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by lossolo 3y ago
> Louis Vuitton aside, it is well understood that even wildly successful businesses haemorrhage money for the first 5-10 years before reaching profitability. What? You mean VC backed businesses only? So like 0.0...1% of all businesses? a
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by lossolo 3y ago
Is it practical? Or it's the next graphene ?
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by lossolo 3y ago
> So, 12%. Got it. It's 50% more compared to that number. And for last 5 years it was only going up, it's not one successful year. So it's not 12%. Got it ? I don't know of anyone talking about margins and talking ab
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by lossolo 3y ago
> Luckily Louis Vuitton is a publicly traded company, so we can see that its average profit margin is actually only 12%. It's not 12%, it's 18% as a whole company. 12% is 20 year average. Louis Vuitton owns many companies, I&#x
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by lossolo 3y ago
Or not wanting to pay more to your workers because of greed? I mean Louis Vuitton bag costs to produce probably 5-10% of the price that customer pays.
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by lossolo 3y ago
> opportunity to have a real impact on the world, helping real people, and seeing the direct results of my labor What do you do for a living?
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by lossolo 3y ago
Kids that have more math lessons, in most cases, will be better at math than the ones that don't. There are limited amount of jobs, students per class in college etc so they compete with each other. If you are living in the same system
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by lossolo 3y ago
I also played WoW and learned a lot. I was leading a guild and was a raid leader in a somewhat semi-competitive environment (we were competing with other guilds on our server for first kills). If you want to learn how to be a team leader in
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by lossolo 3y ago
Please don't. If now suddenly everyone would use TOR then we would get something a lot worse than Google's Web Environment Integrity, let me explain why. As someone being on the other side of things (running different services for
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by lossolo 3y ago
It will help a lot of services like Cloudflare, basically stopping most of spamming/ddos on sites behind it. Big cloud vendors will probably implement similar solutions in which you will be able to only allow attested traffic to your s
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by lossolo 3y ago
Are you a junior developer or support IT tech? I would agree that for these kind of jobs market is probably oversaturated. But for real senior software engineers (by real i mean not someone that worked on some easy CRUD app for 10 years str
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by lossolo 3y ago
> Considering that literally hundreds of thousands of qualified people have been laid off this year alone, many of them devs, and plenty of anecdotes on this and other tech forums/chat groups about how the job market has shifted to
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by lossolo 3y ago
> You don't need a double-blind placebo study to observe the shifting market. Is your data based on just a few of your friends? How is that considered a "shifting market"? My friends and I do not experience what you are ar
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by lossolo 3y ago
> so the people whose opinions actually matter, the people responsible for the health of that company, have already been convinced Are you new here? It's a VC company with multiple rounds of funding; they burn money like a locomotiv
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by lossolo 3y ago
Their technical justification is so weak that I think it was more like, 'We are bored, look at this new shiny toy called Rust. Let's think about reasons why we need to use it (to justify using it) so we can have some fun'.
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by lossolo 3y ago
Well, you need to justify your new cost to the rest of the company/other people. Sometimes, you can't do it technically because you just want that shiny new toy so much that you write whatever you think would justify that. I saw t
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by lossolo 3y ago
Countries like Singapore would probably have big problem with that, and a lot of African countries.
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by lossolo 3y ago
> Yes, that one is terrible compared to the alternatives No, that's exactly opposite of what I meant when I described what I'm working on, that all of the alternatives that you both with OP described are terrible in that specif
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by lossolo 3y ago
Sure it can, but all design patterns have their use cases. Generalizing and saying that one is just "terrible" (which your previous comment implied), and people "should learn" is just untrue and an ignorant take. Sometim
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by lossolo 3y ago
And then people are saying that their microservice is high performance because it's handling 10 000 req/s per 72 core node... which is ok but rather per core (depending on the amount and type of logic being processed), not node. I
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by lossolo 3y ago
You can also travel on a bike from NY to LA.
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by lossolo 3y ago
Video games basically, you only render what's user is looking at.
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by lossolo 3y ago
It's all about amount of available VC money to burn and a culture of risk taking, which we both lack in EU, regulation has nothing to do with that.
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by lossolo 4y ago
We arrived at the top of the tree in our journey to the moon.
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Substack’s CEO says Musk’s claims are false(twitter.com)
53 points by lossolo 4y ago|16 comments
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by lossolo 4y ago
In the crypto space currently, there are projects that excel in terms of technological merits, making them far superior to their competition. However, the competition often has better marketing and generates more hype and win the market.
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by lossolo 4y ago
20 years ago, when you finished your school day, week, or semester, you could go home, on vacation, etc., and not have any contact with your schoolmates unless you wanted to. Nowadays, you see them and they can interact with you or talk abo
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by lossolo 4y ago
> Virtually all software developers are building minor variations on thing that have been built hundreds if time before. Speak for yourself. I build distributed systems and unique solutions that you can't find anywhere open source,
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by lossolo 4y ago
> First SVB was bailed out by FDIC funds which all banks pay into. And from where this money is coming from you think? From you and me and everyone else because costs of doing business are transferred to clients, so to the whole society
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by lossolo 4y ago
I specifically used "relevant interactions" to rule out "modelling just a single cell's interactions with its environments" but who knows how deep you need to go to have an accurate model. > we're studying a

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