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by fraserharris 2mo ago
This article is somewhat out-of-date. The L & 7 trains were modernized to communications-based train control (CBTC) & automatic train operation (ATO) since 2006 & 2018 respectively. This allows for moving-block signaling, where
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by fraserharris 4mo ago
The entry level rate for >$10M AUM is ~0.5%
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by fraserharris 8mo ago
"Phase 1 clinical trials of a 15-PGDH inhibitor for muscle weakness have shown that it is safe and active in healthy volunteers. Our hope is that a similar trial will be launched soon to test its effect in cartilage regeneration"
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by fraserharris 11mo ago
I recently had to select a 401(k) plan for our small startup. For a startup, the _employee_ fees was significantly better on Guideline (0.15 - 0.3%) than Fidelity (0.5% + $100 bookkeeping fee). The _employer_ fees were slightly more expensi
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by fraserharris 1y ago
It was a surprise learning how applicable your statement is when I was selling technology products into consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. Consumer preference is very hard to change once it is established, and leading CPG companies sp
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by fraserharris 1y ago
Whatever fills the void for people. ie: instead of bowling leagues, people watch TV or play video games. It's arguably a worse product because it doesn't fulfill the socialization or exercise needs of people, but it does fill the
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by fraserharris 1y ago
Small organizations exist largely because volunteers will them to exist by donating their time. From our elementary school, it's clear the people who have time to volunteer are the stay-at-home parents. The dominance of two-income hous
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by fraserharris 1y ago
I majored in Engineering Physics with an EE focus. Our classes were scheduled so we took the dependent math courses a semester before the relevant EE topics (ie: learned Laplace & Fourier transformations before circuit analysis). The EE
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by fraserharris 1y ago
Paraphrasing from an Oakland police officer reflecting on the spike in crime 3 years ago to today: "Flock has been a game changer. The officers who use it are getting results. Criminals will steal a car, drive through a neighborhood an
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by fraserharris 1y ago
Fresno / Central Valley is not the circuitous route, which is quite close to the I-5 near Bakersfield. The true circuitous detour is between Bakersfield and LA, where the route is planned to go East through the Antelope Valley with a s
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by fraserharris 1y ago
Business continuity planning & investment is an important part of running an enterprise.
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by fraserharris 2y ago
The reliability speaks to the technology immaturity. I agree with the inevitability of the EV drivetrain + charging off the existing distribution network being more reliable than competing technologies.
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by fraserharris 2y ago
AC Transit (eg: East San Francisco Bay) performed a detailed 2 year study (July 2020 - June 2022) comparing newer Hydrogen Fuel Cell & Battery -powered buses to existing Diesel, Fuel Cell, & Hybrid -powered buses, 5 of each type. Th
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by fraserharris 2y ago
This is exactly correct. This is Salesforce's 3rd or 4th rebranding of Customer Data Platform, which has never taken off. This latest positioning is targeting Snowflake.
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by fraserharris 2y ago
Lithium deposits are common -- Nevada has significant ones too. The question is if the lithium is concentrated enough to make extracting it financially viable.
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by fraserharris 2y ago
David J Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics was a fantastic undergraduate-level E&M textbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Electrodynamic...
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by fraserharris 2y ago
Support & maintenance have radically lower margins than software licenses. Without discounting rules, sales can craft deals that lose the company money.
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by fraserharris 4y ago
Is that attrition rate inclusive of seasonal employees?
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by fraserharris 5y ago
More likely you got options, and they are taxed as income at a liquidity event (acquisition, IPO)... unless you were confident enough in the startup to execute those options & immediately pay the resulting taxes out of pocket. And you
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by fraserharris 5y ago
In California the seller discloses as much as possible to the buyer - i) house inspection and pest inspection, ii) disclosures from the county, state, utilities district, iii) advisories of risk of wildfire, lead paint, natural hazards, ear
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by fraserharris 5y ago
The 3rd hand story I heard ~2011 from a former RIM executive who was there at the time of Steve Job's demo of the iPhone was that Mike Lazaridis' (co-founder of RIM) reaction to seeing the demo: "It's impossible! The who
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by fraserharris 5y ago
Research in Motion thought the Blackberry keyboard was their killer feature for business professionals. They were wrong. The iPhone killed Blackberry, not Android.
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by fraserharris 6y ago
This is great advice for any SaaS company. We scaled to ~80 engineers and >1,000 customers on an almost entirely monolithic app running JARs on EC2 instances with a single Postgres database. Keep it simple & focus on delivering produ
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by fraserharris 6y ago
> Cadillac Fairview said the images taken by camera were briefly analyzed then deleted — but investigators found that the sensitive biometric information generated from the images was being stored in a centralized database by a third par
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by fraserharris 6y ago
That state of affairs is because of the Post-WWII order the US constructed via alliances & multilateral organizations, in response to being repeatedly dragged into European wars. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2
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by fraserharris 6y ago
Kaiser Permanente is a conglomerate that is a consortium of for-profit and not-for-profit entities. The health plans (insurance) and hospitals are not-for-profit. The physicians are organized into for-profit partnerships. Source: https:&
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by fraserharris 6y ago
We, Fivetran, have an SFTP connector. You can be sync'ing data with 10 minutes of effort. Our value is in (nearly) zero configuration, automatic schema migration, and automatic failure recovery. We take the pain out of Extract-Load, an
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by fraserharris 6y ago
Two approaches that can fix the root cause of mis-alignment between sales & product: 1) Teach your sales team how to pitch your product roadmap, so that customers are buying into the bigger vision. When customers are bought in, they wi
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by fraserharris 7y ago
A lesser known limitation of S3 is that it does not have Read-After-Write consistency for overwriting PUTS & DELETE operations. Netflix has reported observing consistency taking hours for outliers. https://docs.aws.amazon.co
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by fraserharris 7y ago
On Vancouver Island the harvesting cycle is 40 - 50 years. Trees grow fast with reasonable temperatures with lots of rain.

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