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by beambot 4y ago
Silicon Valley certainly doesn't have a monopoly on those traits. I've known some seriously psychotic family businesses too.
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by beambot 4y ago
With my touchscreen, I can set the temperature controls to precisely 72F and never touch it again. Perhaps I'm a counter narrative -- I find touchscreens vastly simpler than a bunch of old buttons: you have vastly superior configuratio
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by beambot 4y ago
It's legit. Take a look at Prometheus Fuels. More details: https://www.science.org/content/article/former-playwright-ai...
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by beambot 4y ago
It's not really deceptive, it's just that many people have a poor understanding of the accounting difference between LOIs, contractual bookings, and recognized revenue. These LOIs would not appear on an income statement, balance
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by beambot 4y ago
That's some seriously circular reasoning: It only exposes you as an accessory to criminal activity because they've labeled it a criminal activity despite legitimate uses...
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by beambot 4y ago
Amazon Handed Ring Videos to Cops Without Warrants https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ring-police-videos-securi...
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by beambot 4y ago
It's "free" until it's sunset with no notice. Google is notorious for doing this. RIP Reader.
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by beambot 4y ago
Projecting the exec's effectiveness onto the exec (e.g. "A/B/C Player") is woefully unfair, and my acquaintance & I would never intentionally suggest otherwise. Their effectiveness (positive, neutral, negative)
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by beambot 4y ago
Spoke to the founder / CEO of a wildly successful now-public (former startup) company about his exec-level hires. He confided that 1/3 of executives were net positive (i.e. should retain), 1/3 were net neutral (i.e. should b
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by beambot 4y ago
My bad. You're absolutely right: Dopamine, not serotonin.
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by beambot 4y ago
If I had to pick a catalyst, I'd go with monetization based on impressions or duration of use -- e.g. ad-based business models. The feedback loops hyper-optimized addictive behavior targeting serotonin.
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by beambot 4y ago
Most of what you're describing is captured by the Kelly Criterion: it tells you the "optimal" fraction of your bankroll you should bet to maximize returns given the odds and EV. For a game with positive EV and 1 in 300M odds
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by beambot 4y ago
Understanding that the world and your interests may not be one dimensional... ;)
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by beambot 4y ago
> In a 64-33 vote, the Senate passed the $280 billion “Chips and Science Act,” the final iteration of a bill that was years in the making. About $52 billion would go to microchip manufacturers to incentivize construction of domestic semi
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by beambot 4y ago
Irony. McDonald's was instrumental in creating Chipotle -- literally making burritos & tacos. Not at all dissimilar from Facebook & Instagram.
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by beambot 4y ago
SHOP: $4.8B in trailing 12-month revenue, growing 70%+ YoY for last few years and $250M in positive free cashflow. They're likely predicting eCommerce growth slowing a bit (combination of post-COVID & reduced consumer spending), so
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by beambot 4y ago
The problem with Helium is that there's virtually no demand for LoRa protocol's super-low datarates. Cellular is a different story. There are already 3rd-party cellular towers operators who profitably provide data service to han
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by beambot 4y ago
Indeed. I also know a lot of humans who are unable to "consider and reason about arbitrary things", yet most people would qualify them as sentient.
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by beambot 4y ago
A project related to the Navy project was "Project Foghorn" at GoogleX: https://x.company/projects/foghorn/ A better technology is currently being scaled up at Prometheus Fuels: https://www.sc
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by beambot 4y ago
You may very well be right: maybe they're ripping you off and maybe the ToS are unenforceable. What I'm saying: adjucating these situations is the purview of a justice system (ie courts). If you were ripped off, you can always go
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by beambot 4y ago
This likely depends heavily on the terms & conditions of the ticket issuer at the time of purchase. It's not obvious to me that your credit card processor should be forced into dispute resolution in lieu of small claims courts... b
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by beambot 4y ago
On (4), it looks like the median seed valuation is still hovering around $25M based on AngelList statistics: https://stack.angellist.com/valuations Part of the difficulty in parsing public versus private company valuations
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by beambot 4y ago
I'd be less worried about this and more worried about regulatory capture of spectrum (e.g. for mesh WiFi and satellite internet providers).
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by beambot 4y ago
The holy grail of food delivery: decent food, delivered reasonably quickly, for the same (or lower) net price as in-person at a sit-down restaurant, without predatory gig economies. There seem to be one or two key inflections that make this
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by beambot 4y ago
A quick Google search indicates that $4B has been invested by VCs in video game companies since ~2010 [1]. The fact that these businesses are "hits based" actually aligns very closely with the power-law nature of VC returns. In f
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by beambot 4y ago
Respectfully: Zuckerberg has earned the right to care about whatever he darn-well pleases at company the size of his.
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by beambot 4y ago
Solutions that ensure access to a necessary element for all life are not mutually exclusive. The water rights (and disputes) date back centuries; waiting for the courts could easily result in calamity -- even if those rights are quintessen
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by beambot 4y ago
Quick Google stats: There are 13M households in California. Average household consumes 0.5-1.0 acre-feet of water per year. It costs $419 per acre-foot for desalination. California has a discretionary budget surplus of $49B. Thus: It woul
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by beambot 4y ago
His model was more akin to a waveguide or telegrapher's equation rather than purely radiative emissions.
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by beambot 4y ago
I could easily quibble with some of the assumptions, but a basic analysis [1] shows that... > A USGS report from 2011 reports 80 million tons (Mt) of lead in known reserves worldwide, with 7 Mt in the U.S. [...] That’s still not enough t

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