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The Rule of 72(betterexplained.com)
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Don't Let Doubts About Blockchains Close Your Mind(bloomberg.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
Sometimes I wonder is there new research in the world of advertising and AI? Tracking clicks via heatmaps, pageviews etc has been done for ages. So, has AI/ML provided better ways to convert those ads?
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by thisisit 8y ago
This was discussed earlier on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16891651
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by thisisit 8y ago
For all the discussions and/or criticisms about Tesla, I don't think there are any other better quotes than this: Tesla’s current price is arguably fair if most cars are powered by electricity in 10 years, if most of these cars a
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by thisisit 8y ago
This is obviously jazzy infographic to entice people into reading boring stuff like prospects, cash flow and viability. But, they sometimes provide good information too. For example Tesla Model 3 Tracker: https://www.bloomberg.co
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by thisisit 8y ago
I just had this insight yesterday! And now there is a thread on this. I have been trying meditation/mindulness for a while. So, I have been trying to meditate before sleeping, relaxing my muscles. And sometimes it worked, sometimes it
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by thisisit 8y ago
This has been discussed so many times already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16661323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16698937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16751656 htt
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The Myth That Markets Get Prices Right Won’t Die(bloomberg.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
> The key for me was having both a reason to wake up, and a reason to go to sleep. This cannot be stressed enough. Nowadays, I have started going to the gym. I need to wake up by 6.30am to ensure that I can get enough exercise before off
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Amazon Baffles Investors with Meaningless Numbers(bloomberg.com)
2 points by thisisit 9y ago|0 comments
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by thisisit 9y ago
I worked on a bank migration project, early on in my career, and these things are a nightmare all around. First, building something like this requires an acute understanding of banking software. And banking software means something written
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by thisisit 9y ago
> As a software engineer, I wish there were an equivalent firm in the industry that did teardowns like this so that we could, as an industry, improve over time the way that the automotive industry does. I think this thread is a good indi
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by thisisit 9y ago
It's an interesting parallel to consider because iPhone was revolutionary, it was something no one had seen when it came out, it was literally the first smartphone. So, are you saying Tesla's cars with their design flaws are revol
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by thisisit 9y ago
> Is the intellectual asymmetry between creating a design and analyzing it so large that a small teardown team can reliably analyze trade-offs in a design created by a large engineering group? I don't understand this. So you are say
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by thisisit 9y ago
> Don't ask someone else to DDoS your competitors, even in jest, especially not in writing. Besides being in bad taste, this can come back to bite you. That was my first thought when I read the chat. It just seems stupid to even rem
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The Cryptocurrency Crime Wave Is Here(wsj.com)
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The Myth That Markets Get Prices Right Won’t Die(bloomberg.com)
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by thisisit 9y ago
> You really wanted to have as much debt as you could service without going bankrupt. This is an interesting thought. I have mostly heard this advice for corporate. Companies are encouraged to take on as much leverage as they can without
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The Tech Company That Couldn’t Invest Straight(barrons.com)
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Private Equity Firms Targeting Amazon Sellers(theinformation.com)
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How Fake Mark Zuckerbergs Scam Facebook Users Out of Their Cash(nytimes.com)
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by thisisit 9y ago
That is a pretty exhaustive example. And the timestamp process looks pretty foolproof. Couple of questions though - How would the IOT device in the shipping load know what temperature the olive oil has been? Please don't say the IOT de
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Amazon Baffles Investors with Meaningless Numbers(bloomberg.com)
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by thisisit 9y ago
Every time we have a story like this, every time I ask - how does this work on a blockchain? Many people will talk about blockchain trustless-ness and how this doesn't requires trust etc. And I ask give me an end to end example of what
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by thisisit 9y ago
> What are the problems with bubbles if investors can be cushioned from their worst effects when they occur? I don't think both can be mutually exclusive. For a bubble to occur investors have to be irrationally exuberant. If they ar
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by thisisit 9y ago
Discussed twice earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16924975 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16922476
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Newspaper op-eds change minds(sciencedaily.com)
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by thisisit 9y ago
In the meantime at the Sohn conference Jeffrey Gundlach said FB is a bubble: http://fortune.com/2018/04/23/facebook-bubble-gundlach/
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Facebook Stock Is a Bubble About to Be Popped, Famed Fund Manager Says(fortune.com)
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