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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
I think the market cap is less than the amount Adam walked away with.
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
Japan has cars, but it’s quiet.
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
FWIW, the founder of HashiCorp created Vangrant when they are in college. Why did Terraform end up being the dominant product? Product-market fit. That’s not just engineering, but bringing to market a product at the time when people need an
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
> They don't have this kind of people Because the people with vision and conviction would be running their own startups
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
I feel the the quality of HN discussions been downtrending, and recent months have personally felt disengaged. I’ve been wondering how much of this being the current tech market being a brain / time drain. I would have thought there
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
> its hard to imagine that the founders built them for any reason other than to make money Ultimately, startups are about making money.
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
> every single one of billions of trades, someone is always wrong... every person I have spoken to in finance clams up immediately when I mention anything remotely quantitative. It's not just because I'm being boring, they know
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
> "there are some species of bats that give live birth" - all species of bats give live birth ChatGPT is being more logical to be honest. It’s true, some species of bats give live birth. To assume all bats give live birth might
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
> There's also a lot of second-rate research published which is likely of no value to anyone, and only serves to clutter things up and make it more difficult for researchers to sift through the literature. Sounds a lot like the pack
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
"You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ" - Warren Buffett
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
Maps ?
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
> because it’s already biggest(network effect) This is exactly what is downtrending. Nations fear being sanctioned and holding on to dollars they can't use > and most stable(military/economic might/feed back effect from
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
Enough people losing their jobs, cutting spending habits, will create that mass psychosis. Tech is a small part of the economy, but cities like Seattle that have built restaurants and services catering to the tech crowd will see further fal
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
NPM forces package names to be different. But do we really want a registry for CSS?
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
2KB without minification or gzip, almost fits entirely on one screen. Looks great on my iphone, too. Would have gotten the point across better to just inline the CSS source on the landing page, or linking to the CSS file, instead of having
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
Competitive in economics and the market means they can provide a good at a lower price than competitors. Either TSMC has no competitors, or they are beating them. If they don’t have competitors, it’s a sign other newcomers can’t compete, so
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
That theory fails to account for Japan's failed semiconductor industry.
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
> the irs hasn't offered too much guidance on how this tax change works. They didn't offer too much guidance for trading crypto either. I reported my trades as you would for stocks. They ended up auditing me and charging me for
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
Just checked out the requirements to be an ATC and you have to be 30 years old or under in order to apply. https://www.faa.gov/levelup
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by diceduckmonk 3y ago
If you can’t manage small amounts of money, you can’t manage large ones
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by diceduckmonk 4y ago
It’s not probable, it’s guaranteed at FAANG.
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by diceduckmonk 4y ago
As well as Korea, Indochina, Philippines and more. It’s strange people make Japan the victim and forget about all the other countries that don’t have Anime and other nerd pop culture exports
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by diceduckmonk 4y ago
> I think he is saying that FDR stopped selling oil to Japan Sure, but then maybe don’t start a war with all of Asia. There was a high degree of grandiosity and hubris where they thought the way out of a losing strategy and resources was
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by diceduckmonk 4y ago
You mean like how the emperor of Japan who killed more people wasn’t tried as a war criminal? And a shrine to him and other war criminals persist at Yasakuni Shrine, and similar, where large festivals are celebrated every year?
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by diceduckmonk 4y ago
Well if you know about Okinawa, then you should know the Japanese were conscripting middle school Ryukyuans who are not ethnically Japanese (Yamato) , as well as using this ethnic group as human body bags and a buffer state to slow the inv
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by diceduckmonk 4y ago
What a weird colloboration. Now take my money!
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by diceduckmonk 4y ago
And even if they didn’t, OP’s logic is not self evident.
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by diceduckmonk 4y ago
I remember a hype cycle called “BigData”. Companies now realize data science that big of a step to business analytics of the 90s.
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by diceduckmonk 4y ago
A Domino’s pizza there is $30 for a medium.
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by diceduckmonk 4y ago
It feels like Google Fi is in maintenance mode. Someone got their promotion and moved on. I used to this the Deprecated by Google memes were harsh, but that will be the last time I rely on a Google product for work or life.

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