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by baxtr 10mo ago
No love for customers will compensate for a missing strategic moat. Sun placed its hopes on vertically integrated hardware + proprietary OS. Oracle bet on software, that once installed, had extremely high switching costs (similar to SAP). S
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Which on the one hand is great because through that China exports material wealth to the world. At the same time production capacity outside of China has to compete with this "rigged" system, which is near impossible to do.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
A friend of mine works in the chemical industry in Europe. One reason European producers are currently facing challenges is that Chinese producers are dumping chemicals into the global market at heavy discounts. The underlying cause of this
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by baxtr 10mo ago
This is a great analogy and approach! One rough heuristic I use is people-watching on the subway. Just a quick glance from a distance at their phones. What are they actually looking at? (Yeah I know it's a bit nosy...) I see: short-for
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by baxtr 10mo ago
What I’ve always found fascinating is that I could always clearly see the puck in any stadium, no matter how high up I sat. It was impossible to miss. However, when watching hockey on TV, it’s incredibly difficult to see the damn thing.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
ARR drives startup valuations. For example people might argue if you have $100M ARR the startup is worth 10x, so $1B. Now that’s a pretty good incentive to drive up ARR, no matter how. Welcome to the world of creative accounting! One-time p
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by baxtr 10mo ago
But what about the joy of deleting 112 messages from the trash folder every day?
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The Scientific Lie That Damaged Generations of Men [video](youtube.com)
3 points by baxtr 10mo ago|3 comments
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"Agent" may have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now(simonwillison.net)
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by baxtr 10mo ago
You should repeat this poll https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378
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by baxtr 10mo ago
I googled Autoped and found this site about the topic. Much cleaner. https://horizonmicromobility.com/blogs/micromobility-blog/hi...
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Predictions for 2026(twitter.com)
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Why not €512M?
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Societies that promote experimentation will - in the long run - become superior. Because: The interesting things that give you leverage are at the frontier of knowledge. In business, as well as, in science.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
I don’t think it’s super straightforward. Another thing laymen know: Most younger people in southern Europe don’t look old.
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Driving Xiaomi's Electric Car: Are We Cooked? [video](youtube.com)
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by baxtr 10mo ago
There is also another way to view this: People who have a sloppy/lazy way of working are exposed more quickly by this.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Maybe it’s selection bias but: The saddest thing about Iran I’ve noticed is the stark contrast between the current state of the country and the intelligence of the people I’ve met from this country.
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China Speed(dilemmaworks.com)
3 points by baxtr 10mo ago|2 comments
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by baxtr 10mo ago
I am bit more senior nowadays. Whenever I don’t understand something I say something like: "Uh, I’m probably the only one here, but I don’t get it…"
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by baxtr 10mo ago
"It feels off-mission" is very different from "It's absolutely off-mission and against everything we stand for" .
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by baxtr 10mo ago
What would you want to write instead?
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by baxtr 10mo ago
> The bottleneck is still knowing what to build, not building. A lot of the value in our product is in decisions users don't even know we made for them. Domain expertise + tight feedback loop with users can't be replicated by
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by baxtr 10mo ago
Wait so you’re aggravated about a fictional story?
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by baxtr 10mo ago
> Its most striking, and at the same time most dramatic, feature is that it is a monocarpic species: It only blooms once, at the end of its life, and then it dies.This moment can occur between 40 and 80 years of age, depending on climat
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by baxtr 10mo ago
> Evidence from randomized clinical trials does not support the use of cannabis or cannabinoids for most conditions for which it is promoted, such as acute pain and insomnia. I think that’s the key message do the paper.
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by baxtr 10mo ago
100%. The focus on non-value adding activities is very high since it is rewarded. People don't even grasp the difference between value creating activities people and activities that don't.
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by baxtr 11mo ago
If anything AI will be an amplifier for that style. I had never heard of "Ghibli" style until people were creating AI avatars based on that style.
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by baxtr 11mo ago
A good example of: Build things and then talk about them in a way that people remember and share it with friends. I guess some call it clever product marketing.
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by baxtr 11mo ago
That is weird enough. But also the fact that he seems to be celebrating that is odd. Avoiding to spend time with your family shouldn’t be something you enjoy.

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