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by lefstathiou 3y ago
Potential Option 3: your perspective is more influenced by the prevailing tone / narrative that you're reading online than you realize. When Twitter was in positive light and Meta wasnt, you may have been more positive / neut
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Bezos-backed Convoy to lay off staff, close operations(seattletimes.com)
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Another fun anecdote about those times and MIT specifically. My brother was arguably the top student to come out of the Atlanta Public School System in 1996. This was a kid used to being the best in everything he did. He starts at MIT and t
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
My brother graduated from MIT 20 years ago and I recall one summer when I stayed there one of his fraternity brothers quipping “the fastest way to get a girl in Boston is to tell her you go to Harvard, and the fastest way to lose her is to
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
That’s not how the calculus works actually. Today a corporate bully can safely count on you being a rational actor (and not spend $1mm to win $400k) and push the envelop of competition and appropriation of data and trade secrets with limite
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
Very simple solution: the US should implement prevailing parties clause (prevailing party wins legal fees by default in a lawsuit) as law of the land by default. We had a guy in Australia trying to use our trademark, in the US they would ca
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
If I had a magic wand: 1- One six-year term on the presidency. Enough time to get stuff done and see the results, but then you're out. The current structure gives the American public 1-2 years of productivity, then they go into campaig
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
Of course it will. And don’t think the politicians don’t already know this. It’s all part of the plan. Next on the ballot is universal basic income for all who lost their jobs. Voters for life.
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
Sorry I typed this on my commute so I didnt flush it out. What I believe (and didnt say) is that data ownership and privacy controls are important issues to individuals, but are not meaningful drivers of ongoing performance and market contr
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Random opinion here: I don't think privacy safeguards will have material impact on big tech and on the whole. They own the platforms we engage on and can thus channel engagement with or without privacy guards in place. I think the only
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
The link you provided is from April. When I click on the article, then click on the cited Twitter stats “visits to Twitter.com”, then scroll to “Total visits in last 3 months” (for Twitter of course), the report appears to indicate that tra
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
I think decoupling is the right word. These south East Asian countries were unindustrialized nations before the hundreds of billions of foreign direct investment and hundreds of billions of intellectual property that transferred from the We
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
I won't opine on how to manage usage of of tech as the comments already handle that well. One thing I'd like to respectfully point out to our community, which I personally think is going to snowball into a full blown health crisis
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
My two cents based on how we use Salesforce 1- being able to bcc or better yet have a gmail extension to log emails sent to prospects and clients is a foundational requirement for us. Be sure to have that asap. Outside of being a CRM, our S
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
Our society (and every parent I know) has established that kids are highly impressionable. That’s why so many laws are written to moderate advertising (eg not show a camel smoking a cigarette), moderate content (tv and movie ratings) etc. I
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
That’s what I got wrong. You outgrow a WeWork at about 8-10 people which is where customers are most stable. I assumed they could adapt but the economics aren’t there.
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In full transparency I didn’t do much analysis. At $5 it was trading at 1-2x revenue growing at 20% in a horrible market with a great operator. The issue is too maturities and running out of cash. Thank you for the note on the link, updated
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
Believe me… the thought has crossed my mind!
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
I’ve ridden this stock down almost all the way (came in at $5 then 2.50 then again at $0.50). I am a pretty bad investor in that my top criteria is to buy stocks that produce a good or service I love and then stick with them a long time. As
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by lefstathiou 3y ago
Socialize losses + Medicare, Medicaid, ERC, unemployment, education, subsidize food, housing, solar, recycling etc etc. System is working out nicely actually.
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
So what do you believe is the solution that prevents hard drugs from running “unchecked” while not fostering a black market? “Education” about how bad drugs are for you?
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
Many moons ago there used to be an HN for finance that was a clone of HN but with a green theme. I believe it was called Mogul something. All the articles had some connection to finance and I never saw investment advice, just analysis. It a
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
It’s a losing proposition eventually even for the ones that don’t. They are competing against significantly more people with significantly greater resources and access. It’s like those hackers that held up the energy company a few years ago
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
It absolutely is. A few weeks ago I decided to create what are now dozens of rules to manually filter out spam and it has been extremely effective for me (20+ a day we’re hitting my work inbox). My best filters target the “opt out / un
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
Manager perspective: I think it should be explicit. When you use “unlimited” you invite fear in some (of overusing their PTO) and abuse in others. Ultimately I prefer employees feel 100% confident and safe about using PTO. We give a number
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
The data makes sense to me but not the interpretation. My 2.5yo son loves watching Lego assembly videos on Youtube during his TV time, which is of course tied to my account, which therefore means I contribute to his middle aged male statist
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
Michael Kramer, who reads many of his books on audible, is incredible. I enjoyed listening to several more than reading them because of him.
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
What seems an obviously right course of action to you is not to others and it comes down to value systems. Only time will tell the outcome. My colleagues wife’s company was acquired by a huge media company and she and dozens of her colleagu
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
1.5 billions hogs are killed a year to feed the human race according to the Google, a huge percentage of which I’m sure ends up as waste (uneaten and unsold). This seems like a noble pursuit by comparison. Society at large is comfortable wi
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by lefstathiou 4y ago
Biology doesn’t.

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