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by brenden2 7y ago
How do Tesla owners feel about the quality of their cars? I'm genuinely curious. This is merely an anecdote, but in my experience it seems like the overall quality of similarly priced automobiles from more traditional luxury carmakers
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by brenden2 7y ago
It's cheap insurance to create an LLC to protect yourself from extreme situations for this kind of thing. Worst case the LLC goes defunct, but you won't be personally liable. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia
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by brenden2 7y ago
I worked at a major quant hedge fund for a while, and my duties involved working with these data sets.
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by brenden2 7y ago
Going against the zeitgeist, whether you like it or not, is rarely going to win you favours in any social circles.
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by brenden2 7y ago
Most likely. Many, many businesses sell their data to hedge funds through shell companies or 3rd parties that make it extremely difficult to figure out where your data goes.
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by brenden2 7y ago
I wish I could choose how my tax dollars are spent. I'd like to avoid contributing to idiotic campaigns like this. Perhaps some day government will modernize to the point where there's direct democracy and individuals can decide h
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by brenden2 7y ago
This is only because most home purchases are fueled by debt.
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by brenden2 7y ago
I respectfully doubt many talented folks are giving up $500k+/year jobs to work for Uncle Sam at below market rates.
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by brenden2 7y ago
Having multiple private entities competing for customers allows consumers the opportunity to decide what they want.
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by brenden2 7y ago
Ideally there would be regulation that drastically limits the blast radius of such incidents. In a perfect world, these companies would not be allowed to hold on to private information and would simply operate as zero-knowledge networks in
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by brenden2 7y ago
One of my favourite examples of how the government moves the goalposts around to make the economy numbers go up is how they removed housing prices from the CPI in 1985. Inflation is often used as a benchmark for economic health, but it comp
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by brenden2 7y ago
Interesting, but seems a bit odd that a bank would acquire a software consultancy firm though. I wonder what they plan to do with it?
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by brenden2 7y ago
The government should define what's okay and what's not (aka regulation), and let private entities duke it out for a reasonable share of the economic value.
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by brenden2 7y ago
Generally seems like a good idea, minus the part about it being state owned and operated. If it's operated by the state, it will probably be a disaster. Many governments can barely keep their Windows machines up to date, leading to ran
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by brenden2 7y ago
The nice thing here is that they appear to be using automotive grade components (it says -40 to 85°C operating range). I've previously designed electronics for extreme temperatures (up to 150C in our case) and building hardware that wo
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by brenden2 7y ago
This is exactly why I stay away from things like buzzfeed.
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by brenden2 7y ago
Somewhat related: a while ago I went through a bunch of the "Cracking the Coding Interview" problems and completed them in Rust, whilst recording most of the coding for YouTube (until I got bored). Here's the project: https:
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by brenden2 7y ago
> Investors are using real-time satellite images to predict retailers’ sales. Is that cheating? This is no more "cheating" than using any other pseudo-publicly available sources of information, such as credit card purchase data
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by brenden2 7y ago
The technology itself is not the issue, the problem is that companies are at war with their customers. These companies will go to any length to extract as much revenue as possible. Milking your customers is not good for business, especially
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by brenden2 7y ago
The original title (before it was changed) included the word "shafted".
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by brenden2 7y ago
The negative is that you can't go out and do fundraising with any other parties until that 6 months is up. Depending on how much runway you have, that might be terminal for some startups. I think 30 days is more typical, but YMMV. If t
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by brenden2 7y ago
Indeed, 6 month does seem onerous. Definitely a tough lesson learned there.
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by brenden2 7y ago
None of these are particularly interesting to me. Seems like an observation-based list, based on what's currently trendy.
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by brenden2 7y ago
They're trying to make this a story about SoftBank being bad, but this just sounds like normal business. I have been "shafted" by VCs before, in similar ways, but none of them were SoftBank specifically. This is just an attem
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by brenden2 7y ago
Stadia is just a bad idea and a bad product. Consumer internet access is nowhere near capable enough for it to make sense.
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by brenden2 7y ago
Honestly, if I were you I'd just keep chugging along and collect as much money as possible. Start investing, and make yourself financially independent. After that, you can quit and do whatever you want.
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by brenden2 7y ago
I don't think it's a secret if you're publishing it in the news. Just sayin'. Also I think this whole article can be summed up as "providing a better experience for customers can increase sales".
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by brenden2 7y ago
FWIW the word "collapse" appears 7 times in the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire
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by brenden2 7y ago
Entire civilizations have been destroyed before, notably the Roman Empire. Humans came back stronger and more well off.
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by brenden2 7y ago
This seems unlikely. It's more likely it will continue to grow, but probably not as much as Apple, Microsoft, or Amazon.

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