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by qq66 11y ago
"At Walmart, we think that users' money is valuable, and that they shouldn't have to pay extra for their toilet paper." Does the fact that Walmart charges money for their products make the above sentence disingenuous? Of
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by qq66 11y ago
Most likely, nothing. This seems to be a channel-driven acquisition. Dialog wants to put Atmel products in its sales channels and its own products in Atmel's sales channels. And it looks like the product lines don't overlap much,
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by qq66 11y ago
Not really, I'm assuming that if someone decides to not date, that it's a legitimate decision for them, and if they decide not to date because they want to achieve something big for themselves and for the world, well, all the bett
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by qq66 11y ago
An example of "beginner's luck," which is often the tendency of experts to overthink things when just trying the most basic thing often works. :)
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by qq66 11y ago
Would you say that someone who runs onto a train track to save a child, and is killed in the process, has made a wrong decision? They've sacrificed not only their 20s, but their whole lives, for the sake of someone else. Someone choosi
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by qq66 11y ago
One more thing that shut down the Concorde was the post-9/11 increase in security procedures at airports, greatly diminshing the relative advantage of supersonic flights. If getting on the plane takes an extra (unpleasant) 45 minutes o
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by qq66 11y ago
Geographic expansion is expensive and many companies have died by expanding too fast. They may be trying to built out a broader offering before expanding to ensure that they have enough revenue per customer to expand profitably.
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by qq66 11y ago
I hope you weren't bitten by a venomous snake in SF.
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by qq66 11y ago
The Gates Foundation is by far the biggest philanthropic organization in U.S. education, even though the primary focus of the Gates Foundation is global public health.
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by qq66 11y ago
Why wouldn't almost every engineer have access to almost the entire repo? Most of Google's code is only relevant to another company working at Google scale, such as Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, etc. These are the companies with dee
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by qq66 11y ago
One possibility is for him to take a job at one of his clients, running the procurement process for HP products and services (more generally, the business lines he supports). He probably knows a lot about the cost structures for HP and comp
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by qq66 11y ago
It's long been one of my two favorite poems, I've heard about this theme of death, and I don't see it. To me, the poem is about the tension between the ephemera of human lives and the permanence of nature... The poem starts w
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by qq66 11y ago
Guilty of using this phrase, even aware of the poem's meaning. I use it because it's an instantly recognized American phrase, and I do believe that good fences make good neighbors in many situations (e.g. File permissioning).
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by qq66 11y ago
Apple almost never completely invents a new market out of the blue. What they typically do is take a relatively small existing market and make a hugely successful product in that market, expanding the market by orders of magnitude. The Noki
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by qq66 11y ago
Condoleezza Rice was often referred to as "Condi" in the media. I think a lot of it has to do with information theory: there are two famous Clintons, several famous Rices, and hundreds of famous Sarahs.
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by qq66 11y ago
Suspending all internal disputes in the presence of an external foe is a common family/tribal behavior, and not exclusively Indian. Even if she was in the middle of punching me, if you started walloping my wife with an umbrella, my fra
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by qq66 11y ago
What changes would you make to Google Maps, with a basic set of assumptions? (let's say, you can't dramatically increase the cost, you can't hurt Google revenue sources, and you have a team of ~20 engineers to work on the cha
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by qq66 11y ago
Netflix and maybe Hulu are also profitable, but they are paid services which is a different beast. No reason that Twitch couldn't have paid/free tiers like Hulu someday though.
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by qq66 11y ago
YouTube has massive bandwidth costs, and it became profitable. Bandwidth keeps getting cheaper, user attention maintains its value or gets more valuable over time.
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by qq66 11y ago
Oh, your first plan was to actually build a board to frob the buttons on the 808? If so, it was a good idea not to do that. I've used 808s in R/C and they're very finicky, they will just error out for no reason sometimes. The
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by qq66 11y ago
The Rideye looks great. Is that based off the keychain cams widely used in R/C video? Like the 808 #16 or the Möbius?
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by qq66 11y ago
What do you mean by "naively think they are genuine?" What false assumptions are peopke making about recruiters?
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by qq66 11y ago
Interesting to see how well-made some of these pieces are. The overturned horse and the killer whale look very high quality. I wonder how Banksy produces these and maintains his or her anonymity, as the pieces look like they are the work of
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by qq66 11y ago
Mind-boggling to think about, but could the vandal assert copyright over the spray painted wordmark?
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by qq66 11y ago
What are some of your Firebase-powered apps? I'd be interested in trying them.
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by qq66 11y ago
A local cache is of course useful for streaming video, but with home automation it can also be useful in the reverse direction. If your Nest cameras are not getting enough bandwidth to send up full 1080p back to the service, they can send 4
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by qq66 11y ago
Why does the doctor administer the treatment that keeps their patient alive? For at least one dying ten-year-old girl, the answer was "to see the new Pixar movie." http://www.today.com/id/31448115/ns&#x2F
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by qq66 11y ago
All of the mined gold in the world is a cube about 70 ft on a side. Big cubes are hard to intuitively reason about.
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by qq66 11y ago
The bestselling upright vacuum on Amazon, the Bissell Cleanview, looks quite a bit like the original Dysons.
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by qq66 11y ago
I can't see why the same logic couldn't applied to any country selling any piece of its land. Why doesn't the United States sell Pennsylvania? Why doesn't the United Kingdom sell Trafalgar Square?

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