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by tvladeck 8y ago
> In a recent article (and subsequent blog post), I argued that Amazon’s negative cash flow might ... I stopped reading and started researching there. Amazon has positive cash flow, both overall and from operations specifically, which is
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by tvladeck 8y ago
The Selfish Gene & The Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins Evolution is the reason we exist! Understanding how it happens and why it can lead to counterintuitive outcomes is very important. He also narrates his own audiobooks and is excellent a
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by tvladeck 8y ago
The Quest for Cosmic Justice is another great book by Sowell that challenges the utopian mindset that underlies many modern policy discussions. It contrasts utopian "cosmic" justice with the much more prosaic (but achievable) &quo
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by tvladeck 8y ago
Plus one for this idea. In fact, I love everything about products that use semantic email addresses as the UI. followup.cc is great at this for their email reminder service. If I could forward an email to unsubscribe@leavemealone.xyz that w
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by tvladeck 8y ago
Turnover typically refers to revenue, not equity raised.
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by tvladeck 8y ago
The capital one link did not work. I got an error saying "Not acceptable"
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by tvladeck 8y ago
i can't wait for the final results of this analysis. for a long time i've wondered why i was so sleepy. i often work out of my apartment (a new building), and NYC being NYC, my windows and doors are often closed to allow for air c
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Solving the wedding table problem in prolog(tomvladeck.com)
7 points by tvladeck 8y ago|1 comments
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by tvladeck 8y ago
One thing Phil Knight wrote in Shoe Dog that has stuck with me is something similar: "If all you see are problems, you're not seeing clearly" There are often times when I feel like "every way is up" and that there a
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by tvladeck 8y ago
This is essentially repeating your quote, but an "aha moment" clicked for me when I read that what successful neural networks are basically doing is such good feature learning that the problem can be solved by a simple linear mode
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by tvladeck 8y ago
“It’s a necessary evil” Company motto: “Don’t be evil” Do you notice the hypocrisy here?
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by tvladeck 8y ago
Not the OP, but have a similar story. According to my goal-tracking apps, I meditate about 65% of days, and I average about 10 minutes a day. (So, not a ton, but pretty consistent.) The most common way that meditation changes me is to help
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by tvladeck 8y ago
That quote doesn't seem to be particularly political. It's just saying including sex is important. Even the implication you read into it is not particularly political.
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by tvladeck 8y ago
Indeed — I chuckled when I read the headline. Here in NYC it's exactly the same.
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The road to detecting metaphors(gradientmetrics.com)
2 points by tvladeck 8y ago|0 comments
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by tvladeck 8y ago
You’re not the one investing at that valuation, so why do you care?
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by tvladeck 8y ago
Well, without knowing the liquidation preferences it’s impossible to tell what the common stock is actually valued at. Better to think of it as the price of a call option on equity at an (unknown to us) strike price (the liquidation pref).
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by tvladeck 8y ago
Without knowing any more about what you are trying to do, I would just recommend a framework we learned at business school that I keep coming back to. It's for when you're looking at developing or altering a product. It's rea
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by tvladeck 8y ago
I have been trying to "export" but can't quite get the sizing/location right.
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by tvladeck 9y ago
My understanding is that the EURIBOR rate is an index that attempts to track the overnight interest rate that banks lend to each other at. These numbers are not public (the trades are made "over the counter"), so the body that set
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by tvladeck 9y ago
ahhh you're right
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by tvladeck 9y ago
> Correct, that is exactly what I am saying. If you pick a random point in time, you expect 20 minutes between the previous block and the next block on average. I thought this sounded funny, and I did a little simulation to see if it was
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by tvladeck 9y ago
Update: I asked the author! The reply was discouraging in one sense and encouraging in another: https://twitter.com/spf13/status/968259340619698176 "Custom Go application that parses the raw XML data from Qua
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by tvladeck 9y ago
Tangential question: what was used to produce those charts? I love the simple formatting and how the data is laid out. My company* uses ggplot exclusively for reports that don't look nearly this well done. I love the information dens
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by tvladeck 9y ago
> What are the problems in employing people as contractors rather than employees? No problems for me, but there would be huge problems for the new employee. In the Netherlands, it's illegal, as the contractor has to have >= 3 cli
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by tvladeck 9y ago
Unfortunately while they do international _payments_ they don't seem to do international _payroll_ and _compliance_. For other reasons, looks interesting. Thanks for the recommenation!
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Ask HN: How do you manage payroll and compliance for foreign remote employees?
9 points by tvladeck 9y ago|5 comments
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by tvladeck 9y ago
Umm... wow! I did not know this, which shows my level of knowledge in this field (0). But this is amazing! Thank you!
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by tvladeck 9y ago
This is awesome. Sort of similar idea, different approach, definitely doesn't look as cool, but my team and I published this today: http://blog.gradientmetrics.com/2017/12/07/new-york-city-in-...
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by tvladeck 9y ago
Hello! I am the author. This was a super fun project and something I've been randomly obsessed with for a while. Any Qs and I'd be happy to answer!

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