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by dehrmann 2y ago
There's a true belief in crypto ultimately being how transactions are conducted, and there's a speculation hypothesis that more isolation means more extragovernmental transactions. That may or may not mean a higher price for token
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by dehrmann 2y ago
That'd only be the case if airlines pad beyond the turnaround time or actually use the padded numbers for operations.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
It used to be that you buy crypto because you're either a true believer, you want to do something illegal and don't realize the blockchain is forever, or you think there's a greater fool. Between recent sanctions and protecti
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Why would these be related?
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by dehrmann 2y ago
How much do you trust them to get it right and do security patches? There's a chance D-Link's problems are common across vendors, and they're ones being honest about it.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
The main issues with the current upgrader is it doesn't install old packages and it can't migrate breaking config changes.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Web browsers are extremely advanced pieces of software even though making a browser is such a bad business that most don't usually count it as a business at all. The DOJ doesn't seem to realize this.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
It's TSMC more than NVIDIA.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Google users are theoretically willing to become Bing users, though I'll admit that ChatGPT is the consumer leader mostly because of brand recognition and being the first mover.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
They're really just keeping multiple irons in the fire. If the space is a winner, another player increases YC's chance of betting on the winner. More players also means the space gets explored in different ways.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
While at Spotify, someone I know observed the squad-tribe-chapter-guild model was really an idealized view of how leadership wanted the outside to think about how Spotify works. Which isn't to say it's wrong or misleading, just th
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by dehrmann 2y ago
It's more a product of cheaper and easier content distribution. When TV is expensive to produce, there are only three channels, and it's heavily regulated, you target your content to be broadly appealing and inoffensive. The rise
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by dehrmann 2y ago
When you put it this way, personas might be a better term than factions.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
If the algorithm doesn't make the filter bubble, people will make it on their own.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I don't want to go out of my way to defend their incompetence, but you have to prove what happened. It's not fair to send a CEO to prison because a different insider independently embezzled funds and they lost the records.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> bad interest rate That link shows 2.7% in Sept., 2023. It should have been more like 5%. The yellow flag should have been the sketchy "win prizes" part of their offering that the article didn't really mention. What'
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Currently, Safari and Firefox both make essentially all their revenue through default search agreements. Safari is funded by Apple's hardware sales. It can afford to develop its own browser because it's table stakes for devic
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Does this approach scale with complexity? At some point, you're better off planning for failures and engineering for redundancy.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Imagine what would happen if a dot-com billionaire started a space company.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
The better acceleration and faster service almost have to eventually improve ridership, and electrification should improve operation cost, but YoY ridership numbers post-covid are still weird, and I'd like to see finer-grain numbers be
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Can you hear the difference? Even with mp3, it gets hard at high bitrates.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
That's fair, and someone told be there's a distinction between politics and policy, but when politicians pander to the crowd, it's really hard to get an idea of what their actual policy will be.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
If the US electorate had better economics education, they would have thought both the [2024] candidates were economic idiots.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> ...is literally the only option I've found that let's you buy normal MP3s I just went to Amazon and found what's advertised as "mp3" for a recent Taylor Swift album.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Right, but did the price go up because money was free or bet on what the world would look like during and post covid?
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by dehrmann 2y ago
It's kinda over. Firefox is a dying browser on desktop, desktop is a shrinking platform, and mobile is app-based, not browser-based. Mozilla almost exists because of the endowment effect. If it didn't exist today, would someone fo
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by dehrmann 2y ago
It might not even be ZIRP. It jumped right after March, 2020, so it might have always been a bad covid-related trade.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Yeah, I'm not buying the narrative yet. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CHGG/financials/ Revenue's down 10% from a year ago. Annual revenue is flat-ish since 2020. It's been breaking even for a
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I keep waiting for a PE firm to buy JAMS, engage abusive business practices in another business the own, then force arbitration with JAMS.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Remember when Tim Walz thought he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre? Or Hillary Clinton landing under sniper fire? Memory is unreliable.

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