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How to Think About Raising Venture Capital for Your Startup(sillymoney.com)
6 points by baxtr 2y ago|6 comments
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by baxtr 2y ago
I thought it was interesting to share the full quote. It’s a fascinating read. >An official statement by President Jimmy Carter was included as images (positions 117, 118). It reads, in part: This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by t
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by baxtr 2y ago
Askshually… I thought it was possible nowadays to manufacture diamonds?!
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Why Are So Many Young Adults Getting Cancer?(nytimes.com)
5 points by baxtr 2y ago|5 comments
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by baxtr 2y ago
I am old. But when I was young I could not comprehend why they wouldn't not let us use calculators for stupid calculation task that humans have a hard time to compute.
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by baxtr 2y ago
That’s called "overpathologizing".
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by baxtr 2y ago
I don’t support tariffs at all, but calling these people mentally ill is the wrong approach. They’re not mentally ill, they’re obsessed with power. It’s dangerous to conflate the two.
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by baxtr 2y ago
Thanks. Sounds like the right thing to do! I heard from some CEOs that they vest sales bonuses over a 2-3 year period to incentive longer contracts. But that of course makes the whole incentive scheme more complicated!
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by baxtr 2y ago
Yes sure, but how? This is not a trick question btw. Genuinely curious.
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by baxtr 2y ago
Thanks for sharing! How do you incentivize sales to focus on deals that churn less instead of deals that close fast?
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by baxtr 2y ago
There is a really interesting book called Alchemy by Rory Sutherland. In one chapter he describes his frustration with GPS based navigation apps. I thought it was similar to what you describe. > If I am commuting home, I may prefer a sl
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by baxtr 2y ago
Extrapolation from what he knows about history. Things looked very bleak right after the French revolution for example. We see our history as a dot, because we live in it. But people in the future will take a more long-term view and might s
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by baxtr 2y ago
Yeah exactly. People read way too much into this
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by baxtr 2y ago
No, he did not consider things that have never happened before. He can only extrapolate from events that already happened. Human made global warming is a first time, so difficult to say what will happen from a historical perspective.
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by baxtr 2y ago
I talked to a history professor recently and asked him how he viewed the whole situation. He leaned back, thought for a bit and answered: It’ll be all fine on a 200 years perspective, democracy will continue to increase its footprint, peopl
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by baxtr 2y ago
There is a good video summary on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNCgjIhzG4g
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by baxtr 2y ago
I tried it the other day. It’s very exhaustive.
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Is Skipping a Good Workout?(nytimes.com)
2 points by baxtr 2y ago|2 comments
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by baxtr 2y ago
No GPs says there are no apps, which is not most.
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by baxtr 2y ago
Exactly. But GP deliberately said all, not most or many. GPs comment is something that people in politics would called sensational. Extreme rhetoric is great for upvotes because it stirs emotions but it’s not rational.
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by baxtr 2y ago
I mean something like CapCut that has access to the phone camera for capturing video.
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by baxtr 2y ago
How would you make a video app in a browser? ie taking videos and then editing them afterwards
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by baxtr 2y ago
Buying your own assets is a well-known get-even-richer scheme of the rich.
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by baxtr 2y ago
That’s an interesting observation, because a corollary of this would be: if young people believe this to be true and don’t start learning to code now, there will be an even higher shortage of developers, unless the AI system become insanely
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by baxtr 2y ago
Slightly off-topic: Has anyone good recommendations against mosquitos? I hear UV traps are ok, but not perfect. And of course I have used the anti mosquito sprays. They don't last long though and I don't like the smell.
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by baxtr 2y ago
> After significant experimentation with many different model architectures, we determined that aircraft <25m in length or wingspan are too small to be reliably detected in medium resolution imagery, so we elected to focus on aircraf
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by baxtr 2y ago
My hypothesis is that he wants to be viewed as the best negotiator in the world. That's his ultimate goal. Anything he does is motivated by improving this image of him.
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by baxtr 2y ago
Taiwan should say thank you more often!
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Experts in Japan urge preparations for major eruption of Mt. Fuji(www3.nhk.or.jp)
10 points by baxtr 2y ago|0 comments
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by baxtr 2y ago
I don’t think that it will be visible so quickly. These things will take more time. Will my company switch away from azure today? Probably not. Will my company include more European alternatives in the next vendor selection. Definitely yes.

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