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by jasode 5y ago
>I think you mean Opportunity cost? No, I'd say the gp is talking more about "hidden TCO" (Total Cost of Ownership). Opportunity Cost is about finite time which forces the choice of one action to come at the expense of o
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by jasode 5y ago
>It's funny how the author frames this post in a very economic way. [...] over-economic thinking. He's not framing it in an economic way. It's just that the words "pay/paid" are very common conversation
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by jasode 5y ago
>Why? His comment included the fact the he took out loans with a "personal guarantee" . When you're a small business starting out with no assets (like factories, equipment, etc) -- which means no collateral, or no busin
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by jasode 5y ago
>, it's really important that the tech community define "bootstrapping" as [...] With TinySeed's round at "$120k for the first founder, $60k for the second, and $40k for the third" ( https://tinys
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by jasode 5y ago
>I guess we can debate the existence of the “True Bootstrapper”, but that’s not a very interesting conversation. I'm a language descriptivist not prescriptivist so I don't care to debate it but just pointing out that the foun
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by jasode 5y ago
>But to me, bootstrapping VS "VC road" is much more nuanced than this. I went to the "TinySeed.com" website landing page and I do see that they prominently advertise "The First Accelerator Designed for SaaS
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by jasode 5y ago
>It is not free with Prime, just $2 cheaper There's a free tier Amazon Music of 2 million songs included with Prime membership. That's the free music streaming my friend was using for 5+ years. She then upgraded to Amazon M
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by jasode 5y ago
>You could make a feature-slim browser, but it would never reach wide adoption, because non-technical people would still need to open one of the big ones to do their online banking, or make video calls, or whatever. A prime example of
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by jasode 5y ago
The blog post misunderstand that many people that do that are simply using "hello" as a "ping" to see if someone's really there for immediate synchronous communication . They want to type just 1 word first ... and
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by jasode 5y ago
I understand your larger point but to be fair to gp you're responding to, he was scoping the word "control" to Central Bank since he actually wrote: >and by _state control_ I mean something along the lines of a centra
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by jasode 5y ago
>The common cases for using youtube-dl, as I understand, is for archival (mostly non-music), watching videos content Even though videos are the main content, Youtube is also the #1 website in the world for streaming music : https:&#x
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by jasode 5y ago
I came across this recent youtube comment[1] on why older batteries didn't leak. I don't know if it's correct but sharing it anyway: >ceptimus 2 weeks ago (edited) >> Old alkaline batteries contained mercury, whic
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by jasode 5y ago
>It's widely known there's child porn on the bitcoin blockchain, Are there actual bytes of child porn embedded in Bitcoin blockchain or only encrypted-or-obfuscated urls of possible websites that lead to child porn? Exampl
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by jasode 5y ago
The "average HN user" doesn't bother me because the adjective "average" isn't describing rigorous mathematics. It's just a rhetorical phrase. What people are trying to roughly communicate is something
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by jasode 5y ago
I re-read the author's essay multiple times and I finally realized his proposal rests on a (probably incorrect) assumption of corporate motives and rationale. He believes the only reason companies avoid AGPL is the extra paperwork bu
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by jasode 5y ago
I have doubts this proposed Open Source Licensing Collectives idea would actually lead to FOSS programmers receiving significantly more income. This proposal shares a similar limitation with other licensing ideas that try to shift the mon
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by jasode 5y ago
>NFTs and crypto currencies are a part of what people think the Web 3.0 will be, but they are definitely not synonyms. The author, however, seem to have did that. Regardless of the original or intended definitions of "Web3",
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by jasode 5y ago
Excerpt of email reply from Nathan Myhrvold is mostly correct: >The new Java applications are NOT credible threats to traditional PC software any time soon. [...] Cool new technology always expands rapidly into NEW ares (where there is
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by jasode 5y ago
>Considering that BS, stretching of capabilities, and so on are commonplace in the startup world, the point isn't whether Holmes crossed the line (she did), but rather, how exactly that line is repositioned by this precedent. I re
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by jasode 5y ago
>why does someone create work for themself Your question only looks like a puzzle or paradox because the word "work" is overloaded with many meanings and it includes simultaneous connotations of negative "unpleasant chor
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by jasode 5y ago
>All I get on this page is a form to sign the manifesto. The actual manifesto is…what? At the top of the page is a black box with white text that has the following pseudo-math propositions: web3 = decentralisation + blockchain + NF
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by jasode 5y ago
>_I_ see a leaf in the foreground, You keep repeating "I". Again, the emphasis on "I" in your sentence is not relevant to the commenter right above you perceiving something else: "The blurry plus the tiny tw
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by jasode 5y ago
> and connected them realistically… Well, that's the crux of the issue that you don't seem to see. For many observers, it does not look realistic . The unnaturalness of the pixels is what makes it plausible for Apple soft
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by jasode 5y ago
>but that couldn't more clearly be a leaf connected to a branch Yes, the leaf itself is "clear" but what threw people off was the blurry and dark halo surrounding that leaf which looks like manipulation artifacts. When
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by jasode 5y ago
>If the two involved parties would have known of each other [...], I guess Windows could have used UTF-8 right from the start. Probably not. The author of this thread's article has incorrect history about UTF-8 being widely accep
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by jasode 5y ago
>There are a few of these that don’t really feel like pivots to me. Because no authority dictates the meaning of "pivot", it looks like the concept diverged and became wider: - "pivot" as switching from a unprofita
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by jasode 5y ago
>reframe the question to "why do the founders retain so much equity?" The founders can only retain as much equity as the marketplace allows. Each side has a threshold to do a business transaction. >Why dont seed fund dem
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by jasode 5y ago
>Is there any other example like this where a failed company manages to leave us with something useful while its immense costs were just … evaporated? Blender's original investors' capital not totally evaporated but the $100k
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by jasode 5y ago
>, but allowing logic to be driven by the tables. Instead of config files, you update the table. Changes to the processing flow? Update the table, [...] I didn't miss that angle and I think it's actually a minor part of his t
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by jasode 5y ago
I remember reading this essay when it first came out. To try and reword it using modern terms: The author wishes that programming languages had database persistence capabilities as 1st-class built-in syntax instead of cumbersome bolted-o

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