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by untangle 9y ago
There are very similar products on AMZ (USA) for $15-$30 USD.
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by untangle 9y ago
I wouldn't care so much about net neutrality if there was open access to the last-mile conduit for broadband to my house. But there isn't. Comcast owns the coax and there is no fiber here (even though I live in the heart of Silico
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by untangle 9y ago
I don't know who this analysis is aimed at but I would advise caution in trying to apply it. My main criticisms of the article are that it: (1) ignores modern wi-fi mesh technology; (2) oversimplifies "solutions" to the point
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by untangle 9y ago
>> Google is now a huge, slow corporation. They have been huge and slow for many years. Google Drive is non-core for them, which doesn't help. They probably have the data on "number of files per user." But if you are to
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by untangle 9y ago
If this methodology is overused, you will have your PM/dev team rebelling or leaving in a hurry. That said, I can see a trimmed-down of this used as an evaluation tool for more substantial product development decisions. Ideally, these
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RED's Big Announcement: Hydrogen One, a Hologram Machine in Your Pocket(nofilmschool.com)
2 points by untangle 9y ago|0 comments
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by untangle 9y ago
TL;DR: "Although models possess uncertainties, including possible overestimation of tropical convection, our results suggest future GHG-induced warming may lead to an increase in CA precipitation." GHG = Greenhouse Gas
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by untangle 9y ago
It seems to me that our US HC system is operating in a manner that optimizes the wrong thing. It currently maximizes jobs and an odd form of wealth redistribution. It should be minimizing costs subject to "good" HC (or "adequ
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by untangle 9y ago
> the problem with healthcare has to be insurance. It's a big part of the problem. For example, I believed that a certain medical procedure was in my best interests. I was told that insurance often doesn't cover the costs (i.e.
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by untangle 9y ago
While still small, Netflix probably represents one of the bigger threats to the Big 6. Of course, this makes it a prime merger target. [0] Netflix is not mentioned in the article. [0] https://www.fool.com/investing/2016
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by untangle 9y ago
> It is our belief that messengers are evolving into a new type of OS, and are becoming gateways to our economies and social lives. Status uses messaging as a platform, and by combining both a messenger and a browser we are building a ga
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by untangle 9y ago
> The target function suggested by Olive and Welti (2015) is fairly similar to the average headphone response found in this study, with the exception of a deviation of up to about 5 dB for frequencies between 50 Hz and 2 kHz. I find litt
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by untangle 9y ago
For those familiar with the data-driven mobile dev platform Jasonette [0], this is Jasonette for the web. Calling Cell a "framework" is a misnomer – it's a sort of anti-framework. More clever, innovative app dev tech from the
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by untangle 9y ago
Their list: https://www.tesla.com/preowned?sort=price|asc I guess the cars in the $30K's are sold.
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Certified Pre-owned Teslas for Less Than $40K USD(electrek.co)
23 points by untangle 9y ago|25 comments
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by untangle 9y ago
>> Why is it Google's responsibility to administer all this? Setting "don't be evil" aside, Google's only responsibility is to Google. But here's the rub. Google's product is its users' attentio
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by untangle 9y ago
Let me play back what I'm hearing: Chrome is great because it uniquely protects you from 3rd-party hackers on the internet. Fair enough. But do Chrome's protections also protect you equally from intercession by Google? I just want
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by untangle 9y ago
>> Isn't that what Ethereum is for? Sure, but Ethereum is a tool. An ICO is the result of a process. My thesis is that many companies, large and small, could benefit from an ICO...and that the majority of these know little about
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by untangle 9y ago
> What's the distinction, in precise language? Good question. I was using the language according to this definition: "A speculative investment is one with a high degree of risk where the focus of the purchaser is on price fluct
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by untangle 9y ago
Thread-starter here. I have raised VC, PE, and debt. Early-stage and late stage. Here's my take on "ICO vs VC." ICO's: For the investor, they are akin to commodity futures trading. The underlying value of the token is ni
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ICOs and VCs(avc.com)
124 points by untangle 9y ago|83 comments
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by untangle 9y ago
Lots of parallels between your take and that of this author. I'm more skeptical than you guys about the Saas/cloud "plumbing" space. There's lots of open-source software out there and I think that value extraction –
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by untangle 9y ago
I believe that the author's core point is that the SaaS business app space ("SaaS v2") is huge, but it has become a red ocean. He then proposed a viable "SaaS v3" space populated with the likes of Segment. I don&#x2
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by untangle 9y ago
I just did a SaaS company serving SMB. We were an all-in-one security play. Well-regarded product. One of the things that we encountered was a vice between "can you add this filter" and "but I don't need this, only that
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These 197 Tech Companies Are the World's Most Valuable Unicorns(forbes.com)
1 points by untangle 9y ago|0 comments
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by untangle 9y ago
Ford is losing share – always a scary thing but especially bad in a falling market. IME, the only way a Board can live with falling market share is if they believe the CEO/company is poised with some "secret weapon" bringing
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by untangle 9y ago
I think that the current responses aim too low. Isomorph is really cool, but it's a "next 5 years" (or not) – not 25 years. The future will be declarative. It'll allow voice input, possibly as the primary modality. Objec
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by untangle 9y ago
The author claimed that codec choice matters little >128k, not that 128k is of equal SQ to 256k. BTW, if you can easily discern 256k from 320k, I'd venture to guess that you are a 1% "golden ear" listener. OTOH, even my 60
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by untangle 9y ago
Why is machine learning/NLP needed in this analysis? The categories/keywords are well known, and I believe that simple statistics would suffice to produce the type of results shown. Of course, the text would have to be scanned and
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by untangle 9y ago
> In particular I suspect we may subconsciously learn that sweet foods do not provide energy. What do you mean by this?

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