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by sfifs 9y ago
Genuine question - What if the service is defined as the publisher letting you read content in exchange for being shown targeted advertising? That IS the business model of most publishers right?
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by sfifs 9y ago
ThinkPads are great value for money especially if you pair them with the latest Linux kernels. Lots of ThinkPads are Ubuntu certified. I recently bought a T480 and Bionic runs flawlessly on it.
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by sfifs 9y ago
Well why do you need a dock at all? In Singapore and China, I find shared bikes from different providers neatly parked virtually at any major bus stop, subway station mall or apartment block and it's very convenient for say doing a sho
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by sfifs 9y ago
> I don’t understand why it is so impossible for these companies to act humbly and with a sense of dignity around all this. I would venture a guess this is an outcome of the "sue for everything" legal environment in the US. Any
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by sfifs 9y ago
In my company, I've often used an IBM created expense reporting tool as an example of how NOT to design UI :-) Looks like the mindset permeates the company. Thankfully we use a far superior tool now :-)
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by sfifs 9y ago
Fundamentally demand supply mismatch. These exams succeed in professions where more people are looking to enter the profession than there are jobs that will afford a comfortable lifestyle.. so the existing professionals lobby the government
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by sfifs 9y ago
Sure. In most of the Western world, Universal Suffrage came only after World War 1. Till then there were generally barriers of class, race or gender on who could vote. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage
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by sfifs 9y ago
Human eye's dynamic range perception in the dark is far superior to the poor quality video camera that was released. The woman had crossed two lanes of the road before coming in front of the car - ie. fairly unrestricted range of view.
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by sfifs 9y ago
The governing system in the world at that time was not really universal democracy. It was mostly rule by the rich (who bought those cars) even in places which were ostensibly democratic.
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by sfifs 9y ago
If your content makes you significant money, you'll be willing to invest/pay. Return from even one piece of content will typically very comfortably pay off software pricing. My wife and her business partners run a completely boots
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by sfifs 9y ago
Perhaps because sufficient number of non professionals typically won't pay an amount of money that pays for a top notch development team. So in the non professional market, you have labors of love like GIMP and DarkTable
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by sfifs 9y ago
In pushing for these sales, SoftBank appears to be valuing Uber and other cab hailing business as taxi businesses and aiming to improve profitability by reducing competition rather than as a precursor to gain marketshare for some kind of d
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by sfifs 9y ago
You can generally disable these default apps.
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by sfifs 9y ago
Maybe you shouldn't be cycling in Seattle then?
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by sfifs 9y ago
While details tend to be proprietary, MMMs are well established and lots of academic papers online. For instance https://web.archive.org/web/20120813035903/http://faculty.fu... High quality multi touch a
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by sfifs 9y ago
There actually are ways like market mix models and multi touch attribution models to account for impact of those "late conversions" across multiple channels but requires fairly sophisticated data integration and modeling and is ge
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by sfifs 9y ago
Different cultures value things differently. In many societies east of Europe, things typically considered private in the west (work, salary, family, political affiliation/opinions etc., friends circle etc.) would be commonly accepted
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Ask HN: Any customizable contract document generation tool?
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by sfifs 9y ago
> Yes, but my model will be finished long before you have discovered your fourth parameter This attitude is one of the issues I encounter among data scientists which limits their impact in business to lower ticket decisions (like individ
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by sfifs 9y ago
> Imagine a dozen F-35s flying over a combat zone, and killing individual enemy soldiers with literal laser precision While I kind of agree with your point on the rail gun, manned aircraft loitering in any modern battlefront are essentia
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by sfifs 9y ago
Yup. But if you look at the reported P&L, they have grown revenue 2.5X over 6 quarters, held or slightly improved gross margins and grown op ex o slightly less than 2X in the same period. So clearly business is growing and growing healt
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by sfifs 9y ago
No one in the finance or investment industry I know sets much store by GAAP numbers which has lots of weird quirks [1] and isn't really helpful understanding the business. From what I read off the reported numbers, they made about a bi
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by sfifs 9y ago
The ruling actually seems very reasonable. Someone took a photo and posted it on his social media account. The platform license on those accounts presumably allows others to share as fair use Some for profit media companies then used the ph
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by sfifs 9y ago
> I feel like information just wants to be free. Even in today's web Information IS largely free and not ad supported. It is entertainment ("content") and communication that costs a lot of money to support and hence either
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by sfifs 9y ago
Maybe it isn't. The ability to freely say whatever you want has been something that's only been true in the US this century and in Europe after the world war (where still some kinds of talk is restricted). Historically this condi
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by sfifs 9y ago
Mr. Buffet has made his whole fortune beating the index. What he bet on was on average returns across hedge funds would be beaten by the index. Constituting this average will be some funds who make a lot of money for their investors consist
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by sfifs 9y ago
The questions typically are (1) Can you find an instrument that lets you bet on the mispricing (2) do you have the wherewithal to stay solvent for the arbitrary period of time it takes for the market to correct. Individual investors typical
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by sfifs 9y ago
There are only 2 major societal problems in the world (1) how to produce a lot of energy for cheap without damaging the ecosystem (2) how to get people to sustainably value common good at least at par with individual good. Given (1), a few
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by sfifs 9y ago
Is there any way to see the actual ruling? Not finding on search.
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by sfifs 9y ago
Well in India in arguably far more corrupt systems under the risk of actual physical violence that the police is helpless to stop, people have regularly voted out bad leaders from power. In the US, you get to vote on the congress far more f

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