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by mason55 4y ago
The way this manifests, and the actual substantial difference between an IPO and a SPAC, is that you can't provide forward-looking revenue guidance in your S-1 (IPO filing docs). For awhile people were saying that an interpretation of
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Average January low in Oslo is 22 F. In Fargo, ND it’s 0 F. Oslo is at 59 degrees north latitude, Fargo is at 46 degrees north (south of both Paris and Munich)
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> Not so famous that I'm aware https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about...
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I generally find Avro to be a better replacement for CSV than Parquet. It’s a better drop in for the typical CSV use case of “process this file row by row”. Parquet is great, don’t get me wrong.
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> A lot of talk into how businesses will still need curators to trim down the content and such misses a vital assumption: that these businesses actually care. It's less about if the businesses care and more about if the consumers
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> I wonder if over time SEO spam becomes an invisible problem to us and instead the AIs have sort it out for us There have been some good Twitter threads about this. Basically, this is the last generation of AI to be trained with inpu
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> banks don’t need your deposits to create new money. They just do. Yes, exactly. The key phrase here is loans create deposits When you take out a loan, the bank conjures the casino chips from thin air and increases the numbers in y
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> Pointing out these costs and forcing society to recognize them as explicit decisions and tradeoffs is one of the key benefits of the Right I don't think either side is better or worse at this. It's more like, point out the
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The bigger concern for PiHole circumvention is DNS-over-HTTPS or apps that ignore your device's DNS settings and use their own stack. In those cases, the DNS traffic isn't even going to hit your PiHole.
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Most major and minor venues have exclusive ticketing contracts. You can sell tickets to a high school gym but if you want to play anywhere that can handle a real crowd you’re stuck with the monopoly.
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It was such a perfect illustrative response because your post said nothing of the sort and in fact explained how anyone can pick up the skill
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I wouldn't write unit tests for an external library but any integration test will implicitly test any external libraries that are in the code path. That's one of the points of integration tests - catching cases where the underlyi
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IMO the big difference is doing it at your leisure and being able to take a break vs. being required to do it 24/7. When I’m frustrated with my job and modern life in general it’s easy to imagine running away and living on a farm. Whe
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What exactly do you expect it to do? Asking the user for the location of the event for time zone purposes might be confusing but there’s no better option.
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> If you want to exercise, and are going in a group, you can simple hike forward and backward in the trail Yeah, my wife and I kept hiking up through month 8 of her pregnancy. As she started slowing down, I'd take the dog ahead a
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> The problem is that accounting is generally complicated because business is complicated. This is it. From a high level, accounting lends itself very well to software. You have accounts, money, and transactions, and it appears that
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And people are bad at taking a step back to examine what it is that they’re valuing differently. Instead, they just argue about the “correct answer” even though they’re coming from different starting points.
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What I’ve found useful is to dig until we understand why we disagree. Assuming the other person reasoned their self into a reasonable position, then if we have different answers then we probably came from different starting points. Usually
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> If a VC went from owning 20% of a company to now own 10% - how is that good for the VC? Because that's not all that happens. The company also has a bunch more cash which means it's worth more. You own less of a bigger pie
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> But slaving over a fucking burger kinda defeats the point. It's a dish that's very tolerant of loose cooking procedure and you'd be a fool to not take advantage of that. Sure but that doesn't mean that it's n
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This is the constant argument I have with people about data products. You don't need to expose more dimensions or get the users more access to the raw data. You need to understand what their business is and what their business problem
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Is that why bars that happen to also have strippers are so normal in Portland?
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It really depends on your requirements, both functional and cost. Having a full stack per customer can be great for a lot of reasons. It's probably the safest because you never have to worry about something getting messed up in the c
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And good marketing will help the 1.2x demographic discover that there's an improved solution while not worrying about the .8x demographic (or actively disqualifying them). This thread is doomed to failure because half of the people are
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Ahh… sorry for pirating Kai’s Power Tools and Ray Dream Studio when I was like 14!
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Except with a mailing list, every conversation is grouped under a subject and all the replies are somewhere in the thread. On Slack, there's no such thing as a discussion-level subject, and people frequently end up replying outside the
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Sounds like energy production recently. While oil was cheap enough we had no reason to invest in cleaner tech. Even the threat of climate change isn’t enough. It’s only when oil gets real expensive that we invest in alternatives.
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What did you eat for the rest of the day? Even if that meal was 2k calories, if you walked around campus a bit and ate moderate breakfasts and dinners then it’s not that crazy. It’s hard to get fat from one bad meal a day. What typically g
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Yeah we live in the foothills in Colorado at 7700 feet elevation. Typical summer day is 85 degrees and 20% humidity and we don’t have AC. It gets warm but fans are enough and I have a portable swamp cooler for when it gets really hot.
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"Outcomes not outputs" is another similar way of stating it

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