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Comment #34589399
>The old adage goes: when you wrestle with a pig, you get muddy. Not only do you both get muddy, but the pig wins with the benefit of experience
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Comment #33283505
Thank you! For making the image, and sharing story behind it
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Comment #28827839
It could also be interesting to define multiple subsets of sneakers - "2021 avant garde sneakers", "skate-inspired shoes", "2010s most popular shoes in the NBA" (based on https://b…
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Comment #23266789
Because it's a university senior design project - they often pair students with related majors together to work on a project over the course of a semester or two. It's about the in…
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Comment #19662082
The evidence is literally in the original article: "Darker-skinned women were the most misclassified group, with error rates of up to 34.7%. By contrast, the maximum error rate for…
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Comment #19544637
NYC comes to mind, probably others as well.
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Comment #19532924
Incredible - got goosebumps reading that
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Comment #19444611
That's a great point. One of my favorite parts of college was small research-based classes with 10-15 undergrads/grad students. The level of personal interaction and feedback from …
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Comment #19443303
I had a unique opportunity of taking a year of classes at a good state school (in the top 100 for most STEM fields), and then went to an "elite" school for undergrad (taking a mix …
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Comment #19298330
Even worn paths through the grass at university/corporate campuses can show better ideas for sidewalk layout.
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Comment #19100482
Thanks for taking the time to reply - this story is a good reminder to treat employees/all people as well as you can, not conditionally. Do you think there's anything the CEO could…
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Comment #19099747
Just curious, did you use Instacart or any of their competitors before this?
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Comment #19097171
Cool, thanks! That's a good enough value prop for me to register :)
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Comment #19080370
This is really cool, some great logo redesign inspiration. A couple of thoughts: 1) If you make the logo designs page shareable (step 2, https://mybrandnewlogo.com/logo-designs ), …
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Comment #19059496
Great read. Points #5 (on being able to use a longer time horizon when investing in ideas to let them grow) and #6 (on the growing importance of consumers) stood out to me as well.…
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Comment #18856517
It's essentially the build a little/sell/build a lot cycle you mentioned, but you want to minimize the first step as much as possible. As tech folks, it's easy for us to overestima…
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Comment #17990390
Getting a replacement car key made is a surprisingly slow/expensive process for most modern cars (not as easy as a replacement house key at Home Depot, for example)
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Comment #17689199
This is awesome. It would be cool to adapt the same idea to images which contain numbers (house numbers, highway exit signs, etc) like "1245" to represent 12:45. Since you've ident…
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Comment #17688902
Looks awesome! The difference between the "time" and "non-time" font styling is more subtle here - when I changed #main_text to have color: gray, it became a bit easier for me to s…
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Comment #17683871
Exactly - you have to hold yourself accountable for working hours, or hold yourself accountable for getting the work done. Agree on the exercise as well - no matter what time I go …
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Comment #16845250
Interesting point - avoiding spiders is better for me individually, but reducing mosquitoes is better globally. So I guess it depends if our aversions are optimized for the individ…
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Comment #16826733
Great point. Also important that your customers may not even know what is possible , so they won't know to ask for it directly. Instead, if we ask why they want something, we can u…
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Comment #16693772
One of the problems with cheap one-seater cars is that they are better suited for short distances than long highway commutes. Being in a tiny car next to a semi truck at highway sp…
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Comment #16569986
This looks really interesting! Two points: 1) A quick side-by-side of a sample Terms/Conditions versus Leaf's summarized version would be helpful. It would help me understand the p…
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Comment #16522565
Absolutely, that makes sense. Sure, would love to talk - we've worked with a few large restaurant/hospitality brands so far. Mainly the feedback has been around patterns of reviews…