Dwolb

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by Dwolb 4y ago
My wife and I noticed our Jets pizza kept getting delivered to the building behind ours. The first couple of times it happened we were walking into the lobbies of neighboring buildings scouring for our delicious 8-corner. Finally we figured
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/xjbpfo/oc_...
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Hey so I’m not your marketer, but my 2 cents is to revamp that page to read more like a “proof of performance report” i.e. remove the fluff. The selling on the entire page makes it feel untrustworthy, which is the exact opposite of the inte
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by Dwolb 4y ago
If you’re excited about Stable Diffusion, why not join the Hugging Face Discord and participate in their community?
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by Dwolb 4y ago
What are the hiring rates and the average and median improvements in salary?
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by Dwolb 4y ago
It’s common to sell secondary, but usually limited to something like 10% of vested shares per person.
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by Dwolb 4y ago
In my experience there are two main reasons: 1) People don't receive formal training in logic and argument formation. 2) People don't properly calibrate their own emotion or take into account the listener's emotions when deci
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by Dwolb 4y ago
How would you measure impact?
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Erm yes you are correct, this is the line of business they’re in and they should have had better controls for valuing their assets. Typically there’s a 3rd party fund administrator whose core responsibilities include calculating the value (
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Your original comment laid out the logic very well. I’m not sure why the response took an emotional turn, but it wasn’t warranted. I wish there were sites where more people people could wage discussions in your manner.
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Private companies have a stronger incentive to make choices that accrete value to the firm. On average, this means they’re more rigorous in their vendor selection processes. Therefore private entities are less likely to make bad purchases.
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Thought experiment: What's the largest start-up or most compelling start-up that can be built on a bunch of SaaSs taped together?
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Completely agree. In my early twenties I felt super bad about leaving my first ever corporate job for a step up in life. My boss pulled me aside and said “Dwolb, once you walk out of here, the people here won’t care about you for more than
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by Dwolb 4y ago
You need a therapist. This doesn’t get talked about enough on HN but therapy is literally life changing. The good ones are like a mechanic who can fully take an engine apart, lay out all the pieces, clean and replace broken parts, assemble
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Before we get started, what is a “strong idea” anyway?
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by Dwolb 4y ago
The parent comment is viewing productivity as dynamic and time varying. i.e. Productivity may increase in the short term, but may decrease in the long term due to some tooling shortfall. Whether or not that matters is dependent on a company
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Inbound developer interest = company intent (and segment intent). Just make sure your growth motion doesn’t stop there and layers in a way to nab the buyer. Standard way is to outright ask for introduction or outbound, but there’s usually a
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Depends what you mean by shills. Here’s a list of YC companies under the Crypto/web3 tag in the current batch. [1] [1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=S22&tags=Crypto%...
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Different strokes. My wife and I stayed in a suburb for 3 months while we were caretaking and working remotely. I couldn’t step out my door and go out on a run, the nearest coffee shop was a 15 minute drive away, and no restaurants were ope
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by Dwolb 4y ago
This isn’t a new phenomenon. Microsoft cancelled their Twitter bot 6 years ago for similar reasons [1]. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Neumann’s track record at WeWork: Money raised - $22B Peak market cap - $47B (while private) Current market cap - $4B IPO price per share - $9.82 Current price per share - $5.47 Looking at this data, he hasn’t proven to be an incredible ope
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Adding “PhD” and other credentialed titles is standard SEO practice these days. The thought is Google sees the article as from a “credible source” and ranks you higher.
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by Dwolb 4y ago
"Twilio, et. al, have a brutal, unrelenting scam/spam problem and they have no solution for it. They have nothing. If they had a solution they would have deployed it long ago." That's an interesting point I hadn't h
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by Dwolb 4y ago
It's all relative to your lifestyle and others around you. There are some countries where you can live under $500/month [1]. At a 4% withdrawal rate, $150k would take care of your needs for a very long time. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Regardless of the result, it’s interesting to see the values of different generations and ecosystems clash.
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Chicago currently has this problem [1]. Summers bring out crowds of very loud motorcycles that are so large they block intersections for minutes at a time. Other smaller groups of motorcycles perform tricks or go very fast (like, don’t see
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Has anyone here done this calculation before? How hard is it to reliably spot fake accounts across millions of users for SEC-level reporting fidelity?
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by Dwolb 4y ago
An alternate explanation is Parag knows this is going to get ugly and is sparing his exec team from going through this with him.
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Which is weird because YC has made crypto investments. Looks like around 11 [1]. [1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?query=cryptocurrency&t...
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by Dwolb 4y ago
I definitely hedged yeah.

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