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by ian0 7y ago
On Finances: - Overbudget and underspend - Double the runway you think you will need - Don't hire anyone until they are desperately needed - If nobody knows about running a business (tax & books) then ask an accountant for help -
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My all time favorites: Isaac Arthur - Futurism (A must for any Sci-fi fan) Astrum - Astronomy (easy astronomy!) Redlettermedia - Film reviews (Rambling. Incredibly bad puns. Acquired taste) Baldandbankrupt - Amazing travel blog Videogamedun
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$7 / passenger for Immigration, $5 for customs! Thats insane revenue, you would expect at least a good service from it.
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Could anyone find the performance statistics? 0-100kph?
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Started a startup in early 2018. We help schools in Indonesia to manage their money. Collect payments digitally, manage their finances, digitalise their financial records. Took us a long time to work through the practicalities (think drivin
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by ian0 7y ago
Kind of a dumb question but I'll ask anyway. If the wind is blowing in the exact same direction as the ship is travelling and you begin to retract the sail - do you recoup some of the energy you use during this retraction process throu
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Not really a disincentive, if the person paying the fuel could pay less it for it while using fleet X it would surely be a competitive advantage to the fleets owner. Perhaps the keyword in the quote is "untested", with a unwritten
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by ian0 7y ago
I cant help but thinking from these brochures that people had more picnics in the 50s/60s than we do now. Perhaps it was a trend for awhile. Or maybe related to the fact people couldn't easily live together before marriage :P
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Not programming but systems engineering (telco), though Ive programmed since a kid. I ended up in a product by chance, I was working for a telco vendor and at the time no-one was specifically focussing on product so I ended up doing it. It
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Really cool to see this here. Mads supervised my undergraduate thesis, I remember him explaining the random.org setup when I asked about the servers & radio sitting in the corner of his office. A super friendly and smart guy. Of note, h
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>> Those who rely on Google's own services like Gmail, Google Drive, Maps and YouTube, for example, will likely need to find alternatives Anyone know if this accurate? You wont be able to use these apps on Huawei phones?
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One thing I realised recently is when you have traction, this is a much easier problem to deal with. Everyone keeps hounding you for improvements and you prune these requirements to increase utility and demand. So its critical that you find
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Assume your in the US but will chime in anyway. We are a payments company that works with ~10 banks across two countries in SEA. Most for financial operations, some for our own working capital. Ive delt with about 10-15 more banks previousl
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A friend of mine was working on software for large building contractors that would assist with this, with the goals being to get the right contractors to the right project at the right time. Turns out the complexity is pretty daunting due t
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From experience we over-estimate the actuarial competence of insurance companies. In most cases they will trial a new product with premium calculated from incredibly basic stats, see how it goes and then up/reduce the premium as they h
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Spotted this in the guardian link: >> “When we looked into the steps people were going through to verify their accounts we found that in some cases people’s email contacts were also unintentionally uploaded to Facebook when they creat
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That would just change the bias, not remove it
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Cheers for this. What a life Otokichi had!
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Quick bullet points on the steps a company should perform when a data breech comes to light?
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On a personal level, just call down to your local school or your old school and ask how you can help, given your skillset. A tech person in particular has a lot of valuable skills, from evaluating educational platforms to assisting with the
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by ian0 8y ago
When my son was around 2 he became addicted to youtube. We like other parents fell into the pitfall of allowing him to look at videos when we went out for meals to keep him occupied. We strictly limited usage but it got to the point where i
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by ian0 8y ago
Besides being racist this is factually incorrect. Grabs two co-founders were born in Malaysia and the execs are from all over the world. Both are very successful companies but from the innovation perspective Gojek is most definitely the lea
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by ian0 8y ago
Or this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank
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Easy: - Step 1: Switch to selling $11 (2 x $5 bills + $1 coin) for exactly one $10 bill, cutting your net loss per trx by 80% and showing how serious you are about going profitable. But its just a ruse, what your really doing is capturing t
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Fintech is typically used to describe non-banks operating in the finance industry (and presumably using technology). Before this it was used to describe layering technology into banking. Its not used to describe actual banks. As they have a
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Email is working for me, but attachments are failing. Opening up the console and it has a message about a database connection loss.
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Really interesting! The expanded image was 404ing for me, I found this slightly different one for anyone interested: https://i.imgur.com/WGOy3qT.png
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It really depends on who you are sending money to. Assuming your sending to people with bank accounts a remittance service would work, like transfer-to (recently renamed Thunes) [1] and EMQ (sea only) [4]. There are several services like th
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Id guess it would be less dangerous than driving than say, a turbo busa, given you have less things to crash into!
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Yes! Even just for the fun component. But if it practically worked as a day to day driver it would absolutely revolutionise traffic in some cities, such as Jakarta with 18 million motorcycles all stuck in traffic. Cant imagine all the issue

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