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by thatcherclay 13y ago
Anyone know the ratio of speculative investing versus real goods/services transactions on bitcoin? I ask because it would not surprise me if 90% of all transactions go to people buying/selling against other currencies, which just
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by thatcherclay 13y ago
It is really impressive when you think about it; the level of genius that goes into tricking our brains to like this synthetic mush is astonishing. But only the same way that the porn industry is astonishing in some ways - both appeal to a
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by thatcherclay 13y ago
The value prop of catastrophic health insurance never fully made sense to me - if I need it, then I am in bad shape, and whether I would have to go bankrupt to pay for it or pay through some insurance is not super important. Seems likely t
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New York Neighborhoods in the 40s(1940snewyork.com)
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by thatcherclay 13y ago
We had a caved in office in our last space, and the expected downsides from now having enough casual conversations bit us. Engineering did not know what client services was doing, client services did not talk to sales, and leadership was h
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by thatcherclay 13y ago
Second that - for people who make the ethical/moral reason for limiting or abstaining from eating/using animal products, this is quite troubling. Seems like food companies could strike a reasonable middle ground by labeling foods
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Where is Mansfield going?(allthingsd.com)
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by thatcherclay 13y ago
TruEffect ( http://www.trueffect.com/careers/ ) - NYC - Full time TruEffect is an ad tech company that provides ad serving and advanced analytics to some of the most sophisticated digital advertisers in the country. We
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by thatcherclay 13y ago
I would love to hear the perspective of a native chinese person here - a little hard to take the New York Times as an unbiased source given the tension there lately.
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by thatcherclay 13y ago
I think the most valuable thing this is pointing out is that the nature of the problem is shifting to an integration challenge - how to hook together the 5 or 6 services that I will need to get everything up and running. Most web driven bu
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by thatcherclay 14y ago
This is great - wish the government would go the next step and open up the traffic optimization to the general tech/data community to help. Think of Netflix recommendation challenge, but helping millions of people cut down on their commute
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Young People Managing Old People - How To Guide(linkedin.com)
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by thatcherclay 14y ago
Could not agree with parts of this more - in particular, companies that think about bringing on data scientists to extract value from their "big data" would often be better off investigating whether they have the right architecture in place
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by thatcherclay 14y ago
There is a pretty simple economic argument that people need to consider before jumping into the cookies are bad camp. The market for display ad inventory alone in the past year was to the tune of $40b in the US. There are 250m active inte
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by thatcherclay 14y ago
Creative deal, I like it. Anything that gets people off their couch and building something is a winner in my book. This is something that I half completed, but stopped because I lacked the marketing chops: http://www.mailreceipts.com/