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gist
1y ago
Sorry. I meant platform is MacOS.
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Ask HN: Having terrible time with paid versions of ChatGPT and Claude
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1y ago
> This sounds like a bad idea if you're trying to convince people from NYC to move to FL People will typically come to Florida (despite this) because it's Florida and a nicer place to work year round than NY etc.
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1y ago
> This is the Qualified Small Business Stock Tax Exclusion. Basically as long as you wait 5 years before selling the business, you won’t be taxed on the first $10 million dollars. This isn’t some loophole, this is exactly what it was int
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gist
1y ago
How is it trivially connected to your real identity exactly? I am not seeing how it is at all.
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1y ago
In any case this is business and in many cases how business operates. Nice try on Sam's part to try and make it like it's a bad thing and everybody is for the good of the purpose.
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1y ago
> I think that leaks like this have negative information value to the public. To most people I'd think this is mainly for entertainment purposes ie 'palace intrique' and the actual facts don't even matter. > The va
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1y ago
> His essays are edited because it's important for his business. He can easily justify a paying someone. First he is not paying someone to edit these (any person I've seen appears to be unpaid and affiliated with HN in some way
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1y ago
> I see nothing wrong at all with asking people for feedback on an essay that will be broadly published and read. Is he really 'broadly published and read'? Most people outside of tech have no clue (and no interest) in what PG
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1y ago
Writing wise I have a great deal of respect for you (and other top commenters) because you don't have people edit and review what you say you just write it (and take lumps or accolaydes). Something I've mentioned before is I can&#
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1y ago
> The problem with successful tech figures is that, over time, they often become convinced they can succeed at anything. I think at the core the problem (if you want to call it that) can be boiled down to the following: "I am smart.
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1y ago
Exactly. Also noting what happened with Ron Johnson (Apple Stores) after he left Apple (and was not surrounded by either Jobs or others that worked at Apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Johnson_(businessman) I am
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1y ago
> If people knew which business were PE owned they would avoid them. What? You think the average customer knows or cares about that?
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1y ago
Open source wiki we have used forever with great success: https://twiki.org/ https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/WhatIsTWiki
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2y ago
I don't think it should be referred to as a 'necessary evil' (by the following definition of that term): "something unpleasant that must be accepted in order to achieve a particular result" For one
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2y ago
This is similar concept to taking your kids to a fancy resort to swim in the pool where they would be just as happy at the local Holiday Inn in your town.
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Maiden FLIGHT of the biggest RC Boeing 7779X [video]
(youtube.com)
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2y ago
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2y ago
> I had no idea Monster sold anything other than over priced guitar cables.. Overpriced because you are envious of their marketing or pricing strategy? They were appropriately priced as long as the marketing wasn't more deceptive th
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2y ago
> when they don't make use of the patent themselves, except to extract money from other people, typically through threats of legal action. If someone has (what you have called) 'a legitimate patent' then they have the righ
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2y ago
> We ended up fighting it a bit because of "principles" by our founder. - in discovery there was something like 1,000 of these exact demand letters they had sent. I am noting you have not said how this ended up. What does '
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2y ago
I think like so many things the idea of 'patent trolls' has taken on a meaning whereby anyone who has a patent but no operating actual company (as you are describing LLC with 5 members and a lawyer) everyone automatically thinks &
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2y ago
> Today’s entrepreneurs would do well to note that Microsoft made minimal use of venture capital. Microsoft’s only VC only owned 6.2 percent of the company. Gates didn’t trust them. > If you’re thinking of trying your hand at being th
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2y ago
At the core this behavior is simply a version of social proof. Parents see what other parents do and/or kids see friends being picked up and then put pressure on their parents to do the same. Then it gets to a tipping point where it ju
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2y ago
> after finding a new employer. Obvious question then does the employer and the job have to be similar to the job that they had (and how similar and what is the test)?
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Brief History of GPS
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Trump Calls for End to $52B CHIPS Act Subsidy Program
(bloomberg.com)
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2y ago
This is the OP: https://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/faculty/erik-hofmeister/
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Giving Up a $250k Salary to Retire Early Is Hard
(whitecoatinvestor.com)
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2y ago
https://archive.ph/Ml5uG
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2y ago
Probably correct for OP to present as "Tim Apple" (hence giving some kind of hint to reflect on)
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