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by dzonga 8mo ago
stripe has done a lot of impressive work in terms of opening up commerce on the internet. however as a comparison -- how much JP Morgan payments would be valued if a separate entity ?
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by dzonga 8mo ago
this is pretty dope
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by dzonga 8mo ago
why not just buy a .co.xx (country) or simply .com / .net and if hectic maybe .io
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by dzonga 8mo ago
crypto is just like an anonymous trust account. at times - you've to make divorce laws fair.
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by dzonga 8mo ago
yeah Israel tends to be strong in cyber security. However one thing as a founder, I have started to adopt the Israeli playbook - have dev team etc in Israel and sell in the US i.e green card startup you can live in a cheaper location, whil
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by dzonga 8mo ago
this incompetent administration will harm everyone else & blame everyone else but not themselves they do something illegal, are taken to court - lose in court - then blame the court. I feel after a few iterations of them losing in court
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by dzonga 8mo ago
in the wild Inline 6 (I6) engines have proved reliable and just going on regular maintenance B58 (BMW) is super reliable & high performance same as the I6 used in certain landcruisers & other Toyota cars etc though now of course - w
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by dzonga 8mo ago
does them being Russian matter ? I think - we need to have software - not subject to political gimmicks - since countries can get into wars with each other & sanction each other etc remember when Venezuela was sanctioned and they couldn
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by dzonga 8mo ago
each empire of built on mastering an energy source Portuguese - wind british - coal america - oil now we're witnessing Chinese master renewables (solar & wind)
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by dzonga 8mo ago
I loved my pixel 3a - it did the work then I upgraded to a 6a - overheating, battery exploded - google refused to change it coz it was bought in the uk - while I'm now in the US - as if I didn't trade my US bought 3a for a pixel 6
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by dzonga 8mo ago
Saturation of channels due to slop content - doesn't mean that created stuff is not scarce there's more problems then ever before that need empathetic humans to solve - are you up for the challenge - or you're doing a quick c
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by dzonga 8mo ago
it's an own goal end of day - led by myopic thinking about foreigners stealing the jobs a foreigner worker pays taxes, rent & other bills thereby contributing and circulating money in the economy now if that foreign worker stays in
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by dzonga 8mo ago
Alex Russel - member of the Chrome core team has a few excellent titles on why React is not the way to go 1. Market for Lemons - https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/ 2. https://i
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by dzonga 8mo ago
I guess for the author's limited worldview - "apps" are only available through the app stores. could be an unfortunate thing of the author growing up in an era of gated ecosystems. however much of the software out there - is
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by dzonga 8mo ago
thanks - through your repo - I have discovered a few dependencies I would like to adopt for my work
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by dzonga 9mo ago
seems to me only the Chinese have been able to sort of withstand the test of time
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by dzonga 9mo ago
they've already started banning it e.g via ID laws same as gambling. these things are like swings - go back & forth throughout history. what's interesting me to me is how quickly the mood went from a very liberal approach to t
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by dzonga 9mo ago
it's almost telling how Super Bowl commercials tell the mood of the country's population and economy latest edition was A.I, prediction markets, GLP-1s -- all indicative of a "Casino" economy where you know the odds are
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by dzonga 9mo ago
typical management layer in big tech manager < senior engineering manager < director of engineering < vp of engineering < cto why are so many layers needed ? it incentivizes busy work and shit metrics like I outlined above. if t
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by dzonga 9mo ago
well said. also coz of llms no more puzzle questions in interviews for those that have to go through them. for some of us - we drink, eat, sleep - something called shipping - v1 might be shitty but it has to get out - no puzzles
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by dzonga 9mo ago
you also have bozo managers like my recent one measuring metrics like PR time open, review count while the team hasn't shipped anything useful in 6 months.
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by dzonga 9mo ago
the UK will be caught in the middle and lose out. Not part of US not part of EU either. what a losing proposition. if it can be a card network with fraud protections that visa offer -- this will easily overtake Visa, Mastercard Brazil with
623.
by dzonga 9mo ago
> UK and the rest of the world should have demanded its return Demand its return based on what principles ? How did the UK gain control of Hong Kong Would the UK be able to go to war with China over HK ? in the words of Dave Chappell - h
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by dzonga 9mo ago
Does Iran deserve better leaders ? Yeah are they gonna get bombed to the smithereens as a distraction for Epstein affairs - yep - do Iranian civilians deserve to suffer - no
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by dzonga 9mo ago
Microsoft gonna release a windows flavored Linux Distro soon ;)
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by dzonga 9mo ago
See my Comment on why hybrid db's like tigerDB(data) are good - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876037
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by dzonga 9mo ago
thank you & to people like you -- places with older people & people with families i.e dads | mothers etc are a pleasure to work with less bullshit, less time wasting, less chasing non productive hype however the industry has been de
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by dzonga 9mo ago
& the counter-argument is those SAAS apps being killed by A.I are growing revenue 20%+ YOY people who write this BS - one never don't understand SAAS fundamentals, they only see what's on the screen and forget the complexity t
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by dzonga 9mo ago
in a way -- materialized views -- but Tiger Data is more optimized for TimeSeries data - https://www.tigerdata.com/docs/use-timescale/latest/hypercor... I do wish too there was an embedded click house like db
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by dzonga 9mo ago
the qwen website doesn't work for me in safari :(. had to read the announcement in chrome

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