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by doh 7y ago
This is just a personal opinion, but I think ~15% unemployment peak is far too optimistic. I believe that 50-75% of restaurants will never reopen. 20-35% of small to mid-size hotels, venues, spas will declare bankruptcy within this year. Bo
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by doh 7y ago
Agree. That's why we built our Attribution Engine [0]. It's much more advanced that YouTube's Content ID, it's free to all rightsholder, creators and platforms (we make money from taking % of monetized/licensed cont
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by doh 7y ago
Well, not really. For instance our Attribution Engine [0], which is much more advanced than YouTube's Content ID is free to all rightsholders and platforms. We make money from taking % from all licensed content, but that also means bot
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by doh 7y ago
Pex | Multiple positions | Downtown, Los Angeles, CA; Boulder, CO; New York, NY | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | https://angel.co/pexeso/jobs Pex is building VISA for digital rights (without blockchain). Our Attribution Engine (
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by doh 7y ago
> Hierarchies are real - I am rather confused with the advertised rankings of a software engineer. There seem to be only two rankings: non-senior and senior. This one greatly differs between large and small companies, but I think for sma
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by doh 7y ago
Pex | Multiple positions | Downtown, Los Angeles, CA; Boulder, CO | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | https://angel.co/pexeso/jobs Pex built one of the largest search engine for audio-visual content ( https://softwareengin
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by doh 7y ago
I have not really dug into this, but we use pg_cron [0] quite extensively and works quite well. [0] https://github.com/citusdata/pg_cron
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by doh 7y ago
The improvement doesn't need to come only just in form of time to luggage but also in the experience for offloading and pickup it up. Also reliability is quite an issue (if you ever flew through CDG you know what I'm talking about
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by doh 7y ago
I would like to see the carry-on to go away. I understand the consequences would be quite harsh at first, but I do believe the airports and airlines would eventually figure out better ways to handle luggage and we would all be better for it
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by doh 7y ago
Depends on the service. We are currently closed to only certain customers, although our attribution engine [0] is completely free to _all_ rightsholders. [0] https://blog.pex.com/introducing-the-attribution-engine-19ec...
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by doh 7y ago
Correct. I meant that as I haven't seen it in the alphabet, so I decided that it's not base64. Don't follow my path of foolishness.
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by doh 7y ago
Can vouch for the non-triviality of collisions. We have around 500k inserts a second and wanted to have time sensitivity between them (so essentially basic in on a timestamp) and fit it into 64bit unsigned integer. We managed to get a safe
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by doh 7y ago
My shameful confession is that I never counted the characters. I was mentally looking for = and + and subtracted them from the number. Thank you for correcting me
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by doh 7y ago
My guess is that they used this as a security through obscurity [0]. They hoped that nobody will be able to reverse back the alphabet if they don't get their hands on real IDs. Because we [1] crawl every video/audio site, we had a
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by doh 7y ago
Fair enough. They do appear to be very similar in structure and they do follow some logic in correlation to timestamp. However you seem to be more knowledgeable about it and so I will add this to my mental knowledge book. Thank you
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by doh 7y ago
Maybe I wasn’t clear. The integers that enter the base62 used to be autoincrements. After time they became what was published in the blog post. If “timestamp” function is not from FB or not inspired by, then it must be a massive coincidence
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by doh 7y ago
Instagram uses basic base62 with a very standard alphabet ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_ They started using hashing functions from Facebook after they got acquired [0]. This function is used across t
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by doh 7y ago
> I think the goal is to launch the next ASCAP/BMI/SESAC and basically charge astronomical rates for songs people want to hear. Songwriters will love it and artists will have no choice. In US, for mechanical royalties, the rate
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by doh 7y ago
That is very hard to judge. We will need to wait and see.
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by doh 7y ago
Don't worry, we all learn something every day. TAM/SAM/SOM are quite important metrics while judging a business. Sequoia [0] has some good information on it. [0] https://www.sequoiacap.com/china/en/a
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by doh 7y ago
Exactly, SAAS is much easier to analyze, that's why everyone moved to SAAS investing because it doesn't have many "flips of coin" in order to be successful. > As far as a downturn taking down growth equity - time w
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by doh 7y ago
Not sure what kind of proof would you like. We built our whole company around this kind of data.
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by doh 7y ago
My point wasn't that all SAAS business are going to be in trouble, rather than the growth equity is going to be impacted because they are funding only SAAS businesses. There is no hedging and as such, once business stop paying for ce
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by doh 7y ago
Well, SAAS. That means subscription revenue, preferably in a market with large TAM that has simple CAC/LTV and churn calculations. Everything else is essentially a hassle.
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by doh 7y ago
This is exactly it.
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by doh 7y ago
It was poorly phrased so I changed it. I meant that if a big chunk of your revenue comes from services, they are not going to be very enthusiastic about your business.
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by doh 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying it.
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by doh 7y ago
Both VC (70%) and PE (30%). 90% in US, 17% in EU and 3% in Canada. 31% in the Bay Area (many growth stage funds are now in NYC).
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by doh 7y ago
Only a little related to this, in recent months I've spoken to ~60 growth stage equity funds and found out that essentially all transformed to be SAAS focused investors. That means they abandoned 1/3 portfolio strategy they used t
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by doh 7y ago
Look what I do for living [0]. Long story short, we see data on ~100 platforms and all of their content. [0] https://pex.com/web-analytics.html

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