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by rscale 14y ago
Wow, that is the shadiest backchannel reference methodology that I've ever heard. If I was the candidate and I heard that story, I'd reject the job without delay. Manipulating people I respect is an astonishingly poor way to establish a r
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by rscale 14y ago
The headline predictions aren't his only predictions. Silver also publishes projected margins of victory (with margins of error), and he does so for every state and every senate race, not just the battleground ones. As such, it's possible
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by rscale 14y ago
Great to see this. There are exactly three automotive companies that excite me these days: Tesla, Better Place, and Google. Tesla has done a magnificent job of making electric cool and sexy, and that's almost absurdly important with a purc
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by rscale 14y ago
He's a career criminal. He hacked for profit. He traded in stolen phone cards and turned in his compatriots for reduced sentence. He ran a "premium" phone number scam. He ran a pump and dump scheme to defraud investors. He evaded prose
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by rscale 14y ago
If I see an interesting pop sci story, I'll track down the original research that it's based on. Generally speaking, if the concept was interesting to me in a pop sci context, it's even more interesting to me in depth. If I can't find the
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by rscale 14y ago
I think the biggest argument against complex cross-DC redundancy is that it can add complexity and failure modes, not just during the emergency, but every day. As a simple example, I've seen at least a half dozen people who had issues becau
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by rscale 14y ago
I'd argue that if you have enough traffic to look for 1-2% improvements, you have enough traffic to do basic segmentation and to start measuring value. That said, I agree with your greater point that you always need to make sure your tactic
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by rscale 14y ago
Two additional points: 1) Be careful about what you're actually testing. More clicks or conversions is quite likely good, but over the long-term you want to track LTV. An effort that gets a lot of low-LTV customers will have great metrics
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by rscale 14y ago
Shopping at Prada is an interesting, carefully designed experience. As an example, here's the google street view of their flagship store in NYC: http://goo.gl/maps/bHMZS There's no sign, and the window displays could be strange art insta
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by rscale 14y ago
It's a great headline, but the article is absent. I feel confident in asserting that (excluding misclicks) the users who upvoted this article did so without RTFA. It makes me wish we could run a quick experiment where "trap" articles would
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by rscale 14y ago
I view Zynga roughly the same way I'd view a casino where nobody ever booked a win. The parallels are strong, right down to Hosts for Whales who blow $10k+ while playing. I'm happy to see them fail because I firmly believe they violate the
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by rscale 14y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how many organizations don't make a meaningful effort to accurately measure and focus on LTV. This lack of focus means that opportunities are missed as those organizations fail to identify and address high-value
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by rscale 14y ago
Glad to see they were responsive. I like their work, and love that they've been doing a great job of addressing my actual needs (adding recurring billing, fixing the button nigh instantly) A co-branded button might be a feature in the futur
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by rscale 14y ago
It's pretty much a showstopper for me. I think they need to start with something like 'Pay with Credit Card <br/><small>powered by Stripe</small>', and as their brand grows switch the emphasis to their brand and away
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by rscale 14y ago
Per mile from the dealership . I live about 100 miles from the nearest dealership, but I was told they'd come to me for $100 per service. (Presumably there'd also be some sort of variable charge for parts/labor) The $600/yr contract doesn
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by rscale 14y ago
Interesting. When I talked with a Tesla sales rep I was told that maintenance is annual and would cost me $1 per mile from the dealership. She didn't mention a $600/yr contract. I'm cautiously skeptical of the 'no tire rotation at other sh
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by rscale 14y ago
Perhaps waiting out the statute of limitations in their jurisdiction?
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by rscale 14y ago
I believe that entrepreneurs could do well, generally, by looking for opportunities in industries that are dominated by private-equity players. If an industry is overweight PE, you can bet that the market analysis looks fantastically attrac
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by rscale 14y ago
If you're a relatively small or young company, the merchant account providers often demand that a principal signs a piercing agreement and personally guarantees the account. For the first few years I was in business my corporate credit line
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by rscale 14y ago
I'd love to see BetterPlace work with Google on this one, because an autonomous electric car with a robotically swappable battery is a lot more interesting than an autonomous car that needs to park for a large portion of the day. Most of th
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by rscale 14y ago
Interesting research, but I'm not a big fan of the 'blog article that draws on the abstract of the research' type of article. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a sharable, non-paywalled draft of the article anywhere.
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Can hospital chains improve the medical industry?(newyorker.com)
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by rscale 14y ago
Dave's interpretation of the YC alumni network is quite interesting to me. I'm curious to those of you who are YC alumni: does it ring true to you? If you're thinking of raising a round, do you talk to YC alumni about it? Are they helpfu
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by rscale 14y ago
Tobin's mutual fund theorem states that all investors should do their best to buy the market, and that risk-seeking investors should add leverage, while risk-averse investors should hold more cash. For high-net-worth individuals, it's usual
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by rscale 14y ago
It's awesome that they didn't want to engage in predatory behavior, but what they did was self-predatory, which is no better! The opposite of exploitative game design isn't a life of asceticism; it's value for money. I'm not a big gamer, b
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by rscale 14y ago
I'm an Amex user who has a second card in my wallet, but I avoid giving business to stores that don't take Amex. I feel like it's a sign that they don't understand me, and don't want my business.
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by rscale 14y ago
Use what you know and like and just build the app. And for a large app, use what the team knows. Both dev and ops. Scaling is a nice problem to have, but don't solve it until you have it. And since scaling issues are mostly matters of
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by rscale 14y ago
I had the same immediate reaction. Low-cost debt is a very useful tool for long-lived institutions. I'm certain that a few institutions are using it naively or foolishly, but the existence of debt doesn't prove the existence of a problem.
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by rscale 14y ago
If the bot spoofs a user-agent that is viable for the OS, then you need to rely on other signals. It only works as a component of a defense in depth strategy.
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by rscale 14y ago
The linux equivalent is p0f ( http://freecode.com/projects/p0f ) I can't speak to Java classes, but they'd need to be dealing with raw packets which isn't an option in a typical stack.

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