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by bvandewalle 7y ago
Craigslist is actually the perfect example. No need to grow 1000% a year and no external VCs to push you to do so. They handle probably a factor of thousands more requests than Meetup and I think they are still less than 50 people?
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
> a company on the scale of Meetup Meetup as a website and app is a pretty small engineering footprint. The fact that you think is absurd shows how much we have been accustomed to this "Grow at all cost" mentality. If I had to
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
Prices should go up and up on average since there is on average a national inflation of about 3%. If it goes up about 3% only you just come out about even (well actually you lost "purchasing power" since buying a house comes with
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
This is a common fallacy. Lower mortgage rates mean that houses are more expensive as other bidders are able to qualify for the same mortgage rates. There is actually quite a lot of papers showing that it's better to buy at a high mort
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
It's an imported library. Almost nobody vets those libraries ever. And that's the current state of software supply chain.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
I disagree, Slack became the online equivalent of "butts in seats" and in those turbulent times it has more potential than ever to be wrongly used. I think it's partially the company culture that should make it clear that no
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
I have said this before but the way Slack is used today is most of the time a net negative of the modern workplace. And I will agree that it's mainly because people use it badly but Slack encourages to use it as a dopamine fix contribu
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
Ah you are right, the Franquin signature was something to look forward to!
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
It is also a good reminder that the moral standards back in those days were completely different and I think we cannot judge those books with the moral standards of today.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
I spent hours of my childhood reading Asterix, Tintin and Gaston [0]. Each had an amazing slightly different universe. Now living in the US it always amazes me how different the Comics culture over here is. [0] https://en.wikiped
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
good concept, but no HTTPS, seriously?
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
cargocult?
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
Zero Trust Network is now used by every other security vendor that want to rebrand themselves as hip.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
Typical case of "It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It".
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
The issue is that we still treat prisons as a medieval revenge tool instead of a reinsertion phase for the prisoners. American prisons are a shame and there is absolutely no way that convicts come out of it ready to participate to society.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
In a lot of places being busy is a proxy of being productive and Slack allows you to display how busy you are by constantly chatting in channels. They also added some dopamine based notifications. At the end of the day it probably makes yo
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
Ah, I'm in the same train as you.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
this should be higher up and is exactly how I feel. I will go out of my way to never book an Airbnb again and I'm pushing all my friends to do so as well.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
and they removed the 6PM same day cancellation because they realized they became increasingly the "plan B" for a lot of Airbnbs.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
Couchsurfing was awesome and partially killed by Airbnb. It was an amazing concept that I used both as a an host and as a guest. Airbnb pushed for the commercialization of every single Square meter (Thanks to VC $$) and now this high trust
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
Thanks for the good overview. It's exactly what I thought: a mix and match of different incentives that makes it pretty much impossible to change the current system.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
Hopefully someone "disrupts" the events and ticketing industry. Buying a ticket to anything has been hell lately. Terrible UX and 10/20$ of added random fees (Ticketmaster, Live nation, etc ...). I sadly bet that this is more
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
I love that this is led by Brian Acton, ex-WhatsApp founder who must know from first hand experience how badly an alternative to Facebook is needed in this space. I use signal as my main messaging app and wish them well.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
They are not cash constrained and don't need your deposits. They missed out on a great marketing trick though: Make it exclusive.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
would you recommend MintMobile in the US? Seems almost to good to be true
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
When you are Google, the internet is not a dumb pipe. For example they can correlate the youtube videos you are watching from your phone.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
The only issue is that it is Google. I use Google Fi outside the country and put the plan back in pause while I'm in the US. I'm very satisfied with them but don't trust Google enough to switch my main number.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
the value of a share doesn't mean anything until you know how many shares there are out there.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
I don't think those private keys are presumed lost. Those Satoshi coins are being kept there deliberately.
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by bvandewalle 7y ago
I use Kubernetes extensively and the greatest benefit to me is that it became an implicit standard API interface for any Container type workload. This means I can launch my clusters on AWS//GCP, on prem or any other cloud provider

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