zdean

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by zdean 9y ago
"In short, we found product-market fit." "Despite our early successes, we’ve decided to close Walnut. Our tests revealed that we could create an experience customers loved, but we doubted our ability to be profitable long-ter
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by zdean 9y ago
Did you actually get through the entire story? This guy got 2 cases in front of the Supreme Court WHILE IN PRISON! That in itself would be a career maker for any lawyer...he did it before he went to law school....WHILE IN PRISON!
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by zdean 9y ago
"... then we have bigger problems." Yes, I think this is precisely the point of this issue...that the problem IS bigger than just some outlier assholes and extends to a systemic bias/-ism towards women in tech and probably ma
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by zdean 9y ago
Focus doesn't mean exclusion. (borrowed)
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by zdean 9y ago
"I don't often write immediate reactions to recent news." This is a peculiar statement to start with. Was this "news" because it only now came to his attention via this particular article. Was the head of the larg
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by zdean 9y ago
"I still think driving a truck as a profession will be a thing of the past within 20 years or so." I hope so. Trucking is one of the toughest professions for a person to endure that I've ever seen. It destroys a person's
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by zdean 9y ago
"... extremely offensive viewpoints." I imagine it'll be a very fuzzy line that they draw.
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by zdean 9y ago
Having never tried rock climbing, I'm curious what the potential causes of catastrophic events would be on this kind of a climb (that would necessitate safety gear for most climbers in the first place)...pieces of rock that give out un
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by zdean 9y ago
This might be just about the most awkward product marketing page I've come across in my memory. I personally probably will never be able to afford a model S. So I'd essentially be their market for the 3. But looking at how they ta
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by zdean 9y ago
I wouldn't give up on it. I remember a few years ago the stories of people 3d printing prosthetic hands for $50...where the cost had previously been $30k+. I imagine that some ingenuity and determination could do the same here. https:
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Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage?(nytimes.com)
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by zdean 9y ago
I also practice BJJ but think of MMA as a pretty brutal no holds barred sport. The 2 things are not the same (although often talked about as being the same). BJJ is a (relatively) narrowly defined practice. MMA is a sport where you can brin
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by zdean 9y ago
I wonder if by the time we find "The Ultimate Secret to Staying Married" we'll have already learned that marriage doesn't have to be the final goal of a relationship after all.
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by zdean 9y ago
Better source from UC San Diego: https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2017-04-25-novel...
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by zdean 9y ago
Respectfully, you're dancing around the issue. What it would betray is the reality that not all wealth is earned equally. Yes, there are plenty of people that earn through effort and merit. But to look at one's environment (wether
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by zdean 9y ago
The aim was to show that in the absence of academic cheating, a meritocracy would emerge. What the researcher realized was that the deck was stacked against poorer students and in favor of richer students...in essence, the cheating/rig
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by zdean 9y ago
Killing someone is a bad outcome no matter how you look at it. But we make a moral distinction between defensive and offensive killing and allow for "justifiable homicide". Similarly, I think the same test would hold true for lyin
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by zdean 9y ago
I think if there's any airline that I'd give the benefit of the doubt for making a change like this, it would be SW. I can't imagine that a conversation around this issue ONLY came up for them after the (most recent) United f
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by zdean 9y ago
The focus on simplifying language reminds me of "Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity In Words of Four Letters or Less" http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html
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by zdean 9y ago
I don't think the parent comment disagrees with you that it's an emergency...I think he's surprised by the designation because it'll focus attention on the root source of the problem and make the local governments confro
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by zdean 9y ago
Thanks for that affirmation. I actually taught them binary counting too over a weekend a few months back...I was amazed how quickly they were able to pick up on it (3rd and 5th graders). With limited time/energy, I was hoping to find s
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by zdean 9y ago
Would you happen to know of any websites, video series, books, etc that would be in the same vein as these 2 sources but geared towards very young students (elementary/middle school math)? ...so that they can understand it conceptually
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by zdean 9y ago
For clarity, that's "Leland Stanford Junior University"
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by zdean 9y ago
The article also goes on to say (in essence) that even if you assume that United was in the wrong on this point, it constitutes a breach of contract on United's part. At that point, Dao is free to sue for breach of contract...but Unite
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by zdean 9y ago
Read the article linked to in my earlier comment.
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by zdean 9y ago
DU is used in warheads >> DU releases radiation >>> radiation causes cancer. Therefore, you could link the bombs that use DU to cancer. In this case, maybe they didn't have DU, but there are still other nasty contaminant
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by zdean 9y ago
Cancer screening skyrocketing doesn't account for a skyrocketing rate of cancer...it would simply capture more of the absolute number.
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by zdean 9y ago
The cancer rates in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc have skyrocketed in the past decades. Some believe it's tied to the relentless bombings: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/14/iraq.military
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by zdean 9y ago
What makes you sure it doesn't cause cancer...because it's not an atomic weapon? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/14/iraq.military "The amount of DU used during the Iraq war has
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by zdean 9y ago
1. "Only inhabited by ISIS" - Really? Says who? There were no villages or civilians within the kill perimeter? 2. What's the aftermath of a 21,000 pound munition on the environment and resources of the region. Do a google sea

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