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by gizmo 4y ago
Of course the stripe founders are not absolved of blame. They made the wrong call. But overall Stripe has A+ execution -- of which very little was luck -- and the founders deserve credit for that.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Why act like the founders have to grovel and beg for forgiveness? They don't. If they had been extra cautious during covid in expectation for the economy to take a dive would stripe be in a better position today? Absolutely not.
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by gizmo 4y ago
The internet is so much larger than it used to be. Getting to a million users for a consumer app is possible, even in seemingly tiny niches. Then get 10% to pay $10 per year and that's a million dollars in annual revenue right there. T
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by gizmo 4y ago
The 'a' in trash is also noticeably off.
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by gizmo 4y ago
The main problem continues to be, in my view, that we don't have the equivalent of plain text for formatted documents or trees. Plain text can be copy-pasted, read by any program, edited anywhere, and that's great. Binary formats
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by gizmo 4y ago
Deaf people (or those who blast music) can drive. People who are blind in one eye can drive.
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by gizmo 4y ago
That's also true for high resolution maps. The question is whether you're solving for self-driving on highways or a handful of mapped city centers or whether you want to solve for the real thing. Tesla is all-in on FULL self drivi
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by gizmo 4y ago
Awkward to hold, slow page turns, bad battery life. A kindle is a million times better for epub reading. For PDF e-reading it's no good either because it's slow, and you can't read charts on a low resolution grayscale display
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by gizmo 4y ago
Musk knew at the time fsd was nowhere close to working every time he asserted that buying a tesla was a great investment that would make money for you as an autonomous taxi. Blatant fraud, no question about it.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Not to mention that the upside of self-driving cars is capped at the cost of an uber driver, and even in a world with ubiquitous fully autonomous cars you still want public transportation. Driver assistance on highways is probably the right
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by gizmo 4y ago
On m2 MBA firefox battery life is fantastic
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by gizmo 4y ago
Possible, sure. But not trivial, and there is no pressing need to get rid of these sensors right now. Why the rush, if there is no supply chain issue?
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by gizmo 4y ago
Stocks/real estate are mostly owned by richer people (and 401ks). There was plenty of inflation in luxury goods. Watches, private jets, art. Prices went through the roof. Covid boom put money into the hands of regular people, and that
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by gizmo 4y ago
The "extremely low inflation era" was also a time of very high inflation in long duration assets. It was an era where we saw one company after the another being valued at over a trillion dollars. It was an era where startups witho
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by gizmo 4y ago
A 4 year old iPhone still works perfectly, but a $200 Android will find its way to a landfill way sooner. As a rule of thumb, appliances that last are better for the environment than cheap products. Apple is good at make devices that last.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Brand and design is used as an argument when the product isn't doing anything critical. If your solution solves a real pain point nobody cares what it looks like. The onboarding for my SaaS products could be a lot better, but somehow w
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by gizmo 4y ago
Because many tools in this space are so bad I think you'll have a hard time persuading saas companies to evaluate your thing. Saas founders also don't want their onboarding to be too smooth as that impedes evaluation of product-
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by gizmo 4y ago
If you look at the list of nuclear incidents/accidents you'll see that in most cases there is minimal radioactive exposure and zero casualties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident...
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by gizmo 4y ago
When will the cancerous dust produced by coal plants finally be considered a cost? Nuclear is more expensive than the optimistic napkin math shows, but so is every other energy source! Europe has invested a trillion or two into intermittent
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by gizmo 4y ago
1) TSMC is not for sale. It's of national importance to Taiwan. 2) There is only one TSMC. If you could just buy one for 500bn the EU would have bought 3 already. Building your own TSMC from scratch takes a decade, if not longer.
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by gizmo 4y ago
This basically turns phone/video chat into a feature. If this actually works with 10.000 people in a room as advertised Zoom is in a lot of trouble.
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by gizmo 4y ago
5 years and 300+ well researched videos results in $5k/mo revenue, mostly patreon. This shows how brutally unforgiving the youtube economy is, even when your content is excellent. I fully expect this channel to grow to $50k/mo in
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by gizmo 4y ago
GDPR??? Not at all related.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Why are known cheaters even allowed to participate in top level tournaments? It’s insulting to all the other chess players. Magnus is setting the right example by refusing to play Niemann
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by gizmo 4y ago
A huge percentage of the population wants to write a book. For many it's an innate desire, much like making music. If people who write books for financial gain decide to quit, I'm not sure it's a big loss.
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by gizmo 4y ago
The flipside: why should people everywhere in the world be asked to give up a large portion of their discretionary income to get access to educational materials that can be reproduced at zero marginal cost? What is the loss to society as a
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by gizmo 4y ago
I think the sad reality is that modern art is largely trash. Perhaps because painting/drawing/sculpting with excellent technique is too much of a commodified trade already. Perhaps because it's too hard to be original. A new
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by gizmo 4y ago
Although we talk a lot about disruption, only very few technologies are truly disruptive. You can tell by the panic and awe in the air whether you're dealing with real disruption or incremental change. Dropbox made filesharing easier.
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by gizmo 4y ago
I used the "how to connect a replacement airpod" steps (on both) to fix the issue where only one airpod would connect.
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by gizmo 4y ago
I also ruined a pair of Airpod pros that way. Got them replaced on warranty, but I'm still annoyed because Apple has ads where people run with Airpods but if you do they'll break.

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