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by rcar 4y ago
Agreed. These meetings can certainly end up being as cynically founded as the version posed in the post, but they're often also useful opportunities for execs to make sure that communication of the ultimate intent that led to the propo
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by rcar 4y ago
Title should be "packages" rather than "packets".
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by rcar 5y ago
There are far more fictional TV characters than there are types of wood. I'm a hobbyist woodworker and TV snob but could still many more characters than woods.
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by rcar 5y ago
https://outline.com/LnhwGn
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by rcar 5y ago
Their balance sheet looks very healthy for a growing company with a strong gross margin and very sustainable net losses relative to the capital they've been able to raise. As long as they can maintain their brand position in the space,
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by rcar 5y ago
From their S-1, 2020 revenue was $219m. From that, $106m was cost of revenue, $87m went out to SG&A, and $55m for marketing. Presumably if they wanted to hit pure profitability, they could take their foot off the gas on the admin expens
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by rcar 5y ago
Sure, everyone wants to get to the latent factors that really drive the outcome of interest, but I've never seen a situation in which principal components _really_ represent latent factors unless you squint hard at them and want to bel
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by rcar 5y ago
PCA is a cool technique mathematically, but in my many years of building models, I've never seen it result in a more accurate model. I could see it potentially being useful in situations where you're forced to use a linear/lo
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by rcar 5y ago
I believe that the real intention behind the statement is that not all users of their product are going to have 5 working fingers if they've had some sort of accident or similar.
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by rcar 6y ago
Agreed with all points. I often find that these sorts of observational studies with weak methods that provide evidence for something the unblinded study participants would want to support (e.g., this study, observational studies of the effe
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by rcar 6y ago
I found myself wanting a little more content here. Felt mostly like hand waving followed by a plug for their product.
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by rcar 6y ago
Fine, but you could just as easily flip the arrow or come up with a common cause to come up with a plausible narrative. In areas with low economic growth, lawyers are a high status, high earning potential field, and so why not go into that
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by rcar 6y ago
Correlation vs. causation, etc., etc.
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by rcar 6y ago
Looks like a fun side project. In a similar vein, I'd also recommend the Synacor Challenge, which involves a set of gradually expanding challenges around implementing a virtual machine: https://challenge.synacor.com/
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by rcar 6y ago
STL files are the 3D models that you put into your slicer of choice (which converts the project into the thin layers that the printer will gradually put down). There's a dozen things to print in the zip. I sliced 3-4 of them, and none
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by rcar 6y ago
Overpayment in credit card terms is typically when you pay more than the full balance, not more than the minimum payment. Getting a refund under the given circumstances (1500 on a 15k bill with a 150 min pay) might be possible from some len
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by rcar 6y ago
Still, he literally said "do skilled work and spend your money wisely", the former implying that he focused on developing his skills, and the latter implying that he didn't live beyond his means. Hard to characterize either a
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by rcar 6y ago
That's helpful; thanks. I guess coming from much more of a software background, having the ability to write C code (which feels like an acceptable veneer over the hardware to me and works well across chips) and having programmatic acce
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by rcar 6y ago
To be clear, I'm genuinely curious - this isn't intended as an insult to any of the folks who have worked on these projects.
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by rcar 6y ago
As someone who has done a fair bit of tinkering with stuff like Arduinos, NodeMCUs, ESP32s, etc. along with Pis and similar, what sort of itch does this scratch for people that those wouldn't? From looking at the Rosco version, it does
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by rcar 6y ago
Part of the difficulty SO faces is that there's sort of two similar but distinct problems that it's meant to solve, and as such there is no one "community". It's simultaneously a place to ask programming questions a
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by rcar 6y ago
I was curious about what "pot steel" was - for anyone else who hadn't encountered it before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_metal
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by rcar 6y ago
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by rcar 6y ago
Seems a little presumptuous to assume that the decline in outreach was personal and not associated with the heavy decline in companies hiring during uncertain times.
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by rcar 6y ago
On behalf of future searchers trying to avoid the "nvm I figured it out" problem, what was the answer?
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by rcar 6y ago
Founders often get the opportunity to cash out some of their stake in the company in mid and late VC rounds.
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by rcar 6y ago
Article is missing the title's leading "How"
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by rcar 6y ago
> “We’re too old to play those games,” Mr. Zhu said. “It’s too difficult for us. We were just looking for basic income.” While I feel bad for the outcome these people have found themselves in, who looks at any sort of derivative as a sou
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by rcar 6y ago
Very cool project! I'm curious about the relatively small registers though. 3 trits feels pretty limiting, and though there's the 6-trit word example, it feels like it would get pretty cumbersome on the software side pretty quickl
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by rcar 7y ago
min and max can also be comparing one part of a more complex object: In [1]: l = [(19, "John"), (19, "Jack"), (20, "Jim")] In [2]: min(l, key=lambda x: x[0]) Out[2]: (19, 'John')

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