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because of Luxottica's monopoly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica

Would you say this only applies to certain industries? Also what if the startup is only patent rich, is there anything to lose by talking?

I suppose they need someone with a clean name to run the company. And he's probably also serving as an abstraction layer between them and online gambling issues.

This used to be the case, but Lyft now takes 20% of the total fare, including surge

Apparently in the article it's mostly fueled by surface life; but there is also life around geothermal vents

Isn't drone a buzzword and this type of craft is just a radio controlled plane. This tech is ancient. I thought drone implies it's self guiding.

This is the first step towards outsourcing the presidency

"Uber for genetic testing" is what I imagine the startup version of Resident Evil's Umbrella Corp would call itself

Do you plan to offer phone support?

I'm referring to the SME term used in business scope. Where a SME is proven through some standardized way, that makes it impossible for someone not so vetted to have input. Amateur being someone who has interest and knowledge but doesn't meet the checklist to have an opinion.

Like http://www.opm.gov/FAQS/QA.aspx?fid=a6da6c2e-e1cb-4841-b72d-...

"It was amateurs who made the progress"

This is a great way to explain why the term <subject matter expert> irritates me so much. Sometimes knowing nothing is a good thing.

What about rent or mortgage? In most major cities low rent could be easily 35% of after tax income already

Your calculation seems flawed. A 5% efficiency boost isn't just direct labor cost savings

You could say our consciousness (and imagination) is a simulation running on our brain

This is a related effort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEO

What are you using for OCR?

I did work in a company that set its work schedule entirely based on Lotus Notes calendar. Hour-long meetings anytime but "lunch hour". Phone calls asking why I didn't respond to accept the weekly status update meeting invite. White boards and laptops newer than 6 years old were seemingly banned.

Just lock the door before you enjoy the industry's oculus offerings, to avoid someone untowardly bursting in and finding you unaware and wearing only a cinema strapped to your face

Email the whole blog post to jeff@amazon.com for higher level support

If AI needs only be better than these responses, this could be a huge opportunity

It would not be spam if this startup was only giving it's customers links to great matching OkCupid profiles

"Our Premium Matchmakers will contact someone if they have someone they want to set them up on a date with."

This is unsolicited spam. And likely against OkCupid's terms of use.

Apparently he also said "That's good karma. It will come back," Nadella said. "That's the kind of person that I want to trust, that I want to give more responsibility to."

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/9/6953697/microsoft-ceo-saty...

Some smaller casinos in Nevada offer one or two +ev VP machines on the floor

you knew how to survive a civilization destroying world war tho

Yea try booting up with half a CPU.

I suppose ideally if you do code you'd have a repository of work to show and wouldn't be expected to code so much in an interview

I think taxi's are naturally commodities.

Uber and Lyft are basically dispatch and payment processors. Similar perhaps to a credit card processor.

Uber outsources most all their costs. It's lucrative for Uber

Why wouldn't someone just create their own API service?