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by wyck 9y ago
Here's an idea, don't trust your users and use your intuition.
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by wyck 9y ago
The downsides of A/B testing. Unless of course you have confidence in your brand and decision making to not always trust users and the short term bottom line.
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by wyck 9y ago
In a perfect world there are no exceptions, but we don't live in one and exceptions cost time and money, lots of it when dealing with volume.
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by wyck 9y ago
He jacked up the price for insurance companies, individuals paid 1$ if they have no insurance. He considered it a robber baron technique to get funding for new drug research to charge the insurance companies, whom have lots of $$ for PR fir
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by wyck 9y ago
This is an accurate example of today's internet news machine. Very few highly investigated sourced articles compared to the extremely high volume, low pay, click bait titles. The media is strangled by their diminished role and costs, m
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by wyck 9y ago
Nothing of what you said is actually true, in fact it sounds exactly like what most journalists say about Shkreli, and the reason why he hates them.
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by wyck 9y ago
> Executives believe that an environment without cubicles fosters collaboration, innovation and creativity. Research has backed up some of these claims. Pretty much all the research I've read into this actually says the exact opposi
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by wyck 9y ago
Alternative title: Tim Cook apparently doesn't understand current politics, thus proving why a business's which sells products should not get involved in political press releases.
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by wyck 9y ago
Actually it does, in Quebec it's a civil law, in the rest of Canada its a common law, big difference.
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by wyck 9y ago
Quebec having draconian ass backwards laws...no way.
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by wyck 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask I recommend watching this, it will shatter some preconceptions.
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by wyck 9y ago
What about bro culture in plumbing and sanitation, does that keep women out? Or maybe the fact that women in progressive free countries have to choice to choose a career path they might actually be interested in? That's why the 25% sta
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by wyck 9y ago
Unless you are secretly Ozzy Osbourne, something I always suspected, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ozzy-osbourne-gen...
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by wyck 9y ago
Nice PR piece. >finding a solution for people that want to escape bureaucracy. So that's the business model?
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by wyck 9y ago
The photo of Deng Xiaoping and Thatcher is pretty funny given the subtext of almost starting WW3. Good article, for context I recommend reading about the early history of Hong Kong related to the Sassoon family, HSBC, and the Opium wars.
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by wyck 9y ago
The is a direct correlation between security and fraud related interest/insurance in regards to the cost of use and exposure to fraud. They aren't out to "destroy" your security, it's a liability threshold calculati
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by wyck 9y ago
It's an interesting concept but I think the application would be troubling. Corporate responsibility is a system that's not particularity well suited a tool for spiritual or emotional guidance at an automated level. You can argue
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by wyck 9y ago
Or maybe in more self-determining(aka free and developed) countries women actually have more choice in career paths and a lot of them don't even like computers, let alone programming. Unlike nations without as much privilege or freedom
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by wyck 9y ago
I have great name for this start-up, Minority Report...or maybe just boring old Palentir.
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by wyck 9y ago
To be honest no, I don't use sheets unless it's for something quick and dirty, it just doesn't compare to excel. In terms of machine learning I have tried IBM Watson with sets of data, interesting concept but I found myself s
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by wyck 9y ago
They are solving a problem that doesn't really exist, the challenge is not the last step of a data report, it's the steps involved in the beginning, getting good data in, formatting, joining multiple sources, automation, dealing w
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by wyck 9y ago
Google is reacting very slowly to their declining ad revenue model in the face of social media and influencers, they are stuck with a degraded experience/platform. It will be interesting to watch how they are going to salvage their ad
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by wyck 9y ago
No I don't realise that, because its not accurate. NYTimes: Print advertising revenue in 2016 fell 16 percent, driving a 9 percent drop in total advertising revenue. For the quarter, print advertising revenue declined 20 percent. Digit
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by wyck 9y ago
NYtimes questioning influencers because it undermines their own content, HA! From the article: PewDiePie, a YouTube star who had signed deals with Disney and Google and then was discovered to have made anti-Semitic statements. ...100% bulls
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by wyck 9y ago
The technology exists to firewall entire countries, afterall the ISP's connect to the larger "pipes", this has already happened in several countries. Sure you could probably tunnel a connection but the average person certainl
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by wyck 10y ago
Nothing says special like sending SMS weddings invites... I think what he means is a wedding is a symbolic event that should be mirrored in all the small details, from the hand written card, to the ring, etc, etc... So ya think about it.
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by wyck 10y ago
Yes and computers run on magical energy dust.
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by wyck 10y ago
This is completely wrong. The more eyes you have on something, the more hackers attacking something combined with more pen testers and coders working on it, the more secure it is. You know what is insecure and makes for a great target..soft
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Licensing for most countries is applied to broadcasters, not creators.
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by wyck 10y ago
The geo-restricted licensing model is applied because Google has no choice in the matter. They have to abide by laws just like everyone else.

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