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by jppope 1y ago
There was a reasonable argument floating around that Bezos decided to resign because they had burned both their blue collar AND white collar labor pools in the markets they were in- meaning people wouldn't work for them even at higher
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by jppope 1y ago
I don't think its fair to dismiss a lot of anecdotal evidence, much of human experience is based off of it, and just being anecdotal doesn't make it incorrect. For those of us using aws for the last decade, there have been a handf
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by jppope 1y ago
Ironically for most companies its cheaper to just say if AWS goes down half of the internet goes down so people will understand
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I would love to know the net result to their financials for this move. I have no doubt they were able to improve their performance. I'm just wondering if the juice was worth the squeeze, especially if they could have been building othe
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by jppope 1y ago
So my take is actually the opposite from the callout here- I think vaporware/demos being sold as real products are hurtful to actual technology being developed. When someone creates a vaporware product with well developed marketing tha
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by jppope 1y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong here but humanoid consumer robots are basically smoke and mirrors right now because the unit economics are so bad. Even the baxter robot was targeting small business because the lowest price point you could get
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by jppope 1y ago
I wrote an article about this in 2022 titled "This is not Normal": https://jonpauluritis.com/articles/recentfinancialhistory/ feels pretty relevant again...
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by jppope 1y ago
> "France has lots of pain coming." username is "incomingpain" and french enough to make political commentary? how apropos
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by jppope 1y ago
Here are some of my thoughts on strategy vs tactics: https://jonpauluritis.com/articles/books-strategy-tactics/
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wow. thats mind bending right there... I'd love to see it with some additional dimensions to it. even a 3D graph would be super interesting no doubt
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Off the top of my head, the R&D tax code changes...
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the tax code was recently adjusted. All foreign R&D needs to be depreciated over 15 years, you can depreciate immediately for US based R&D.
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by jppope 1y ago
this news is tied with the tax code corrections... All R&D work in a foreign country is to be depreciated over 15 years, it can immediately be depreciated for an American worker.
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by jppope 1y ago
Its pretty easy to understand actually, and all of metropolitan California is the same way- A normal, dual income, middle class working family has an income of ~$250K-$500K (Doctor + teacher, Lawyer and a Doctor, Business exec and Accountan
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by jppope 1y ago
I totally feel for your group in this situation, and more than anything I think the timeline is pretty rough. To address the rest of the comments in the thread though... most pricing structures are to incentivize growth or to maximize profi
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by jppope 1y ago
Sounds like its trying to achieve something similar to what ULID is going for: https://github.com/ulid/spec timestamp + readability
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by jppope 1y ago
Awesome work! Really nicely built funnel. Great to hear people doing it the right way.
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this means finding a way to directly reach out to the hiring manager. like sending an email, asking a colleague for an introduction, sending a linkedin message, etc
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by jppope 1y ago
> The process is so broken right now that we're 100% back to nepotism Just want to comment on this, because I think think favoring unknown candidates is a mistake we make too often, and in fact the "normal" process is a di
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by jppope 1y ago
I think some of the crypto companies tried to get cute and leapfrog 3.0 going straight to 4.0, so that would put us at either 5.0, 4.0, 3.1, 2.2, or 2.1 depending on how you feel about the crypto space, and which groups you were validating
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by jppope 1y ago
I haven't been on twitter (or as the kids are calling it "X" in a while), the thing that drove me off was the algorithm jamming me with engagement trash, when I was trying to do "gardening" and have my feed made up
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by jppope 1y ago
As I understand it, much of the art market is based around the ability to purchase a "valuable" piece of art on the private markets let it appreciate then "donate" it to a museum or non-profit for a lucrative tax write o
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by jppope 1y ago
This is a weird take on an incredibly useful paradigm (serverless). One the one side, there are obviously precautions that all of these users could have taken to avoid these charges on the other hand its totally common to spin up a thing an
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by jppope 1y ago
this is really the AWS business model - you can call it the "planet fitness" model if you prefer. Really easy to sign up and spend money, hard to conveniently stop paying the money.
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by jppope 1y ago
I prefer cash, not for the reasons mentioned. First, cash makes me really think about what I'm buying. It doesn't poke you the same way when you tap a card... which is obviously one of the main reasons they want you do use cards.
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by jppope 1y ago
Size is also a disadvantage in a market, growing by 2% when you are a $1M company is easy, growing by 2% when you are a $100B company is hard. Corporate managers have an embedded growth obligation to maintain both their position and the com
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You are making a joke but reasonably speaking there are a ton of software companies where they kept reinvesting where they should have taken out profit, especially when they are peaking.
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that can probably help indicate where we are in the hype cycle
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I've said this a lot but I'm going to say it again AGI has no technical definition. One day Sam Altman, Elon Musk, or some other business guy trying to meet their obligation for next quarter will declare they have built AGI and th
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by jppope 1y ago
Seems to be similar to my experience. I used to go to track and follow interesting individuals - scientists, engineers, artists... then it all got washed away with flamebait. Bluesky doesn't feel like its there yet, but I'm hopefu

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