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by jusben1369 11y ago
Yes what was most telling to me was how many of his usual supporters were quiet or gently rebuffed him indirectly on Twitter.
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This was my biggest takeaway. Who does he have review these? No one told him how bad this was academically and optics wise? He needs to broaden the inner circle.
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Would you really go all electric if you didn't have access resolved at your residence? Seems like a headache you'd always be managing.
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I feel like the entire third party charger thing is an overstated red herring. Bolt just jumped us from 70 miles by default for non Tesla to 200 miles. Next jump in 3-5 years is 350 - 500? So once or twice a year you worry about needing to
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by jusben1369 11y ago
Somewhere, buried beneath all that sarcasm and hyperbole, I'm sure you were striving to make the age old "I don't like these asthetics and feel comfortable speaking on behalf of all humanity"
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Or they had too much pressure to grow faster/keep growing fast and so diluted their brand by adding in more mass produced products.
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by jusben1369 11y ago
"You still top out". Actually that's pretty unique to sw development vs other white collar roles and is not discussed enough when it comes to understanding higher levels of disillusion. SW developers are basically having thei
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by jusben1369 11y ago
Where seed = less than US $1 million raised? Then it would depend on how many of the founders are good developers. I would say 3, 2, 1% based on whether you're the 1, 2nd or 3rd (including the founders) FT developer/s. Salary shou
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by jusben1369 11y ago
Well we have to remember that when the stock market goes up 30% this year (or falls 30% this year) that's not inflation or deflation. That's a marketplace at work. Real estate is also an asset class that rises or falls. But those
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by jusben1369 11y ago
What real estate and currency have in common, both being asset classes, is that they're a store of value. Currency has other properties (medium of exchange, unit of account) that Real Estate does not. People aren't meaningfully tr
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To be fair only some economists thought QE would be inflationary. Many understood it would not. And why would you call real estate a currency and not an asset class? Most of your comments indicate you think it's a highly attractive a
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Generally if it's an engineering focused set of founders they're most likely to get sales wrong. And sales driven leadership tends to get engineering hiring wrong. To way over simplify, both sides think "Well if we 2x headcou
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I hope folks realize that's ok. Mixpanel made a conscious decision to start at $150 and understands that for certain people theirs no ROI at that price point. I mean Apple could sell a $300 iPhone but they'll leave that to Android
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I always kind of chuckle when people assume a salesperson tracked down their personal email vs the much more likely scenario that you used it during a trial signup and just forget. At my company a customer's assistant demanded to know
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by jusben1369 11y ago
The article says they mostly fired sales people.
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Good technology is a terrible company to inject into this conversation. They've been around for a decade or more and were always an also ran in their space. They hardly match the desired narrative that the NYTimes, or anyone else wants
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by jusben1369 11y ago
I didn't tackle the apparent contradiction because I think others here did a good job. But let me try then based on your follow up: 1) Your business, without a balance of funds, is an unacceptable risk and not worth them supporting 2)
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by jusben1369 11y ago
Canada too. But Brazil's landing is/will be dramatically worse than Aus/Canada.
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Sadly Brazil is little better than a middle eastern oil state. They rode a massive bull market driven by China's insatiable appetite for commodities. Rather than use that whirlwind to diversify and prepare for the day that slowed down
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There's very little thought put into a discussion on "why" PayPal froze those funds. PayPal says "based on what we've seen in the past there's a high probability that you'll collect a lot of money for an e
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by jusben1369 11y ago
Thank you for this. There's always this huge elephant in the room never addressed in these articles on sleep - particularly prior to the use of internal electrical lighting; the time of year. Your amount of sleep and how you sleep woul
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by jusben1369 11y ago
I went to a Christian Brother's High School in the 80's. 2 of the best, 4 of the best or God forbid 6 of the best. It was a tougher all boys school in the inner city. I think for the most part it kept us in line. My total for the
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by jusben1369 11y ago
To be fair I would say it was perhaps less being out of touch and more about being desperate to try to say anything for differentiation. But either way your point is the same. And for those that say "well I'd take a local driver o
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by jusben1369 11y ago
I think it's mostly a philosophical issue in terms of how much government/regulatory involvement you want, knowing that you don't have to be a strident libertarian to understand that we can all die death by a thousand lashes
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Yep fair point. In tech most are duopolies or oligopolies. iOS and Android, Google and Bing. FB and? Maybe Twitter. Maybe SnapChat one day.
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One very simple answer is VC money. They want you local and their talent network (of people for your growing startup) is local. Who knows how different Boston would be if Facebook stayed there? (Just one small example)
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The thing to me is Silicon Valley is the place in the US that still looks like that post WWII America. Large monopolies like Google, Apple and FB utilizing fantastic profits and paying amazing perks to employees. Everyone working in and on
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U.S. Justice Department probes data breach at Uber(reuters.com)
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It's great if they work together. But it's also rarely the case historically. Don't feel bad for the Fed. They actually have very real power to influence the economy _indirectly_ History will judge Ben Bernanke as preventing
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by jusben1369 11y ago
Your paragraph on Keynes is a very common misrepresentation of his policies. Keynes was very clear that he wanted the government to offset the private sector. So if the economy was strong he expected the government to reduce spending least

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