abirch

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   by abirch 4y ago

   I'm imagining the legal implications though I'm not a lawyer. If granny gets ripped off by someone impersonating me with this site, seems like Granny could sue Play.ht. Play.ht will want to have as much information as possible abo
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   by abirch 4y ago

   I understand that news sites need clicks, but can we expect regression toward the mean? Bing has a smaller market share therefore it's easier to jump 15%.
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   by abirch 4y ago

   Does anyone know how many annual hours Military pilots log and at what altitude? A regular flight from NYC to LA is similar to getting a chest x-ray: https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/air_travel.html
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   by abirch 4y ago

   I was an ardent Google fan boy, but I'm not longer going to buy their stuff. Your comment articulates why, before I only had a vague feeling.
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   by abirch 4y ago

   I take solace that you say you take responsibility otherwise no one would have known.
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   by abirch 4y ago

   And not let the community know there is a threat out there.
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   by abirch 4y ago

   No banking investment is safe if there is a run on the bank. It's not like this result was inevitable. If the bonds didn't need to be sold, they would have paid out.
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   by abirch 4y ago

   They made a bet that people wouldn't need their money back right now. It's the constant risk in fractional reserve banking. SVB should have purchased more swaps or swaptions, but this is me Monday morning quarterbacking. If deposi
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   by abirch 4y ago

   The reason why their safe investments were losing value is that the Fed had raised rates. Their assets weren't bad, they had lost value because the Fed has raised rates. The market is expecting rates to drop hence the inverted yield cu
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Does anyone know if there's an estimate of what % of Y-combinator companies used SVB?
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Exactly people would be here saying that the CEO hasn't said anything in the past 10 days or whatnot. Damned if you do and damned if you don't
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    by abirch 4y ago

    If you have to convince people you're liquid, you've lost the argument. Similar to if you have to convince people you're sane, you've already lost
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    by abirch 4y ago

    I love premortems at work. Gary Klein came up with the idea of asking why a project could fail before you start it: https://hbr.org/2007/09/performing-a-project-premortem
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Downround or liquidation preference.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    What I hate about financial headlines is the ease of causational attribution. The same event can be used to explain two diametrically opposed outcomes.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Probably PR to counter the Cathy Woods of the world saying ChatGPT will destroy Google.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Too many people are addicted to code and making things from scratch. Your suggestions are spot on. Oddly enough developers' and contractors' costs usually expand to any budget size.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Who?
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    by abirch 4y ago

    I think the Salesforce number is the number from 2023 and excludes the 1000 from 2022 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/08/salesforce-cut-hundreds-of-e...
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    by abirch 4y ago

    C++ and Fortran are what come to mind for computational chemistry due to the legacy libraries but it's been a long long time since I've used Gaussian.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    We're a google household but I'm interested in switching. Do you know if it's possible to use YouTube Music or do I need to do a line change and replace all of my Google Hubs?
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    by abirch 4y ago

    It makes it easier to say goodbye. I wish Shopify or Google had an easier way to buy anything their. I'm downloading my pictures and cancelling prime.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Kahneman discusses the peak-end ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%E2%80%93end_rule ) and how the ending is as important as the best or worst part of an experience. You can't control your peak popularity but you c
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    by abirch 4y ago

    I remember that amazing feeling when I was financially free. It's so great. It absolutely sucks when you can't quit and it magnifies any issue you face.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    I hate Amazon but they are so convenient. So much like college I find myself doing the walk of shame . Is there something out there that's better?
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    by abirch 4y ago

    I think Apple will have to allow different stores in Europe soon. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    If this is the mark of the beast, I'll take it.
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    by abirch 4y ago

    I want VR so that I can have 8 different monitors and even more desktops. I want this at work so I can have different remote sessions up and just look right to see the current metrics, left for slack and email, vs code central...
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Retirement explains the low unemployment % since they're no longer part of the workforce. The jobs added are great, especially since we need ~140K additional jobs per month due to the growing US Population. (that number probably droppe
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    by abirch 4y ago

    Housing starts (new construction). Home sales (it's harder and harder to get a mortgage). If you know any real estate agents take them out to lunch because most are hurting. Oddly housing prices aren't dropping as much as they sho