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Microsoft Joins the VR Battle with Windows Mixed Reality Today(theverge.com)
11 points by sologoub 9y ago|0 comments
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by sologoub 9y ago
The own/invest, but leave independent strategy assumes that Google itself hasn't benefited in some way from the work done. Further, you are also asking a corporation to admit that it's not as good at deploying capital as the
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by sologoub 9y ago
The article completely misses one key point - SV and the start-up cycle involve acquisitions that then result in payouts for founders, who then go on to fund additional companies, some of which exit and repeat the cycle. Even if Google did
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by sologoub 9y ago
Never said it was a palace, but it’s a house for less than what the program wants to spend on a unit, likely equivalent of a one bedroom.
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by sologoub 9y ago
There are ways around many of these things, including variance/non-conformity applications. But I’m sure you know that given your blog post. Boyle Heights is not a wealthy/expensive neighborhood and there is a large amount of hous
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by sologoub 9y ago
I’m LA resident and you can absolutely buy condos for less than that. In fact, here’s a whole house up the street from the lot for less: https://www.redfin.com/CA/Los-Angeles/411-N-Ditman-Ave-90063... This project
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by sologoub 9y ago
> Lorena Plaza, which would cost about $23 million, would qualify for the funds. 49 units at $23 million or $469k/unit. Is it me or is this an insanely high number? Remember, it's not even a house.
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by sologoub 9y ago
I was referring to Brookings naming it, not Amazon.
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by sologoub 9y ago
From the Brookings article: > Even if only a few of these assumptions about Amazon’s interests were correct, they would limit Amazon to only one to three places. Amazon already knows that, and given what we know about the company and the
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by sologoub 9y ago
Thanks!
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by sologoub 9y ago
You can make that statement about any country - some people are wealthy, while others are not. Chinese consumer economy is not the same size as US in nominal terms, so the ad spending can't be the same either. Which led me to question
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by sologoub 9y ago
But is that popular four-letter sports site in US or China? Typically, ad CPMs follow income levels/disposable incomes in the country/area the user is from. The quality of data the advertiser has about the specific user is also im
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by sologoub 9y ago
These revenue numbers strike me as a bit odd, even for US market with it’s relatively high CPMs: $2.5 billion / 365 days / 120 mil daily users * 20 ad impressions (assumption on my part) * 1000 impressions (to account for CPM pric
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by sologoub 9y ago
I wish they’d also fix the problem of Apple Pencil draining when in bag with the iPad - it seems to think it’s being used and is trying to transmit to the iPad. I’ve been turning off Bluetooth to deal with this stupidity, now I have to turn
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Smoke from American Wildfires Made It All the Way to France(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by sologoub 9y ago|0 comments
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by sologoub 9y ago
Are you taking pre-orders for this?! On a more serious note, this just sounds awesome and could work towards workforce mobility as well. Unfortunately, people commuting in RVs will probably make traffic a lot worse.
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by sologoub 9y ago
These figures are from 2015 numbers, so a bit old. No billions per employee, but still not too terrible: http://www.businessinsider.com/revenue-per-employee-at-apple... Apple is listed at $2.1 mil/employee, Google at $
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by sologoub 9y ago
What does this have to do with the article? People (all people) fled violence, hunger and death that came from a series of conflicts so dire that some populations haven't fully recovered still. Add to that incredible amounts of politic
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by sologoub 9y ago
The renderings they are showing for newer plans (at 1:27 of the video) seem to indicate a soil later running a long the wall of the building, in addition to the roof. As the result water would naturally travel down that wall and into the su
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by sologoub 9y ago
Absolutely not - Russian women had less choice following the collapse as the country's economy declined. The paper I cited does not claim that USSR had managed to transform an otherwise very prejudice society into an equal egalitarian
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by sologoub 9y ago
Here's an actual citation to prove the USSR anecdote as true: http://www.asee.org/public/conferences/20/papers/6985/downlo... > Since the Communist Revolution of 1917 and during the ensuring
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by sologoub 9y ago
How about a public s3 bucket curated by a non-profit? Tools exist already to upload to S3 from practically every device, especially Android. Curation would be much harder, but there is a lot of money in philanthropy and I could see some dee
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by sologoub 9y ago
The main advantage seems to be no travel the morning of and no need for a hotel for previous night. However, I usually do 6-7am flights and get there before 9am, 10am to office after BART from SFO. Flights back go as late as 9pm. In the end
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by sologoub 9y ago
Bay Area has natural choke points because of bridges and terrain. Because of this you can still have fairly efficient setup with some driving and park'n'rides at the hubs. This is a lot harder to do with LA sprawl.
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by sologoub 9y ago
For sure - these investments need to be made together, otherwise it won't work. Say we build more housing but it's across the bay. Those bridges and BART can only transport so many people. That said, I do think that transportation
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by sologoub 9y ago
You can also invest in improving public transit and shoring up what you already have - for example, BART and systems like it could be used to link areas more effectively/reliably. In talking with some friends in the Bay Area, all feel
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World’s first self-fuelling boat – Energy Observer – starts 6 year world tour(ybw.com)
1 points by sologoub 9y ago|0 comments
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by sologoub 9y ago
Was thinking the exact same thing. One possible reason would be wrong info, but you could use some sort of weighted algorithm that would need more than one submission to match and/or trust level per submitter based on historical correc
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by sologoub 9y ago
The employee stock is still in lockup period, so they saw exactly no profits on this as of yet. This article is taking about July 31 as the earliest lockup expiration, but not clear as to which class of stock this is for: "The perceive
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by sologoub 9y ago
Thanks, interesting read. I think the key here is that stop sign is treated as a yield sign and not an automatic right of way. That distinction makes a lot of sense to me, but is quite different from what I've been observing in my neig

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