disishhsha

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by disishhsha 8y ago
Yeah, IMO that’s also a lot worse than what people are going after Google/Facebook for.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
Does “sacrificing privacy” mean something other than “seeing personalized ads”? What’s the difference?
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by disishhsha 8y ago
Good point. It’s almost as though the tendency of activists to punch up at The Man du jour results in their own priorities reconfiguring in opposition. Seems a little myopic to me. Maybe we should be celebrating these companies for findin
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by disishhsha 8y ago
It really speaks to the great improvement of the human condition, that the big complaint about the top companies of today is that they are showing us personalized ads, rather than burning the earth or poisoning babies.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
I wouldn’t worry about it. If you barely use it, what are the odds you’ll ever fill it up? And if you do fill it up, SSDs will be even cheaper then.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
The polygraph test is an interrogation technique. The examiner uses the reading to guide the questioning. I think taking a human out of that loop would be as difficult as a Turing test.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
Same here. These services charge $5 more for a family plan, which lets you use five or six accounts. So you can make an extra account for your home devices, and then you have extra memberships you can give away for free to your family/
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by disishhsha 8y ago
Science is about doing it right, business is about doing just enough to get the job done.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
If you think this stuff was on YouTube before it was in academia, you haven’t been paying attention to academia for very long.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
Do they really do this more than other companies? Does the average successful company make a habit of keeping unsuccessful products around?
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by disishhsha 8y ago
Seems to me Uber has led to a huge increase in the number of hired rides. So in most cases, the Uber driver isn’t replacing anything, except perhaps the passenger driving themselves for free.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
If I were to speculate about the outlines of the “shell company” loophole you describe - I figure you would form a company to own the property, and then sell the company instead of the property directly? Is that right, and if so, any reason
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by disishhsha 8y ago
I’ve considered buying an expensive car with advanced stop-and-go traffic self-driving mode, but it’s more effective to live next to the train station.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
I use my phone a lot, and gladly spend a few $ a day for a marginal improvement in my quality of life. Another question - why do people spend $30k on a car when a $10k car is nearly as good? Seems like a much bigger waste of money than the
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by disishhsha 8y ago
I worked for a unicorn startup. We got in trouble when our SDRs (entry-level salespeople who did cold calls all day) kept accidentally calling 911. Ultimately the solution was to reprogram the phone system to allow 7 as a prefix in addition
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by disishhsha 8y ago
I’ve found that considering positive explanations for other people’s behavior helps me enjoy life.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
If you have a GC and no static typing, is it better than other functional languages (many of which have benefits of both GC and static typing)? Not a rhetorical question, I have never used a GC with C.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
Low single digit growth does not justify a high PE ratio.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
The new Burberry logo would look right at home on a pack of hot dogs.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
Option pricing has a time value component, and at a multi-year time horizon this component is prohibitively high. Eg. suppose I want to bet Oracle will go under in 20 years, how do I do that?
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by disishhsha 8y ago
> Half of the world's population still isn't online so there's plenty of room for growth in the future too. The offline half doesn’t have that much money to spend, right? Making some assumptions and approximating, would it
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by disishhsha 8y ago
Presumably the $3B already includes that revenue.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
To be more specific about the value here: Maintaining parity between two applications running on different GUI platforms is very expensive - much more than twice the effort of maintaining a single codebase.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
It does speak to a pretty conservative mindset - when you just made $3B cash free and clear, selling some of that golden goose for $1.25B.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
$3B profit doesn’t really seem consistent with $15B valuation. Tech companies these days seem valued at 20x revenue or more. Why would they bother raising $1.25B at that price? I suppose Fortnite is a fad, so there is a pessimistic case to
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by disishhsha 8y ago
Is it possible that management felt that most development work on the thing you loved was done, and your talents were wasted on maintenance? Did they move you to projects at an earlier stage of development?
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by disishhsha 8y ago
Could you avoid using code blocks for text? They are very difficult to read on mobile.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
I’d expand this a lot. When someone tells you something about his or herself, there’s a good chance they are trying to convince themselves of it. I don’t mean that people are dishonest. It’s more that we mostly learn about one another’s int
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by disishhsha 8y ago
This is a BS statistic, describing people who pay thousands via payroll tax as paying nothing.
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by disishhsha 8y ago
The rich usually have some other deductions exceeding the standard deduction, so it doesn’t help them at all.

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