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by docker_up 7y ago
One criticism I've heard from former Stripe employees is that many of the people in high positions are Stripe are young with no management training, especially in the non-engineering parts of the company. So it sets up for a lot of pro
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Why the smartest people can make the dumbest mistakes(popsci.com)
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by docker_up 7y ago
No. The 15 largest cargo ships produce more pollution than all the cars in the world combined. http://www.industrytap.com/worlds-15-biggest-ships-create-mo...
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by docker_up 7y ago
The purchase of SolarCity by Tesla was the single dumbest thing Elon Musk did and it has dire consequences for Tesla the car company. Shareholders definitely have a great chance to sue Musk because he did not do this in the best interest of
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by docker_up 7y ago
To be clear, I didn't mean that gas prices were affected by the tariffs. Just that I noticed gas prices more than I notice any other changes in price since the tariffs have gone in place.
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by docker_up 7y ago
I'll be perfectly honest and haven't felt the tariffs one bit. I couldn't tell you one aspect of my life that has been affected. I see gas prices fluctuate drastically but nothing else seems to have been affected as far as I
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by docker_up 7y ago
Already this year the number of purchases I've made is cut in half from last year. I've gotten burned with too many poor 3rd party sellers. They are so greedy for the short term revenues they don't realize that us "idiot
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by docker_up 7y ago
I worked at a YC startup. I was employee #35-40, the company got bought out, I made about $80k from my options over 4 years, two cofounders probably made at least $50M each. Overall, it wasn't worth it. To make life changing amount, yo
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by docker_up 7y ago
Where can I put my money to take advantage of this? Gold? or just US treasuries?
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by docker_up 7y ago
The biggest repercussion I see is many, many companies goes belly up all at the same time, with lots of unemployment and a massive shock to the economy. Companies going bankrupt happen all the time, but if their demise is prevented because
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by docker_up 7y ago
I lived through the dot-com bust. In Silicon Valley, there were scores of "technology parks" that were completely abandoned for years afterwards when the bust hit. This is a company that can thrive in a Fed-fueled ZIRP economy tha
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by docker_up 7y ago
Aside from Lyme disease, I'm also personally concerned about Chronic Wasting Disease. We have deer on our property all the time and all they do is shit and piss everywhere. This appears to be the deer-form of Mad Cow Disease and appare
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by docker_up 7y ago
Google has already created inflation from their stock price. The houses in the Bay Area have doubled in 5 years precisely because FANG engineers have had their shares skyrocket 6-10x, so they buy multiple houses.
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by docker_up 7y ago
All this will do, unfortunately, is cause drug companies to raise prices in Canada. There's no way that drug companies will allows this loss of revenues from the US.
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by docker_up 7y ago
I had a Beyond Meat burger recently. It was pretty good, about as good as a below-average to average burger, but more tender. Overall, if this is all they served at the cafeteria, it would be okay. That said, it wasn't nearly good enou
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by docker_up 7y ago
Kafka exactly-once semantics is just that, they are "semantics". What Kafka supports is exactly-once processing which has been supported in other stream processing frameworks such as Apache Storm years before Confluent's mark
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by docker_up 7y ago
This is what I've been told as well from distributed systems experts. It's more "exactly-once most of the time" but believing that it will always be exactly once in all failure situations is delusional.
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by docker_up 7y ago
Frankly, he doesn't sound like someone I would like to work with. The attitude he exudes in his blog post reeks of entitlement and probably likes to argue a lot instead of having discussions. As someone else put it, he sounds far too e
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by docker_up 7y ago
It's not a misnomer. Back in the day, I wanted to implement a cache in our software product that used reference counting to update objects and when the object went to 0, free it from the cache. Pretty straightforward, no rocket science
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by docker_up 7y ago
I mean, I think it's fairly obvious that we will never be able to colonize Mars perfectly. It would require constantly sending massive amount of supplies from Earth to Mars. The atmosphere is too thin, and the planet itself is too smal
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by docker_up 7y ago
Sorry, but the blog post is a hard sell. It's obviously from an app developer that would prefer not to jump through the hoops of the App Store, but as a customer, I like it. It's not perfect but it appears to be much, much better
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by docker_up 7y ago
I work with a twenty-something year old right now. He graduated from high school. Had his own non-tech company for a while after high school. Decided he wanted to go into coding. One of the best damn coders I've worked with in 25 years
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by docker_up 7y ago
The truth is that the only way to increase wages is to protest or to quit their jobs en masse so I support these workers protesting. The problem with low-skilled jobs is that there's probably someone waiting to take their job at $23&#x
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by docker_up 7y ago
This is an unintentional by-product of shipping so quickly. As Amazon moves to quicker and quicker shipping policies, it means that errors like this can't be reversed in time. I would imagine that Amazon could threaten to close the cus
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by docker_up 7y ago
I find it hard to believe that there AREN'T droves of spies from every single country working at Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. If there aren't, they're not doing their jobs.
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by docker_up 7y ago
No that's not what I said. I said the only way it unlocks a new market is if there is guaranteed availability, which is functionally impossible. It doesn't take much effort to show that if the scooters start from an area that is v
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by docker_up 7y ago
If there were a scooter every single time I wanted to use a scooter, then it would make sense. But that's not reality. The reality is that trying to get a scooter is haphazard at best. You need to walk around and find one. And during r
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by docker_up 7y ago
Their primary business is unavailable to them for half the year in most of the world because of weather, and half of the day. How is this multi-billion dollar business, if they already have 700M in funding and they want another 300M?
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by docker_up 7y ago
VCs are generally greedy and stupid at the same time. They follow the herd more than any other industry. The fact they invest in something means little as to how savvy they are or how successful the product will be. 90% of all startups fail
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by docker_up 7y ago
Bird scooters is a completely unviable business. It lacks revenues during the rain and winter and when it's dark. One user using it for an hour completely drains the battery and it's unusable until someone picks it up and charges

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