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by ahzhou 3y ago
It’s for buying political capital, which is as important as the underlying tech. Look at how the US gave away its solar industry to China from of lack of political will.
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by ahzhou 3y ago
This is an incredible false equivalence. Your comment here would have been censored in China.
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by ahzhou 3y ago
Interesting how Amazon uses “Automated Discounts” to get around “Usual and Customary” prices. Typically, pharmacies only get reimbursed by PBMs (middlemen between insurers, manufacturers, and pharmacies) up to a maximum of of their U&C
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by ahzhou 3y ago
Types are just human and machine readable documentation - orthogonal to debugging IMO. Great typing, like great documentation or great design, helps with debugging - but that’s not the main goal.
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by ahzhou 3y ago
If you’re building B2B software, It’s not that you can’t track but rather that you need to spend time building data retention infrastructure before customers would even consider trialing your solution.
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by ahzhou 3y ago
FWIW, I think the discussion here this highlights the biggest problem with the approach. Either it's confirmatory and wasn't a question worth asking in the first place or it's surprising and people need real data to evaluate
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by ahzhou 3y ago
I’ve known both. Some kids have a huge chip on their shoulder to carry the family legacy or exceed their parents, while some were happy to coast on their trust fund. I think the biggest difference is that kids without family money don’t hav
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by ahzhou 3y ago
If the goal is to pick “future leaders”, Yale succeeded as far as admissions are concerned. I think it’s unreasonable to expect that an institution can predict what decisions a teenager will make in their 60’s.
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by ahzhou 3y ago
While true, standardized testing is still more fair than qualitatively judging extracurriculars or applying arbitrary GPA normalization across high schools.
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by ahzhou 3y ago
1. Connections talk, but money talks even louder. The companies they buy are also trying to sell for top dollar and rarely court just one buyer. 2. CLOs are definitely problematic, but the current rate of default is vastly overstated. If pr
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by ahzhou 3y ago
Pensions are very rarely lenders. They may invest in lenders but tend to look at historical performance. Political appointees are not the ones making investment decisions. At most they are setting very broad themes. For example, political a
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by ahzhou 3y ago
> Why is private equity ending up with all these resources? Who is selling to them and why? Why didn't this happen before? It's not like PE is new. PE as an investment strategy was pioneered by KKR in the 60's, beginning w
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by ahzhou 3y ago
Your insinuation that the UK will implement a Ukraine war draft in order to advance a totalitarian agenda is weird, unnecessarily conspiratorial, and dilutes your point. I encourage you to make one point and to make it well.
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by ahzhou 3y ago
Thats right. At the end of the day, PE investors need to make their returns and blow-ups like Toys-R-Us did not make good returns. That said, there are systematic problems with the incentives involved. 1. PE investors tend to be VERY financ
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by ahzhou 3y ago
It’s basically the acquisition (buying out) a company using debt-financing (leverage). The typical plan is usually to use business revenue to finance the interest payments, optimize the business via cost-cuts or roll-ups, and flip it for a
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by ahzhou 3y ago
It’s incredibly hard (read: impossible) to make top-down dogfood pushes across a massive company like Meta. You have three options: 1) Create an team to internally sell it 2) Make it an ultimatum, and fire people if they don’t agree 3) Hop
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by ahzhou 3y ago
It’s like saying that the root of western culture lies in Greek philosophy or Judeo-Christian traditions. It’s not totally inaccurate, but the realities of life and modernity means that it is an oversimplification of something that is compl
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by ahzhou 3y ago
That's up to you. I personally find it fun to meet people and I prefer being near nice smells. It doesn't mean that a rose perfume makes me uncontrollable. Most perfumes aren't even naturally sexy smells. It's not like p
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by ahzhou 3y ago
This would make sense if we were lizards, but it turns out we're humans with agency. The way that you describe it, the only way men can control primal instincts of having orgies on the streets is to make everyone wear a burka. Everyone
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by ahzhou 3y ago
I don’t think it’s right for the hiring team to decide if an individual will “get too much attention”. IME, women are all too familiar with the challenges of working in a male-dominated workplace, but ultimately just want to pursue a career
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by ahzhou 3y ago
Media is horribly neutered because of censorship, but cultural exports like food are seeing increasing traction.
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by ahzhou 3y ago
You’re probably over-planning. Scale back and just plan for a release in 2-4 weeks. Ignore everything else outside of what you can get done in that time frame. Drop the consideration of things like the domain and the name. Fight the urge to
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by ahzhou 3y ago
Yeah, Google needs to make sure that their research doesn’t go the way of Xerox PARC.
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by ahzhou 3y ago
Not exactly - there’s a bunch of non-trivial stuff you need to worry about when both local and remote states represent sources of truth. Things like CRDTs and event sourcing make it easier, but there’s still more complexity than dealing wit
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by ahzhou 4y ago
I’ve always considered traditional food to be based on generation. If your grandparents grew up eating it, it’s traditional. Many foods comes from cultural cross-pollination.
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by ahzhou 4y ago
> Doctors don't use unions. They instead artificially limit supply by erecting massive barriers to enter their workforce. This keeps them in demand. Software contrasts this with an open-door policy. On top of that, all white-collar
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by ahzhou 4y ago
Advances seem to make some of the hacks less necessary (such as CoT behaving better with newlines), but precisely specifying what you want will always be useful.
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by ahzhou 4y ago
While true, I think the quantity is abnormal in terms of human history, since meat used to be considered a luxury item.
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by ahzhou 4y ago
We use ngrok for testing OAuth2 handshakes on localhost.
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by ahzhou 4y ago
> Consumer deposits have an average account size of less than $200,000 Whoa! FRB has wealthy customers. US average cash in savings accounts is $41,600. And this is pure cash too - not total net worth.

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