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by erulabs 4y ago
Meanwhile a16z regularly rejects profitable businesses because they "don't have a path to 1B". Well, congrats, Helium is worth $1.2B and generates $6,500 a month in revenues (1). I am not anti-crypto - but I am becoming incre
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by erulabs 4y ago
So the game is pay to win - otherwise some 16 year old would be at the top of the ranks with no money invested. I heard a rumor the match making service is wholesale copied from StarCraft 2 - on that game if you win about 10 times in a row
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by erulabs 4y ago
Awesome! Need more alternatives to pihole. Going to make an installer for this for our home hosting hardware now :)
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by erulabs 4y ago
Exactly. The impulse to make legislative government nimble and powerful is a strange one. Should it not be considerate and slow? "Who governs least, governs best", etc. Moving quickly is the executives job.
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by erulabs 4y ago
Jeff previously reviewed our all-SSD NAS, which is far more budget, if anyone is interested: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/kubesails-pibox-mini-... Love seeing these projects from him, but this is a rare
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by erulabs 4y ago
Hrm, it's possible it's exaggerated, but that's all I've seen reported. https://www.avclub.com/hulu-boycott-abortion-gun-control-ads... https://www.newsweek.com/cancel-hulu-calls-grow-a
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by erulabs 4y ago
Oh absolutely - totally agreed about folks who’s jobs this is or who’s revenue it represents. I am more flabbergasted by the “boycott” from normal customers who are apparently outraged they won’t be seeing ads they already agree with.
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by erulabs 4y ago
Erm - those aren’t ads? If you’re already paying and there is product on the shelf of the store you’re already inside of… that’s just a product.
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by erulabs 4y ago
Nietzsche called it “the tyrannomania of impotence”. I can’t just imagine being so passionate about — ads?
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by erulabs 4y ago
Indeed but the bit about “maybe gravity stops applying at some point” is key. Just floating to the moon seems more doable that that this small huntable bird has an active domain larger than any human empire ever. Like obviously they were wa
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by erulabs 4y ago
Woodcocks travel a fairly immense distance (see https://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/3c74c7b19cb733d0f68b3c4f... ). I would suspect, had one guessed in 1685 that the birds arriving that Halloween in London had been relax
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by erulabs 4y ago
Thomas Aquinas (just to name one) was a scholar of the highest order and was absolutely not just pretending to be a Christian. It’s a strange worldview to imagine that Christianity provided no academic contributions to the world. To some ex
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by erulabs 4y ago
I would be cautious of making group generalizations like that. If a couple idiots who call themselves physicists publish a terrible paper -- that doesn't indict all of psychics . Covid made every amateur virologist and wanna-be-scient
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by erulabs 4y ago
Thank you!! We splurged on the fan for sure - but it runs more or less silent and I love hearing the fan spin up and down when it boots - makes it feel like a proper server even though it's about the footprint of an iPhone :)
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by erulabs 4y ago
I would only say that sooner is better than later. During this startup I got married and had a child - and I don’t come from money or have a successful exit before - so chances are this is my one and only shot before I have to earn more mon
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by erulabs 4y ago
Nice! We consider Umbrel a bit of a sister company :) They are more crypto focused, and we're more self-hosting focused, but we overlap in many ways. Umbrel software runs great on our hardware!
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by erulabs 4y ago
Hah I work on this every single day. I'm building tiny web-servers for consumers over at https://pibox.io - we like to say were "distributing the web; no blockchain required". Customers love the product, but VCs
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by erulabs 4y ago
I'm really excited for https://www.forem.com/ - when I get some free time I plan on making it easier to setup for beginners. PHPBB was "self-hosted" - the old world of the internet was entirely "self-hos
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by erulabs 4y ago
Not great but I’d cut them some slack. Designing hardware, software, a billing system, a website, production, shipping… I’m part of a two man hardware company and it’s a miracle it’s even possible. The web is funny tho - an order page is ju
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by erulabs 4y ago
Well written - I’m also a former stripe although a far more cursory one, and I quite often miss my former team. I’ve tried very hard to keep my current company from becoming a “lgtm” company — but my god do you need a lot of resources to pa
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by erulabs 4y ago
It’s amazing that companies with billions of dollars of revenue make such poor moves. All I think when I see a story like this is “well I guess there isn’t much competition in NZ toy companies”.
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by erulabs 4y ago
Good for Snap. I suspect this won't move the needle on young users - but I suspect it will probably help them recruit old sysadmins like myself. It's a sign of a still-directed-by-instinct and not KPI-uber-alles, which makes me ha
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by erulabs 4y ago
There are dozens of us! Dozens!!! But seriously, if anyone needs training on this (or emergency help!), shoot me a message.
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by erulabs 4y ago
I interviewed at Facebook and knew the exact moment I was rejected. I was asked to whiteboard a bit of code, and feeling a bit of “when in Rome” I decided to use PHP - I mean - Facebook, right? The interviewer loudly scoffed and pulled out
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by erulabs 4y ago
Down to earth is the key I think. So many action films these days are "save the world" or some sort of incredibly over the top world-changing maguffin. Just a guy trying to escape going to prison for a crime he didn't commit
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by erulabs 4y ago
If fracking was related, we'd see a dramatically higher die-off around the permian basin and more or less no die-off whatsoever in the north-west and north-east. This isn't quite what we see: https://fractracker.org an
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by erulabs 4y ago
I don't like defending opinions of straw-men, and particularly opinions I don't agree with, but I'm not sure your argument holds up. There is a important difference between a tragedy like a miscarriage versus a chosen act lik
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by erulabs 4y ago
I'm not sure about EU but there are still many many many hiring managers who think SWE/Devops/ML are just like any other employees and shouldn't get paid less than the middle managers about them. Avoid those shops like
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Why are industrial Pis so expensive?(youtube.com)
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by erulabs 4y ago
With inflation at the rate it's at, I can't help but laugh at "crypto is so volatile!" That argument made sense in the endless bull markets - but these days? What's not volatile? I-Bonds? The idea that the US Dollar

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