abirch

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by abirch 5y ago
I'm an old fart who was around for the dot com days. Huge red flag the minute leadership shifts from growth to profitability. Usually a good time to update your CV.
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by abirch 5y ago
True but my nephew is a gamer and has his online crew as well. So there's a guy who I know to random genetics. Here's this survey as well: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1235068/online-gaming-so...
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by abirch 5y ago
This looks like a great company, how is it different from delta.io?
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by abirch 5y ago
I was hoping the answer was arguing with strangers on the internet. That's what I seem to do and was hoping that was the answer.
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by abirch 5y ago
Most of my gamer friends, game with real people. Not sure if there are statistics on this or not. For what it's worth this is a correlation study and not causal. I'm sure there are some loners out there that are very happy, but wh
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by abirch 5y ago
Bixby and the Samsung crap are the reasons I'll never buy a Samsung phone. The only redeeming thing is that they're not made in China.
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by abirch 5y ago
> That said, I give the benefit of doubt to the author of "The DK Effect is Autocorrelation." It is a human error to be overly zealous in some opinions without thinking it through. If only there were a term for "a cognitiv
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by abirch 5y ago
I think many starts ups are "rich people" self funding (or are parental funded). For instance Microsoft and Bill Gate's and Paul Allen's helped them out a lot. Ditto with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk's Tesla & Spa
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by abirch 5y ago
After you see the four agreements make sense to me, you may not need the mystic nature of the book.
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by abirch 5y ago
You're right most people are wrong but don't know how wrong they are. It took me 30 years to learn how frequently I am wrong. Just do The Four Agreements from the eponymous book (the book's not worth the read IMO) 1. Be Impec
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by abirch 5y ago
What % of Apple's revenue is on phone repair? How less frequent would people upgrade their phones? This is about Steve Job's obsessive need to control everything and no-one at Apple wants to challenge a dead prophet.
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by abirch 5y ago
Who are the people who should be in charge of the internet?
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by abirch 5y ago
Read Richard Feynman. The man was a genius and would ask as many simple questions early on. If he can check his ego, all of us should be able.
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by abirch 5y ago
You're right about his age. That is very important, I'm wondering if the HN can be locked or not visible so it won't show up in future searches. I'm grateful that the internet and smart phones weren't as prevalent w
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by abirch 5y ago
I definitely believe in second chances and fortunately Bill deleted this tweet. If you're a hiring manager, how much of a risk would you take? How much better would he need to be than the average candidate?
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by abirch 5y ago
The last thing you want from when a future employer tries to google your name is to have this come up. There are only a handful of people I'd put my neck-on-the-line to bring into my company after something like this.
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by abirch 5y ago
The best advice would have been to consult with a lawyer before refusing to take them down.
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by abirch 5y ago
You're right that doing a startup is expensive especially when you look at opportunity costs. Google was going up against Microsoft that was killing off competitors to the point it was on the Simpsons. There are many factors and one of
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by abirch 5y ago
It would depend on tests. Antidepressants work in different ways. If your body is not producing enough serotonin, you'd want drug class x. Or Dopamine a completely different class of drugs.
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by abirch 5y ago
I agree with your comment about the wrong conclusion. Google didn't have a monetization plan, it launched in 1998 and didn't do adwords(ads) until 2000. It's always better to have positive cashflow, however, enough capital le
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by abirch 5y ago
You are not plaids customers. They will be selling your transactions to everyone and anyone. It's pretty easy to identify people from their transactions.
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by abirch 5y ago
You're right and great news!!! He made it to Alexa AI team finally.
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by abirch 5y ago
These other people that were mentioned are from all areas of the political spectrum. After the Capitol Attack in 2021, Twitter deplatformed then President of the United States for inciting violence. Who in the US Government do you think is
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by abirch 5y ago
Just out of curiosity what are the political posts that have caused people to be banned? I see Jo Jorgensen, Ron Paul, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, Mark Rubio, Mitch McConnell, etc. I've never seen anyone banned for saying to end the Fed.
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by abirch 5y ago
Airports can stop these flights but it's not in their financial interests to do so. Seems like Airports could just fine the airlines for unused slots. If the fine is less than cost of the flights everyone would win.
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by abirch 5y ago
I thought WSB was for Well Stated Bullshit :-)
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by abirch 5y ago
Let's assume that it's 100% true. This guy is young and it'd be better for him to delete this. I'm totally going to cyberstalk this guy to see where he goes. My number one rule is not to sh*t on former companies with my
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by abirch 5y ago
This was the way for Microsoft in the late 90's. Hire to fire.
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by abirch 5y ago
No, I was flat out wrong about CockroachDB. Thanks for correcting me.
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by abirch 5y ago
With MariaDB you can centralize your block chain.

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