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by marcinzm 3y ago
I don't think you understand what a business is. Google pays Firefox a lot of money to be the default search which means there is a lot of money in browsers. Google Search conceptually pays Google Chrome to be the default Search engine
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Even modern RNA and viruses can last for days which is frankly a lot of time. A quick Google indicates you can probably get weeks out of some RNA molecules in reasonable environments.
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>You do know that organic chemistry will quickly degrade right? I'm not sure if I would count days (or possibly weeks) as quick.
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>Note: time works against chemical processes since the organic chemical compounds decay, keep that in mind when creating a hypothesis. The question is how quickly do they decay in a sterile environment. A virus which has no active mechan
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In 2020 Twitter had one negative quarter because they performed a $1+b tax write off and the pandemic just started. In other words it's purely a paper loss. And in 2021 I believe they got fined by some government for something.
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>opposed to censorship He's not or rather he's in favor of being able to say anything he wants and shutting up anyone who says what he doesn't like (such as his jet's location or anything he views as woke).
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>financially struggling prior to Elon It wasn't. It's been profitable every quarter except 2 since late 2017. Musk chose to load Twitter with massive debt when he bought it which is why it's now financially struggling afte
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Bribery is illegal in many countries including specifically the bribing of foreign public officials including in Croatia.
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There being no immediate repercussions doesn't mean there aren't going to be any long term when you basically give governments a loaded gun aimed at your own head. Eventually someone might decide to use it even if the reason for i
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His statement being factual and his statement, admitting to breaking laws in Kosovo, being a rational thing to say publicly are different things.
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They did everywhere which is why the last 3 years have included massive ongoing cascading supply chain shortages across the world. It's very efficient as long as nothing ever changes too much too quickly which tends to be the case in m
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The worst cases of pointless busy work I've seen were when everyone follows an out of date plan that they know is out of date because the effort to change it is too high.
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There is a difference between what is perceived as effective communication and what is actually effective communication. More communication for the sheer sake of more communication almost never means more effective communication or coordina
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It seems you took my comment personally but it was about not just your comments but the overall tone of the fly.io communication (see recent blog post regarding funding) and approach to issues (three days of silence on a dead instance). You
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I think the core issue is that they venomously don't want to act like a corporation. Which is great for early marketing and adoption but there's a reason successful B2B corporations act like they do. It's less fun and it&#x27
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You cannot make every user happy, and its generally better to not have a user than to have an unhappy user.
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Honest advice, probably to Kurt rather than you, is you need better processes, accountability and (probably) communication in your company. The tone of your reply (and other communications from fly.io) is reflective of the lack of those thi
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by marcinzm 3y ago
May not be 3x but it is replicated so even a total instance failure would not make you lose data: >Amazon EBS volumes are designed to be highly available, reliable, and durable. At no additional charge to you, Amazon EBS volume data is r
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Scale the technical difficulty and innovation of the product with the size and competency of the team. The market will always say they want more and the job of the company leaders is to know when to say no. AWS did not begin with everything
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The skillset of successfully founding a company and the skillset of successfully scaling a company are not the same. The latter is a hard thing to do that requires understanding both customers (current and potential) that you never speak to
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Downtime but limited downtime since the data is stored with redundantly across multiple machines in the same AZ. So unless the AZ goes down (which is a different failure than what happened here) you can restart the DB on a different instanc
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Isn't that a GDPR violation since they're not allowed to prevent access if you refuse to share data not necessary for the service to function? Since it's from Meta I suspect regulators would enjoy another thing to add to the
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This mindset is a comfortable position for people to retreat to when they don't want to discuss a situation rationally based on information known at the time but rather want to retroactively push a personal agenda.
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If hospitals said "we're about to run out of room and stop treating everyone" then I would go with whatever prevents that scenario. edit: COVID placed a 20x burden on hospitals versus the flu even with lockdowns. That's
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My point is that without examples we cannot have a conversation except in meaningless hypotheticals. As you said there's a ton of factors that influence company success. Having positive and negative examples of companies with different
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That's not my point. My point is that Zappos is not a company anymore and hasn't been for almost 15 years. If it had survived during that time and grown to 5k+ employees then it would be a good example. People keep bringing up hyp
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As I see it random selection means every leader will pillage as much money for themselves as possible as quickly as possible. More so than right now since there's some risk of them losing power (current or future) over it right now.
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You mean the Amazon subsidiary that was bought out in 2009?
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I said nothing about unions but merely that Meta employees are not plebs. You don't need to insult your own socioeconomic standing to fight for a better deal from your employer.
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Then it should be easy to find companies with different management practices that did just as well. We can talk hypotheticals all day and get nowhere.

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