marcinzm

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by marcinzm 3y ago
I think the issue is a lot of people think "I have an idea and all I need is money" versus "I have these skills and constraints what is an idea I can make work with them."
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by marcinzm 3y ago
There's a massive number of small businesses in the US owned by immigrants that came to the US with fairly little. It's fair to say you prefer a regular job or VC money to the hell those immigrants went through but that is differe
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>How can people ... adult, not in their early 20s etc ... afford to quit their job, and still feed themselves and family and pay mortgage ... to go off for months to a year to build a product to bootstrap something like that? Work on it
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Unions simply existing don't magically make thing amazing for every employee and the US government doesn't actually care about people any more than corporations do.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>What about upkeep? Sure, installing PopOS is pretty easy if you follow the tutorial, but what happens if you try to install Steam one day and it breaks your desktop environment? Huh? I have no idea what you're talking about here. &
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>The hell? But people seem to think that Home Assistant is good. (Something about subscription fees and invasive apps and forced obsolescence?) So you search for “how to get a Home Assistant”. This reveals a recursive landscape of terror
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>different deployments Which can be the difference between 99.99% availability and 99% availability with data corruption issues. Not saying that's the case here but one should not downplay the difference deployments can make.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
My college textbook on AI from 20 years back considered a large enough set of if-else statements (ie: an expert system) as rudimentary AI. Now we'd call it a bunch of hard coded if-else statements but 40 years ago it was state of the
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by marcinzm 3y ago
So true, if they were real scientists then they'd never publish negative results and only pass them along in their network to most efficiently gate keep the field!
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Let's say someone asks you a question and you come up with two potential answers. You respond with the one that you think is more likely to be correct. They say you're wrong. You give them the second answer which you thought was l
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by marcinzm 3y ago
"Self correct even once" since the statement is they cannot, period, versus they cannot consistently.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
You’re moving the goal post from not knowing auctions to not knowing Google. Will the next question be if I made the decision at Google for this approach when they were competing with Overture?
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by marcinzm 3y ago
I’ve been in the field for 20 years and I know the difference between what companies do and what theoretical papers say they do. As the other person said, bids repeat across multiple auctions on the same keyword and even in a generalized se
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>There's an elaborate economic rationale for second-price auctions, including that they avoid "winner's remorse." Leave it to the late-stage "improvers" to say, "hey, we can capture some of that gap bet
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by marcinzm 3y ago
So what should they have done? Continued running the company until the day they died? Then what? Converted it to a non-profit/co-op/etc. and effectively donated 90% of their net worth and tens of millions of dollars (a tall order
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Being a founder and being the CEO of medium/large company (or even the head of the board) are very different jobs and skill sets. As we've seen with Flexport as the owner you can't simply hire on a CEO and focus on other thin
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Bandcamp's owners chose to sell despite the company being healthy financially.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> “Based on its current financials, Bandcamp requires some adjustments to ensure a sustainable and healthy profit margin to cover the cost of being bought by its new owner.,”
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by marcinzm 3y ago
They do now but not when they first reached those speeds.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
But the overall rate across all cities is not 20% but much lower. So the title is inaccurate even if it’s true in select cities.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
In the US you can be sued for anything by anyone so it's a question of degrees of risk rather than absolutes.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Sure which is why saying it's absolutely a violation isn't a correct interpretation. So is saying it's absolutely not a violation. Even if the supreme court rules on the issue it's not absolutely anything because that ru
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Sure if you utterly ignore all of the fair use parts of US copyright law.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Long-term value that's hard to define doesn't translate well to stock price especially when any investment also helps competitors who aren't investing anything into the project.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>If RF got outside the charger and into the USB cable, it's very badly designed Wouldn't this then be a problem with whatever car charger he is using and not with the apple device plugged into that charger?
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>Who reads this stuff? Self assured coastal folks who are looking to justify their hatred of rural Americans? This piece wasn’t written to educate or inform, just further stoke derision. If you want to minimize stoking derision look inwa
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>How often do you searched something and the first result happens to be the thing you are looking for? Searched where? Every search powered by a large tech company has almost certainly been using vector search for years. Then combined th
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>not because it doesn't bring in the so called value It doesn't bring in so called value versus the investment assuming actual final costs of building such a system. Except the north east however the cost of buying land to buil
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by marcinzm 3y ago
He literally owns half the very much not public company.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
You think I'm defending him. I'm not. He could take out a loan against his $5+ billion ownership stake to help keep 100+ employees on. He's not. He's prioritizing the future growth and value of the company despite having

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