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871.
by sib 8y ago
Sure - something I've been wanting to do for a while. I just wrote a Medium post, as I think it's a longer topic than HN comments are optimized for. Please take a read and let me know whether it's helpful. https://
872.
by sib 8y ago
No, sorry, didn't mean to imply that. In the case of the acquisition memo, there was no prior (we'd had no previous conversation about the area at all). It was simply something that we thought was clear enough to distill the reaso
873.
by sib 8y ago
The magic is that the writing typically doesn't take that long. It's the digging in, researching, learning, hypothesis building, validation, etc., that may take quite a while. But that's why the documents are so powerful; onc
874.
by sib 8y ago
Yes, definitely. I wrote (or contributed significantly to) dozens of docs for Jeff Bezos and his senior team. It was important to understand whether you were writing a 2-pager or a 6-pager (depended on a number of factors, mostly relating t
875.
by sib 8y ago
You can definitely still watch them through Vudu. Even if you've purchased them elsewhere (at a different UV retailer), connect your UV account to Vudu and the titles will "import" to your Vudu account.
876.
by sib 8y ago
I've ridden in an i3 a lot (good friend owns one) and I own a Model 3, and they are _completely_ different cars. They both have 4 tires and will get you from point A to point B, but that's about it.
877.
by sib 8y ago
Also, that they were lying to him. (Not agreeing with wage / tip theft, of course, but, as an employer, you need to be able to believe your employees.)
878.
by sib 8y ago
I didn't say that it was.
879.
by sib 8y ago
"They are still predicted to report the second highest revenues this quarter of any company in history - only surpassed by their previous record." Profits, perhaps, but not revenues.
880.
by sib 8y ago
I was a math major and was taught (as in elementary, middle, and high school), that the "average" is the mean...
881.
by sib 8y ago
Amazon's already had to go through the growing pains of doing that once (in Seattle) and probably learned that they didn't want to do it again.
882.
by sib 8y ago
And yet, cars kill many, many more people (1.25 million in 2013, per WHO) than mass surveillance does. And parent didn't qualify his statement as to which products the oath would apply to: "Anything I build can and will be abused.
883.
by sib 8y ago
That's like saying "I'm trying to make it dark by turning on the lights." You can;'t make excuses for them by saying that, even though they are recklessly endangering other lives, they're doing it under pretens
884.
by sib 8y ago
That's the perfect time to call for regulations to make it harder for your competitors to catch up. cf Regulatory Capture ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture )
885.
by sib 8y ago
So, if I'm an assembly line worker at GM and someone buys a pickup truck and intentionally drives it into a crowd, murdering 20 people, I should get the death penalty as a serial killer? Obviously hyperbolic, but not very different at
886.
by sib 8y ago
>> "A gallon is still a base 10 unit of measure of water (10 pounds of water)." Not sure what you are getting at here. A gallon is about 8.3 lbs (3.8kg). A gallon is 128 oz, a nice base-2 number.
887.
by sib 8y ago
Productivity is literally defined is the ratio of the output (revenue) to the input being measured. It has nothing to do with profit.
888.
by sib 8y ago
I'd say that, unfortunately, this is a case of designers trying to capital-D "Design" rather than truly understanding & solving user / customer problems. Given the wide variety of use cases and user needs (which are
889.
by sib 8y ago
Sorry, but that is a very simplistic way of seeing it. For example: If you date someone who works for you, and you have multiple subordinates (as most managers do), and you rate / evaluate those subordinates (as most managers do), and
890.
Vudu Orders MGM Shows for VOD Service(variety.com)
1 points by sib 8y ago|0 comments
891.
A High-End Mover Dishes on Truckstop Hierarchy(longreads.com)
11 points by sib 8y ago|1 comments
892.
by sib 8y ago
They don't have anywhere near close to 51% of American commerce. * Total US Retail sales in 2018: ~$5.4 Trillion * Amazon trailing 12 months revenue as of June 30, 2018: $208B. This is a little less than 4% (and that's assuming al
893.
by sib 8y ago
Many (most?) NDAs between companies represented by competent counsel do have notification provisions (if Company A is compelled to disclose information covered under the A/B NDA, Company A is required to inform Company B of the fact [u
894.
by sib 8y ago
The difference is that, if they take your phone away, there is nothing stopping them from putting child pornography (or terrorism plans, or a keylogger) on it without your knowledge.
895.
by sib 8y ago
The problem is, `/docs/plan-to-hijack-airnz-plane.txt` can easily be downloaded from the cloud once you're in-country, so you can just not keep it on your phone. This is a significant difference compared to bring in explosive
896.
Want to grow these apples? You'll have to join the club(npr.org)
3 points by sib 8y ago|0 comments
897.
by sib 8y ago
Extremely assuming they are done by good lawyers and that both parties are represented. (YMMV depending on jurisdiction, of course.)
898.
by sib 8y ago
This is exactly the reason that "normal people" (not just celebrities and the super-wealthy) sign pre-nuptial agreements. As a lawyer will tell you, if you don't make those decisions with your partner, the state will make the
899.
by sib 8y ago
"Consumers don't pay for regulations except in those situations where demand for a product/service outstrips supply." This doesn't make sense. Demand may outstrip supply at a certain price , but that just means tha
900.
by sib 8y ago
They will try to sell access to you based on the information that they have about you, but they will generally not sell the information they have about you. (For one thing, they could only do that once...)

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