sytelus

38 ms·

421.
by sytelus 5y ago
This is likely the biggest strategic mistake they did. Product specific sub-websites such as maps.google.com or office.microsoft.com are a must to expose diverse functionality properly. They tried to shove everything into same status-post w
422.
by sytelus 5y ago
I don’t understand why Facebook isn’t focusing on building more peer-to-peer services. For example, professional profiles, job posting, selling used goods, dating profiles, professional services such as nannies, Children's extracurricu
423.
by sytelus 5y ago
This is sensational title but things are taken way out of context. In academia, it's all about respect from peers. One can publish 100s of papers and it doesn't mean a shit. Only their peers know that they are shit. If your own de
424.
by sytelus 5y ago
Hiring in academia is weired because of freedom and essentially a life-time paychecks without any real commitment you have to make. So they need to make sure the person have an internal drive aka intrinsic motivation and has energy to go fo
425.
by sytelus 5y ago
You will either chase girlfriend/boyfriend or do something meaningful beyond procreation. For stunningly vast majority of people, they can’t have both. So, choose wisely.
426.
by sytelus 5y ago
None of this makes sense. If US didn’t use nuclear bombs, nothing would be different. Japan at that point was already devastated. They no longer had any ability of defense or attack. US and Allies were already winner and dictated rules of n
427.
by sytelus 5y ago
Why there aren’t viable competitors for Audible? Shouldn’t this be much easier than selling physical books?
428.
by sytelus 5y ago
Currency is backed by only one thing: army. Even during ancient times, when people thought that the currency was backed by gold, it really wasn't. Why? Think who owns all the gold mines? In ancient times, if you discovered a gold mine,
429.
by sytelus 5y ago
Now that it isn't, it cannot.
430.
by sytelus 5y ago
No country wants its currency tied to some restricted quantity. The entire idea of owning a currency by the government is be able to manipulate it. If Bitcoin can be currency, why not gold or something else?
431.
Move fast, rename things: Facebook tries to boost morale with new slogans(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by sytelus 5y ago|1 comments
432.
by sytelus 5y ago
If people getting married were forced to spend a day in divorce court, very few people would ever dare get married. "Love" is the biggest snake oil humans have produced and marketted to death. It's all good for survival of th
433.
by sytelus 5y ago
I have never appended reddit in my queries. I don’t find majority of Reddit credible or complete. The author here is extraordinarily hyperbolic. Reddit is not “next” search engine by any possible stretch of imagination. I would think search
434.
by sytelus 5y ago
This is only true in retrospect. When IoT was hot, everyone was eating up that story. A lot of people are still eating up IoT story because of rise in 5G. Also, competing in server market is very very hard. If they had exclusively focused
435.
by sytelus 5y ago
I also think creators of this font likely have not performed any market testing or studied price-revenue curves. I might take a bet that $5 flat price would produce higher revenues. Another option for them is to bundle many such fonts by fo
436.
by sytelus 5y ago
If you went 5 years back, I don’t think you would have predicted that sp500 will be yielding 87%. At that point in time, SoftBank would have looked pretty reasonable. So there is a survivorship bias when people compare with sp500. Now, let’
437.
by sytelus 5y ago
One of the most surprising things I keep finding after working in research: The probability that the children will become professional researchers with PhDs is extraordinarily higher if parents had PhDs or worked in education or in science.
438.
by sytelus 5y ago
Selling font direct to consumers is extremely bad business model. This doesn’t work. People are not keen on shelling out 100s of dollars when IDEs already come with decent fonts and other thousands of free fonts readily available. This font
439.
by sytelus 5y ago
How bad were your symptoms?
440.
by sytelus 5y ago
Aren't you missing the point that even though success percentage is low, it is still same as estimated average human performance? So it is impressive the overall system (however cluncky it is) is indeed able to match human performanc
441.
by sytelus 5y ago
I am more surprised by having such stunning growth by many big tech without actually having any new businesses. It used to be that 10% growth was a lot and now people scoff at even 30%.
442.
by sytelus 5y ago
I don't think people here realize how amazing this is. You are providing very little data and the machine is able to fit the closed-form recurrent relation out of it. Very little data and the clean simple expressions is the key. It&#x
443.
by sytelus 5y ago
These days, I don’t know if it makes sense at all to get sold out to anyone. Why not IPO? It’s a free never ending river of money that you can dip again and again. With proper voting structure, you retain full control and never fear dilutio
444.
by sytelus 5y ago
One of the best mask I have found is Cloud Mask. Super light weight, highly breahable and doesn't fog up my glasses. It's also the most expensive mask in this format. Is it possible you can add this one? https://www.ama
445.
by sytelus 5y ago
Is this so much worse than killing pig and salivating its meat and devouring it? Think about it, you are killing a living animal for your one meal when you had all the options in the world. Many people are not even eating it fully and sim
446.
by sytelus 5y ago
If Google went completely add free, they would need to charge $57 per year to entire US population. I bet vast majority of population will rather be willing to endure ads. HN bubble often forgets how small it is relative to whole population
447.
by sytelus 5y ago
This was the part I am also confused. Anacdotely, I haven’t seen mass exodus in big tech yet.
448.
by sytelus 5y ago
I am infinitely surprised why Elon Musk doesn't buy up cheap gas stations and turns them into all-electric charging stations. It turns out that customers are quite ok to pay close to gas prices as long as they feel they are getting bit
449.
by sytelus 5y ago
I have been frequenting AirBnBs way too much and now I can attest to creativity of the owners to spin weaknesses into strengths. For example, when you ready "cozy" in the title, be careful. Similarly "views" never mean a
450.
by sytelus 5y ago
This is one amazing article. Bravo!

More ›