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by dclusin 7y ago
There's a sibling post to mine that has a link to a blog post elucidating on what a tech company is. They go further than just 0 marginal cost. But that's the biggest one, and why tech companies justify such a big PE ratio.
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by dclusin 7y ago
Thanks I was trying to remember who posted this. Very thoughtful and informative.
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The distinguishing feature of a tech company is a marginal cost of servicing an additional customer approaching 0. Spending insane amounts of money carelessly and calling yourself a tech company doesn't make you one.
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by dclusin 7y ago
Seems like it will bring uber & lyft's cost basis in line with cab drivers, making the latter group competitive again.
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by dclusin 7y ago
I think OP is getting at the nature of the relationship is kinda imbalanced. Consider basically most of their website is off limits: https://www.google.com/robots.txt
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by dclusin 7y ago
You'd probably be best served to just go through an investment bank. FX market is relationship driven unlike the stock market. You don't have any of the trading relationships with the huge players in the market, and probably never
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by dclusin 7y ago
I think the point of Matt's column was to point out that it's a bit odd to slip it into every interaction at a place such as burning man, where it doesn't really add any context.
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by dclusin 7y ago
You can leverage the cpu's atomic operations such as compare and set, compare and swap, as well as the properties of the memory subsystem to achieve thread safety without an operating system mediating the interaction. Here's a blo
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by dclusin 7y ago
You only find out who's swimming naked when the tide goes out.
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by dclusin 7y ago
I think what OP is hinting at here is cache invalidation/eviction caused by the additional thread's processing and memory operations. If your requirements are down to nanosecond granularities then cache misses are probably being m
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by dclusin 7y ago
Has anyone done the calculation about how much landmass with trees it would take to reverse the CO2 pollution in a reasonable time frame (<100 yrs? <50 yrs?)? It seems like the square mileage would probably be quite large and possibly
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by dclusin 7y ago
One time pads[1] are an effective and cheap measure. Certain privileged diplomatic luggage (not exactly sure of the protocols) cannot be searched by the host country. You can bring them to your embassies on a regular basis. 1 - https:/
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by dclusin 7y ago
For domain specific roles I ought to think that the members of the current team would be more than happy to provide insight/advice/coaching to someone looking to skill up and get involved. This is typically how I've seen late
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by dclusin 7y ago
It's one line feeding 4-6 self-serve registers instead of one line feeding one register. I think most people would prefer shorter time in checkout vs. having someone else scan their goods for them. It's not like the checkout proce
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by dclusin 7y ago
It's pretty hard to ascertain the value of a company and the required exit size from a a single investment round's size alone. There could be warrants to buy more stock, liquidation preferences, ratchets, etc. The math from this a
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by dclusin 7y ago
In practice how this is works is that the person being harassed goes to HR, HR does nothing, and then that person quits. Nothing usually happens to harasser. The point of HR is to protect the company from its employees, not help mitigate di
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by dclusin 7y ago
Will Apple employees will be allowed to use this program? They're notoriously paranoid about maintaining secrets. Wonder if their IT department would give up the control.
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by dclusin 7y ago
Curious where you got this. Would like to read more
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by dclusin 7y ago
It sounds like you've never been stranded late at night waiting hours for a cab that was "5 minutes away." I don't participate in the bar scene anymore. I don't benefit from the increased user experience of knowing
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by dclusin 7y ago
The idea that most corporate dev teams, as they exist in the real world, are sophisticated enough to glean managerial and employee performance information from their code repositories is laughable.
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by dclusin 7y ago
For those unaware, a group of Asian Americans is suing Harvard[1] for discriminative admission practices. Similar allegations have been made against UC Berkley and other UC's as well. 1 - https://www.nbcnews.com/news&#x
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by dclusin 7y ago
Insurance premiums rise to incorporate the costs of these mistakes. We're already paying for other peoples mistakes, plus a healthy profit for a private corporation.
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by dclusin 7y ago
What do you do if they have sandbox escapes you don't know about? The kind of person that runs it in a VM is someone they'd probably want to be looking at. Paranoia++ :)
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by dclusin 7y ago
Curious about the corporate structure behind this. Is Cruise a subdivision of GM or is it an independent company with GM just being majority shareholder?
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by dclusin 7y ago
Engineers just end up performing the tests manually and with each release. Or they don't and it blows up somewhere down the road. Some open source projects I've seen don't have too many tests. IIRC the source for uBlock Origi
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by dclusin 7y ago
This is super interesting. What was the specific argument for company towns? I'm not a lawyer, but I could imagine an argument where since the company town took on government functions, then it therefore should be treated as such with
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by dclusin 7y ago
Freedom of speech is only enforced by the courts w.r.t government entities. Private companies can censor speech for any reason, including "I feel like it."
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by dclusin 7y ago
> Microsoft's moats have been opened up and now allow many other players to disrupt in their former core industries Microsoft seems to be adopting the cloud just fine. They've managed to keep office modern and relevant. Xbox as
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They aren't really that much more expensive when compared to other wireless headphones with similar features[1]. You can find < $50 wireless headphones but none with microphone and feature sets approaching the Air Pods. 1 - https:&
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Poor attempt at humor by their marketing department. Probably elicited chuckles when a person posted it on their own feed. Cringe inducing when a large corporation posts it on their feed.

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