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by gizmo 3y ago
Presumably not very well, because the houses have no real foundation. But when you look at a seismic hazard map you'll see that earthquakes don't happen in large swaths of the world.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Why pride yourself on being unreasonable? The text was clear enough and the exact phrasing is immaterial.
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by gizmo 3y ago
I don't want to be overly inflammatory but the core issue here is that Europe very badly wants to be a technocratic police state. Free speech is a joke in Europe (despite loud denials from Europeans who insist free speech exists in Eur
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by gizmo 3y ago
Literally everybody has family members who could use extra money. If having family absolves you from ethical constraints we can dispense with the notion of ethics altogether.
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by gizmo 3y ago
"It's just transactional" "I don't owe anybody anything" "You're just naive" These are the rationalizations used to justify antisocial behavior. It's nihilistic and destructive to society. I
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by gizmo 3y ago
Cheaters think everybody cheats when given the opportunity. Thieves believe only fear of the law is what keeps the masses in line. Liars believe lying is normal and that they’re only embellishing anyway and really it’s for the greater good
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by gizmo 3y ago
> if a company is being investigated by the SEC, and knows it, that is material information that must be disclosed to the market In 2016 the SDNY ruled that issuers do not have a general duty to disclose the existence of an SEC investiga
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by gizmo 3y ago
The SEC takes enforcement action in about 40 insider trading cases in a typical year. Most result in fines. Less than half of those cases get forwarded to the justice department. Big "egregious cases" of insider trading cases are
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by gizmo 3y ago
The entire point is that MNPI is a legal concept and information can be both nonpublic (i.e. private correspondence) and tradable for profit (i.e. material) and yet does not constitute MNPI. You're making the exact mistake that I'
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by gizmo 3y ago
That's totally wrong. If you make inferences from non-public information (e.g. talking to the CEO) you can freely trade on that, provided the CEO hasn't shared MNPI with you directly. Every public company has an Investor Relations
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by gizmo 3y ago
Pretty much all cases? If you're an institutional investor you can just call the CEO or investor relations and ask them tough questions about their business. Sometimes you can figure out within minutes that the CEO is a bozo. You can v
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by gizmo 3y ago
Never, because "insider information" is a legal concept that doesn't correspond with what people intuit it means. People wrongly think insider trading is when one party unfairly profits from having important information other
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by gizmo 3y ago
Banks, pension funds, municipalities, retirees. A lot of folks are sitting on very significant losses. The bond market is much larger than the stock market, and that means that this is very significant. There are other indicators that troub
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by gizmo 3y ago
There is no realistic estimate at this point because we don't know how strong the prosecutor's case is. The prosecutors might even mishandle evidence and botch the case. Insider testimony might not hold up to cross examination. SB
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by gizmo 3y ago
Gas cars are very safe to work on relative to EVs. Electric car batteries are very dangerous when damaged, and any high voltage work requires extreme caution. The whole simplicity argument for electric cars was just a marketing spiel. Every
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by gizmo 3y ago
Gamers today are much older than 30 years ago, and older people don’t have the time to grind on side-quests for 100 hours.
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by gizmo 3y ago
This is how your partner describes your PE firm in a podcast interview: > Polychrome is a PE firm focused on acquiring 50% or greater equity positions in B2B software companies. That’s our primary focus and that’s what we do pretty much
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by gizmo 3y ago
Thanks for clarifying. Many people (including other commenters) wonder how people manage to transition from open source project to a profitable company. I think the blogpost would have been much better with this extra background information
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by gizmo 3y ago
According to Crunchbase and some other sites flagsmith did raise funding. Is Crunchbase wrong or is taking angel money considered bootstrapping nowadays? https://polychromecapital.substack.com/p/our-investment-in-f...
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by gizmo 3y ago
Tony does a ton of marketing. Hours every day. And twitter is the logical place to market a twitter poweruser product. When you’re an indie developer selling to other indie developers just being visible on twitter /is/ marketing.
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by gizmo 3y ago
You’re not stupid, and your constraints are reasonable and fine. However; if you want to succeed based on the strength of your product then your product has to be amazing. You only get consistent word of mouth marketing if your product blow
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by gizmo 3y ago
When you make a video game you want version control for your graphics assets, audio, compiled binaries of various libraries, etc. You might even want to check in compiler binaries and other things you need to get a reproducible build. Being
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by gizmo 3y ago
Quake 1 (about 100k lines of C) runs in the browser just fine: https://www.netquake.io/quake Yes, it's a 30 year old game but the typical CRUD web app doesn't have close to the complexity of quake. Good C++ code i
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by gizmo 3y ago
This is the original issue thread from two months ago: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/417594 And the root cause seems to be... > Change your git config and include username of the your
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by gizmo 3y ago
Unity knew exactly what kind of deplorable people the ironsource guys are, and they still sold. They knew this would inevitably result in the gamedevs getting screwed over, and they still sold. They knew.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Also, we are too kind to some classics out of nostalgia perhaps. I've been greatly disappointed by top rated classic spy and sci-fi novels. The kind of storytelling people got away with 50 years ago really doesn't work anymore tod
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by gizmo 3y ago
- French press. With a bit of practice you can make very good coffee with it in just a few minutes. Machine washable. - Glass tea pot with filter for loose tea leaves. Also machine washable. - Tower fan. Cools and provides white noise. - Gy
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by gizmo 3y ago
> We give you the software, you get to host it. People can't host their own software. The handful of people who can host software won't install security updates or deal with backups. It's a drag. It makes no sense for mill
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by gizmo 3y ago
A polite letter informing them they are in violation of labor laws should be sufficient. Their gamble is you’re afraid to assert your rights, and if you can make clear that you understand they are guaranteed to lose a court case if it gets
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by gizmo 3y ago
It takes 200 years for a city to organically grow into an interesting and vibrant place. Can this process be sped up? Perhaps. But then the city itself would be in constant development. Construction everywhere, loud trucks hauling materials

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