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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> I am having a hard time understanding why this is a useful way of thinking about equity investment. In the most common case i.e. in secondary markets, you aren't giving the company any money by buying stock. And in the most common
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> However, I have been struggling to come up with business ideas. My email is in my HN profile. Shoot me an email, I’m happy to share my worksheet in exchange for feedback.
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
You are right that it does muddle definitions. However, in this case, it actually helps to squint and see a blurry picture to get a better sense of the bigger picture. Unless you are buying enough of a company to get access to a board seat,
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
A couple of books here. 1. Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy. This is a biography of Julius Ceasar. There’s a story in here about a teenage Ceasar, with no institutional authority and effectively a student at this point, raising a navy to go cap
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
100% compliance achieved.
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The Taylor Swift episode on the Acquired podcast actually does a fantastic job of explaining how this works and why artists barely make money on streaming services - as opposed to radio broadcasts for example.
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> In 2018, the city created a pooper scooper team, each member of which received annual compensation of about $211,000 that year. Given the inflation that has occurred since that time, scooper compensation may be close to $250,000 per ye
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
ew.reddit.com is even better.
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Tangentially related question: Do we think dark matter stars, black holes and supermassive black holes exist?
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Can anyone in the know share details on when arm servers with CHERI extensions can become generally available to developers and for deploying to production? What’s the current consensus on how this rollout and transition is expected to happ
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
How far does this analogy go? For example, if I plot how long both programs take at various scales, at some point I should be able to determine which one is O(n log(n)) right?
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Is the efficiency gained by capturing it from a stronger concentration enough to offset the costs of building pipelines? Why not burn wood in a room near the destination site and get extremely concentrated CO2 right there and capture that i
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Ummm. Dumb question here. Why do we have CO2 pipelines? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to capture CO2 from the atmosphere at the location where the CO2 was needed?
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Why does OpenAI not address this concern directly? I’m sure it’s better for both Apple and OpenAI if there was a business agreement to not use their data.
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
I also want to point out that there’s also the extreme-crazy option that is Gentoo linux. All packages are distributed as source and compiled on the destination machine before being installed there. And yes, you can modify build flags per p
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Actually, it has not. There have been 0 advertisements on WhatsApp for me. Also, half my friends have migrated over to Signal anyways, advertisements on whatsapp will just speed up that transition I suppose.
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> Then he did it again with WhatsApp. As an outsider, it hasn’t been clear that whatsapp has generated any meaningful amount of cash flow 9 years after acquisition. For a price tag of $19 billion, I’m not sure how to see this as a win.
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
I wonder if it’s time to start seriously looking at why some people have completely embraced copilot/chat-gpt and others can not get it to work at all. I’d love to see which of the following might have any correlations with reported us
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
That’s fascinating! Where can I read more?
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Any demographers in here? I wonder if this has anything to do with the baby boomer generation all hitting retirement around now, and the incoming cohort being smaller than the retiring cohort.
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I’m stealing this excellent phrase.
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Generalizing the question a little in case someone passes through with an answer: Why should a couple of hackers working out of the proverbial garage building the next unicorn consider IBM as their infrastructure vendor? What are their offe
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> Isn't it an inherent problem with phones that if they are left on charge forever that their battery will explode? Not necessarily, it depends on how much care went into making the phone. Ever since Samsung had the unfortunate expe
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
I genuinely did not know this. Thanks for sharing!
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Two books that specifically address your question with very different answers. Both books are completely worth your time reading. 1. The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time by Jim McKelvey This is a fo
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> 10 years From the Congressional research service's report on immigration backlog [1] (note: this was before covid), for applicants from India, the projected backlogs for various employment-based green card applications applying in
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
This is the script used to talk to the coffee machine: https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts/blob/master/fucking... I wonder how many other devices talk telnet and have a weak password. Would be cool
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> According to Tindell and Tabor's research, the attack, called CAN (controller area network) injection, works by sending fake messages that look as if they come from the car’s smart key receiver, the research continues. The underly
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Thanks. The Nadir vector moved more “right to left” than “down to up” in that video, but the velocity vector is very clearly pointing just “downwards”. Is this mostly because of the velocity of the camera bearing satellite w.r.t the imaged
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What do the s, n and v coordinate labels stand for?

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