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The Effect of Location on a Startup's Likelihood of Success

https://codingvc.com/the-effect-of-location-on-a-startups-li...


Neat, thank you! The graphs use this nebulous "signal" metric. It is hard to tell if that includes start up valuation and/or exits, which I posit are more important than some of the markers they mentioned like advisor or investor popularity. Neat data point though.


Twitter says he posted that at 5:26 AM, not 8:26 AM.


According to which timezone?


All times EST. :)


I'm EST, it says 8:26.


Open your account settings and set the appropriate time zone.


And I'm pretty sure Lockheed Martin is still right next to Moffett, as well as the SV campus of Carnegie Mellon. I think there might be too much going on in this little strip of land to completely discount aerospace.


I read The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst in high school, and can recommend that as well.


Looks like the ebook's being released later this month. Guess a marketer somewhere is laying some groundwork.


And is Google guilty as well? The story below is currently at the top of the World section of Google News -

Nuclear War Alert: US Prepares For North Korea Missile Launch

http://www.morningnewsusa.com/nuclear-war-alert-us-prepares-...

I have no idea what this "news" site is, but I'm pretty sure that the US is not currently rushing to prepare for a North Korean nuclear missile launch.


North Korea is thought to be gearing up for a missile test. Not a war.


How do they employ almost 300 people on $11 mil / year?

Also, why are these posts getting downvoted? The title of this article is "How We Make Money at Stack Overflow".


Venture capital. I highly doubt they're even close to profitable with revenue per employee of $36k.


No they don't.

Hillary Clinton lost the election but is winning the popular vote

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/donald-trump-hillary-...


Yes, they do. Click my link, and click "Popular Vote" tab. They are projecting him as the winner. She is winning currently, but he is the projected winner.


On both sides, how much does this matter at this point? The vote was pretty evenly split. How is this going to affect how you act going forward? There's no mandate on either side, nor was there likely to have been if Clinton had won the election.


It matters insofar as one side is asserting that the results are less valid because the people did not choose Trump. It's the same electoral/popular argument that happens every election that there's a split. The argument does not apply if it did not happen here this time.


No, they don't. Look at your own link. Clinton is up by nearly 400,000 votes.


At the time of my post, it was accurate. Proof http://i.imgur.com/4AWBt2N.png


Yeah, that's kind of the problem.


Not sure why this is controversial. Boilers have an on/off switch, and when your company manages a large number of buildings, you automate and centralize on/off for efficiency's sake, no?


That fair enough, but in this case the heating system is directly attached to the internet. The correct way of designing something like this is having the heating system as one system and the management system as another.

The management system can then receive information and MAYBE control some aspects of the heating system. If you remove or crash the management system, the heating system just reverts back to being a "dumb" heating system.

My question is: Why in the name of all that is holy does the heating system stop working just because the remote management interface decides to reboot?

This has to be design by the same idiots that believe that an in car infotainment system should be hooked up to the drive computer in a Jeep.


a combo of cost cutting and safety requirements?


What kind of incident could safety regulations be trying to prevent by forbidding a furnace from operating when remote control is unreachable?


Blow of tank, fire.


There are other methods to prevent such occurrences: furnaces have "flame out of bounds" sensors and/or chimney flow sensors: this is very good at preventing the furnace from starting a fire of its own.

If there's already a fire present, whether furnace decides to stop operating or not is usually irrelevant (you can get a gas leak from a damaged furnace even if it's off). I do not see why _remote_ control should be able to prevent a fire from starting: whatever is remotely controlling this furnace doesn't have more data than the furnace itself.


So, circumvent your furnace control logic to burn at max rate when it receives no commands from it remote controller, then go somewhere for a week. Engineers are stupid people, you know.


My family has a furnace for heating water and the house. The furnace has a control unit that controls the burner and pumps. There is also a "manual operation" switch, to be used if the control unit fails, that simply switches everything on: pumps and the burner. The burner has a thermostatic control (that is set to a very high temperature and is essentially used to prevent it from boiling the water).

So, in this case, "burn at max rate" _is_ the safe setting to be used when the controller dies. The only unsafe situation that it will cause is that the hot utility water will be scaldingly hot, but there will be no increased danger of fire nor of CO poisoning.


No, you generally have a a control device on site. You probably also have some backup/safeguards in place in case the controller fails.

In essential systems you have to build for robustness over efficiency.


Doesn't he mean executive orders? I believe those are considered law, while executive actions are simply directional.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/20/365467914/...

EDIT: Never mind, he said ...cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama.


Which is worded so ambiguously, he could technically get away with doing nothing!


And why is that a problem?


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