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by wdewind 13y ago
And I'd argue that's a Good Thing.
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by wdewind 13y ago
You trust that the pilots made the best decision they could given the data they had, and you find a way to give them better data next time. If they took a known risk, you ask why they thought it was ok to take that risk. If you think they
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by wdewind 13y ago
The way around blaming them is that it has a horrible systemic effect to do so. In the future pilots are less likely to admit fault, less likely to provide details in investigations and so the organization has less data to learn with. Inst
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by wdewind 13y ago
> To be completely clear, Zenimax is claiming that John Carmack took software with him to Oculus VR that he developed while still an employee at id Software (owned by Zenimax). But: > ZeniMax provided necessary VR technology and other
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by wdewind 13y ago
Justworks - New York City NYC NY Justworks is a payroll, benefits and compliance startup that helps businesses get up and running quickly with payroll that doesn't suck, integrated benefits (health, dental, 401k etc.) as well as compli
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by wdewind 13y ago
Yes I think that's probably right, although I think eviction is a bit harsh. I will say that if there is no property damage the landlord has little incentive to fix it if the Airbnber is paying rent on time, even though quality of lif
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by wdewind 13y ago
Well, both of those are already in the regulations. In fact, also in the lease is the concept that you cannot sublease. 99% of NYC apartments have this clause, 99% of Airbnbs in NYC are, inarguably, illegal. Unfortunately, here I am with
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by wdewind 13y ago
Both noise and property damage. The key is the tenant is much less likely to do that as they have a long term interest in maintaining a healthy (or in NYC more likely neutral) relationship with their neighbors. I never met the people who
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by wdewind 13y ago
As I said below, I had an extremely negative experience having someone in my building renting out their apartment on Airbnb. Of course, sample size of 1.
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by wdewind 13y ago
Edit: not sure why you're being downvoted, I upvoted fwiw. Yeah I agree, I'd like to see this studied more in depth, because I also don't find the hotel industry to be unbiased in the discussion. It is not supposition becau
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by wdewind 13y ago
While I generally favor a less-regulation approach, you're missing the core issue here: short-term rentals have a negative effect on neighborhoods because they change the incentives of the people living the house from those of a neighb
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by wdewind 13y ago
Read up on the tyranny of structurelessness.
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by wdewind 13y ago
> Cancer is like a random process. > most sailors eventually got melanoma from being out allthe time These two statements seem in conflict to me.
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by wdewind 13y ago
Interesting thanks
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by wdewind 13y ago
Network effect. The key though is that Telegram actually isn't free to consumers when compared to Whatsapp. At $1/year + access to everyone who is already on network vs. $0/year + access to smaller network+need to invite you
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by wdewind 13y ago
Remember how small Whatsapp is (~50 employees). They don't need to do any of those things to have a fantastic business for a long time to come.
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by wdewind 13y ago
$19B is actually a really reasonable price for Whatsapp if you're FB, though it wouldn't be the same for other buyers. Whatsapp not only has a great business, they posed a direct threat to FB's business. It's a large p
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by wdewind 13y ago
Interesting, why is that?
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by wdewind 13y ago
Users pay $1/year after the first year. At almost half a billion active users that's a pretty great business model.
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by wdewind 13y ago
> Tech M&A is often detached from that traditional process. A $19 billion valuation for WhatsApp didn't fall out of some Morgan Stanley analyst's spreadsheet. It's CEO-driven. It's a result of what Mark Zuckerber
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by wdewind 13y ago
Curious, what makes you find those to be better than Chrome? I recently switched to FF for a variety of random work reasons, and found it so much worse than chrome (basic UI, dev tools, speed) that I switched back asap. Maybe I'm mis
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by wdewind 13y ago
The law that Airbnb hosts break so frequently was designed exactly to prevent this type of thing from happening. It's why there are zoning regulations that prevent short term inhabitants. So yes, bad residents are directly to blame,
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by wdewind 13y ago
As a user of Airbnb it was great, the hosts seemed to like it too. But then someone in my building (NYC) starting hosting. It really did have a serious impact on my quality of life and on the maintenance cost of the building. Lots of stuf
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by wdewind 13y ago
Did you read the part of your lease where what you were doing was illegal? How can you be upset at AirBnB when you either knowingly or ignorantly broke the law?
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by wdewind 13y ago
Gotcha, makes sense. Very cool, thanks.
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by wdewind 13y ago
> Imagine being able to run your own experiments on a simulation first without having to buy and breed your own worms. So many more experiments can be carried out, and in parallel too. I'm trying to better understand the significanc
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by wdewind 13y ago
Unfortunately not. Since all JS is going to be transferred to the client, if the key is in the JS the client has access to it.
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by wdewind 13y ago
> I also see that your API key is there in clear. I hope no one can do any bad stuff in your name. To OP: The way to fix this is to have the JS make a request to your own server, have your own server make the request to Soundcloud and pr
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by wdewind 13y ago
Etsy does this (or did while I was still there) at 500+ employees. While they have dedicated CS reps, they also rotate everyone in the company. My experience with it was (literally) mixed. -As an eng I was frustrated by it because I felt
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by wdewind 13y ago
Because the next time you'd want to shop with that store you'd need to fill out the profile again. This kills the conversion rate. It's a security/UX tradeoff.

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