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by sfifs 5y ago
There's a lot of equivalent store types in Asia. The Kirana stores in India, the Sari-Sari stores in Philippines, the neighborhood groceries in much of South East Asia etc. A very similar dynamic applies - the shoppers buy several time
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by sfifs 5y ago
This isn't correct. Big brands virtually never skimp on product quality for smaller stores because it harms the long term equity and value. They customize quantity.
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This may be unusual but in my business school, we had a department that focused on Psychology and Org. Behaviour. They offered a free evaluation (they used the California Psychological Inventory [1]) and consultation for all students. The m
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by sfifs 5y ago
Not OP but you might find it interesting to hear the thoughts of one of the most successful nation builders in history on air conditioning :-) https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8278085/singapore-lee-kuan-yew.
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by sfifs 5y ago
> What stops from former workers at intelligence agencies from starting a hedge fund and employing all methods they learned while at work, to acquire such valuable information, trade based on that and offer others money management servic
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by sfifs 5y ago
I anticipate that in the Epic lawsuit, the judge will definitely rule against the anti-steering policies of Apple though she'll probably not touch the app store, margins and payment processing pieces. There are many many Apps where buy
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by sfifs 5y ago
Don't let Apple PR fool you into thinking commercial decisions like this are anything like principle based :-) If Amazon, Uber and Lyft drop iPhone support, people will atop using iPhones and that's pretty much the only reason App
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by sfifs 5y ago
WhatsApp is trivially compromised to law enforcement already if you have backups setup which most people have for message recovery and switching phones. The backup is not encrypted with a private key.
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by sfifs 5y ago
You probably should read up on the history of the Shah of Iran, Western oil companies, the CIA and the Islamic revolution.
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I think the importance is having a risk mitigation mechanism in place before you pursue your high risk dream. This often takes the form of some form of wealth or capital. My wife has a childhood friend and a cousin who were both very talent
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by sfifs 5y ago
So in my company, I've used various avatar's of Cisco TelePresence systems over many years. The big commercial need it turns out isn't so much realism as it is flexibility to accommodate people dialing in from different syste
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by sfifs 5y ago
Sure. That's also pretty much the definition of anti-trust. Using a dominant position in one market (distribution of apps on iOS) to gain an unfair advantage in others (payment processing) to make profits in a way that causes consumers
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by sfifs 5y ago
I'd argue it has always been known that masks would protect both patients and wearers even from first principles and also how past pandemics with a less infectious virus were handled in Asia and from how common cold and flu dropped as
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by sfifs 5y ago
Look it's always been known since the very early days of Wuhan crisis that masks will significantly reduce spread and risk (from past smaller pandemics & the nature of transmission of this virus). The various health organizations s
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by sfifs 5y ago
In the US most famously decided in the Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. decision. Publishers often charge significantly different prices across different countries for their owm books and this basically prevented them from blocking
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by sfifs 5y ago
I don't know why you're getting down voted as it's a common misconception. Sole distributorship means your company is the only one in a particular territory that the *manufacturer* will sell to directly - usually in exchange
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by sfifs 5y ago
Not really correct. Advertising incrementality is pretty easy to determine by in-market tests and statistical modeling or causal inference techniques. Feature Engineering for effective model construction does require a body of significant d
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by sfifs 5y ago
It probably wasn't a path to internal promotions any more :-)
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> Why would Amazon look to achieve some marginal advantage in its retail businesses at the risk of a total loss to one of its marquee businesses, AWS? It's an idiotic risk. There's a pretty obvious way to achieve this risk miti
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It's standard practice for any retailer to not use AWS. Part of it is why would you want to give any competitive knowledge to Amazon with your data or even metadata assuming you encrypt data with your own keys (eg. # of users derivable
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by sfifs 5y ago
Most Punjabis are not Sikhs. If you live in North America, a lot of Punjabis you may have come across may have been Sikhs.
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Yes - there's clearly an incentive misalignment in setting & communicating realistic mission risks & expectations which is not too surprising given the politics behind how NASA is funded. What happens over a period of time in a
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I mean sure it's cool but I think the point is they've been so consistently spectacularly successful in blowing past mission objectives that it's a bit hard to imagine achieving this wasn't the "expected result&quot
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This business of we've only planned 4-5 flights in the main mission but will extend by 30 more days seems like intentional under-committment to me. NASA seems to have done this with most of the previous rover missions as well - all of
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We definitely don't make any profit from this and while I'm not familiar with the financials, we do donate these products as part of our CSR and for disaster relief operations. This is the official website. https://csdw
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I'm experimenting with Ktor and Kotlin. Ktor seems really well featured with baked in co-routines based concurrency and Kotlin feels a far more sophisticated and productive as a server side language than Go or Python.
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Very likely they don't log. Otherwise they'd have had to disclose
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Google already does this to a certain extent by allowing other app stores and will I think very likely move towards certifying other payment frameworks as app store payments is not a significant revenue stream for them - they'll probab
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If you're like the majority of people on HN, you're likely (relatively) "rich" - perhaps in top 5-10 percentile of income globally. The other 90% use Androids. They could use "second-hand" iPhones - but those d
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I keep wondering how much of the Three Body Problem series plot really was imagination :-)

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