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by rubidium 11y ago
50% is a guess based more on the linked article that shows the internet share of advertising's growth rate is slowing down ( http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2014-02-28/ADS_revenue-after-5-yea... ). Also look at the l
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by rubidium 11y ago
I'm new this this, so help me out. If this is true (particularly the reference to advertising=1.27% of GDP) then an expectation of future revenue of all FaceGoog-advertising will be in the range of 1.27% x (GDP of US) x 50% of advertis
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by rubidium 11y ago
You forgot some useful data: "While our first customers came from the above mentioned sources, including press articles, presentations, etc., almost 80% of our first 100 customers came through referrals. Another interesting point at th
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by rubidium 11y ago
The post is very interesting in itself, but what's more interesting to me is an example of the migration of the typical academic journal based conversation to a hybrid journal/blog conversation. Pre-internet, the content of this b
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by rubidium 11y ago
"The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback" by Dan Olsen is a decent start.
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by rubidium 11y ago
9/10. The low res made it harder to tell which one was computer generated, but it was still pretty clear. Now if they could do it full size, I'd start to be interested.
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by rubidium 11y ago
I was brand new to the market, so had nearly zero connections. I followed the "Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters" system. A couple replies: - Who viewed your profile was helpful. I'd send out a "cold call" email t
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by rubidium 11y ago
"I think learning these skills at an adult age would be very challenging" Anything to backup your thinking? I've seen adult hunt and peckers go to 20-30 wpm in a week or two of using no letter keyboards. That's plenty fa
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by rubidium 11y ago
I paid for premium for about 4 months while job searching. Being able to deep-dive into some companies and directly contact people helped me get my current job. It was definitely a helpful tool as a job-searcher. Now that I have a stable jo
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by rubidium 11y ago
Here's what looks like more info from the designers. It's a really cool program. Each year they come up with a house design and BUILD it for <$20K. http://www.ruralstudio.org/projects/20k-v8-daves-house se
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by rubidium 11y ago
Another former academic physicist here, but with very little understanding of biological tissue+radiation interactions. You state multi-photon ionization is not a possible pathway for biological effects in this case (and I believe that). Bu
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by rubidium 11y ago
This house is not for you. This house is for poor people who live in rural or urban decaying homes. Their roofs leak and collapse, their insulation in non-existent, their plumbing doesn't work. This is a big issue, and having worked wi
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by rubidium 11y ago
Yes, but this is the state of Georgia in the United States. You could buy a nice sized lot plenty big enough for this house in a poor part of the city for $0.5-3K.
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by rubidium 11y ago
The running joke is that it's always been 15-20 years away. Since 1960.
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by rubidium 11y ago
Reminds me a bit of a guy my physics teacher met in the oil fields of alaska. The guy, who had never finished high school (and much less seen Calculus), had figured out a way to calculate the volume of a large, tapering tank using his own s
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by rubidium 11y ago
They're 7+ feet away. He's facing them and can see swing zone well. They're not dumb and know not to get too close. They'll be fine.
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by rubidium 11y ago
In case anyone's in the market: While $100-200 more (depending on retailer), I've been using the Victor High Rise Collection Dual Monitor Sit-Stand Desk Converter for the past 8 months and am very pleased.
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by rubidium 11y ago
To make a stab at a modern day equivalent: James Dyson, Cormac McCarthy, Jeff Bezos, and Obama go on a 2 week cross country road trip, taking just local highways.
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by rubidium 11y ago
1% in journalism = the elite wealthy controlling banks, businesses and bureaucrats.
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by rubidium 11y ago
"Ten years ago, for example, Google had a one-person lobbying shop in Washington; today, it has more than one hundred lobbyists working out of an office roughly the size of the White House. " ... to the tune of $16.8 Million dolla
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by rubidium 11y ago
What to do about this, to make it less cruel and more helpful? As the article says: "To make these taxes more progressive, Farrelly feels that there is “a pretty obvious solution.” He says, “Earmark some of the funds and make sure they
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by rubidium 11y ago
Empathy and humility are two benefits of living next to neighbors who are way richer or poorer. Here's where I'm glad I'm anonymous here, so this can't be construed as bragging but rather adding a different viewpoint: I
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by rubidium 11y ago
This is fun to see. I work in this space currently. Seems to be a potential solution for small academic/independent labs w/o a budget for what you have labeled a "mainframe" system. However, you can purchase an old simpl
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by rubidium 11y ago
They want to do this in space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_Laser_Interferometer_S... Funding is limited though, and doing it on the ground is easier to develop and maintain/troubleshoot.
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by rubidium 11y ago
"Meaning even if you put 50% of your income into buying your home, it would take you almost 20yrs to pay for the median home in SF making the median income."
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by rubidium 11y ago
It turns out even if a company markets its products with big bold "not for diagnostic/medical use", and its customers use the products for diagnostic or medical use, the company can still be on the hook. It depends on a numbe
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by rubidium 11y ago
He acknowledges that limitation throughout the article. What's your point?
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by rubidium 11y ago
You missed the point I think. Ideally, you want minimal technical debt. Any code you develop should aim for minimizing technical debt. Technical debt is not about evaluating the value of a line of code or program, but about it's potent
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by rubidium 11y ago
There's a lot of ways to parse technical debt. The simplest one I've found, while it has its shortcomings, is this from a Deloitte article: They state, in general, it costs $3.61 technical debt / line of code. "Technical
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by rubidium 11y ago
The best way to work on hard problems is to live there. For a long time. If you're interested in solving the US prison problem, live in neighborhood where many people are sent to prison. If you're interested in solving rural pover

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