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A $40M ski resort designed to be a utopia for the tech elite, skidded downhill(fortune.com)
2 points by jmacd 3y ago|0 comments
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Supabase Wrappers(github.com)
6 points by jmacd 3y ago|0 comments
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Pricing Engine vs. Billing Engine(blog.tier.run)
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by jmacd 3y ago
There is a contagion component here. A lot of mid size and larger VC funds raised funds specifically to invest in smaller VC funds. While poor performance of these smaller funds won't affect the return profile of their primary funds, i
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Economically Benevolent Dictators: Lessons for Developing Democracies(scholarship.law.columbia.edu)
3 points by jmacd 3y ago|1 comments
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Homicide rate in El Salvador 2014-2022(statista.com)
5 points by jmacd 3y ago|2 comments
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by jmacd 3y ago
I guess I left it that way because I was relating how it felt at the time. I mostly thought he was just... wrong. In retrospect it's interesting that his intuition was completely different than mine (and a lot of ours here).
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by jmacd 3y ago
I have a family member who is a police officer (investigator) in another country. I was telling them about this killing and how crazy things seemed in San Francisco during my last visit. His first and only response was "well, how do yo
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Can Facebook Keep Up? Missing the Content Graph and Meta's Race to Stay Relevant(thestrong.substack.com)
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by jmacd 3y ago
Negative social interactions can be pretty damaging to people. While I cannot relate to the idea of choosing to have a relationship with a robot, I can see why a lot of people would choose to opt out of the social sphere. All the abuse it h
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by jmacd 3y ago
Personally, I like that future. I just don't see any evidence that social graphs are becoming more relevant or even that they exist for many people onboarding on to the internet/apps for the first time. You can use Instagram, TikT
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by jmacd 3y ago
I think that's fair, but it's not like it's actually a 2-way relationship. It's just some approximation of one. One that is easier to consume and requires less commitment. It all feels like the groundwork for "AI lo
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by jmacd 3y ago
In a comment I made about 18 months ago, I noted that Facebook's insufficient investment in anything useful would hold them back. The true cost of the Metaverse isn't solely the capital needed for development; it's also the o
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Graphene Coating for Cargo Ships(grapheneenterprise.ca)
1 points by jmacd 3y ago|0 comments
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Sailcargo(sailcargo.inc)
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Leaked Documents Reveal Depth of US Spy Efforts and Russia’s Military Struggles(nytimes.com)
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Disney maneuvered to save its Florida kingdom(cnn.com)
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by jmacd 4y ago
What on earth are you doing that has you invoicing a single 1.5m invoice?
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Duke of Westminster's Case(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by jmacd 4y ago|0 comments
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by jmacd 4y ago
I was curious about the tenancy-in-common issue. This article [1] provides a nice overview. 1: https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2023/03/28/the-trouble-with...
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Nat.dev OpenPlayground(nat.dev)
4 points by jmacd 4y ago|1 comments
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by jmacd 4y ago
Did they lose, or did they just have a lot of fun coming up with ways to mess with people?
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by jmacd 4y ago
The techno optimist in me sees this as so cute and quaint. In the future all of these messages may very well be generated based on rules and training provided by the organization itself. Hand crafting communication will fall in to the &quot
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by jmacd 4y ago
I was in a similar position to OP. I'll comment on >You could argue that if you're in that situation you should be relying on existing networks to propel you into your next thing That was very much the case for me. My network i
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by jmacd 4y ago
Hey, thanks for sharing the bootstrapper link. I'll check it out. If you are interested in offering plans for any segment or channel, as well as custom pricing configurations for larger accounts, then I think could be useful for you. M
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by jmacd 4y ago
I've been so frustrated looking at the commercial options in this space. The one I like the most (customer.io) has gone completely "Call Us". For some reason I just balk at and freeze up. I never end up filling out those form
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It's likely Adyen surpassed Stripe in total payments volume in 2022(twitter.com)
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GitHub Copilot CLI(twitter.com)
1 points by jmacd 4y ago|0 comments
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by jmacd 4y ago
Exciting to see the progress of Lago and the attention being given to the challenges in the SaaS billing world. We're also working in the billing space with a complementary tool, Tier ( https://github.com/tierrun/ti
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by jmacd 4y ago
I'd love your feedback on https://priceops.org We recently open sourced Tier http://github.com/tierrun/tier which combines metering, entitlements, feature flags and a client side SDK to simplify things

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