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by aorloff 2y ago
What is dead is the notion that some ever expanding data lake is a mine full of gems and not a cost center.
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by aorloff 2y ago
They also have a hurricane upgrade package. Now we're cookin with gas
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by aorloff 2y ago
Fediverse is now integrated with Threads, and Threads is bigger than Twitter. With any luck, Fediverse becomes the open source, Threads kills X, and news media continues to die the same slow death it would have anyway. If you haven't
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by aorloff 2y ago
The office buildings are vacant. There is a sea of vacant office buildings as far as the eye can see.
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by aorloff 2y ago
I can tell you that in northern CA, large relatively recently class A office buildings are well available at ~$75/foot outside of the main downtown cores (where they might be ~$200s/foot). Think 75,000 - 200,000 sqft office with a
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by aorloff 2y ago
Not in the auctions on the courthouse steps I've been to. When I went, the process is this : the auctioneer arrives and announces bidders step forward to qualify, wherein they (privately) show their ID and cashier's checks made ou
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by aorloff 2y ago
Oh trust me I know. MongoDB is so great in fact that actual businesses can be built on top of it using hilariously poor designs.
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by aorloff 2y ago
If you ever come across a project where you are wading through levels of duct tape and wondering how this technical design ever got out the door you can be sure that when you get to the bottom you will find MongoDB.
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by aorloff 2y ago
Perhaps, but a lot of lawyering is very expensive. If that turns out to not be so expensive, the practice is going to change. Right now the court system works at a snail's pace, because it expects that expensive lawyering happens slow
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by aorloff 3y ago
The counteracting force is to align business ownership with headcount So if you handle $$$ worth of book, you get $$$ worth of headcount to keep that going
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by aorloff 3y ago
Amazon should be investigated for anticompetitive practice around the Amazon Warrants Program where they force vendors to give Amazon equity to keep doing business
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by aorloff 3y ago
As a byproduct of other efforts, not on purpose.
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by aorloff 3y ago
Trust me, it’s not only government.
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by aorloff 3y ago
You have some evidence that government is not incompetent ?
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by aorloff 3y ago
Every tourist island is having this problem.
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by aorloff 3y ago
Because otherwise they would have to make sure they don’t need a cookie popup, and nobody is ever sure of that with modern marketing stacks
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by aorloff 3y ago
America is rigged to benefit the business owner. This used to make more sense where in the first couple hundred years the end goal of a profession was being the head of your own shop. But it is still true that a lot of people, including al
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by aorloff 3y ago
If with each step we are halfway closer to the goal of AGI, how long before we get there ?
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by aorloff 3y ago
These are things to consider when you decide to build a company using a novel charter instead of a standard startup
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by aorloff 3y ago
There are times in life when you have to make a quick decision and that is genuinely hard. For the times in life when someone wants a quick decision, instead learn a few canned and polished responses that give you a few minutes to decide ho
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by aorloff 3y ago
We are not far off from the point where these kinds of constraint sets can produce designs. JitX is doing this for circuit boards. Houses are probably simpler, although people are more complex about their home.
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by aorloff 3y ago
Exactly what part of it is a lifestyle business if you don't write the software yourself ? That's a recipe for a very non-lifestyle business
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by aorloff 3y ago
Carrying something clunky and wearing something uncomfortable are very different. You can do the former all day, but not the latter.
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by aorloff 3y ago
Some of the baddest cats out there in 10 years show up here https://www.bhsjazz.org/events
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by aorloff 3y ago
Berkeley is where 1/4 of the elected City Councilmember quit in the last month, one due to harassment and threats (People's Park appearing to be the exacerbating issue) and the other because she is fed up with Berkeley politics, n
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by aorloff 3y ago
Powering a casino
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by aorloff 3y ago
A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon you’re talking about real money
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by aorloff 3y ago
Things that happened before 1970 ?
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by aorloff 3y ago
Everything happens in epochtime. How you want that displayed is up to you.
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by aorloff 3y ago
Land value taxes assume real estate values always increase, which they don’t

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