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by teej 9y ago
Please spend the time to read the link before spreading FUD. “In order to use Ticket Tag, you simply place your finger on a reader. The system, which utilizes the technology of biometrics, takes an image of your finger, converts the image i
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by teej 9y ago
This is an interesting question - who loses by IPOing first? The company who did it first or the company who comes next? It seems like it Lyft has everything to gain and little to lose by building a growth story and rushing out to IPO. They
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by teej 9y ago
Putting on my tin foil hat. > Is is possible to create a cubesat that looks and smells like it is doing one mission but is actually doing a different mission? You mean like Zuma which SpaceX launched and then was declared as "lost&q
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by teej 9y ago
I think you forgot to click the “inflation adjusted” checkbox. The real rate of return is closer to ~7%. Also caveat emptor - past performance is no guarantee of future results.
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by teej 9y ago
The Onavo Protect app description is below. ----- Onavo Protect helps keep you and your data safe when you browse and share information on the web. This powerful app helps keep you safe by understanding when you visit potentially malicious
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by teej 9y ago
If you want a fun story of making terrible long term choices based on faulty rate of return numbers, look no farther than MLB player Bobby Banilla ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Bonilla ). The Mets wanted to get r
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by teej 9y ago
It's worth noting that this is targeted at FIRE folks - people who want financial independence (don't need to work to live) and want to retire early. To be able to retire 10+ years before the average american, you want to have a m
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by teej 9y ago
Yeah, it's also using a 9% rate of return for the "conservative" scenario and 12% for aggressive. Due to the exponential nature of compound interest, just a single point of overoptimism in your real growth number leads to a m
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by teej 9y ago
To be honest, you could be totally right. I went back to look at my records of the trip and my memories of the trip before writing my comment. I also spent a bunch of time looking at a map trying to remember. I definitely spent time in Kuma
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by teej 9y ago
Totally. Literacy in Ghana is way up. Solar panel prices are way down. Smartphones are cheaper than ever. But despite all that, progress can still be slow in poor, underfunded areas of developing countries.
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by teej 9y ago
What I did was volun-tourism and is generally looked down upon. I did not help anyone. Ghana was not better off for me having gone there. I personally benefitted from it but to pretend that my “volunteering” had an impact is silly. There ar
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by teej 9y ago
So I’ve been to Kumasi before. Take this with a grain of salt - this was over 10 years ago and I was there on a two week voluntourism trip. Here are some of the reasons it’s hard to use real computers as a part of the ciriculum there. * Ele
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by teej 9y ago
I assumed it was a snarky shot at in app purchases for games.
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by teej 9y ago
Yep. I imagine if they went after Supercell that Apple or Google might get involved, at which point a tiny patent troll would get destroyed.
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by teej 9y ago
I am in the middle of a project similar to what uber is doing and it leans very heavily on this library. Thank you so much for this! I would not have been able to pull it off without libpg_query.
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by teej 9y ago
If they maintain the current trend of lowering costs, keeping headcount growth in line with revenue, and continuing to achieve economies of scale in sales and marketing then they will show a profit in the next couple of years. They don&#x27
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by teej 9y ago
I currently work at an e-commerce company and there has been a ton of debate around how "algorithmically driven" Stitch Fix actually is. The general feel in the space from non-technologists is that computers cannot do this job wel
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by teej 9y ago
There's nothing shocking and I think that bodes very very well for Dropbox. It looks like a solid foundation with great growth. The standouts to me were - * They cut costs on an absolute and relative basis for the last two years. Thi
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by teej 9y ago
SNAP's infrastructure story in the S-1 filing was a mess. They had 2016 revenue of $404M with a cost of revenue of $451M. A 5 year, $2 billion dollar vendor lock-in to Google. They basically admitted that Google has them completely by
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by teej 9y ago
I always find juicy information in the S1 that doesn't get reported on right away. Off the top of my head: * Reliance and risks of Zynga in the Facebook S-1 * Customer acquisition costs in the Blue Apron S-1 * Growth specifics and posi
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Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt [pdf](static.googleusercontent.com)
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Down with Pipeline Debt / Introducing Great Expectations(medium.com)
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by teej 9y ago
Hard to fake a billion dollar exit.
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by teej 9y ago
The city of San Francisco spends $40,000 per person per year on the city’s homeless population. That was $241 million in 2016 [0]. The issue of homelessness is complicated but is made worse by terrible mismanagement by the city. [0] - http
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by teej 9y ago
This YouTube video seems to be the PBS episode mentioned - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmCsztQz4s0
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by teej 9y ago
It’s not uncommon to freeze 3rd party libs. Do you want a 3rd party provider to have access to hot deploy to your website?
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by teej 9y ago
Exactly this. Whatever happened to “you can’t time the market”? Don’t day trade with your 401k.
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by teej 9y ago
It’s not the same as the paper for performance reasons. This is noted in the github README. Martin said on Software Engineering Daily late last year that Automerge was three orders of magnitude faster than his published version of the JSON
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by teej 9y ago
I think the market will continue to anchor their value on the number of listings and number of stays. AirBnB may be quickly growing revenue per user but that might not be enough to move the top line if listings is dropping. They seem to be
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by teej 9y ago
It got similarly banned in the French Quarter in New Orleans. Except there they aren’t having an issue cracking down on illegal sublets/short term rentals. It is showing in the real estate market too, there are a lot of properties newl

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