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by pmart123 7y ago
Another endorsement that doesn’t talk about the product, and seems like it was written by an investor or someone who works there...
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by pmart123 7y ago
I'm not in favor of Twitter "policing and protecting" us. If politicians say or do stupid things, it should affect their credibility and long-term electability. We don't need an arbitrator to hide it or make it disappear
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by pmart123 7y ago
Well, to be fair, while Blue Apron's gross margin is expanding, it's operating margin is still negative and it has ~20% negative LTM sales growth the last few quarters.
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by pmart123 7y ago
A CEO of a soon to IPO company should most definitely take “AWS” as the ticker.
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by pmart123 7y ago
I haven't read the article, but I've listened to a podcast featuring the author. He voiced that determining the "chaos" of the field or game is very relevant to whether someone should focus on specialization or be a gene
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by pmart123 7y ago
15% when the subscription is over a year and the 30% cut only applies to digital goods so Uber, Lyft and food delivery, for instance, are exempt. My guess is these fees will continue to drop naturally over time, but they probably haven&#x27
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by pmart123 7y ago
This seems right. I know people in the venture and tech community that have been receiving inquiries for close to a year on whether big tech is too big. Of course, the venture community has a biased "expert opinion" given its in t
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by pmart123 7y ago
I wonder how many poorly designed database schemas this will break that used email as a primary key/id.
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by pmart123 7y ago
Completely true. Just look at the research around active management. Most outperform before fees, but after fees slightly under-perform. This is the equivalent to most employees add value before salary and benefits, but probably add less va
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by pmart123 7y ago
Do you have a good understanding of the legal differences? My understanding is there now an open source license that anyone can fork, including companies basically committing IP theft, and then a basic license that is free unless you are se
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by pmart123 7y ago
When airbags first came out, only expensive cars had them. I wouldn't be surprised if side airbags are still only found in nicer cars. This seems entirely different though. It's more like hitchhiking. When you pay for an Uber or L
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by pmart123 7y ago
I think he is referring to the English going to Spain to retire and the Spanish going to London for work mirrors Americans going to Mexico to retire, and Mexicans coming to America for work opportunities.
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by pmart123 7y ago
For what it is worth, I would guess most people under report their drink totals to surveys. Also, just using the following link: https://www.alcohol.org/bac-calculator/ BAC can range greatly depending on size and gende
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by pmart123 7y ago
Susquehanna made a killing during the dotcom crash by selling near-dated options and buying longer-dated options. Essentially, the majority of the market was pricing the dotcom crash to be very similar to the 1987 crash. Instead, it was clo
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by pmart123 7y ago
Yes. This seems like a way to remove the liability away fro m the university, and therefore, the university doesn't have to give predominantly Asian applicants a poor "personality rating" to affect their application. This new
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by pmart123 7y ago
I think that is part of the big disconnect between private and public markets. The public market has been valuing simplicity in business models lately with old conglomerates like GE, Honeywell, Phillips, and UTX selling or spinning off unit
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I think that will be niche if it is at all viable. Most of the shared economy type companies flamed out as it turns out specialization and scale offen matters. I think other models are much more likely. In Brooklyn, the pizza joint Roberta’
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by pmart123 7y ago
Well, particularly with ADHD, if it’s harder to power through life tasks or remain focused on topics that are not mentally stimulating, it typically means you can hyper focus when you do stumble into something that is mentally stimulating.
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by pmart123 7y ago
I remember in my control engineering classes, my professor would say that the worst buildings to construct in a high earthquake risk area are midrises (~18 stories). I'm not an expert on this matter, but if this is correct, San Francis
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by pmart123 7y ago
Well, let's look at it from the other side of the equation. It seems like a lot of companies are creating a second office location in Austin, Salt Lake, etc. at the series C stage. From my conversations with these founders, the require
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by pmart123 7y ago
This is definitely a good point. Let’s think of two scenarios. 1. Stick a lot of affordable housing in building, but math works since the developer can make money selling the high priced units. 2. Increase total housing supply through less
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by pmart123 7y ago
Let's not forgot social media platforms did organize an Egyptian revolt. When there have been natural disasters or terrorist attacks, Facebook has sent notifications to people's friends telling them they are ok. Also, tons of smal
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by pmart123 7y ago
I think that’s true regarding where value will be produced, but Microsoft can sell way more subscriptions if it’s point and click and presumably wrong. I will say though that they recently added suggested chart types in excel and they don’t
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by pmart123 7y ago
I would echo similar experiences. Healthcare is extremely bureaucratic, and there is an art to navigating it. While I have more than a sample size of one throughout my extended family, I can share my own experience when I had appendicitis r
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That’s interesting. I think Google would have been better aiming for something closer to Twitter instead of trying to copy and mimic Facebook with Google+. Google’s core strength has been organizing information as a data first company versu
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Judging by all the NYC competitors that have cropped up, I would say it is not hard to replicate at all. The biggest benefit to co-working spaces is short lease terms and the ability to scale up(down) space. Foreseeable, this could apply to
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I tested most of the solutions a year or two ago before AWS rolled out Amazon Comprehend. I found that Google’s API combined with some code and open source packages ended up being additive for entity recognition, classification, and semanti
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Haven’t tried it actually yet.
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Watson’s is awful. Google’s default models are by far the best followed by Microsoft at a distance. Then, many of them are so bad that it is laughable.
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Not really. This has more to do with the fact that whatever you state you do as part of your service, you should comply with actually doing. If Wealthfront said “from time to time...we monitor...” it may have been ok. Wealthfront’s testimon

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