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Also relevant to this platform -- if your business is more successful when your customers are more successful, and they tell you that, and together you can measure that... you migh…

I second this. If a company is building their product off of other people's work, I believe they need to honor the spirit and intention of their predecessors. From the comment belo…

I think you underestimate the lengths to which some people will go for fame.

Non-incremental advances require a lot of wasted-path R&D. If any of Intel's projects creates a generational leap, it will pay off handsomely. When the way forward isn't clear, I l…

For the curious, Eris is the ancient Greek god of strife and discord. Is this an alternate spelling of Ares?

Check out beergraphs.com, it has lots of different normalization lenses that might get you what you want. Founded by some baseball stathead writers, so takes a lot of the same appr…

If you're discussing the reality of the problem instead of the perception of it, the median household income would need to be adjusted for cost of living. I'd need nearly double a …

Many people believe this is an overstep on the government's part. These people believe it's not the government's job to be paternalistic and nudge people into the "right direction"…

The actual number of eligible voters was about 250 million in the last presidential election, up from 235 million in the 2012 race. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turn…

> Person gets into the driverless car way too intoxicated and passes out/overdoses/dies in the car -- need physical help? > So now we have driverless cars effectively classified as…

I never really understood the significance of the Bombadil interaction, except to underline how ancient a world this was, and how much more power everyone had compared to hobbits. …

What's a reasonable cost per word for specialized content? EG, something about a specific field (although doesn't require a college degree to write, some specialized knowledge woul…

http://www.fast.ai/2017/09/08/introducing-pytorch-for-fastai...

200cal/day is about 20 lbs./year, not accounting for adaptation.

I doubt it was specific to the exact MRR number. More likely their growth stalled using the methods that were taking up all of their time (direct sales, word of mouth). For some $N…

Rent prices in Chicago are half of SF, according to crowdsourced data from Numbeo's cost of living calculator. https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Twilio has nearly a $3 billion market cap right now, and their signup/churn/usage rates give them a good idea on the growth potential for this market. Nobody I know is a Twilio eng…

You don't think property coops are at a high risk of acting like current HOAs?

Yes, usage longevity is another factor to consider besides sound quality. However, I was replying to OP, who specifically was talking about the signal loss due to BT encoding. I co…

I've done a lot of scraping in my day, and I've found that lxml/requests is 2-3 OOM more resource efficient than a Selenium based browser. That JS/rendering engine is HEAVY!

Bureaucracies are inherently risk averse; that is what it sounds to me like you ran into. You have my sympathy for it. I think it's wrong and a net loss to society, but I also have…

Even if they were selling, I would think it's a net loss for society that they cannot fully participate in banking. My point was more about OP's presentation of why they could not …

Analog headphones are lossy, I trust compression algorithms to improve more than I believe manufacturers will use more expensive, higher quality materials and connections at the sa…

According to your own site[0], it sounds like Stripe declined to continue to serve you because of an association with a cannabis business. (That's a sub-optimal reality, but I thin…

My point wasn't to deny your experience, only to comment that even for your specific experience it's impossible to be so confident as to state it was Vitamin C that prevented illne…