scottkduncan

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by scottkduncan 11y ago
Shypmate idea is great but there are some obvious risks, like unwittingly becoming a drug mule. I wonder how they counteract that.
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
Companies factor in local cost of living into their salary packages and the author is pointing out the business problems (i.e. high turnover of entry level employees) caused caused when Yelp failed to do this. Salaries in New York are high
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Google Ideas Becomes Jigsaw(medium.com)
1 points by scottkduncan 11y ago|0 comments
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
Except that most of the people communicating directly with Secretary Clinton would have been political appointees who would have joined the organization from the outside. Don't get me wrong, it's still a hierarchical, traditional
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
Wind works at night. :)
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
I'm totally with you on priority boarding - I don't get the appeal at all. All I am saying is that the market responded to our collective preferences for airlines to compete on cost -- and we benefited from this in some ways becau
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
It's all in how you evaluate whether it is a horrible product. I consider economy class airfare a commodity and evaluate it on getting me to my destination safely and on time. Delays are obviously still an issue, and I do believe air
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
Or Kayak, where you can filter flights by layover time to make sure you don't get one that is too long or too short.
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
There are also a few great things about modern air travel. For one, it has gotten considerably cheaper (and thus more accessible to a broad spectrum of consumers) over time. It's also amazingly safe for travel in a metal tube at 550
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
Initial seismic reports are pretty underwhelming for a fusion weapon, so maintaining some skepticism on whether this is a significant new capability is probably merited until we get some radiation data.
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The Trading Game(bloomberg.com)
235 points by scottkduncan 11y ago|99 comments
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
I watched (and commented on) this happening to an extremely similar article six months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9322540
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
This is how to bring about a tipping point - get men to recognize and call out sexism. While this kind of behavior is sadly quite commonplace, attitudes and behaviors can change quite quickly. Just think how much more common it was ten ye
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
And we never may hear the stories of those who were actually the greatest spies.
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
A lot goes back to the EDS acquisition, which seemed doomed almost from the start. A poorly planned acquisition + longstanding internal issues will almost inevitably get you to this kind of outcome.
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Irving, TX ninth grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school(dallasnews.com)
115 points by scottkduncan 11y ago|24 comments
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
Admittedly based on anecdotes, the public defenders I have met are highly-educated, committed, creative professionals who typically choose this profession because they see the same structural forces but believe they can make a difference at
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
I agree this issue is part of the larger trend you're talking about, but we absolutely can start to address the imbalance of resource allocation in the criminal justice system without solving the underlying economic disparities, which
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
Thanks for this: http://poly-graph.co/vocabulary.html I've gotten hours of conversation out of it. Also so happy to see that "You Got Me" by The Roots got 6 million streams in 2014. That is the definition
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
Was thinking the same thing, but also for a current cover to catch on there is likely something about the original that still resonates. One nitpick: "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls was ineligible for the Billboard Hot 100 for a long tim
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
I haven't considered the economics of salons, but not sure they would have the same low variable costs that allow Classpass to succeed in fitness. I certainly wish the team (and all the other YC companies) the best though considering
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
"Vive — Classpass for hair blowouts" I'm trying to think of a better "X for Y" startup parody, but am failing.
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by scottkduncan 11y ago
Walking too and from work in DC, the tables are turned. As a man, I'm sweating through a shirt under a couple layers of wool while women have been able to adjust their wardrobes to the weather and look decidedly less miserable. We wi
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by scottkduncan 12y ago
Fascinating to just watch this drop down and off the front page of HN despite all the upvotes...
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by scottkduncan 12y ago
So...insider trading then?
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by scottkduncan 12y ago
Selling Facebook's stock short would indeed let you bet against the valuation of the Facebook platform, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Keep in mind that markets may be able to stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
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by scottkduncan 12y ago
Timestamp this and come back in three years because we are basically sitting on the tipping point of some clean energy sources (not the one in this article!) becoming cost competitive. Solar and wind are at grid parity in an increasing num
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by scottkduncan 12y ago
Not to mention that it's not just the U.S. and China competing in a vacuum. China's real economic threat is on the low-end. As they've boomed and their labor has become more expensive, many foreign companies are re-offshori
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by scottkduncan 12y ago
"Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck." Perhaps this definition hasn't caught up with the increase in freelancing and self-employment. Underemployment, particul
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Gene-testing company 23andMe is sharing its users' data with Pfizer(vox.com)
4 points by scottkduncan 12y ago|1 comments

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