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by smeyer 12y ago
You're joking, right? If so, sorry for not being sure. If not, the answer is that lots of people do try writing books with startup advice, but there's no one with the power to wave a magic wand and make a book "definitive&quo
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by smeyer 12y ago
There are a lot of reasons telescopes use mirrors over lenses, only some of which this resolves. Also, will Capasso's work scale to the meters wide telescopes that you want so as to collect a lot of light?
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by smeyer 12y ago
This doesn't sound like what happened in the case here, but dilution can happen due to reasonable funding rounds. If you own 1 share out of 100 and then the company decides to go to some investors and raise $10 million, they might give
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by smeyer 12y ago
I'd wager the word's been used on galactic scales before.
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by smeyer 12y ago
This also requires not having any moral qualms about misleading your employer. That's probably a bigger block than confidentiality for most people.
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by smeyer 12y ago
The point of the previous commenter is that even if it's to convey very real emotion, it makes your comment harder to take seriously and actually lessens the impact of it.
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by smeyer 12y ago
Wikipedia puts the fraction of the U.S. population using the internet at about 81%.[1] They link to a source, but beware it links straight to an excel file[2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_United_Sta
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by smeyer 12y ago
Getting the IPs remoed from Sky's list might be a viable solution, but I think just opting out of the adult blacklist isn't. The client probably cares substantially about whether his site is visible to the (I assume) many people i
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by smeyer 12y ago
The 100k was in reference to cash. I know people who have gotten up to $500k in vesting equity upon graduation.
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by smeyer 12y ago
Yes, in tech. Your typical Googamafacesoft type companies. There are people with similar offers in finance, but they're not to whom I was referring in the earlier comment.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I went to Harvard, so most of the examples I know are from Harvard at the common hot employers. I know of some examples from other schools, though. It's also often the case that not all hires get a six figure signing bonus at a particu
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by smeyer 12y ago
I know people on the east coast with $100k signing bonuses straight out of college. There are definitely coastal differences, but I don't think it's impossible to find some examples on the east coast as well.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I just googled "download skype for mac" without the quotes and an ad for the mentioned site was the first result. Another non-skype site's ad was second, and the first real result was the expected download page on skype'
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by smeyer 12y ago
I hope I didn't misstate myself, but I was not claiming that the linked book was an example of new pedagogy. I was just pointing out that it's not sufficient to consider whether the principles of the subject have changed but that
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by smeyer 12y ago
Why would you do that? Then the truck would have bad aerodynamics all the time just in case a third party drone wanted to hitch a ride some of the time. If you're going to start using trucks in bulk to transport drones intentionally, t
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by smeyer 12y ago
I'm not claiming the price is justified, but it's not just about the "definitions of slopes and limits" changing. In some subjects, there may be improvements in pedagogy that justify new texts even if the material itself
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by smeyer 12y ago
>so as long as the car arrives in 20-mins ish I have to say, this is not a use case that any of my friends typically use when using Uber right now. Often it's people going to work or to meet up with other people (20 minutes makes
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by smeyer 12y ago
There are some interesting relevant plots in this presentation (found via a google search): http://www.lpi.usra.edu/vexag/meetings/STIM/presentations/Cr... .
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by smeyer 12y ago
At the school I attended, the quiet parts of the libraries were the parts where people were studying alone. The places in libraries where people studied together (small rooms for studying or larger open rooms with lessened sound restriction
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by smeyer 12y ago
No, not at all. They don't seem to be actively pushing Earth and seem to be pushing aspects of it in Maps instead. It doesn't look like a heavy push to "hook" people on Earth.
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by smeyer 12y ago
Do you have data for this? I don't, but anecdotally, I grew up with parents with around this income who openly discussed wages. While they might be outliers (both economists), many of my friends who grew up with similar family incomes
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by smeyer 12y ago
I mean, the FCC isn't going to fix it instantly, even if you do get online. I assume you're being sarcastic, but if not, the idea is that if you realize a hotel is blocking your hot spot, report them next time you get a chance to
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by smeyer 12y ago
>forcing it upon them will do nobody any good I'm not saying it would be a net good or a net bad, but it would presumably save a number of lives. This might still be a net bad with the increased distrust and loss of choice and all t
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by smeyer 12y ago
Are you asking how airbnb could have spent money to attract users? For example, they could have spent money to provide a discount (charge the guest $100, pay the host $200, both are more likely to join than at a market rate of $150). Also,
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by smeyer 12y ago
Yes, lots of people use YouTube. But bsder claimed that everyone in that demographic that they know goes "straight" to YouTube, and I was presenting the countering anecdote that I know loads of people in that demographic who use Y
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by smeyer 12y ago
You need to meet more 15-30 year olds. I'm part of that demographic, and many of my friends view Spotify as the first stop and Youtube as a backup if Spotify doesn't have the desired content
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by smeyer 12y ago
I started googling around to find a definition for "Mandela effect" and came across some people with some rather odd views on quantum mechanics. That was bizarre.
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by smeyer 12y ago
>they are unlikely to get much more at a real company It depends on the school. For my friends going into software out of college, 90k was towards the bottom end (the top end was more like 200k).
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by smeyer 12y ago
I don't think anyone was implying that they are being "more ethical" or "less ethical" than their counterpart in a negotiation. Many people care about behaving ethically, even when dealing with unethical people on t
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by smeyer 12y ago
Didn't The Sun just decide to stop printing topless women on page 3? I thought I heard they were replacing them with regular old scantily clad women or something.

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