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by aorloff 3y ago
That’s what contract agencies are for
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by aorloff 3y ago
Read Gary Taubes
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by aorloff 4y ago
Is this an advertising stunt
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by aorloff 4y ago
The question isn’t whether you agree with him, the question is whether the advertisers agree with Elon. So far they don’t Given that blue checks aren’t going to pay the bills, what advertisers think matters
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by aorloff 4y ago
Berkeley has declared a climate emergency, a housing emergency, a homeless emergency. Turns out City officials don’t do anything different in an emergency
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by aorloff 4y ago
It is unfortunate that the people of Berkeley keep electing local officials who want to grandstand instead of spending their time more wisely governing the city. There are certainly lots of right-now problems to solve in Berkeley, including
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by aorloff 4y ago
Its going to have major effects when balloon payments (refinancing) are required
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by aorloff 4y ago
The state is empowering developers to challenge local control to try to break the logjam of CA housing development
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by aorloff 4y ago
The hive analogy is quite apt. Hives operate very differently now than they did in the 90s, but what this gets right is that the flickering light the coders are attracted to is some kind of engineering grace, usually a thought leader or sof
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by aorloff 4y ago
The banks have concluded that the public statement may be worth more than those government assurances anyway. And yes these banks are TBTF
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by aorloff 4y ago
Yes but its a different problem. Thats a capital allocation issue, a VC problem. His larger point seems to be that we are relying on increasingly complex systems that may become unmaintainable. Its the great tech circle of life.
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by aorloff 4y ago
In other news, the e-bike has finally arrived.
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by aorloff 4y ago
Wait until you hear how large software organizations run
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by aorloff 4y ago
This is why effective documentation starts with run books.
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by aorloff 4y ago
Private companies too. And the P&L looks really different depending on whether you expense or capitalize everything
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by aorloff 4y ago
Requiring a full year lease, instead of month-to-month, is the landlords only option under just cause eviction. Otherwise the landlord is essentially a non-party to the lease (the rent board and tenant dictate the future terms).
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by aorloff 4y ago
AB 2011 purports to address this. I don’t have confidence it will move the needle.
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by aorloff 4y ago
My assumption is that these workers were absorbed into the economy of work at home - whether to be a homemaker, or to do childcare or eldercare that would previously have been contracted out, at the expense of the salaried worker, now are b
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by aorloff 4y ago
Gonna be tough motivating the troops !
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by aorloff 4y ago
They used to have a product, which was advertising. That's pretty much dead now. They might have a product in subscriptions, depending on how many people sign up. But the debt is going to tank the company in 16 months unless the subsc
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by aorloff 4y ago
We are producing 150 F35s a year.
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by aorloff 4y ago
He completely underestimated the difference between a corporate takeover of an established company and growing a startup. In addition, he appears to be getting terrible advice, which is not uncommon for powerful people who attract sycophan
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by aorloff 4y ago
Elon seems to have no interest in building Twitter's ad business. I wonder if the lenders will have the courage to try to salvage their investment. At this point, what's left might still recover most of the debt, but even that l
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by aorloff 4y ago
Advertisers are not taking a wait and see approach to Twitter because of some ideological issue, they are taking a pause because they don't like wasting money on ads that don't perform (and generally tightening their budgets, whi
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by aorloff 4y ago
Everything about the post explained that it was not ethical reasons - it was business pure and simple. Don't be confused about the brand safety stuff, that's a core advertising issue, and not even the biggest one. But it is impor
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by aorloff 4y ago
That is the budget spent on ads. Not the budget for the ad buying team
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by aorloff 4y ago
I'm assuming they walked over to the person holding the keys and handed them a court order.
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by aorloff 4y ago
If you aren’t mid project surely you already got canned
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by aorloff 4y ago
No, there are dozens of companies that have this data.
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by aorloff 4y ago
This ! ^^

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