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by blagie 4y ago
Perhaps. I have several friends who have started ventures in the multi-hundred-million to low single-digital-billion-dollar range in various industries. All of them brought technology into traditionally low-tech industries. Some took on a l
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by blagie 4y ago
Well yes and no. Most of the value created goes back to the shareholders, but it's just about the fastest and easiest way to move into management (or upper management). If you do internal entrepreneurship, and land leading a division w
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by blagie 4y ago
This is the right model. The vast majority of successful startups I've seen in my extended circle of friends didn't target other programmers or programmer-like consumers. Most startups try to build another database, web framework,
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by blagie 4y ago
Having done several options -- entrepreneurship, job, internal entrepreneurship, and consulting, my advice: - Entrepreneurship isn't a lifestyle. Stay in a job unless you have a good idea and are ready to execute. - Try your idea inter
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by blagie 4y ago
Oh no! Someone's wrong on the internet! No, you can't infer how much someone knows about a topic, at least from the discussion here. You can infer they know something different than you do. That happens when you get a modern-day R
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by blagie 4y ago
With all due respect, you have no idea who I am, what my background is, where I lived, or what I know. If you wanted to argue facts, that'd be one thing. I could pull up citations. Personal attacks, I just don't feel like engaging
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by blagie 4y ago
Yes. I said I won't boycott / stop buying over something like this. We're agreed as to why it's offensive. There's no reason to beat a dead horse. A question is what's an effective change tactic. Simply lashing
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by blagie 4y ago
Nice. Switch from discussion to insults. Anyone who doesn't agree with you is clearly an idiot who doesn't understand things. Yes, I do understand the connection between corruption and money laundering. That touches on one form of
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by blagie 4y ago
Fair enough. I still don't like to punish individuals (or organizations) for genuine differences in opinion from my own. I don't like cancel culture, even if I agree with what's being cancelled. If a company is engaging in so
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by blagie 4y ago
If I were to make a list of my top-10 problems, corruption would be near the top. None of the cases I've seen involved money laundering. If I were to make a trade-off, I would implement many more transparency measures for organizations
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by blagie 4y ago
I don't like what he did, but I don't like cancel culture even more. He ought to be able to get a job, just like anyone else. I'm not going to boycott a company for hiring someone, unless they're Adolf Hitler or somethin
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by blagie 4y ago
Yes. Anytime you want something to be replicable. If I am making a custom case, connector, or other piece of hardware, I want a standard part. A $170 RPi won't be $170 forever, but I know I'll be able to buy it approximately forev
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by blagie 4y ago
If I were to list my top 10 problems in life, money laundering would not make the list. I would like payment processors to operate like common carriers. I prefer not having private law enforcement, and having it done by government agencies.
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by blagie 4y ago
Fair enough. In that case, you can do it by selecting your home server. That's a search drop-down. Something like mastodon.social is there by default, and for historians.social, you might need to type in 'his' <click>.
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by blagie 4y ago
Protocols like oauth do just fine, and accomplish the same sorts of goals: - I click "Follow." - Servers talk to each other. - I get redirected to a URL with a unique hash on the other server. It tells me what I'm agreeing to
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by blagie 4y ago
I have no recommendations there matching 100%, but one of these might work: Many (perhaps most) off-the-shelf webcams do allow you to control focus, but aren't C-mount, and you're stuck with their lens and their preprocessing. For
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by blagie 4y ago
I was looking for a "Buy" button. I didn't care about the other stuff. I wish there was one. I have a bunch of industrial cams, which are pretty similar and pretty good, but open design would be huge for what I do. What I wan
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by blagie 4y ago
As a footnote, the rationale: 1. I'm unlikely to adopt something proprietary for this sort of use. Lock-in is bad, but it's especially with a startup which can disappear tomorrow or pivot who is holding my key data. Open-source me
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by blagie 4y ago
My preferences on pricing. First, it's all open-source, so I can take it and run it. Second, you provide a hosted service, and by virtue of being the author, you're the default SaaS host. You charge a premium over AWS fees for sel
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by blagie 4y ago
I don't think this design would help with a CPU cooling fan. There's a reason they went from planes to water, and I think that same reason would apply even more so for a CPU fan. If you're going to spend the space, simply use
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by blagie 4y ago
In my area, if I were to spend $50k renovating my home, the value would increase by approximately $0. If I were to spend $300k renovating my home, the value would increase by approximately $100k. The only real increase in home value comes f
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by blagie 4y ago
I will point a few issues with this whole discussion: 1) We have a Twitter thread, from one party, emotionally connected and clearly not unbiased 2) What the threat claims makes no sense. It might be correct -- court often rules in ways whi
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by blagie 4y ago
Yeah. (1) It was presented as a game. It seemed like a game. (2) People like ritual. This was clearly ritual.
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by blagie 4y ago
Doing something for pure status signalling is considered crass. Expensive hobbies are not. I think they should be, but they're not.
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by blagie 4y ago
From an economic perspective, regulation is the right thing here. Free markets work well with 100% transparency. That's the assumption in Adam Smith's models. If I buy a printer, and have complete awareness of the pain it will cau
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by blagie 4y ago
Yeah no. If a company is trying to trick me like this, I won't buy from them. I've learned that lesson many times. I have an Epson which I'm happy with.
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by blagie 4y ago
No, since that would tie back to my identity. I use throw-away accounts online. When I upgrade my web browser, this account will disappear and a new one will appear. I have the level of fame where you almost certainly wouldn't recogniz
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by blagie 4y ago
My general design process: 1. Design it myself. Get my ideas on paper before I'm biased. 2. Review designs. See how other people did it. 3. Talk to experts. 4. Integrate ideas and build it. Most of my clever ideas turn out to be dumb a
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by blagie 4y ago
You don't need to keep all the supporting industries. If global supply chains collapse tomorrow, farms will continue to operate even if they can't buy new robotic combines, so long as the old ones haven't broken down. We need
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by blagie 4y ago
"Locally" doesn't always mean in-country. For example, in Russia, China, or the US, "locally" probably means a lot of things would need to be in a specific part of the country. For someone in Africa, Central America

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