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BlackBerry director Matt Johnson on why the iPhone won(theverge.com)
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by gen220 4y ago
That assumes that 4.81% will remain 4.81% for the foreseeable future. It's a common tactic to offer premium rates, and then drop the rate precipitously once they meet some quota N months later. Capital One did this circa 2020, for exam
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I've seen people trying to compare Amazon to Substack, but it doesn't add up for me. One Substack "generates" the sale, transferring the relationship to your own site feels cheap. It's like if Amazon stopped selling
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Diodorous stated that Alexander intended to inter-migrate the people of his conquered empire, to facilitate cultural exchange and unity between the Asian and European peoples who were by then his de facto subjects. [1] Interesting to imagin
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A notable option might be one of the many Massachusetts banks affiliated with the DIF, that have unlimited deposit insurance beyond the $250k FDIC limit [1]. Curious to hear if anybody else has gone this route, and what your experience has
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They’re very self conscious about wrinkles, in a nutshell, and they think wrinkles make them look old. These are single / actively dating people in a city, too, FWIW.
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by gen220 4y ago
I know lots of people in their late 20s / early 30s who get botox. I personally don't understand it either, but it's definitely a thing.
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by gen220 4y ago
It's interesting how ChatGPT/OpenAI's relationship to Google/Bing is so similar to Google/Bing's relationship to Wikipedia.
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by gen220 4y ago
I hadn't had a credit card swiped in years, but it happened to me a month or two ago. Whoever had my card used it for CashApp transactions (I didn't even know this was possible?), ultimately creating ~15 transactions of varying si
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Does the government require banks to buy long-term treasuries? [1] Or did banks choose to buy long-term treasury bills, chasing the highest paper returns (i.e. discounting the risk of potential rising interest rates in the future)? It&#
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To add some color to this, I know of at least one contracting agency / consultancy that effectively operated as a guild for about 10 years. When you hired somebody from them, you knew you were getting the real deal. Their contracts inc
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If you have the skills, self-hosting might be the way to go. There are a few options beyond Lychee these days [1]. [1]: https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries .
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Having thought a bit about the space, I agree! I think we could gain a lot by organizing as a guild. That being said, if you have the knowledge-working talent, organizational skills, ambition, and reputation necessary to start a successful
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I'm not involved, but they were recently sold to Epic Games, which, I imagine, represents a fairly large shift in character of management. It might be a defensive move to protect the worker culture that evolved before then.
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by gen220 4y ago
The cringe isn't that he failed to maximize yield, it's that he failed to protect that $35m from tail risks, by parking the lion's share of it in T-bills. "Maximizing yield" would mean earning a few % annually in in
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> Is it really the case, that Americans assume to have all these sorts of insurances taken care of automatically? For consumers, yes. For businesses, this falls under the "treasury management" responsibilities of the CFO positi
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As another pointed out, it's worse than the situation for human doctors (although I'm sure you can find a sub-discipline that's closer to veterinarians). Imagine you're a human doctor, except your patients are mute and c
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This is how the banking system works. As fiduciaries responsible for managing millions of dollars in capital, founders/VC have a responsibility to understand the parameters of the financial game they're playing. Any competent fina
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by gen220 4y ago
That's a fair point! I guess the most searing part of the film, in my memory, is the first / middle thirds of the movie. But maybe I only remember the first two thirds because it's balanced so effectively by the ending. :D I&
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by gen220 4y ago
As somebody who grew up in SV, I think this mythos was incubated around the period between the Yahoo/Ebay IPOs ('96/'98) and the Google IPO ('08). The concept reached its peak (although it was already rotting from t
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Marcus by GS has been paying 3.75% since mid-February! They've been pretty good for a while, now
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Sounds like the plot to "There will be blood" to me. :) That was one of the best plots/executions of a plot that I've ever seen!
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This reminds me a lot of the american express crisis that led berkshire hathaway to buy in 1998. SVB has positive brand value and (much more importantly) positive book value. At $16bn market cap EOD two days ago, they are also a relative mi
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by gen220 4y ago
All according to cube rule: Hot dogs are categorically tacos. Burritos typically begin life as a "calzone", but experience most of their brief lives through the lens of a "soup/salad in a bread bowl". Sometimes peop
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> What I truly want and probably lots of other people too is Flyctl for AWS. The same simplicity to run as fly, but give me something cheap in Virginia or the Dallas. Pardon the ignorance, is this not the Amplify CLI [1] ? [1]: https:&#
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You might be interested in the existence of `.pgpass` [1] and `.pg_service.conf` [2] I learned about them recently, it's been a massive quality of life improvement. [1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current&#x2F
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Is the inevitable conclusion of this vein of research some public health program akin to the one that shackled big tobacco? The link between (early) smoking and cancer seems like it was about as difficult to measure as the link between (ear
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I imagine that a lot of people would retroactively pay $100 (i.e. future-you would be able to easily convince past-you that paying $100 is worth it). I wonder what mechanisms exist for capitalizing on that retroactive price. You can obvious
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Take a look at Apache Aurora [1] if you want some inspiration on how to mold python into a config language. I used this system for a few years and mainly agree with the person you're replying to – having a proper programming language t
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I mainly attached the qualifier to account for the cost of one's "inability to repair when [the MacBook] eventually degrades". For some people, meditating on this reality causes them a great deal of consternation. As somebod

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