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by purplepatrick 5y ago
Pretext traffic stops should not be allowed. The rest of the world gets by just fine without them (using traffic cameras and “programmatic stops” that focus on cargo trucks, DUI controls around night life areas, etc). And from what I’ve fou
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
Wish it said anywhere, including on Runner’s website, what they consider “operations” and how it delineates from non-operations…
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
This is precisely how science works… Check out “Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas Kuhn when you get the chance.
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
Wasn’t this already “debunked”, with the investigators having to basically retract the conclusion as a result? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/books/anne-frank-betrayal...
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
It’s a startup, so it’s an iterative approach. They launched with a setup that gets them into the market fast. However, you are right in that this ain’t that big of a deal. Pharmacies pay the acquisition price for the drugs. Then, they mak
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
So, more like: Self Awareness, Naïveté, Perseverance, Emotional Distance, Vision, Skepticism, Humor
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
Also not new: the outsized impact fragile masculinity has on violence…
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
I second the importance of subtitles. I grew up in a country where dubbing is a huge industry and everything is dubbed. I’ve also lived in another country where almost nothing is dubbed. After moving to the US and seeing many of the films I
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
I think this post is fake news ;)
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
A higher interest rate increases the cost of capital. As with other assets, a stock’s present value is the sum of its future cash flows discounted to their present value, using the weighted average cost of capital as discount factor. Becaus
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
I don’t get why we need to have good ratings and reviews at all. Why not only allow bad ratings (eg a simple thumbs down) and reviews, then run some ML to detect and normalize semantic patterns (“short battery life”), and then word-cloud or
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
Amen. Funny how Peter Thiel parlays something that was obvious to many, if not most, people outside the SV echo chamber into some sort of new insight…
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
It’s not that simple: https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2021/04/19/myth-bust...
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
Yes this is cool. But c’mon — these scientists should know better (correlation vs. causation, yada yada). Humans have always believed that their current state of technology reflects how the brain works — clay pots and waterworks, electric c
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
That’s a long-winded way of saying “try to test a new business hypothesis before building anything”. None of this kind of testing that VCs love and founders do is real testing, statistically speaking. Just because you can sell a bunch of le
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
I’m not clear if your customers process payments through your Stripe account, but if this is the case (it sounds like it) you need to work with a network that serves “high-risk” customers. There are brokers that can place you with the right
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
Remarkable — all that without explaining anywhere what a “corporate card” is. Is it a debit card (debits immediately)? Or a delayed debit card (debits at month end)? Or a credit card (credit balance up to a specified limit)? And why do they
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
Can you explain what the “expertise” and “team” circles are supposed to mean? Also, does light color mean something else than dark color? And what are the “clinical trial” lists for? It’d also be great if you could offer the link to their w
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
IMHO this is a terrible idea, because I guarantee you they’d screw up the categorization of “topics”. How granular should a “topic” be? “Financial services” isn’t gonna cut it. Or how about medical sites? “Medical” or “health” are useless m
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
I like the idea and wish you the best of luck. In my experience, this is a bit of a “neither fish nor fowl” kind of situation, though. Your model seems most viable for customers who need design work all the time, e.g. to replace a FT resour
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
I agree. Tons of sites employ the bounce-back avoidance tactics, and these don’t particularly help their ranking (in fact, lots on non-ranking sites do it — presumably just to keep you on the page)
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
This is neat. However, one big problem with national cost of living projections I found is property tax data, as taxes are set on the municipal level. State or county averages are pretty useless in high-tax states such as in the NE: in NJ o
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by purplepatrick 5y ago
The operative entity Robert Bosch GmbH is 94% owned by the Robert Bosch Stiftung (which is also a GmbH, but with “common good” focus, so receives some tax advantages, but it’s not a proper foundation despite the name). The Stiftung has no
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How to synthesize a customer data platform?
1 points by purplepatrick 6y ago|0 comments
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Decision nightmare: enterprise e-commerce analytics
1 points by purplepatrick 7y ago|2 comments