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Dyson is working on an electric car set to launch by 2020(techcrunch.com)
1 points by sah2ed 9y ago|0 comments
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> The US in the 19th century ... .. and in the 20th century [0] to protect the US automobile industry from fuel efficient Japanese imports. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_export_restraints
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> If programmers paid more than lip service to responsibility, the whole dumb paradigm of "worse is better" would not exist in the first place. I used to think like this but I've come to realize that there are two underlyi
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I think you were referring to Marc Andreessen's AMA with Stripe Atlas founders [0] which was as recent as July: "Getting a warm introduction to a VC is a basic test of networking skills. VCs are dying for interesting qualified re
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> which is the definition of inflation I think you meant to write deflation .
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> "Innovation is path dependent" Citation needed. Kidding aside, is this paper [0] the source for your quote? Thanks [0] https://www.princeton.edu/~reddings/pubpapers/PathDepIER2002...
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Plenty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I guess ex-employees could be nudged to volunteer info on open plan arrangements in their Glassdoor reviews.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
According to the keynote, AW series 3 will support a limited list of carriers at launch so I'm curious as to how the eSIM which AW3 uses is implemented? Looks like users on unsupported carriers depend on Apple to enter into a commercia
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Sounds like this article: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/03/owning-...
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> Comments started rolling in, but I had class until almost noon. With me in class and Cory at his day job, it was impossible to coordinate any responses until much later that day. The quote above clearly shows a huge oversight -- ther
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by sah2ed 9y ago
How about paying a one-time fee with a little extra to be regarded as the legal owner of a set of mirrored HDDs installed at a facility that provides predominantly cloud-based infrastructure? Would that solve the ownership problem that woul
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> And Google Ventures is actually a mediocre venture firm based on their history. Mediocre relative to which CVCs? Intel Capital? Intel Capital has been around for quite a bit so that would be an unfair comparison. I am curious to how yo
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Yes, those roles do exist among top and aspiring top tier VCs, but VC being a people-oriented business means that Sequioa and other top tier VCs like a16z and YC [0] who build their own tools in-house should have no problem assembling a tal
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Interesting video. Brian Goetz mentioned that Sequoia built a tool they called "Early Bird" to help them keep track of messaging apps that show lots of traction in non-US app stores which was how they knew they really needed to ge
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by sah2ed 9y ago
The correct parsing should be "Daddy G.O." -- G.O. being the abbreviation of General Overseer.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Also called price anchoring [0] in marketing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> You know that two computers are physically far apart if they respond to pings in the right way, as limited by the speed of light. This presupposes that there are no other obstacles like DPI as you'd expect in a place like China or
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1973 oil crisis(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by sah2ed 9y ago|0 comments
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Off topic: You can speak Russian and Hebrew?
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Heyne, Economics as a Way of Thinking(oll.libertyfund.org)
1 points by sah2ed 9y ago|0 comments
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Yes, but AR is really just a means to an end. ARKit could lead to the discovery of a killer app or two, similar to how Uber/Lyft's ride-hailing app is the killer application for lots of people with GPS-equipped smart phones, even
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Bitcoin gets compared to gold and has even been described as an "anticurrency" [0] but I think there is an important distinction between bitcoin and gold -- the underlying asset is intrinsically worthless, unlike a gold bar which
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> I wonder if there's a similar overlooked-but-universal problem that someone in a garage is working on now, that'll spark a new wave similar to the dot-com boom. AR? (Assuming the recent past of Pokémon GO and the upcoming ge
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> The HARC group at Y Combinator Research has/had an ambitious vision of bringing back the basic research model that led to many fundamental innovations in the 60s, including a handful of groups in addition to ours. > I think if
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Perhaps you could try to transfer admin rights to another LinkedIn user before re-attempting to delete the group? My guess is that they require at least one user account to possess admin privileges for a group especially if it is non-empty.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
It's an exaggeration, yes, but it does correctly summarize how I felt when I had to work with node.js code bases before stuff like promises became mainstream.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Callback hell was real, especially if you worked on projects that decided to join the node.js bandwagon in its early days. Then promises happened. https://twitter.com/winterbe_/status/541868081308790784
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by sah2ed 9y ago
EDIT: I misread your post.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I disagree that the title's author wasn't (self-)aware of Google being one of the think tank's sponsors; I think the author was indeed aware but somehow deluded themselves into thinking that the think tank could live up to th

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