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by shas3 9y ago
Rockets have been made in and around LA for ages. It is a defense industry hub, arguably the biggest outside DC area. Overview: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-socal-aerospace-201607...
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by shas3 9y ago
Bizarre article full of unsubstantiated claims (e.g. Midwest cities generally “spending years in the doldrums” huh? Twin Cities, Chicago, Kansas City, Indianapolis, etc. have consistently been doing well) and sketchy assumptions (mid-tech b
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by shas3 9y ago
Funny, you say that. Once upon a time, you could buy satellites, satellite dishes (DirecTV), IT services, and armaments from GM. [0] http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/business/with-hughes-sale-... [1] h
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by shas3 9y ago
Wow exactly the situation in india! We’ve had 2FA, mobile alerts, etc. ever since the dawn of the Internet banking in late 90s. Wasn’t so in the US even as recently as 2010.
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by shas3 9y ago
Just wannabe mega-Corp. Believe it or not, most mega-Corps are pretty ethical by Uber standards.
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by shas3 9y ago
Yeah this is almost the same experience in India too. Specialists like orthopedics, ob-gyn, etc. are often walk-in or same day appointments, and finish everything for under $50-$100. The only drawback with the overall health system in India
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by shas3 9y ago
They’re probably in the wrong company. Are you suggesting there are isn’t an explosion of jobs and applications requiring advance math and machine learning or statistical inference? If so you are off the mark.
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by shas3 9y ago
The dissing of PhDs is unwarranted. Gross over-generalization. People being skeptical of ideas in a peer-review sort of way can be both good and bad. For example, the assumptions and claims of this article can do with a substantial amount o
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by shas3 9y ago
The most famous case of foundations being sued for owning businesses is Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Hughes Aircraft, which was then the largest defense contractor in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_
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by shas3 9y ago
You’ll be downvoted for preaching frugality because many coastal-city HN software folk making six figure salaries are probably inimical to frugality: buying 3000 dollar bikes, luxury cars, eating at fancy restaurants, etc. in very anti-frag
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by shas3 9y ago
The argument for diversity as a good investment: 1. With high-income whites some dumb blokes may sneak in due to privilege and winging it based on family connections, etc. This might be happening at the expense of spunky smart low income wh
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by shas3 9y ago
Every paper that comes out of Apple gets disproportionate coverage! If nothing, their secrecy is helping in generating good publicity.
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by shas3 9y ago
“Code-monkey Indians” Huh? Casual racism.
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by shas3 9y ago
This is like saying, "why are you learning to play the piano when you could get the same results from listening to the track on Spotify?"
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by shas3 9y ago
Very similar to Heielmeier questions: http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Heilmeier_Questions.... Pretty universal set of things to check for in new ideas.
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by shas3 9y ago
Theoretically, yes. Can you give a more concrete example? Many hard high dimensional and general topology problems can be visualized through their 2D special cases.
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by shas3 9y ago
West Virginia is so beautiful, it is tragic that it’s ecompany is depressed. WVU owes a lot to the late Senator Robert Byrd.
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by shas3 9y ago
True about Slumberland, Ashley, and other brick and mortar furniture stores too.
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by shas3 9y ago
Ornithologists vs. aeronautical engineers... :)
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by shas3 9y ago
You forget the (smaller, repeatedly broken up) American auto counterpart of Continental: Delphi. Google them and you'll find they're doing pretty well of late.
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by shas3 9y ago
I think he clarifies this. Two things are germane: 1. Google is "more than just a company." It is more like an old style company-town by now. 2. They are the gatekeepers of all information ever. Perhaps we should hold them to diff
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by shas3 9y ago
Worth noting: for better or for worse, companies are autocratic dictatorships or at best, oligarchies: opinions of employees do not matter much, unless such opinions somehow affect revenue.
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by shas3 9y ago
Irony?
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by shas3 9y ago
The evolution of boxing presents a template of how football will go. Boxing today is a rather fringe sport in school. Few parents put their kids in boxing enthusiastically. Similarly, boxing matches, although viewed by millions, are rather
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by shas3 9y ago
There's a very similarly sized city on the west coast with similar population, etc.: Portland. It is a good illustration of what can help or harm cities. Portland lacks anchors like the one put down in Pittsburgh by robber barons. Late
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by shas3 9y ago
I grew up in India with an Indian language at home and school medium of instruction, English. I'm generally considered very good at written English (attested by great grades, scores, etc.) and good at articulation but average at gettin
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by shas3 9y ago
Huh? Learning can be fun, last I heard. In any case, that's what I meant when I said 'feedback'. Further, there are some skills that are absolutely necessary to learn to function in society, basic math, basic language skills,
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by shas3 9y ago
> Honestly, the whole "you need to get them when they are young" idea never convinced me very much. It's never too late to learn a thing and often you need a certain age to actually appreciate something. You don't hav
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by shas3 9y ago
> When the iPhone first came out, the way you measured your heart rate was by putting your finger over the camera on the back of the phone. Actually, no. Pulse-oximeters were always quite cheap. Also, Casio had heart rate (although not c
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by shas3 9y ago
I think the problem with hardware startups is more subtle. Unless you open up a fundamentally new market segment or find a niche application, your product is asking to be commodified. Smartwatches and fitness trackers were too obvious a cat

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