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by jakozaur 6y ago
The current internet giants got huge monopolistic like power that many dictators of many countries would envy. The set their rules, execute them, and judge them. I believe once you become a platform there should be an independent nano-court
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by jakozaur 6y ago
Stuxnet is a masterpiece in terms of achieving goals while attacking hard to hit, network isolated facilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet It would be very interesting to see the next Stuxnet class viruses, s
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by jakozaur 7y ago
In many European countries, a month-long notification is a typical period. Assuming there is trust, the transition may take some time. Reworking presentations, leaving projects in the middle creates extra work. Plus for the individual, this
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by jakozaur 7y ago
The psychological impact of coronavirus will be huge. Till recently, forcing an employee to isolate was a form of mobbing. Today this is healthy pre-caution for everybody. There will be surge in loneliness, depression, and suicides.
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Not as dramatic difference as the title suggests... Pulling numbers from the article. 3694 Control (Wuhan area) A: 1188 (32.16%) B: 920 (24.90%) AB: 336 (9.10%) O: 1250 (33.84%) COVID-19 1888 patients A: 715 (37.87%) B: 494 (26.17%) AB: 193
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by jakozaur 7y ago
I would personally like to see higher buildings with parks around them rather than having houses packed. More space, higher density. Win, win.
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Hearing many horror stories over backing out at last minute, I wonder why breakup fees and escrow are not more popular in startup world. E.g. if you would like to acquire for $5mln you need to deposit $100k. If you walk out, this is a break
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Can at this point SoftBank Vision 1 fund chance to be even a modest success? A lot of failures at late stage. Most of VCs can afford many failures as they invest early and one home run can make the fund, though investing late at high valuat
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Doing good for climate is a valid business strategy, not a philantropy. Long-term investors should factor in their models that carbon heavy industries will be negatively hitted by regulations and taxes. Especially as climate change will get
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Aurora got even more premium over MySQL RDS: r5.large: Aurora got 20% premium over MySQL 1. Aurora: $0.29 / hour 2. MySQL: $0.24 / hour Though Aurora you don't need to manually provision disk space and can have higher perfor
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by jakozaur 7y ago
I wonder why they didn't launch i3 style instances. Would ARM give benefit in IO heavy workloads?
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Congratulations! Some key take aways: 1. Postpone investment in marketing for the first few years and focus on the product. No need to spend time on social media. 2. Bid on competitors brand names in Google Ads. 3. When you buy other SaaS,
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by jakozaur 7y ago
1. AWS got business advantage of buying 100+ services at once, without going through procurement, invoicing, GDPR Data Processing Agreements, on/off boarding, same support, good security and uptime, credibility of keeping backward comp
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by jakozaur 7y ago
SF Bay Area gets so expensive that even financial giants gets gentrified.
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Judicial, Execution and Lawmaker branches should be separate in $10Bln+ tech platforms play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Another case how current tech giants build huge platform with no oversight exploiting their monopoly power. This developer should be able to appeal Apple decision for nominal fee (e.g. $100). There should be independent committee that could
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Sumo Logic | Backend Engineer | Warsaw, Poland | Onsite, Visa We do grep and top on steroids in the cloud. Huge scale, exciting tech (AWS, Scala, distributed systems)... https://www.sumologic.com Frontend Engineer: https:&#x2F
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Another possibility. Go work somewhere else in Europe at USA company. Get transferred to USA on intercompany visa.
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Sumo Logic | Backend Engineer | Warsaw, Poland | Onsite, Visa We do grep and top on steroids in the cloud. Huge scale, exciting tech (AWS, Scala, distributed systems)... https://www.sumologic.com Frontend Engineer: https:/
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Steel can be produced using hydrogen. This plays extremely well with renewables and storing energy. Produce hydrogen from electricity when energy is cheap (sun + wind), don’t do that when its expensive.
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Majority of AI startups are starting with manual approach to generate training data set for future algorithms... Plus it is a faster way to validate demand for given business model.
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by jakozaur 7y ago
The We Company got inflated financial model. However, the mentioned metric dollars lost per customer is a vanity metric. It does not mean much. E.g. Wework earns several times more than Uber per customer. It seems there are more upfront cos
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Tech debt is inevitable and is good as long as you keep the level of debt reasonable, so maintanance cost doesn’t sunk too much of your dev time. More good examples: 1. Technology progress: Long time ago JQuery was the best for UI library.
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Unfortunately a lot of startups doesn’t shut down cleanly. Shutting down your own startup can feel for many founders like killing your own baby. However, the alternative such as a messy shutdown by leaving unpaid bills and unrealized contra
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Sumo Logic | Backend Engineer | Warsaw, Poland | Onsite, Visa We do grep and top on steroids in the cloud. Huge scale, exciting tech (AWS, Scala, distributed systems)... https://www.sumologic.com Frontend Engineer: https:/
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Has anybody here used Amazona Aurora serverless? Is it a viable alternative for big RDS instances?
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Sumo Logic | Backend Engineer | Warsaw, Poland | Onsite, Visa We do grep and top on steroids in the cloud. Huge scale, exciting tech (AWS, Scala, distributed systems)... https://www.sumologic.com Frontend Engineer: https:/
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by jakozaur 7y ago
I believe situation for long-term investing like retierement is getting worse. After all quantitive easing and low level of interests rate, the capital gains on safe assets are minimal accounting for inflation. As an aftermatch capital gain
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by jakozaur 7y ago
Lack of affordable housing near work is creating a lot of traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area. A lot of cities are adding more offices than housing. To eliminate congestion: Either you have to fix housing or add more toll to roads.
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by jakozaur 7y ago
There are some credible estimates that population on Earth will peak at 8.5-9 Bln. (2050-2070). See: https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Planet-Global-Population-Declin... Historically mid UN projections never turn out to be true.

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