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by pinaceae 10y ago
Simply not true. Most drugs never make it past phase 3 trials, so fail in R&D before marketing. Gilead didn't need a lot of marketing for its HepC cure to become a blockbuster and propel them to be the 6th biggest pharma. DTC is al
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Except Cyprus they're all in the PfP program though: http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_82584.htm Austria, for example, participated in missions in Africa, Afghanistan, the Balkans (KFOR, etc). Y
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Article talks about Apple Music and Spotify - but I think they're is a bigger problem: Amazon Prime Music. Bezos is killing the streaming space with 'good enough' services all bundled into the same, basic Prime subscription.
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Google Maps Premium(developers.google.com)
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by pinaceae 10y ago
no, it's filled to the brim with 100% bullshit. taking the VC game to the next level.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
seems like a lot of costly accidents all point to human error of the "driver". falling asleep, speeding, etc. just seems very odd that no one from the big ones - Siemens, Bombardier, etc would go after that. Not even in Japan or C
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by pinaceae 10y ago
kind of related question: why are trains, especially freight, not being automated? seems like a far simpler problem than autonomous cars, no?
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by pinaceae 10y ago
so Apple, Google all pay full taxes in Cali? all profits booked into HQ? wow, they're awesome.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
FB would need to abandon the algo-driven feed altogether. yes, manual forwarding is bad, but that existed in the email days. nowadays you get all that suggested content which is driven by your past behavior, acting as a giant amplifier. to
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Have one, relegated to cleaning the garage. Just too much issues in a household with toddler stuff lying around (toys). I'd pay serious money for a real cleaning robot though. Not a little disc but something that can navigate stairs, c
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by pinaceae 10y ago
You think a company can host the largest tech-conference on earth, Dreamforce, with 200k attendees in SF while noone uses their software? Whole companies have been built on top of the SFDC stack - Veeva, FinancialForce, Velocity, ServiceMax
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by pinaceae 10y ago
now that one is interesting. Does PayPal count? How much relied on the others? I don't know. Tesla, Solarcity and SpaceX are all on the verge, but not quite there yet. 5 years from now he either has a n=3+ or is known as a massive flam
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Workday, Veeva, GE Digital are all hiring. Oracle, SAP operate large campuses here. Yes, not everyone a sexy startup, but stable growing business or just huge, established. Fully agree on the BART extension, Livermore at least.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Living and working in the East Bay is totally possible and actually getting easier. Tri-Valley has added a shitload of housing (condos), BART terminates in it, and some great companies are hiring like mad.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
given the current pace of insights, by 2025 the tech scene will slowly realize how to actually run a profitable business rather than a "startup". books will be written, talks will be held. and anyone outside tech will continue to
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by pinaceae 10y ago
You're absolutely right, I was keeping it simple to stay out of SJ fanboy derailments. Key is he was not a one-trick pony. Real data to prove it. Right now I'd put Bezos in that category with an n=2 (ecommerce, AWS). To show a cou
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by pinaceae 10y ago
SJ's track record was actually n=3. Apple made him the youngest tech multi-millionaire. Pixar a billionaire. Apple, again, where he built the world's most valuable company and insane profits. More n than most billionaires, no? Onl
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Thanks to Slack we now know that MS is launching a competitor. Never mention the competition, always focus on your shit. But yeah, we get it - first Facebook Workplace, now MS Team. Slack might get pushed into the feature/addon categor
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by pinaceae 10y ago
well, comparab.ly better step up fast.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Total should include time spent on various fixes, repairs, installs. As in opportunity cost. If you value your time at zero, then yes, Windows on cheapo devices is your thing. Oh look, another Win10 upgrade, so good.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
same issues apply, even worse for home users. spyware, crapware, win10 upgrades, hardware issues, etc. - but where do you go for help? family or best buy? with apple you get a genius bar at least.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
you're arguing yourself in circles. so we're against any notebooks now, as a typical user only ever needs a tablet? great, you've confirmed Apple's strategy across PCs and iPads (incl. the iPad Pro). they're abandon
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by pinaceae 10y ago
beautiful qed - armchair product guy analyses situation (ok viewpoint), then makes a suggestion so asinine that it acts as a reminder just how hard product work is. as tech is becoming mainstream, more and more "football coaches"
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by pinaceae 10y ago
how's the microsoft phone going? MS always had concepts flying around, remember the fully automated house, the courier, etc etc etc. they always stumble on the last mile though - but now they release into production anyway. we had cust
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by pinaceae 10y ago
a metric shit-ton of execs all over the globe are now using MacBooks of all sorts. and iPads. see for yourself - sit down in any airport lounge in big hubs and observe. i have seen so many presentations go haywire because windows machines s
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by pinaceae 10y ago
YC should take note, as a bunch of recent investments outside of pure software will likely end up in the same problem space. nuclear energy, supersonic planes, etc. - applying the "disruption" and "agile" method does not
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by pinaceae 10y ago
no - it's largely immigrants from eastern europe and asia running tech. regions where math levels are higher due to parents pushing for it. "proper" americans are great in design, marketing and sales. mix the two systems and
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by pinaceae 10y ago
"It was a considerable R&D investment, one that no company had ever tried, " Nope. That's just more ignorance of what is out there piled on (plus peddling your own stuff aka content marketing).
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by pinaceae 10y ago
this wargame was equivalent of Hopplites killing Tanks in Civilization. abuse of broken game mechanics. motorcycle couriers operating at light speed, little boats carrying huge missiles, etc. but a great internet legend, brought up over and
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by pinaceae 10y ago
https://workplace.fb.com/stories/#europe really?

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