jdsully

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by jdsully 4y ago
If you don’t have leverage when raising money the opportunities to lose control are endless.
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> Once the startup takes investor funding, it’s irrelevant what those inside the startup want. It really depends on the ownership structure, and that will depend on leverage at the time of fundraising. YC companies are unlikely to give
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Fees can be capped by offering a settlement. The court will not allow you to ignore a reasonable settlement and then charge fees for work done after. “Reasonable” is defined by a better or similar outcome to what you got in the end by conti
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Double digit inflation happened before. The debt to GDP is new though, it’s never been this high.
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Snap snaps up database developer KeyDB to make its infrastructure more snappy(techcrunch.com)
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They frequently do for more expensive repairs, e.g. a $3k transmission replacement. An oil change is $100, vs tens of thousands for the car, or less than 1% the cost. Batteries on the hand are over $100 to replace for a phone that was lik
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This is an industry the government is actively fighting. Short term there are profits but long term the outlook is bad and these projects need to pay off over decades to make sense. Take Keystone XL as an example. Billions were spent only f
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There is an implied warranty of merchantability. If a EULA wasn’t disclosed until post purchase and is required for operation then the product isn’t operable and they would have to return it or find a way to make it operable. Your average s
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Income from patent licensing is already taxed. We don’t tax assets for existing except for land. This would be a form of wealth tax. That said I don’t agree with software patents as a concept.
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I don’t know about virtuous but the clear difference is fishing and fixing cars produces useful byproducts: food & working transportation. Playing with the PC may do that but usually video games do not unless you are making them yoursel
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US mortgages are 30yr fixed. In Canada you cannot get a fixed rate for that long and 5 years is the norm - everyone here effectively has an ARM. This is why rates are almost always higher in the US.
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There are feature flags for formerly slow instructions that are now fast. E.g. rep mov https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-5....
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You’d already feel that now even without a seperate division. Ultimately the needs of developing ICE power trains and platforms are a lot different than those of electric. There isn’t much that can be shared except styling which Ford alread
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It comes down to margin. In a commodity business like Android phones or TVs the margins are razor thin. With a 10% profit margin you’d need to convince 10 other buyers just to break even on one fraudulent replacement. The real difference is
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Houses are frequently getting sold $300-400k above asking in the GTA, listers are intentionally low balling the asking price to strike bidding wars. Usually what happens is a seller sets the house up for viewings which are so packed you on
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I got it as a teenager from a cycling accident. It took me 20 years before I was finally able to say to myself "I'm fine with this". It did happen though, and for anyone else suffering it can get easier to deal with given t
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Prices didn’t come down because HDDs were becoming obsolete and on the way out. This is more akin to the DRAM price shocks that have occurred over and over since the 80s. Long term the price still trends down.
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The Canadian court subscribes to the living tree doctrine, so it doesn't really matter what his thoughts were at the time of signing.
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They stopped in 2014 and we didn’t die (although there was the taper tantrum a year prior).
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The average mortgage is held for 8 years so theoretically they’d just age out if the fed stopped buying more.
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He designed the Googleplex, that has to take some work.
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Both banks and credit unions are required to perform the stress test. The biggest source of fraud is likely loans from parents marked as gifts, but it doesn't change the borrowers have to show evidence they can handle 5% interest rate
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They are stress tested to up to 5.5% interest, so it will take huge moves to cause insolvency. This isn't like the US subprime issue, these borrowers can afford the higher rates.
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The real problem is you suddenly have a car in an unknown state. Is autopilot still on? Can I change gears, am I in park? Will it lose power? Fortunately not everything goes through the entertainment computer and the car was drivable enough
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by jdsully 5y ago
>A mainstream VLIW could've had it's place, and it's trivial to find parallelism in FFTs, SVDs, matrix multiplies, and so on. There are already DSPs for this purpose, but typical server workloads don't generally use t
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Tesla software is getting pretty bad. I had my car reboot while driving at speed on the highway; the turn signals and speedometer went out with it. Tesla told me it’s normal for it to “reboot occasionally during normal operation”. They didn
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Software seems to be removing features all the time. It’s too the point when I see that update notification I wonder what else will be taken from me. Tesla took away quick access to defrost in the middle of winter as the most recent example
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The harm is depriving the author of their moral rights, and the name recognition from their work. Depending on how popular the library becomes this could deprive the author of substantial business opportunities.
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The key take away is that apologizing and admitting fault doesn't absolve one of liability. There are a number of "amnesty" laws on the books where admitting fault can server to limit or reduce your sentence - especially wit
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This is a pretty good example of the Overton window moving. It used to be common for Presidents to divest direct control of their assets (e.g. Carter’s peanut farm). Trump never did that and it was a huge issue for many at the start of his

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