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by cj 2y ago
If you’re wondering what to take away from this article: the simple take away is that YC has the power to get what it wants, for the companies it wants. If you happen to be in YC’s good graces, they will reward you in ways described in t
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by cj 2y ago
An engineer I work with told me “I don’t think I’m a rockstar engineer, but I put care into what I do, and I think that makes up for not being a rockstar” Even though she doesn’t realize it, she’s the rockstar on our team. In your examples
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by cj 2y ago
Is it intended to be used daily or do you get the “only use very sparingly” advice typical of prescription sleep aids?
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by cj 2y ago
Let’s go further and: - take the average household size in 1950 vs 2020 to calculate median house price per person in a household - then take the average square feet per person and find out what % it has increased in the past 75 years Then
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by cj 2y ago
Awesome nice work! Does this work for video? I recently digitized about 80 home videos from 30-40 years ago. Each of the 80 videos is 2 hours of 5-10 minute recordings from the olden days when turning "record" on and off didn&#x27
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by cj 2y ago
Yea, when running services where 5 minutes of downtime results in lots of support tickets, you learn to accept that the incident will happen and learn to manage the incident rather than relying that it will never occur.
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by cj 2y ago
I think what a lot of people fail to understand is that there are certain categories of apps that simply “can never go down” Examples include basically any PaaS, IaaS, or any company that provides a mission-critical service to another compa
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by cj 2y ago
I’m curious why this is being downvoted (seems to hit the nail on the head)
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by cj 2y ago
> ENGINEERED BY SPACEX It would be very interesting to see some kind of diagram depicting all of the corporate entities Musk is involved in and how each entity does business with one another. xAI just raised billions to help Tesla build
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by cj 2y ago
I'm confused though. If the goal is to optimize for server bandwidth, wouldn't you still want to send the already-blurred photo? Surely that will be a smaller image size than the pre-blurred full res photo (while also reducing cli
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by cj 2y ago
Definitely an interesting writing style. Wasn't expecting to learn that the internet "weighs" about as much as an apple. The amount of analogies/comparisons used in this article is incredible. I almost think it would be
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by cj 2y ago
> Customers believed the accounts were backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. This is the biggest problem with the whole situation. Consumers should be free to invest in whatever risk tolerance they choose, but it’s
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by cj 2y ago
In NYS, you can sue the seller mostly based on what representations/disclosures they made at the time of sale [0] If you disclose it as a material defect, then no they can’t sue you. [0] https://dos.ny.gov/system/f
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by cj 2y ago
It was more of a thought exercise. But yes, you could sue someone if there is false advertising happening. If I buy wood from someone saying everything is ethically sourced, and it’s not, that’s more than enough for a lawsuit. The “damage”
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by cj 2y ago
If I just built a house, and if there were some definitive test to know the wood came from somewhere illegally, who would I sue? In the US, you would sue the person you paid (who would then sue the middleman company who sold them the wood,
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by cj 2y ago
When I was in college (10+ years ago) there was a system that allowed you to select your classes. During the selection period, certain people had priority (people a year above you got to select first). Once a class was full, you could still
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by cj 2y ago
> I guess Adobe only wants professionals and very serious amateurs to use their products these days. To be fair, OS-native (and free 3rd party) apps are very good for the average amateur photographer, unlike 15 years ago. I think the mar
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by cj 2y ago
It’s not in the spirit of a “Show HN” to attack the guy’s privacy policy and shut down the idea over security concerns that the general public wouldn’t think twice about.
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by cj 2y ago
The percentage of regular people who care about any of the risks discussed in this thread is approximately zero. For better or worse. Your typical home buyer isn't reading the contract they sign when they buy a home, let alone the priv
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by cj 2y ago
EU countries have elections, too.
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by cj 2y ago
> right now in particular, the terrible market combined with the intricacy of AI-generated applications for candidates that don't exist (this is the most bizarre trend I've experienced thus far This is a major problem and isn&#
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by cj 2y ago
No. Many (especially smaller) companies don't want to hire people who need visa sponsorship because it requires a decent amount of overhead. The company needs to have an immigration lawyer to prepare and submit paperwork, which many sm
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by cj 2y ago
At the last startup I worked at, our CTO was on a visa. To satisfy the "no one in the US can fill the CTO role", they took out an advertisement in a San Francisco newspaper classifieds so they had evidence that they attempted to f
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by cj 2y ago
Internal referrals won’t necessarily give you an edge, but they definitely nearly guarantee at least getting into the door. At our company the (unwritten) policy is anyone who is referred internally will always get at least 1 shot at an int
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by cj 2y ago
I think it’s simpler than this. Managing people remotely is hard. Most managers still aren’t good at managing remote employees. When managers aren’t managing well, “productivity” goes down (however you measure it). So managers internally ad
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by cj 2y ago
Blaming the incident on “political retribution” (their words) implies that the US government is corrupt. Such a weird thing to blame it on.
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by cj 2y ago
I'm the "IT guy" at our 30 person startup. My 2024 stance is "buy every AI add-on and decide whether to keep it next year" So our team has access to Enterprise ChatGPT, Gemini, Notion AI, Slack AI, and basically eve
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by cj 2y ago
Exactly. Similarly, companies impacted by weather have access to trade "weather futures". If it's an extremely dry year, you profit from the weather futures instead of your crops (and vice versa). Buying weather futures isn&#
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by cj 2y ago
Prediction markets (like the trump vs harris bet on Robinhood) can also be used as a hedge. E.g. if before the election you think that a certain candidate winning would cause the markets to react in a certain direction, you could "bet&
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by cj 2y ago
Some people get satisfaction out of solving problems and learning, regardless of what the problem is or what they’re learning. Building a company is a constant exercise of problem solving and learning, especially at the early stages. I grew

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