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by zawazzi 7y ago
Really? My perspective is that I use Uber as a substitute good for owning a car. If the cost of uber > car, I'm gonna go and buy one. So they can raise prices, but likely there's quite a bit of price sensitivity, particularly f
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by zawazzi 8y ago
Javascript in many cases runs on v8 which is a just in time compiler. Just in time compilers provide substantial performance benefits for lines of code executed multiple times. Perhaps v8 team (google) doesn't support typescript (micro
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by zawazzi 8y ago
Both supply and demand for housing is geographically constrained which mean that if demand in a local geography goes up, so does the price. This means that the market can be efficient locally even if inefficient globally. Since food and wat
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by zawazzi 8y ago
I actually think data is the problem. People were making their purchases online but the in store experience is what was convincing them to make the purchase in the first place. Hard to measure that kind of conversion.
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by zawazzi 8y ago
US Productivity grows by 2% a year which suggests in aggregate, most people are playing a zero sum game.
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by zawazzi 8y ago
I think I must have miscommunicated my position. I'm not reflecting on cloud as whole, but how AWS is particularly vulnerable to a tech sector downturn. In the event of economic downturn, existing cloud customers will optimized costs (
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by zawazzi 8y ago
Historically, teams would just make their existing servers last longer. Considering most of AWS premium services have an open source alternative, guessing most people will port to containers. Built on open source has been their source of st
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by zawazzi 8y ago
I think it would be a distinct recruitment advantage not to have a cofounder. You could reallocate equity you would have given to a cofounder, to early employees. Cofounder or no, money talks.
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by zawazzi 8y ago
By the time it gets repackaged into derivatives and index funds, who will really know. Investor's aren't amoral, just creating plausible deniability via complexity.
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by zawazzi 8y ago
I think all humans are bounded by 7+/-2 chunks of working memory which I think correlates to upper bound of understandability. Personally I break up methods where I see more than 5-7 unique params/variables/concepts. Also usu
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by zawazzi 8y ago
I think you overstate the demand for poll accuracy. A hedge fund may want predictive accuracy but I still click on the poll that tells me what I want to hear.
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by zawazzi 8y ago
Isn't global inequality decreasing though? Isn't extreme poverty decreasing? https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality People tend to only care about the inequality where they stand the most to gain. M
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by zawazzi 8y ago
The purpose of calling it a space force is to align the military industrial complex with NASA's mission. This isn't about creating a legitimate space force. Who would they fight? Its about the rebranding civilian science for milit
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by zawazzi 8y ago
Harvard has around 1000 admissions spots in any year. I think there are roughly 30,000 people who score a SAT 2200+ in a given year. Say half of those a have A level GPA. At that point there's more significant non-academic differences,
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by zawazzi 8y ago
Absolutely this. Academic performance is mostly a disqualifier to figure out if someone would be successful enough. Harvard, doesn't really care about the GPA of its existing students which is why they also don't care about grade
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by zawazzi 8y ago
> I'm not fundamentally opposed, but I think this is akin to creating a "Condensed Matter and Nanophysics" undergraduate degree alongside "Physics." Isn't this what Material Science is? A truncated version o