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by Lazare 7y ago
Congratulations on re-inventing Emmet (and a bunch of other tools) very badly, I guess? :) For anyone interested, the equivalent of the first example in Emmet is: div>h1{My Post}+ul>li{I am list item $}*3^ul>li{I am a differ
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by Lazare 7y ago
If you're in the US, it just works; it's been a solved problem for, I dunno, decades? It just works with Stripe, and it just works with all their competitors. Check out their docs, it's interesting reading: https:/&#x2F
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by Lazare 7y ago
Yeah. I quite like the company I work for, and they do a lot of things right on this front, and cut no corners on developer machines, extra monitors, etc, but... ...they went for really crap chairs. I don't really understand the logic.
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by Lazare 7y ago
I don't think I could disagree more. See, eg: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear... (And this comment in particular: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21&
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by Lazare 7y ago
> Forget everything else and just consider securing the site, collecting payments globally, tax, and you've got 15 FTEs right there. I think you're over-estimating that by a factor of at least 15. If you're happy to say &q
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by Lazare 7y ago
I'm aware of blitzscaling, but for it to work, you've got to be looking at a market with strong network effects - that is, a "natural monopoly". Selling office space is (to my eyes) clearly not a natural monopoly. So my
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by Lazare 7y ago
That question is up for debate, but I personally believe SoftBank was naive (and incompetent) but legit. The concept of blitzscaling is not entirely absurd. If you've identified a market with strong network effects, there will like
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by Lazare 7y ago
It's a long story, but: First, sometimes people build (or buy) office buildings, and then lease the space in them to companies. Office buildings (and the land they're built on) tend to be very expensive, so landlords tend to be
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by Lazare 7y ago
Gee, maybe you should buy the shared after the announcement then, and pick up some of that free money for yourself? (Ignoring, for the moment, that bailouts generally zero out equity holders to ensure debt holders get paid.) Your cynicism i
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by Lazare 7y ago
Agreed 100%. Also, here's an interesting story: https://www.ft.com/content/6a09e4a6-655a-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea6... > French industrials group Air Liquide is selling its Schülke unit, whose products range from the
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by Lazare 7y ago
> Btw most of these shareholders have been smart enough to sell immediately when the markets began falling so they will buy these stocks at the bottom and get bailed out all over again by the taxpayer and watch the capital multiply. If t
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by Lazare 7y ago
This is touched on in the Wikipedia article, but it's interesting that the onion market is well known for being significantly more volatile (and thus, bad for farmers) than other normal markets for vegetables. It is a literally textb
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by Lazare 7y ago
Very good answer!
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by Lazare 7y ago
> This isn't a profession. It's a volunteer effort. I would suggest that is a distinction without a (in this context) relevant difference. Also, you didn't address my other, larger point.
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by Lazare 7y ago
I know exactly who ESR is, have read his blog off and on over the years, and agree with him on many political points. However, that's still a ridiculous email, and inappropriate for any context where grownups are trying to have a ser
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by Lazare 7y ago
What game was released on Steam, then became an Epic store exclusive and stopped being playable on Steam?
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by Lazare 7y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with your argument. Zoom is trading at PE ratio of like...1.4k, Logmein trades at a PE ration of 20. Is Zoom just a thousand times more likely to grow to dominate the sector? I mean, it wouldn't surpri
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by Lazare 7y ago
I would summarise this post as: "Public markets didn't like a few bad Softbank backed IPOs. This clearly is not because only Masayoshi Son loves giant bonfires they can shovel cash into, but instead means that public markets are
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by Lazare 7y ago
Interesting bug, but even better it's nice to see encouragement of people to get involved in open source. The walk through of the process was great.
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by Lazare 7y ago
I remain unconvinced any of that matters in the slightest. A small slice of overly-online people will whine about anything . Epic isn't in this to garner compliments on Twitter, they're in this for money , and while they've
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by Lazare 7y ago
Agreed, 100%. In retrospect, the Epic approach is obviously the right way to do it. It was pretty obvious before too, but I think most people would have discounted the "build a platform by throwing an enormous pile of money at it&quo
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by Lazare 7y ago
Kind of an odd article. There's a lot of POS systems out there, and Aloha isn't be best, or the most popular, or the most innovative, or the newest, or the first. There's a lot of competition in the space, but no context is g
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by Lazare 7y ago
Yes, agreed. And I think some of the most compelling storylines have come from the TV shows (and computer games). I'm more interested in Bastila and Revan than the Skywalkers, at any rate. :)
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by Lazare 7y ago
> They've also opened up Galaxy's Edge at one of their parks which brings in a lot of visitors. Yes, but it's bringing in a lot less than they expected. See, eg: https://cosmicbook.news/disney-star-wars-ga
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by Lazare 7y ago
I don't disagree exactly, but: One: SW has always had a hefty focus on merchandising, and porgs are at least better than Ewoks. (Also, I kind of love the porgs, and may in fact own a porg plushie. And have a porg desktop wallpaper. And
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by Lazare 7y ago
> If they want Star Wars to reach similar success, then they need to build a loyal fan base an order of magnitude larger, of which traditional fans make up only a small amount. That's exactly what they were trying to do, yes. Not ju
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by Lazare 7y ago
Financially it's been fine, but the last movie was disliked by critics, the audience reviews were mixed at best, and the fanbase has been at each other throats. Hollywood tends to pay a lot of attention to CinemaScore (very roughly: ex
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by Lazare 7y ago
As others have noted: Your experience (or rather, your wife's experience) seems to be about the difference between seeing an optometrist and an ophthalmologist . I don't know if the optometrist she saw was unusually incompetent
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by Lazare 7y ago
I'd be careful about running too far with that argument. Of the debt you've flagged as not "real", that would include ~$3T owed to the OASDI trust funds. On the one hand: Yes, that represents a debt the US government owe

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