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by VLM 4y ago
How big will his market be? I theorize it will be the same population whom moved to Canada back when Trump was elected. Maybe smaller because of network effects.
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by VLM 4y ago
The FTX business model was to initiate regulatory capture, spend a flood of money on the usual DC insiders to make all competitors DeFi illegal in the USA, then they just happen to soak up all the profits. It would have worked out fine if t
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by VLM 4y ago
There's a twitter thread by Adam Cochran if you want to read more or less the above, in much longer more detailed format. But, yeah, in general my opinion based on what I've seen is the business model of FTX was to profit off the
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by VLM 4y ago
There's a simply amazing amount of sophistry from one side on this post. Its like they're not even trying intellectual discourse anymore, its just here's your logical fallacy and we outnumber you now so obey.
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by VLM 4y ago
They can come back and do that again, every day, legally, for the rest of his life. Or he could cooperate.
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by VLM 4y ago
Identity politics means vote outcomes will depend solely on demographic data, and polarization has RAPIDLY increased over recent decades. Some demographic groups already polarize their votes over 90%, the goal of the people in charge is to
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by VLM 4y ago
WRT spend as much time as possible, I see that in Youtube videos, we (or "the internet") are entering the era of "filler" as the dominant concept. We were in the era of "social" a decade ago, then had some year
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by VLM 4y ago
My problem is the source selection algorithm. Take a big list of possibilities, perhaps a Google search, whatever. Cross off the corporate "video news release" basically its a TV commercial sources. Cross off the government contro
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by VLM 4y ago
Also, follow the money.
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by VLM 4y ago
Interesting strategic window: You can't innovate and software engineer using 1950s style "butts in seats". Maybe this is a signal twitter isn't going to innovate, develop, and maybe even operate, internally, at least g
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by VLM 4y ago
I've seen "product driven management companies" do R+D the way OP saw things happening. There's no way to do true R+D with product driven budgeting. Perhaps "big corporate" has their own R+D and forbids divisi
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by VLM 4y ago
It is odd that the supposed victim in the story didn't seem to invest one penny into oversight of their $60M. My guess is a longer game was going on that OP never found out about.
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by VLM 4y ago
OP mentioned the moving goalposts, so cut scope. Hiring 200 more people would just make it 2 or 3 years late, not just 1 year late.
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by VLM 4y ago
Twitter is workforce automation for that kind of behavior. Its designed to be like that.
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by VLM 4y ago
The local minima for diabetes is likely not the overall minima for death rate. I would be surprised if the minima for diabetes diagnosis was NOT slightly below the minima for overall death rate. The famous JAMA article from 2013 that every
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by VLM 4y ago
"good (benign)" More accurate word choice would be "less bad". I don't believe dietary science knows of a benign sweetener at this time. Kind of like the situation with alcohol; there's some that are worse than
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by VLM 4y ago
The problem I see is my PSVR1 is dusty because I'm bored with it. It was a cool experience and battlezone was fun but maybe 20 hours in and I'm done and its dusty. The marketing solution to the PSVR1 being boring is "its got
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by VLM 4y ago
The authorities have no reason to be involved. It's 20 minutes, and children can take care of themselves. At least 99.9% of my voicemails are a couple second long robocalls, but in the rare event of it being a genuine phone call, I ge
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by VLM 4y ago
It was not naïve, they grew up in a generational-scale labor shortage with low inflation and incredibly low costs of living and low energy costs. They had a minimum wage in a technical legalistic sense, but financial success was guaranteed
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by VLM 4y ago
There seems no obvious reason that everything good would be profitable, as if profitability is an expression of goodness. But as long as you can fund the good stuff somehow, it'll be OK.
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by VLM 4y ago
In the long run, yes. There are shorter term effect where for at least a generation there's been too many new grads able to design hardware I2C devices, resulting in too many new grads also able to write I2C driver software as a backup
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by VLM 4y ago
The article very specifically states "very high levels" That has two effects: 1) Given how ineffective the hiring process is at selecting skill, they would never hire even Bjarne Stroustrup. Average to incompetent people trying t
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by VLM 4y ago
Systemd is a somewhat successful non-unix operating system, marketed to people who want a unix-like operating system using force. This isn't what anyone wants but you'll go along or they'll unleash a hell of sophistry about
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by VLM 4y ago
Follow the money not the tech for this story. Facebook sold to individuals as a workforce automation platform for teenage girl relationships-as-a-pattern that anyone can use, AND double dipped selling to biz and gov as a propaganda outlet a
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by VLM 4y ago
emacs and gcc are "free" free. I use and like asana, but I assure you it is not free, my company pays a lot for that. I think we get much more value than it costs, but that doesn't mean the cost is zero, I think its nearly $
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by VLM 4y ago
Market for lemons, or the old saying about bad money always pushes out the good money. For another example see touch-screen automotive UIs, universally hated by everyone except the bean counters, so we're stuck with them forever. Also
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by VLM 4y ago
Cerner got $10B a couple years ago to prevent the VA system from working. Its happening per plan, so far.
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by VLM 4y ago
Classic business process mistake of trying to change a verbal contract into a form-letter. "I'd like a quarter pounder with cheese and fries" is utterly unacceptable for buying a house or taking out a car loan, but it's
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by VLM 4y ago
Medical decisions are based primarily on financial profit, and patient outcome data is not required to determine which medicines are most profitable. The point of extensive documentation is shielding from the worst of malpractice lawsuits.
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For many years, for political reasons we'll never have another "great depression", and this has possibly now extended to reporting recessions. Its worth pointing out that the economic indicator of productivity is basically GD

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