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by shimon 9y ago
Start with Scott Adams' financial checklist: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scott-adams-financial-advice/ Note the item about hiring a fee-based financial advisor. I hired one starting a few years ago even th
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There are a lot of insecure managers who don't want to be challenged on the merits of their decisions. There are also lots of individual contributors on teams who are strident in their beliefs even though they might be informed only fr
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This is an interesting move, a design/manufacturing/retail company buying a labor marketplace company. Ikea has grown a ton based on having widely appealing products at extremely low prices. Their growth over the past decade has b
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Just to clarify, a studio apartment is the smallest and cheapest type of apartment. It usually consists of a single room combining kitchen/living area/bedroom and a bathroom. The only cheaper way to live would be with roommates or
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by shimon 9y ago
Cool, but the Amazon Go store relies on you authenticating yourself (and presumably paying) via an app. Do you think they contemplated doing visual ID of the shopper, or would it just be too creepy to walk into the store and have it say &qu
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by shimon 9y ago
I agree with most of this, but I'm confused about something. Are you saying that it's not OK to prioritize the needs/realities of certain groups of people? I think there are situations where it's clearly not OK - for exa
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by shimon 9y ago
2040 startup idea: body-identity-based micro-credit. "You forgot your wallet, but you look fairly legit. For a 5% surcharge, we'll give you that coffee now. Pay this IOU online later. In case of nonpayment, you consent to nationwi
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Yeah - it's hard to imagine a world where rail shipment, parcel delivery, industrial warehousing, and efficient processing of mail orders are recent technological developments. But they were! And bringing tech into the domain of consum
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This is a good list. But I'm wondering what makes you think Amazon has lost direct ordering from China to Alibaba? Amazon makes this process pretty smooth, where a Chinese vendor can directly compete alongside other marketplace sellers
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Many poor people have smartphones. They're a big force in getting more people access to the internet and other technology, which is probably overall positive even though it has some significant negative repercussions. https:/&#x2
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Seriously. Is this something that's already commonplace, and tech like this jacket can make less distracting? Or does this kind of stuff just enable humans to do more stuff with a fixed budget of risk? (see https://en.wikipe
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by shimon 9y ago
This does sound ironic, but the scope of what Sears Roebuck offered was staggeringly greater than what you could get at any brick and mortar store. For a time you could even order a house: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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They only made that mistake for one generation. We have to assume the rationale for the *40 models was "look, apple is doing it, clearly we can make this clickpad thing work". And then the rationale was "holy shit literally e
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FWIW, you can buy a panel separately and retrofit it. I've done this a couple of times and gotten much nicer hi-res screens for around $100-150.
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DeepMacro | New York, NY or Hanover, NH (no remote) | Full-time or contract http://deepmacro.com/ We're seeking Data Scientists and Matlab/Octave Engineers. DeepMacro collects and analyzes data from across the int
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by shimon 9y ago
What actually happens: 1. Alice does have debt, and does intend to acquire debt in the future, like most people. The presence of this fraudulent debt in her credit report makes credit more expensive and hard to get. 2. Before filing suit an
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by shimon 9y ago
How does NAT create this limitation? Maybe I'm confused by your use of "connection" here but a device behind NAT can handle multiple connections just fine, and the common techniques for poking through NAT are not limited to a
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As noted elsewhere in this thread, the filters are ORs not ANDs. There are 26 total companies on the site right now.
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In addition to location, you'll also want to filter on: - company size - years experience desired - compensation offered (one of the things that makes AngelList jobs and the monthly HN jobs post so effective is that it's the norm
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by shimon 9y ago
What are you trying to accomplish here? It looks like a nicely structured rigorous filtering tool based on values. But when you view the details for any company, it's not really rigorous. It's a narrative from the company with a c
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by shimon 9y ago
Aren't most of these web-based, now that it's 2017? Serious question - surely there are some custom non-web apps but I doubt they'd have released this if they didn't see some large companies who would find it a compell
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If you're sufficiently motivated, you can do this today with Virtual Credit Card Numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_payment_number#Virt...
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In the US, employers ultimately shoulder much of the burden of health care costs, so a tool that helps employees make cost-saving choices eventually saves money for the employer. However, that's a very indirect path. Most employers u
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You're working in an area that has tremendous room for improvement. The giant in this space is Castlight Health. How do you guys differentiate? Are you targeting a specific market? (Geographic, specific health plans, procedures, etc.)
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For anyone shopping for a good deal: The Lenovo Outlet sells refurbished products for a great discount. They often get inventory in bursts, so if you want a good deal figure out your search criteria and check repeatedly. I got a T460s with
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by shimon 9y ago
The T4[567]0s series are tapered at the edge as well. The -s suffix is the lighter version, basically similar to X1 series but with more ports/battery options/upgradability.
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Yes, you're doing it wrong. If you're not learning something significant, i.e. that changes what you build, then you're probably testing the wrong thing. One way to focus more is to look at what you're currently plannin
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Sure. But for approximately the same level of effort, you could generate a new paper in the same template. It would likely be easier to get that "novel result" published than the refutation.
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Yes, that's what I meant. Windows was a commoditizing force on PC hardware makers. Microsoft did the commoditizing here by taking their market power that came from controlling the thing people wanted most, and enforcing standards that
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