manmanic

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by manmanic 2y ago
Been using Hetzner Cloud for 18 months now, for various servers. Has proven incredibly reliable. Together with a very clear and straightforward management panel and unbeatable (AFAIK) performance/pricing, I haven't found a downsid
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by manmanic 4y ago
After many years of using Hetzner dedicated servers, I recently started using their US cloud for a project. So far, extremely happy, and it's very cost effective. Even cheaper than Digital Ocean (which I also use extensively).
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by manmanic 5y ago
This is almost cool, unfortunately the product itself (a network of bots to allow websites to be scraped when they obviously don't want to be) seems a little shifty. For example, put these three exhibits together: Exhibit 1: The Scra
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by manmanic 5y ago
You’ve got to really find your niche. I make around $1.5M profit per year from an independent website that takes an hour of two of work per week, me only. It’s been running for 15 years. The whole thing was a freaky case of perfect product
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by manmanic 8y ago
Am I the only one who thinks they want to push the market into applying strategies that they can then trade against? This is classic Wall Street, persuading the masses to take the wrong side of bets.
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by manmanic 8y ago
I'm sorry but this does not always apply in the real world. Someone getting everyone onto a blockchain is a one-time project, perhaps with an annual maintenance fee. Running an industry organization is an order of magnitude (or two) mo
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by manmanic 8y ago
There are a variety of formal consensus algorithms uses for enterprise blockchains, but they are all some variant of voting schemes based on validator signatures. Nothing like proof-of-work is needed to ensure that one bad actor, or a small
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by manmanic 8y ago
Yes, that's true. But in some cases an industry mutual doesn't exist, and the regulator doesn't want to manage the database. Then what? It can be cheaper and easier to deploy a blockchain than to build the necessary organizat
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by manmanic 8y ago
I've been working on DLT / enterprise blockchain technologies since 2014 and have insight into hundreds of projects, a small number of which made it to live production. Here is the bottom line: yes, it's mostly hype, but this
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by manmanic 14y ago
It's a nice idea in theory, but the problem is that only one side has actual control/ownership of the domain at any one time. If the startup owner gets control, they can decide to stop paying, and the original domain owner has to sue for th
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by manmanic 15y ago
I've seen the best results with Tribal Fusion and Casale Media. Unless you're in a high-premium field, don't expect more than $2 EPM for a 300x250 (or equivalent area) spot.
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by manmanic 16y ago
2=x^x^x^x... cannot be solved, since x^x^x^x... will only converge to 0 (if x=0) or 1 (0<x<=1) or -1 (x=-1), ignoring complex numbers. So the original equation is false.
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by manmanic 16y ago
I think about this all the time. I didn't make "FU money" from an exit, but rather from the ongoing success of a couple of online businesses, which have been earning me far more than I know how to spend. When this started happening, my init
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by manmanic 16y ago
7.8% is incredible. Based on my experience, I think 1-2% is benchmark. But really it depends on how widely your service is known, and to what extent it appeals to the mass market. Make either of those variables higher, and you'll get a ton
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by manmanic 17y ago
You don't need to move to Australia. I opened an Australian bank account precisely for this purpose. All I had to do was travel to their branch in London to identify myself. Apart from high interest rates, there are other advantages to AUD:
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by manmanic 17y ago
Spend at least $50k of that visiting the Valley regularly, attending conferences, and building up a network of contacts. Otherwise you'll get crappy dealflow and almost definitely lose it all (if you decide to invest at all).
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by manmanic 18y ago
If it was my main life project, and the number of users signing up between each groin kick was increasing exponentially, my entrepreneurial fire would keep me going. But when the ratio between groin kicks and sign ups started going in the w
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by manmanic 18y ago
It's impossible to know the answer, since it's hidden somewhere deep inside Mike's subconscious. My intuition says that he'd be more willing to put up with something like that if his company was still growing rapidly.
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by manmanic 18y ago
Disgusting as it clearly is, I feel the spitting incident is a bit of a red herring. If this had happened 2 years ago during the rapid growth in Web 2.0 investment, I think Mike would have soldiered on. Instead, he has a nasty experience wh
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by manmanic 18y ago
The only newspaper I would miss is The Economist - global, comprehensive, opinionated (for good or bad), analysis in depth. But I won't have to miss it, since The Economist is doing very well, probably for precisely the same reasons that so
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by manmanic 18y ago
My answer seems to differ from most people here. I do all sales and support once per day, first thing in the morning, getting the mailboxes to completely empty. I then glance at the mailboxes a few more times during the day, but don't send
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by manmanic 18y ago
Energy is the big challenge of our generation, not computer technology. Climate change is part of it, but it's not the main issue. At some time during the next few decades we're going to hit crunch point in terms of oil and gas reserves. No
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by manmanic 18y ago
I started about 12 years ago writing shareware apps for the Mac, towards the end of high school. It was easier then since there was much less competition, so I think you'd have to pick your niche pretty carefully now. My business (actually
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by manmanic 18y ago
I can vouch for the freemium approach. Your free service is there to create word-of-web and word-of-mouth growth. You may even want to hold off on the premium version for a year or so. There's some conflict between being non-commercial and
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by manmanic 18y ago
I've think there are a couple of hidden factors which help explain the correlation between frugality and startup success - economic intuition, and the sense of entitlement. Many startup founders don't have good economic intuition, and this
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by manmanic 18y ago
I did a PhD while continuing to pursue an entrepreneurial career. While it worked out well in the end, I borderline regret it. I found academia incredibly frustrating. If you're used to Internet time, the pace will drive you insane. You sub
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by manmanic 18y ago
From an economic perspective, you want somewhere with a high standard of living (to support the necessary infrastructure), but a low cost of living (the $ you make over the Internet are disconnected from the local economy.) On this basis th
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by manmanic 18y ago
Here are 3 ways I've identified highly profitable ideas: a) Having a problem that needs solving. It's OK if it's a focused need, so long as you're not addressing a market which is too small. The world of people who research online is big
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