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by qq66 9y ago
The President of the US indisputably has more destructive power than the CEO of Facebook, but the ability to kill people is not the only measure of power. And, how would the President shut down Facebook in an instant? The US President'
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by qq66 9y ago
Metal-and-glass furniture such as certain computer desks, TV stands, etc. can be repeatedly disassembled and reassembled.
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In my experience, 99% of the value of real-time analytics has been in identifying service disruptions that monitoring tools don't find, and 1% of the value has been in informing business decisions. If some change badly broke your HTML
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by qq66 9y ago
Plus, you can build it "right" (wood glue on all joints, extra corner braces, etc.) It makes it impossible to disassemble but I find that IKEA furniture doesn't handle disassembly and reassembly that well anyways.
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Core technology is usually built on older technology (C, C++) to avoid platform risk. The flashy product stuff is built on the latest bits for execution speed. The best C++ architects/leads are in their 60s and the best React Native ar
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by qq66 9y ago
"Why escape my life when I can make my lived world better?" Some people could really enjoy escaping their lived world. Imagine if the costs on VR came down enough so that a person living in a slum in Calcutta or Rio de Janeiro or
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by qq66 9y ago
Most bottled "spring water" is tap water that is pumped in a few yards away from the "spring" and then bubbles up, legally now "spring water."
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A good service that mails you once a month about things that matter is a subscription to a proper news magazine like _The Atlantic_ or _The Economist_.
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US grocery chains have no institutional expertise in building new offerings or generating demand for those offerings because the manufacturers do it for them. Manufacturers advertise the crap out of their products and rent shelf space from
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I consider the 747 to be the pinnacle of human achievement. It represents the work of scientists, engineers, regulators, managers, urban planners, mechanics, designers, and everyone else whose work has been required to make a metal tube wei
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One way to test a market quicker is to do something that clearly doesn't scale but could simulate a technology. For example, if you were testing the market for GPS, but didn't want to launch any satellites, you could have a helico
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Usually, engineering simulations (finite element analysis, etc)
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Profits are revenues minus costs. The costs of building a Hyperloop through Silicon Valley, the most expensive land in the United States, with probably tens of thousands of regulatory hurdles, is a lot lower than building through the middle
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Interesting to see Matthew Prince (Cloudflare CEO) basically begging for regulation of his own business. I think that he wants to be legally forced to serve everyone so that he doesn't have to be accountable to Twitter hordes for doi
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She just had a full article about her in the Washington Post which many award winners have not. I wouldn't call her unrecognized.
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I've never used a tampon. Why do they sell them?
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Is 18.5:9 really a standard? And does it matter? They will sell a hundred million of these things and it will this become a standard size.
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Especially for groups of people who are less likely to be represented in the training data. Someone with the last name "Tillekeratne" for example is Sri Lankan, and Sri Lankans are probably underrepresented in Apple's trainin
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What were the new incredible features that are missing now? Seems like the iPhone has been a pretty steady march forward in terms of processor, memory, storage, screen, camera, hardware features, and the software enabled by the hardware cap
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Probably not, but trying to run the company by the philosophy of "Would Jobs have done this" is impossible, since if emulating Steve Jobs' brain was possible, he wouldn't have been a unique talent.
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If the photographer had set the camera to be operated by a remote control, and clicked the switch, or set up a shot with a lightning sensor, or dropped the camera and it landed on a pebble which triggered the shutter release, few would argu
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by qq66 9y ago
Plenty of gas cars do better than 30mpg! Hybrids usually 40. A Honda Accord hybrid is 49 city/47 highway.
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Did you read the article? Some of these dogs have attacked other people and dogs. If people are getting attacked by dogs they will lobby for policy that gets these dogs banned. Legitimate service animals, genuinely necessary emotional suppo
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This is happening, but unfortunately information is not perfect (a random hiring manager doesn't know that Cal State is loosening requirements but Oregon State is not) so actually the brand value of all state and community colleges is
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No, because actual measured happiness shows strongly decreasing marginal utility of money.
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The fact that the author thought of his company as a "Django startup" is probably one of the major reasons for its failure. Two-sided marketplaces almost never live or die by their technology. eBay's technology and user exper
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Well, when they finally blow a major city to smithereens, let nobody say that it took them by surprise.
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For a different perspective, I had a business software product for a particular targeted use case that could ONLY find customers through targeted ads, particularly on Google. The company could have not existed without Google ads and the cus
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Isn't the entire existence of Instacart proof that some consumers do have an appetite for delivery fees?
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Not only do they have such a number, but at least the last time I called that number, there wasn't even a voice menu where I had to "press 0" to talk to an operator. I dialed the number and a human picked up the phone.

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