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In-N-Out Files Lawsuit Against Food Delivery Startup DoorDash(techcrunch.com)
2 points by tvladeck 11y ago|0 comments
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by tvladeck 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Philadelphia or Remote Statistical modeling for marketers. I'm a Wharton MBA and my expertise is in predictive, descriptive, and choice modeling for business applications. Example projects include: * Customer segment
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by tvladeck 11y ago
i totally agree! not sure if it came through, but this is exactly the tradeoff i was hinting at
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by tvladeck 11y ago
I can't think of a single product / service that went live in every country on the same day. Not saying it hasn't happened, but I stay pretty current. Can you?
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by tvladeck 11y ago
there is a lot of frustration that it launched only in some countries and not in others. i see why that would be a bummer, but is it reasonable to expect that they should (in some vaguely moral sense) launch everywhere in the world at once?
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by tvladeck 11y ago
> How can you perform live tests on patients and still be in stealth mode? That really hit the nail on the head for me.
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The ‘Hot Hand’ Debate Gets Flipped on Its Head(wsj.com)
2 points by tvladeck 11y ago|1 comments
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by tvladeck 11y ago
The reason this is complicated is that the burn rate of the business is determined its net margin (NM) and the viability of the business is determined by its contribution margin (CM) (NB I didn't say gross margin - they are slightly di
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by tvladeck 11y ago
I actually don't think a marketer touched this project at all. If one did, they didn't do a great job defining the purpose of this device. They didn't talk - or if they did, they didn't listen - to potential customers ab
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by tvladeck 11y ago
When a company is growing, it's not the p&l that matters. It's the contribution margin (CM) (revenue less _all_ variable costs - including those "below the line", like SG&A, that scale with your customer base) th
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Ask HN: Are there writing guides that use the "lexical tree trimming" concept?
1 points by tvladeck 12y ago|0 comments
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by tvladeck 12y ago
Hey - this happened to me. Startup (www.buildinghero.com) and long-term relationship (5 years) both ended in fall 2013. Feel free to email me at thomas.vladeck@gmail.com. Definitely the hardest couple of months scrambling to get over both.
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by tvladeck 12y ago
Like you, I don't understand the ethical dilemma here. It's not like the company is taking money that would otherwise go to the family, or is misrepresenting the purpose of their taking out the policy. What's the big deal? Pe
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by tvladeck 12y ago
Your analysis of EU Cap is off base. The price collapsed in the first phase for two reasons: 1. They set the cap far too high; and 2. They did not allow banking between phases. They correct the first error in the second phase of the system.
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by tvladeck 12y ago
I'm getting so frustrated with Twitter, as a shareholder and big believer in the company. I really think they need to be focusing on new services and experiences (actual new functionality!) with the content on their platform. For examp
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by tvladeck 12y ago
And the financing costs for the car to begin with, and in addition doesn't receive the health and fringe benefits of salaried employment.
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by tvladeck 12y ago
No idea why this is downvoted. This is very true. Batteries are coming down the learning curve very quickly. Distributed storage and high-resolution demand response are very real possibilities. Especially if electric cars come online quickl
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by tvladeck 12y ago
natural gas as a replacement for coal-fired power does help, though. it helps a lot.
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by tvladeck 12y ago
The stock is down from when it was up, but it's still up from when it was down!! In all seriousness, 8-10% is a big move, but definitely not "seismic", especially after an earnings release. Apple went up that much yesterday.
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by tvladeck 12y ago
> 2. "Also, Google wouldn’t be able to scan and index the text of your e-mails. That’s a problem if you need to search for old emails not stored on your own machine. It could be a real issue for Google’s business model as well, whic
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by tvladeck 12y ago
Isn't a bit amoral of Airbnb that they are throwing their most active hosts under the bus? The ones with the most listings are those people that have spent the most time, energy and money building out the Airbnb platform and they are h
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by tvladeck 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that the wording is wrong and the author meant that nest will automatically turn the air conditioning down (i.e. let the temperature rise in the house, reducing air conditioning load) - at least that's the info
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by tvladeck 13y ago
> You're also assuming that profit-gouged emergency supplies are necessarily limited. You're right, I'm making this assumption. I have to make this assumption assuming there are at least a few possible suppliers (i.e. a
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by tvladeck 13y ago
No, Krugman is making the point (in his whole blog post) that price "gouging" allocates resources in the best possible way, and that our emotional response to it sometimes confounds this "first best" outcome. Which is ac
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Absolutely some do; I consider that orthogonal to the question of whether or not it would be ethical for them to raise them if they wished, however.
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Here are some more thoughts from people far smarter than me: Tyler Cowen: "I agree gouging should not be illegal" [1] Paul Krugman: [On Uber's 7x surge pricing during horrible snowstorms in New York] "This makes a lot of
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by tvladeck 13y ago
> I like how you vaulted straight over the defensible middle-ground "hotels charging more during big events isn't actually the same thing as price-gouging" argument and went straight to defending incontrovertible, life-thr
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by tvladeck 13y ago
> it comes down to whether your personal values prioritize cash flow over being decent to people This is absolutely false. My personal values prioritize decency and integrity, but also logic, and my analysis of the facts leads to the ine
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by tvladeck 13y ago
> An Econ 101 model of the world breaks down in many ways - this is one of them. Nope, this is exactly what would be predicted by Econ 101: Microeconomics. The demand curve during the shareholders' retreat is shifted up/out rel
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by tvladeck 13y ago
Just an anecdote that may be relevant: I was banned at one point. I thought it was unfair, and emailed HN explaining why I made the comment that I did and that it wasn't meant as meanspirited or snarky as it may have come across. They

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