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by hibikir 5y ago
Hi pc, former employee here, from back in the day where meetings could be held in Alabama. It's not that Stripe doesn't have broken things: I could have made a big list from back when I worked there, and I bet the list is still la
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An important detail here is that the raise was a whole year ago, back when Block's market cap was far higher: I don't have their issuing/buyback data on hand, but their shares were flying as high as $270 per share, when today
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Going after large enterprise sales is a well known trap, and it's just so easy for a startup to spin its wheels for months, and eventually years, and realize that all the efforts got nowhere. The first 1B+ seller is precisely the harde
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What you have seen is its corollary: Cities where building is so impossible, that a run down shack that will be extremely difficult to remodel goes for 7 figures, because it really is the best available choice for someone that can afford th
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To a point, but it's rarely the inability to code that is leading to lack of output. Output often means "did sufficient work that was seen, by management, as impactful enough". This has more to do with communication and task
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The issue is filter accuracy. I have seen some of my favorite coworkers, who showed great pairing skills in the real world, melt down in typical algorithm interviews. I've also seen great performers in interview that were obvious terri
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First, it's unlikely, as most trips happen in small windows of time, and in the same general directions in a city, leading to very little chance to reuse: Peak cars on the road at 8 am on a Tuesday is not really going to drop, and then
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Other than condoms, birth control (used mostly as birth control, not as menstrual regulation) is mostly relegated to trusting long term relationships already: STDs exist. So whether this is better or worse than the pill for women engaging i
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What is often missing in the evaluation of US colleges is just how different they are from most European colleges. I compare, for instance, with the Spanish system. A very high percentage of young Spaniards go to college, just like in the U
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As it happens, Elden Ring takes care of the specific problem you mention by having save points, or some temporary respawn point, ahead of pretty much every tough boss available. This is done even for many optional bosses: You will respawn 1
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Nobody claims that most private schools are set up to cater to gifted kids: What you get is a whole lot of different schools, catering to different backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses, some of which will cater mostly to gifted kids. This
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You will find many economists that have some programming ability, just like in any other field nowadays: It's too useful an analytical skill. What they will do, however, is work on, say, a Jupyter notebook, which is as easier to fiddle
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by hibikir 5y ago
The post is great, but it's important to remember it's only a first step in $Famous_company's story. Some rewrites are resume padding and PR to get more hires, and a talk a big conference, but are rather harmless. Others succ
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The US lacks the state capacity to tell who was going to have trouble with COVID-19 closures, and who wouldn't, so a whole lot of money just had to go to people that had no need for it whatsoever. Regarding PPP, every local tech staff
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The way of the American suburb is so different from cities in most of the world that the rest of the cultural differences seem natural. In places with this social bonding arrangements, you have contacts across social strata that fit people
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The problem of boardgame evaluation is that what we have multiple populations that have very different ideas of how good a game is, and are so aware of their preferences that they will not rate all that many games outside of their favored n
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by hibikir 5y ago
I can tell you about St Louis. The metro area keeps growing, albeit slowly. The city isn't, and it's been in trouble for decades. The main secret here, and what makes St Louis top lists of crime, is that the city itself is quite s
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It absolutely has impact in the cost of the transaction. Even if we forget the fact that US credit card customers are bribed with percentage based cash back, card processors are both providing a form of insurance, and giving both merchants
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Until there's enough money in the pot that making your packages seem very important happens to be a productive use of one's time. At that point, you have to start dealing with fake downloads, dependencies added for no reason to so
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The model Y, as delivered today, already has a very large casting in the rear: There are many sources out there describing it, and how it simplifies model Y assembly compared to the otherwise rather similar model 3. What they are describing
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Early B2B sales are definitely hell. I have seen many B2B startup failures up close, and many of them fail because they run out of usable leads, because they just can't convert them. The problem is that figuring out who is going to be
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by hibikir 5y ago
How close are you to soccer fandom? As far as merch sales for a player, players might lose value quickly, but fan retention is very sticky: You aren't going to find a lot of people that suddenly root for a new team once a decade. So wh
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It's not the level, but the WCC format, which makes current players not want to take risks at all. Today's game is a great example of why they are conservative: Taking any risks with black, like Nepo did when he avoided an early q
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Not at all: Secondary airports are easy infrastructure to build: They don't take all that much land in the grand scheme of things, and from one of those, you can connect to 3-5 nearby hubs. Trains, on the other hand, require infrastruc
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You'd be surprised. Take Spain: College is very cheap, but in 2014, the median student that graduated was 27... and that was with a plain degree. This also didn't mean that most of their college degrees were on any topic that help
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Formal methods are good and all, but you can still run into trouble when you fail to account for everything. Some years ago, I had to work on a massively distributed system that scaled up or down with minimal communication between nodes, de
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It's far more complicated than that. The maxim doesn't model a world where everyone has a smarts score, and everyone knows what everyone else's score is. That's not how the world works. What it's really saying is th
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An unfortunate reality of development today is that we have developers with little to no systems experience having to decide on base images, even though they haven't built any expertise on OSs. It makes perfect sense for this to happen
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It's not a matter of what it can do, but of safety/ease of use. I used a traditional pressure cooker for many years, but nowadays I see no reason to go back to babysitting the cooking process. Waiting for pressure to build? Decidi
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The kinds of bills that some large company development environments end up running are surprisingly high, but those companies also think the opportunity cost of losing productivity on application team developers to also very high. That&#x27

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