matt-p

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by matt-p 2y ago
Very few VCs would not agree to a wage if the founder needed it. It probably wouldn't be as high as market rate though. If you've got an independently weathly founder then both parties typically prefer equity only. Traditional see
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by matt-p 2y ago
What a great story and indeed you're an excellent storyteller. I want to wish you all the luck in the world with this, it sounds like it's going well. Have you considered offering public pricing for your API, or maybe a few trial?
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by matt-p 2y ago
Part of being a regulated bank in the UK is proving infrastructure resiliency. Monzo were the first bank here to run entirely on the cloud, so I imagine the regulators were extra strict with them. I'm not saying this level of resilienc
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by matt-p 2y ago
Well you can turn them off for a day and they have the skills to see that.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Who can blame them. Me too.
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by matt-p 2y ago
So they have us intercept internet traffic and pass it on to them, but they wouldn't want access to data in iCloud? Right, ok sure. I don't know, or care, if we initiated it or the US - but I find folks from the US acting like it&
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by matt-p 2y ago
No. Maybe it was their idea, maybe it was the US's. One thing's for sure though we wouldn't be pushing ahead with this without the tacit support of the US, particularly in the current environment.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Right. Who would be the first country the US might go to if it wanted to spy on it's citizens from abroad? Perhaps one who already does this for them using other methods such as wire tapping?
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by matt-p 2y ago
So roads are also socialism? Privatisation of utilities has been fairly disastrous in the UK. I understand what you're saying but they're natural monopolies who have limited scope for innovation. They literally aren't really
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by matt-p 2y ago
This really doesn't feel like a position that we'd really care about, I would wager this is something we'd be doing for our American friends.
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by matt-p 2y ago
I honestly don't even think we'd fine them real money, it would be too unfriendly to business. So what's this? I think political posturing or at worst the worlds weakest bargaining chip.
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by matt-p 2y ago
For an ops person yes, for a ML engineer (basically an academic) I'd be more surprised if it was secured to be honest.
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by matt-p 2y ago
A million or more, be serious.
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by matt-p 2y ago
I don't think we should discount it as such, but given there's no evidence for it, yet plenty of evidence that they trained this themselves surely we can't seriously entertain it?
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by matt-p 2y ago
Good.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Even for the latter point (If true, I'd call this assertion highly questionable), so what? That's honestly such a academic point, who really cares? They've been outcompeted and the argument is 'well if we didn't let
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by matt-p 2y ago
Leeds Bradford Airport is where exactly??
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by matt-p 2y ago
I agree, it's totally mad and if anything is getting more centralised.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Most that I've stayed in don't but often have pools and gyms. I suspect it comes down to if they're targeting a 'business traveler', for example it's definitely a thing in 'corporate' hotels or ones b
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by matt-p 2y ago
Agree, chuck parliament and number 10 in a office building in Leeds or something. It really would be transformational, but will it happen? Not a hope in hell.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Plenty of criticisms of mass immigration, but it can hardly be blamed for this, that's insane.
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by matt-p 2y ago
Good luck with the "but people live there, thier lives can be improved who cares about a poor ROI" argument. I mean that kind of genuinely, I see your point, but good luck trying that argument on the treasury. It's a fact th
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by matt-p 2y ago
I think most people would agree that some imbalance is natural, perhaps even good but the current level is bad. Bad, that the only net positive part of the entire UK comes from London and it's dependent, the SE. It's clearly cause
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by matt-p 2y ago
Emphasis on 'to a certain extent' :) Educational outcomes need to be improved yesterday, no disagreement on that. There's some displacement, yes. However anyone who isn't in privately rented accommodation would be choos
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by matt-p 2y ago
To a certain extent, would making the productive parts of manchester, even just 2X more productive not fix this over time in the same way that it has in London? If you look back even say 30 years ago in London, you'd of said the same t
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by matt-p 2y ago
What policy would benefit the north, without (even further) subsidising it? If we could invest £10Bn and get £20Bn back for the economy with our money back over time then not a single politician would turn that down, there's actually b
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by matt-p 2y ago
The best solution to all these problems is to have a extra 'co working' room that any guest, or for a fee anyone, can use and just bill an extra $15/day to use it (or whatever) including the coffee machine. Working and sleepi
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by matt-p 2y ago
>British engineers would immigrate to the States. I just don't think this is very true, some perhaps but not many. Secondly, if "the salleries are too low in the UK" is the argument then why would companies be interested i
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by matt-p 2y ago
I just honestly don't agree with that at all. That's the easy bit, the bit I don't enjoy is organising backups and storage in general. But it's not 'hard'.
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by matt-p 2y ago
They consume wholesale space, but not retail Colo for general compute, that's all I'm saying. Equinx is retail, with only a couple of exceptions, although I know they're trying to grow the wholesale side.

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