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by financypants 3y ago
I’m wondering if the same group of investors would have willingly invested in Sam’s next company (if he doesn’t stay at Microsoft)
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by financypants 3y ago
No, probably not, I just mean they have OpenAI on their resume which I think is pretty prestigious
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by financypants 3y ago
I’m saying we don’t have first-hand sources for revenue, nor do we have first-hand sources for expenses, which we know to some degree have both declined.
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by financypants 3y ago
How could you possibly know the KPIs and profitability of twitter at this moment? Especially since I assume you only consume anti-twitter content? None of us would buy a twitter share right now because we don’t have enough data to do so…
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by financypants 3y ago
I think almost everyone at OpenAI would be ok if there were layoffs there though
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by financypants 3y ago
I’m really curious about how the venture investors feel about that
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by financypants 3y ago
Is this trend vastly affected by the rise of artificial sweeteners like aspartame?
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by financypants 3y ago
I’ll add my anecdote. One of my relatives homeschools their two children. They are part of a commonwealth(?), and follow the Thomas Jefferson method which I think is kind of popular? One of their children who is 8 cannot read. The other is
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by financypants 3y ago
I think the commenter you’re responding to is pointing out that there should be options for rare exceptions, but for most other people, they’re not committing fraud by marking one option or another, because they can simply change that answe
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by financypants 3y ago
Free storage and hosting? Does this mean anyone can store random stuff in smart contracts and read from it for free?
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by financypants 3y ago
But can’t employers say there was “no reason” for firing someone organizing? Does participating in that provide short term job protection?
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by financypants 3y ago
All the best entrepreneurs love drama and want to feel powerful right
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by financypants 3y ago
Haven’t we proved autonomous cars to be safer than human drivers? Trucking is different of course, but just wanted to point that out
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by financypants 3y ago
In Utah, we have this common phenomenon where if a stranger starts up a conversation and is being chatty, it’s likely that they are trying to recruit you for their MLM
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by financypants 3y ago
In the context of chatting with strangers rather than someone you know, I’ve never felt it awkward for the conversation to trail off and both parties move on to something else.
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by financypants 3y ago
Sure we will be happily running these on customer level hardware, but there will always be a stronger version in the cloud “worth paying for,” won’t there?
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by financypants 3y ago
I've only been on Hacker News for a year, and I couldn't tell any change in comment effort
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by financypants 3y ago
Why are “dead straight panels” not advantageous in manufacturing or functionality? Are curved panels easier to deal with?
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by financypants 3y ago
Is the dropout rate higher among declared CS majors? I only have anecdotal evidence of this.
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by financypants 3y ago
If it is “equity” in a private company, any employees can certainly sell that stock to a venture buyer on the secondary market. However the share price will likely be discounted.
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by financypants 3y ago
Their duty is to keep revenue or profitability up and to the right. Every quarter that they don’t do this, analysts will grill the management team about what happened and what will change. The company is forced into a cycle, quarter by quar
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by financypants 3y ago
Just an anecdote: we were invested in a social commerce type company in brazil. They were losing 30%+ of inventory to theft, and management seemed to not be able to keep a handle on it. There are very good reasons vc investment lags here.
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by financypants 3y ago
Why doesn’t someone start a nice restaurant in the US that communicates to their customers that no tip is necessary, because the employees are being paid fairly?
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by financypants 3y ago
I’d like to point out that restaurants can customize the default pct amounts to tip, and it’s a hassle in the moment to click “custom” then type in either a dollar amount, or your own percentage, whichever the POS system is designed to show
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by financypants 4y ago
The book “the myth of multitasking” is maybe worth a read, althought it’s a bit repetitive . It hammers home the point this article is trying to make where task switching costs are high and productivity nosedives with interruptions, and the