to be asked about the e
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
Absolutely. In the book "Ahead of the Curve" the author describes his MBA classmates at HBS emptying their bank accounts by buying BMWs so that they qualify for more student aid. I've also seen medical doctors in private pr
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
I've often wondered about the reasons someone might be unbanked. I've only ever considered the lack of immigration status or proof of address, as most unbanked people I've come in contact with were Latin American immigrants
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
Not to nitpick, but in my experience growing up in the Midwest of the US most "poor, but educated, families" like mine pushed children into state schools where they pay in-state tuition and graduate with $10-40k in debt. Most car
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
>why not skip OpenRefine and teach them numpy/scipy/pandas/matplotlib for analysis and visualization OpenRefine is fantastic for cleaning and imputing missing data, especially for this audience. I don't think they ar
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Implementation of Conductive Concrete for Deicing (2008) [pdf](nlcs1.nlc.state.ne.us)
2 points by phrogdriver 11y ago|1 comments
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
>Modern-day heart disease deaths were higher in states that experienced a rapid rise out of poverty between 1950 and 1980 — even when controlling for the effects of obesity, smoking and education level. No mention of controlling for a pr
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm...
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
I used to work at a large organization with annual security training requirements for all employees. It consisted of hours of ridiculous scenarios where the correct answer was always "don't open attachments from people you don&#x
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Ask HN: What are the best gifts this year for getting kids excited about STEM?
4 points by phrogdriver 11y ago|1 comments
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
Damodaran and Graham are fantastic, as is Shiller's Financial Markets. His 2008 course on Open Yale was an early spark in my career. After a quick look at the "Technical Analysis" book preview on Amazon, I would caution that
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
Or it could just be a disagreement that it is an exponential function on a longer timescale.
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
Like all models, incorrect but useful, I think that the most useful model to view "value" and GDP is as a crude approximation of the human input that goes into making something or making it useful. Natural resources are only usef
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Fantasy sports company DraftKings sues to stop NY shutdown(reuters.com)
1 points by phrogdriver 11y ago|0 comments
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
>I would be willing to pay a subscription fee if that helps it sustain. The really interesting part of this problem is the network value, not the individual value. The fact that "the network is valuable enough to you that you would
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
If only humankind had a discipline dedicated to the efficient allocation of scarce resources... Car washing? Absolument pas! Growing rice paddies in a desert? Sure, go ahead.
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by phrogdriver 11y ago
Thank you for 0), you may be able to guess why from my user name.

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