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by flunhat 7y ago
The economics of venture capital don't work out if you invest in companies that you think will be worth less than a billion dollars. There's a really enlightening blog post that goes through all the numbers (maybe someone can find
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by flunhat 7y ago
How does it solve curation & search? Edit: I'm asking because I suspect your answer is going to be "it doesn't/that's not the point/who cares?" But people who read blogs will just flock to the centrali
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by flunhat 7y ago
So what happens to Kik now? Funding-wise, I mean. The press release says that: "the company’s management predicted internally that it would run out of money in 2017. In early 2017, the company sought to pivot to a new type of business
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by flunhat 7y ago
By the members of this site, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817850 A choice quote from the top comment: "Seems like mostly a huge waste of cash."
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by flunhat 7y ago
In light of StackOverflow looking for a new CEO, layoffs in the past year and a half, $68 million in venture capital looking for a return, and Joel Spolsky's connections to Microsoft, this might actually happen. I've also gotten t
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by flunhat 8y ago
Possibly a stupid question: what happens if the American economy (or whatever the index fund you invest in reflects) doesn't grow for a sustained period of time? The article kind of addresses this, but doesn't clarify if FIRE advo
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by flunhat 8y ago
Well, kind of. But it's still very bureaucratic. To be cynical, though, being successful with that kind of process requires knowing how to describe your accomplishments, what metrics to emphasize, and what projects are simply not worth
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by flunhat 8y ago
I've heard that getting promoted at Google is kind of a shitshow -- that your manager can't vouch for you and it's basically up to how well you summarize and present your work to a faceless promotion committee (i.e. how well
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by flunhat 8y ago
I imagine it selects for people who want the job at a FAANG company so badly that they spend a lot of time reading algo textbooks and grinding Leetcode. I guess this is also a proxy for other character traits, like grit, pattern recognition
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by flunhat 8y ago
Relevant, from 2000: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... An interesting point: code is ( probably ) not as ugly as it seems -- it just looks that way because you didn't write
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by flunhat 8y ago
There's at least this one: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/julian-assange-i... . Technically free to leave the embassy, so it's not a false statement. But would definitely be arrested and extr
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by flunhat 8y ago
Your tl;dr isn't _wrong_, per se. But the article is really well written, and I feel like there's more depth to it than what you've said. Plus, your statement comes off as kind of cynical and snarky ("no shit, guys"
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The Voting Blocs of New York City(nytimes.com)
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by flunhat 9y ago
Case in point: Dick Cheney changing his position on gay marriage because his daughter is a lesbian.
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by flunhat 9y ago
Surely this has something to do with the sheer number of users they have, right? There's only like 8 billion people on Earth and Facebook has 2 billion monthly active users. If you take away 1.5 billion people in China who can't&#
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by flunhat 9y ago
How many weeks off are you guys given? 4 weeks sounds like quite a lot (it's a whole month!)
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by flunhat 9y ago
You're getting downvoted, but this piece from the Atlantic really made me deeply suspicious of Wikileaks' motivations. A chilling quotation from the article: >“Hi Don. Sorry to hear about your problems,” WikiLeaks wrote. “We ha
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by flunhat 9y ago
How long does Tesla have before it runs out of cash? I know they just had a bond sale or something, but I'm fuzzy on the details.
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by flunhat 9y ago
Unsure why you're bringing race into this, but the article was about Vice not about Murs so it makes sense that they focus on the former more than the latter (even though both are bad, of course)
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by flunhat 9y ago
I think on gdax there's no fees for maker trades, only takers.
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by flunhat 9y ago
I played a wind instrument for 10 years, ending in senior year of high school. I got quite good (if I do say so myself, lol) and had the opportunity to learn from a few excellent musicians in private instructions, chamber music, and the lik
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by flunhat 9y ago
Slight tangent (sort of) - has anyone else noticed that a lot of these high speed trading firms are hiring a lot more FPGA engineers lately? Hudson River Trading and Jane Street just to name a few. I regularly checked their job postings ove
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by flunhat 9y ago
I know, I was referring to that in my post. My question is why it required their own chain. Ethereum's is open source, so more bytecodes and functionality could be added to the EVM to make it appropriate for safer languages to compile
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by flunhat 9y ago
Why not just write a compiler for that functional language (I think OCaml) that outputs EVM bytecode? Seems very doable from afar...
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by flunhat 9y ago
That's how all taxes work??
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by flunhat 9y ago
Save your energy - they just think that reddit banning a pro-racism community or a internet infra company refusing to serve a neo-nazi website basically means that we live in an authoritarian society. Never mind that the slippery slope argu
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by flunhat 9y ago
That's the slippery slope logical fallacy. You've ignored the possibility that a meaningful middle ground exists.
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by flunhat 9y ago
Why?
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by flunhat 9y ago
You're right, but in the context of Reddit becoming a more palatable place for advertisers that's neither here nor there
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by flunhat 9y ago
And from what I understand, it's been quite effective, too [1]. It seems that removing abusive communities basically reduces the amount of abusive content overall, because there's one less community where that content is acceptabl

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