theologic

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by theologic 7y ago
1. The Ioannidis article is published here. It's a quick read. https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a... 2. Quite frankly, his argument makes little to no sense to me. He throws o
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by theologic 7y ago
I am tremendously torn by this: a. We have multiple indications that this is an adjunct therapy that can help b. Humans are exceptionally easy to fool, and we know that placebos are incredibly effective because they trick our brain into cre
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by theologic 8y ago
As an engineering with an accounting degree, it is rare that I get to point out that this is fairly well understood by the bean counters. I'm not saying that you are wrong, but I think that we can simplify it. Once you get a handle o
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by theologic 8y ago
That's another angle I wasn't thinking of. I'm no expert, but the Blackstone group and some REITS already focus single houses and renting them out. The REIT market is well understood, thus having a easy line of investors. I
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by theologic 8y ago
I'm struggling with the angle here. A. The secret to AirBNB is that everybody had extra space, and Gig Economy allow you to get value out of your extra space. B. When you are in the Gig Economy, you have two things that you need to do:
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by theologic 8y ago
1. The market for PCs were virtually 100% business buyers in 1985. The non-business buyer would buy Apple IIs, which I didn't sell. I had a lot of small business and/or individual businesses. Large businesses like Boeing would
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by theologic 8y ago
Maybe this is a bit difficult for me to be non-biased because I started working on putting hard drives into the original IBM PC in our gray market shop, and I've been working (or leading engineering teams) that have integrated hard dri
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by theologic 8y ago
Let's use 1985-1986 because that's when I was active at the store. There were about 8M computers sold, and assuming Byte continued to sell at around 400K copies, this mean that there were 5% subscribers to every PC bought, or 1 ou
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by theologic 8y ago
Computer and Applications in Bellevue on NE 8th, by the old John Dantz theater. I was there from 1985 to 1986, then I went back to the UW to get my EE degree. I had all types of people, and the the occasional Microsofter, as customers. We
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by theologic 8y ago
For context, when these machines were being sold, nobody even thought about performance in these terms. It is only later that we are benchmarking old machines to understand the performance gaps, and if you weren't there, you might thi
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by theologic 8y ago
I agree that a GPS solution would not trigger backlash. I just think that GPS are not cheap enough. Lo/Jack is the perfect example. For around $1000, you could protect your $30K car. Sounds great doesn't it? Seems like everybo
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by theologic 8y ago
I think this all changes in the nearish future. In my line of work, we sell an extraordinary amount of hard drives to surveillance companies. As an old timer, I've seen this "edge of the wedge" happen twice before, and it fe
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by theologic 9y ago
Yup, it's hard to get rid of spinning rust unless you want to spend 10x the cost. While we don't have a good future in the sport car market (SSDs), we are truly the good guys are storing lots of stuff cheap on a cent/GB leve
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by theologic 9y ago
Interesting, if you check the leadership at WD, virtually all of them came from HGST. (President, CFO, COO, etc.) This was a case where the acquiring company became the acquired, and they moved their headquarters from SoCal to NorCal, the
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by theologic 9y ago
The NAND industry went into a severe shortage (as NAND goes) along with DRAM. However, NAND shortage happened due to 2D to 3D. While 3D allows for high cell density, it also made Capex go from about 8B to around 25B as an industry. One o
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by theologic 9y ago
As a side note, WD bought SanDisk. While they had bought STEC before this, SanDisk brought scale and much larger engineering force. WD had a great brand, and these two things may work together for them.
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by theologic 9y ago
Since there is some confusion about why investors would support the TSLA stock price, I thought I would pull a couple of sell-side analysts reports to see what industry watchers were saying. (I happen to currently have a business role runn
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by theologic 10y ago
It is difficult to diagnose this on a forum, but I'm going to suggest another angle. Unless there has been something radically change in your life, I'm going to suggest that you are simply having a run of "bad luck." 1.
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by theologic 10y ago
I'm roughly 14 years younger than Woz, and I grew up in Seattle reading about the exploits of the Steves. While I started at a startup in Seattle at 17 years of age, I've never reached any real fame. But I was always a fanboy of
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by theologic 11y ago
Actually email is worth thinking about because if you didn't live it, you might not understand it's path or impact. I came to age in technology at a strange age, being at a start-up in 1979 in high school, then getting my EE degre
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by theologic 11y ago
Got a new job in May so slowed me down, but got through around 8 this year. I'm a Lencioni fan: Death by Meeting -- Describes 3 types of meetings Getting Naked -- Describes how to consult I'm also a Marshall Goldsmith fan: What G
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by theologic 11y ago
Let us not forget John's excellent Hackers Diet. I've been logging weight for years at www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/HackDiet. Lost around 30 pounds, which made me happy.
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by theologic 11y ago
The author was recommended by David Allen, of GTD fame. A lot of his thought is leveraged and in the same school of Kahneman and Tversky.
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Some Thoughts on Why Open Offices Ruins Productivity(docs.google.com)
1 points by theologic 11y ago|1 comments
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by theologic 12y ago
In large part the article describe Leadership-Member Exchange interaction. Wikipedia has summary here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader%E2%80%93member_exchange_... . The classic criticism of the LMX model is that &q
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by theologic 14y ago
While many comments bring up the anti-social aspects, I think it interesting to use the thread to think about one of the biggest, and often overlooked personal productivity attributes: making sure that your body gets a good dose of sleep e
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by theologic 14y ago
Schab in 1991 reported that cheating trends had significantly increased in surveys over 3 decades. I can't remember where I read the idea that lack of ownership may be fueling the rise of cheating, and my google-fu is weak tonight. I like t
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by theologic 14y ago
Microsoft told IBM that they had an OS when they didn't. The boys sold a dream, and lied about it. Allen ran down the street and bought it from SCP. They sold what they didn't own to build an empire.
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by theologic 14y ago
After spending 9 years in school, I have very little regard for Professors that both don't understand how this generation of kids work, nor understand that take home finals in technical fields such as math have zero merit. The smart kids ar
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by theologic 14y ago
One of the main principles that Collins destroys is that "great companies are started with a vision." He basically says a lot of great companies started with weak ideas, but were willing to change (or pivot in your writing.) Collins primar

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