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by zjaffee 9y ago
There are a few coffeeshops in LA that brew four barrel coffee, I think it's a result of how Four Barrel mostly just sells beans instead of opening their own shops everywhere. Additionally, Stumptown as well as Intellegencia are both o
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I think that even by your definition water is a human right. Should we not have access to plumbing anymore lets say, and there was a freshwater lake near where we lived, we should be allowed to get our water from it and no other human shoul
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How do you tend to compete with the likes of established players such as westlaw that have been around for so long? I can possibly imagine a startup which helps big company lawyers, as they tend to be more bullish on new tech, but when it c
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by zjaffee 9y ago
The thing that OP is neglecting to mention about the medallion system is that it's purpose was to limit the number of cars on the road at any given time, which eventually turned into a cartel like market because there was a higher dema
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The best way I've seen it done, is to version all of your schemas and have a database that signals all the transformations needed to be done for any given schema version. That way, when your reading a particular event, you can query fo
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Really though, their profit margins are like 34%, when compared to amazon whose margins are like 4% this is huge.
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For what it's worth, they absolutely can cut their prices and continue to keep the current level of quality simply because amazons investors care far less about profits than whole foods former investors did. In Q3 whole foods made 3,72
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As someone who grew up in New York, people were getting their groceries delivered long before the days of online shopping, where most grocery stores provided a service at checkout where they'd bring all the groceries to your house afte
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> One of the very interesting things about ML being such a corporation driven field is that it's incredible how quickly relatively recent research makes its way into products. I think this is just true for really anything that falls
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Hold on, please do not say google cloud scales well, yes they do have services that make a ton of claims, but unlike AWS, things don't work as promised which is magnified by the fact that their support is way worse. Additionally, Big Q
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Your ignoring the fact that up until recently, pain was considered to be the fifth vital sign and was just as important to treat as things like a fever. Medicine as a field is largely about removing discomfort, as many medical conditions co
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The kind of companies that spend large amounts of money on things like support, think more traditional enterprises, are spending a ton of money on docker's paid services, because they do not have the ability to hire enough engineers to
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As someone who just spent the last 4 years in Cleveland (for school), I want to comment on professional environment of the city for those interested in tech careers. The number of companies is pretty low, and the professional environment is
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Netflix will always be a tech company, mostly given through the fact that they use their large amounts of data to both recommend users new shows to watch, and also use that same data to decide what kind of shows to green light. What separat
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It's worse than that, cloudera went public at a valuation below the price set during their last round of fundraising. Also, people are bullish on tech companies that are consumer tech related or are in the enterprise space serving indu
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It's interesting, because in LA, while downtown traffic is bad, the most horrendous areas are west of downtown, where if you start in Santa Monica let's say, traveling more than 10 miles in an hour is difficult during peak return
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Bandcamp should be viewed as the indie record store of the digital age. It's can keep it's cool without being fancy, and niche users will spend money there to support the bands that they personally enjoy. Additionally, band camp d
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Many of these things are no different than holding large amounts of normal cash(of any currency really) or something such as gold, with the exception of their being a ledger of all trades that have occurred. Also bitcoins can certainly be s
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by zjaffee 9y ago
Even so, a 1.6 billion dollar valuation of coinbase is certainly very high. Assuming that over the course of the long term they are comparable to something like intercontinental exchange (the owner of NYSE/EURONEXT, and controller of t
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They also own ESPN and ABC, back in the day Lost was something Netflix paid a ton for, and I'm sure there are other things that I have been forgetting that are relevant here.
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Maybe I'm getting confused due to currency changes, but I think you could certainly divide all of those numbers by two in many American markets.
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Google however does have the ability to hand over the cost of insuring such a system to the consumer, so even at current accident rates the cost is around 100 dollars a month per car using such a system (driving 12000 miles in a year). This
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Didn't we learn from Zynga that a business can never be truly successful when it completely depends on the participation of partners to have any successes. Facebook could decide tomorrow that they no longer want to give Giphy the powe
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Priceline's value is no different than the value provided by Airbnb. They make the vast majority of their money being a middleman for hotels, not flights, and in turn have made it much easier for people to package everything together a
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by zjaffee 9y ago
You can watch snapchat stories from the NYTimes, The Economist, WSJ, in addition to a whole bunch of other sophisticated serious media organizations. Often times the articles they publish on their stories, are just more interactive versions
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The NYTimes has absolutely been able to adapt to the digital age successfully, so why can't any other news organization. The trick is to remove any executives who are afraid of change rather than embracing it.
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Content is king in many aspects though. A good example of which is video game consoles, people buy Nintendo products because they want to play Nintendo games.
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I think a large part of this is the growth of internet companies, SaaS, ect, compared to the more traditional, we have a product and it costs x dollars, and it cost us very little beyond the cost of human capital to build it. It simply isn&
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There are people who have dyscalculia, essentially math dyslexia, and it causes problems beyond simply being able to do basic algebra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia
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I can't really speak on the aspect of buying a home, but when we sold my grandmothers home having a solid real estate agent certainly was mutually beneficial. They knew what needed to be done in regards to quick fix repairs that were f

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