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by vtail 8y ago
The point is not to drive back and forth, but to relocate.
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by vtail 8y ago
For argument’s sake, I just visited craigslist rental section for the city of Olympia, a WA state capital which is about 1 hr drive from Seattle. You can totally find a decent looking 1bedroom for $600-700, and I’m pretty sure that studios
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by vtail 9y ago
I don’t think this is given - e.g., in NYC, Chicago, and SF, most cabs are driven by poor immigrants[1] and most rent (in economic terms) is extracted by medallion owners. [1] Nothing wrong with being an immigrant - I’m one myself, although
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by vtail 9y ago
Author’s vision for Uber: regulated, price-controlled (“can’t charge less than a true cost of the trip”), number of cars not to exceed government mandate, with unionized and minimum-wage-guaranteed drivers.
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by vtail 9y ago
Funny - my gf had the same idea. We basically decided it’s most likely a mistake, so were not particularly worried.
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by vtail 9y ago
I’m in Hawaii and received it this morning. First thought: there is probably no shelter close by anyway, and if they would send a missile they would probably target Honolulu (I’m in Kauai).
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by vtail 9y ago
Fastmail offers you up to 100 email aliases (2 per each of 50 different domains) which route to your main account. Edit: it's actually 600 aliases now: https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/limits.html
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by vtail 9y ago
James - that's pretty interesting. Could you please share what SW (or other tools) did you use to train for dual-n-back?
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by vtail 9y ago
In Russia, where there is a similar regulation, the solution is simple: find a homeless person with a passport, pay him to register a new mobile phone number under his name. There are also companies selling already registered phone numbers.
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by vtail 10y ago
Or, you know, the childless old people can talk to each other and provide emotional companionship in an "old" way, from the previous age before all these modern economic inventions.
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by vtail 10y ago
That's a GREAT question. Information Technology is $5.6T market, and telecommunications services is another $1.8T [1]. Uber and AirBnB, which I believe ARE tech companies, are under $90B combined, so ~2% of IT sector. SpaceX is aerospa
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by vtail 10y ago
Sure, but important difference is that 10-100 people startup that raised $300m behaves way differently than an internal department of a major tech firm that has decided to invest into a side project: authority to make decisions, willingne
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by vtail 10y ago
Of course - most of what I wrote is an opinion shared by many people, I don't want to claim originality here :). A related anecdote - at my previous job, I was at an annual sales conference event, where Mr. Christensen was an invited s
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by vtail 10y ago
According to Wikipedia[1], Intel set aside "$300m over 3-4 years" to invest in Ultrabooks, so $100m/year. Contrast that to ~$8B they spend on R&D each year[2]. So it was a relatively small bet for them. I'm not sayin
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by vtail 10y ago
Expect the same fate for many more tech companies. Although not many people realize, tech is a _mature_ sector of the U.S. economy now - it grows at about 3% a year, pretty much in line with GDP. But the perception is different - just ask y
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by vtail 10y ago
Can you say in which countries?
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by vtail 10y ago
Note that Ireland case happened long time before: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/judge-rules-that-mi... "The Microsoft case is believed to be the first time that an American company has fought
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by vtail 11y ago
You mentioned Palantir's talk at GovCon. Do you know if it's available online?
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by vtail 11y ago
Yes, but everything other than HRM is available in the vivid it itself.
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by vtail 11y ago
I used to be a Fitbit fan, but now I switched to Garmin Vivofit (and later Vivofit 2) and never looked back. My data is open, I have a battery that lasts a year+(!), a watch and an HR monitor (with a strap) in one device.
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BodyEcho – Reclaim Your Sleep with Serious Sleep Tracking(kickstarter.com)
2 points by vtail 12y ago|0 comments
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by vtail 12y ago
As a non-native English speaker myself, I agree with GP. I have a bunch "English Vocabulary in Use" books of various levels which I almost never open because, you know, it's hard to carry it around with you. $14.99 seems to b
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by vtail 12y ago
Here is another idea/fun experiment: try to express your idea in: - 5 words - 1 sentence - 1 paragraph - 3 paragraphs Adding constraints like that really help you focus on what's important. For example, does "Lightweight&quot
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by vtail 12y ago
Thanks - it does help. So now I have a better understanding what it does - if I were to express my understanding in a single sentence, it would be something like "Mjolnir allows you to script Apple mouse events or system dialogs in Lua
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by vtail 12y ago
Congratulations on releasing Mjolnir! Here is some feedback: I have never heard of Mjolnir, or Hydra, before. I visited the page you linked and skimmed through. Here is what I learnt: - That it's a "Lightweight automation and prod
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by vtail 12y ago
Why not buy a Mac Mini?
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by vtail 13y ago
At the same time, while they spent $1.7 of S&M expenses to generate $1 in revenue in 2012-13, they decreased this to just $1.37 in 2014, so that's an improvement given that S&M is 2/3rds of their operating expenses.
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by vtail 13y ago
> we grew from 369 employees as of January 31, 2012 to 972 employees as of January 31, 2014
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What is Bitcoin good for? Not Silk Road(blog.shlang.com)
6 points by vtail 13y ago|0 comments
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by vtail 13y ago
What stops you from encrypting the body of the message on you own computer and use USB stick to just copy over an encrypted file?

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