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DoorDash Checkout Bug(reddit.com)
1 points by sna1l 7y ago|0 comments
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by sna1l 7y ago
There are probably a lot of factors that have contributed to the increase in high risk drinking, but even if we ignore that, I feel like the trade-off being made here is acceptable. People who maybe prior couldn't imbibe due to no publ
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DoorDash raises 100M at 13B Valuation(cnbc.com)
1 points by sna1l 7y ago|0 comments
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“Lack of diversity in tech is no accident”(twitter.com)
4 points by sna1l 7y ago|3 comments
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Sleep Deprivation in NBA Players(espn.com)
115 points by sna1l 7y ago|120 comments
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WeWork Seeks $4bn Lifeline(markets.businessinsider.com)
3 points by sna1l 7y ago|3 comments
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by sna1l 7y ago
The new iPhone reminded me of this camera: https://light.co/camera
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by sna1l 7y ago
Seems like if it is affecting their services so broadly it is a server configuration change
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by sna1l 7y ago
Honestly, I have no idea. Lots of people have gotten very used to taking Uber/Lyft places. Once the prices go up, will that behavior change? The original iPhone sold at 500 to 1500 for the XSMax 512 GB. Obviously it isn't an apple
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by sna1l 7y ago
I forgot where I read the article, but someone mentioned that the Softbank strategy seems to be to geared towards having 2 major players in ridesharing/delivery in each market. The idea was that when these companies go public, they wil
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by sna1l 7y ago
Their stock price has recovered a lot of the losses they experienced after the hack. https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/EFX#eyJpbnRlcnZhbCI6ImRheSIs...
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by sna1l 7y ago
Product looks nice and as someone getting married & having a bachelor party this is a big pain point. Didn't see any mention about how the data would be used though. Will my data be mined/sold? Also, I didn't see any abil
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by sna1l 8y ago
Really playing fast and loose with the word "homeless" here...
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by sna1l 8y ago
Another question is what is stopping Amazon/Instacart/etc from copying this model? Presumably Amazon Go shops have this capability and it could be modified to suit end consumers in their homes?
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Uber Competing Against Kalanick's CloudKitchens(bloomberg.com)
1 points by sna1l 8y ago|0 comments
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PG&E files for Chapter 11(reuters.com)
2 points by sna1l 8y ago|0 comments
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by sna1l 8y ago
I know that growth is obviously important, and Apple has had bigger quarters, but estimating $84 billion of revenue with a 38% gross margin in a SINGLE quarter is wild.
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Johnson and Johnson knew about asbestos in baby powder for decades(thehill.com)
5 points by sna1l 8y ago|1 comments
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Facebook gave Lyft and Airbnb special user data access(engadget.com)
1 points by sna1l 8y ago|0 comments
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by sna1l 8y ago
It seems like reducing the cost/making MRIs more comfortable would be much more useful. Presumably if the machines didn't cost 3-5 million, with huge energy requirements, etc, you could get scanned a lot more often which probably
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by sna1l 8y ago
> And like so many other ideas, if the sales pitch is real, if the scientists can deliver, if the hypothesis can move to theory – and the theory become applicable in a scalable, manufacturable good – then all the rules change.
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by sna1l 8y ago
Great, thanks! It looks like they didn't account for family wealth unless I'm mistaken. In the omitted variables section: > However, prior research using longitudinal data from Australia with corrections for measurement error s
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by sna1l 8y ago
I am unable to read the actual study (paywall) and this article doesn't really talk about the methodology, but did they account for socioeconomic factors? I would assume on average that the more books your family could afford, the mo
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by sna1l 8y ago
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/08/29/waymos-sel... Surprising that Waymo has figured out rain but not things like left turns. Different problem spaces I'd imagine, but still surprising.
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by sna1l 8y ago
First public trillion dollar company, right? Source: http://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-valuable-companies-all-...
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by sna1l 8y ago
A lot of people were waiting for a macbook pro refresh so that might be the reason for lower sales.
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Coinbase Exploring Altcoins: ADA, BAT, XLM, ZEC, and ZRX(twitter.com)
2 points by sna1l 8y ago|0 comments
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by sna1l 8y ago
I found the book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann to be a good, practical primer on a lot of these topics. If you want to go deeper on any of the subjects he discusses, his references for every chapter a
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by sna1l 8y ago
> The executives at Blockbuster had skin in the game, they were experts, they got their asses kicked. Last election the Democrats had skin in the game, they were experts, they got their asses kicked. Recently the institutional Tesla shor
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by sna1l 8y ago
The limits of expertise seem to be due to the lack of skin in the game for these so called experts. Source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/beware-fau...

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