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by trimbo 8y ago
> devices now used extensively by the film industry. It's not a big enough industry to support their valuation. Many companies have developed clever equipment for the film industry over the decades[1] and none has been valued at $15
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SoftBank's investment fund dumps entire $3.6B stake in Nvidia(cnbc.com)
16 points by trimbo 8y ago|4 comments
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by trimbo 8y ago
> How do we solve this? I don't know, but it seems absolutely absurd that Facebook or anyone else gives someone a hard time about refunding thousands of dollars of virtual goods. Especially when you consider Nordstrom's or Co
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by trimbo 8y ago
They really are, and it's because of all of that salt!
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by trimbo 8y ago
The problem is Oxy was overprescribed relative to the addictive features of the drug _because_ the Sacklers falsely claimed that it was less addictive. Doctors believed that and were willing to prescribe a super-strong, easy-to-abuse drug w
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by trimbo 8y ago
Here's a long read about it from the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-tha...
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by trimbo 8y ago
> The 1982 track is quadruple platinum, and was the most streamed song in 2017, with over 440m views on YouTube That can't be right. Despacito has 5.9bn views on Youtube now and came out in January, 2017.
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by trimbo 8y ago
I don't disagree with the problems outlined. But, for this particular case, start and end with the fact that the restaurant has 3.5 stars on Yelp and people were consistently dissatisfied with the food and service? SF has incredible 4-
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by trimbo 8y ago
Use the HN "web" link, or here's an article about the article. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-m-a-softbank/softb...
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SoftBank to slash planned WeWork investment(ft.com)
28 points by trimbo 8y ago|7 comments
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Walt Disney's 1935 Memo: How to Train an Animator(lettersofnote.com)
3 points by trimbo 8y ago|0 comments
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by trimbo 8y ago
You've outlined why grocery stores are going to take over this market, just like they did for roasted chickens in the 90s. I posted about this a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14706793
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by trimbo 8y ago
The Robinhood card looks to have some transparency to it. AMEX has patents on transparent cards.
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by trimbo 8y ago
> no major bank or credit card company issues contactless cards Citibank's Costco Visa card is contactless
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by trimbo 8y ago
Such simpler times, back then.
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by trimbo 8y ago
How come?
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by trimbo 8y ago
Wisconsin is trying to do that and it's not going well. https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/29/18027032/foxconn-wiscons...
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by trimbo 8y ago
I dunno. Getting a company of hundreds of thousands of people out of a death spiral and into an additional quarter century of prosperity seems like a pretty amazing achievement?
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by trimbo 8y ago
It's FileMaker pretty much?
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by trimbo 8y ago
Here's a counterpoint: Lou Gerstner. He saved[1] IBM 25 years ago and had no relevant tech experience. I've also had personal experience with non-techie managers who were exceptional. Moral of the story is I don't think it&#x
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by trimbo 8y ago
Already, real-time animation devices allow cartoon characters to "live." Systems such as Vactor and Alive propel toons onto talk shows and into interactive installations at theme parks. That was from 1995. https://www
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by trimbo 8y ago
That's an international model. Who gives a warranty, B&H? The NA model is still $720.
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by trimbo 8y ago
You know what they call the worst medical student in their graduating class? "Doctor"
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by trimbo 8y ago
> Microsoft's first CEO is still chairman and helping lead the company even from the sidelines It'd be super awkward if TJ Watson was still leading IBM from the sidelines.
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by trimbo 8y ago
I look forward to IBM marketing taking over. "yum, powered by Watson"
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by trimbo 8y ago
Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini (an original Apple HIG author) wrote a great article about this a few years ago. Here's the excerpt describing discoverability: "Today’s devices lack discoverability: There is no way to discover wha
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by trimbo 8y ago
> Apple products, as far as I can remember, do not come with any sort of manual describing the nifty little shortcuts that they have You would not have needed a manual in the past. Discoverability used to be a core tenet of the Apple HIG
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by trimbo 8y ago
They were having "accounting issues" before this... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/22/supermicro_facing_n...
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by trimbo 8y ago
Do we actually think that money will be better managed by a government? One charity I consistently give to is Fisher House. They're directly related to the US government -- they provide houses for military families whose loved ones are
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by trimbo 8y ago
> The Empire State Building was built in 410 days At least one reason is that we have substantially different safety regulations since we're not accepting of deaths on a project like that. 5 people died on that project. 11 died to b

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