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by throwaway40483 10y ago
The "build it and they'll come" approach to planned cities never seems to work out. It looks like a city has to form organically to be viable.
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
I would put the bandwidth caps at the top for the biggest obstacles today.
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
Isn't mmWave only useful for connecting backhaul due to the line of sight requirement?
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
Absolutely. Reduce the number of friction points. "Managing money is easy. Managing investors is hard."
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
Yeah, been looking for someone like this in tech. The closest thing you'll come is VCs pushing their own investments.
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
That's when you know that the article wasn't written by someone with technical insight.
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
1. If you work at Walmart you'll quit whether you're happy or not 2. If you work at Waymo you'll quit only if you're unhappy
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
As some point you have to hire someone to take out the trash. They can't all be Einsteins.
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
Even when 20% was in existence, it was (mockingly) called 120%. I will leave you to guess as to why.
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
Which explains why Google Wave is no longer with us.
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
This trick is the only thing that seems to bypass WSJ paywall now
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
A couple of articles chewing through these numbers: http://www.denverpost.com/2017/01/18/metro-denver-apartment-... http://www.curbed.com/2017/1/25/14342828/denver-rents-af
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Denver Metro Rents Decrease Following Completion of Nearly 10,000 New Apartments(aamdhq.org)
2 points by throwaway40483 10y ago|1 comments
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
A $100 winning bid for the Pittsburgh Mills at the foreclosure auction. Not bad (and quite sad)
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
A strong dollar also reduces export, so how does this pan out net-net?
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
Exactly. Rising house prices are only a plus if you plan on selling and move outside the bay area.
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
As a proponent of the Fiduciary Rule, this is actually one of the best critiques against it. A lot of unintended consequences are highlighted, one of them: ex post judgment of whether an investment was in the client interest or not.
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
>3. Fractional Payment: Overall subscription to Medium as a service payed by readers. Authors are paid according to a formula for how many people viewed their content each month. For the love of god, please no. This will only encourage c
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
A killer quote from the article: "To bring this home, it’s like negotiating your salary without specifying the currency you’re being paid in." This part has always baffled me. Potential employees accepting X shares without knowing
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
Sadly there's nothing new in this piece. The PR flack basically avoids any critical questions about the HW or any ETA on the product. This doesn't really bode well for the company.
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Magic Leap’s new marketing boss has a tough challenge(recode.net)
1 points by throwaway40483 10y ago|1 comments
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
Well, according to Amazon nothing is sent to their server unless Alexa is awake (after saying the magic 'Alexa' keyword).
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
The article touches on this. There is an equivalent product available from Google. People, in the US apparently, are more inclined to shift to a another vendor if they have the item in stock.
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
> Regardless, Google kick-started a lot of other car makers to start developing self-driving cars or made it OK for other car makers to be more public about their efforts. Exactly! This part of Google's legacy is severely under appr
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
I'm wondering what this pivot will do the morale in the Chauffeur team. There has been so much turbulence in the team with several key members leaving to form their own company because they were so frustrated with the pace. I can'
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
I think the insane part of Google's original plan was the "no steering wheel" part, not the fact that they wanted to manufacture the cars themselves. There are so many corner cases. I can't imagine that they would get th
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
Right. This is a classical example of priming.
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
This is the killer quote: “No one wants to face the reality that this is an advertising company with a bunch of hobbies.” It's so brutal but (IMHO) sums up Alphabet in one sentence.
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
Many may consider parent as snark but this is a really great point. I wish the article had elaborated on this.
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by throwaway40483 10y ago
No, I think this is impossible in tech. If you fall asleep at the wheel you'll get blackberryed/nokiaed. You can't run a lifestyle business in tech (unless you find a niche area with very little revenue)

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