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by mattzito 8y ago
So, I'm a USPS informed digest customer, and while I get only my own mail, I'm surprised by how deeply the camera penetrates the envelopes (possibly due to flash?). It's not uncommon for me to be able to make out the topic o
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by mattzito 8y ago
It was no doubt a good thing for Airbnb users. It is much less likely a good thing for the building and other people who live there. I actually live a block away from the building in the article that was described as the #1 moneymaker and
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by mattzito 8y ago
I remember raising money in mid-2004 and having VCs lose interest when they heard we were based in NYC. One offered to invest on the condition that we move to the Bay Area or Boston. Around the same time, post-9/11, a lot of the big
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by mattzito 8y ago
I think this is a false equivalency. If we're talking about "service unavailability", planes break all the time. Houses have to be vacated because of flooding, fire, insect infestation. Brakes do fail. Just like with soft
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by mattzito 8y ago
So I’ll tell you from my past experience that there are plenty of designers that make money building websites using platforms like squarespace. The trick is that the designer adds additional polish and takes the full service approach: - w
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by mattzito 8y ago
> Also, it seems pretty bold to push users with a call-to-action around volunteering / sponsoring in the same post as they alert users to a breach. I understand your point, but I think tone and context matters - they're owning
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by mattzito 8y ago
Mere sentences later he says that they would like to do a pilot in the US but regulatory constraints make it impossible.
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The production margins, I totally agree. But coke spends a fortune on advertising that would still need to be spent if they were selling directly.
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by mattzito 8y ago
I would argue the difference is that the products that unilever and coke make are already relatively low margin, low price variability products, such that there’s not a lot of opportunity for them to undercut amazon. Similarly if I have to
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by mattzito 8y ago
I had a very similar one-time experience with Charles Barkley. I was a regular at the bar at the Ritz-Carlton on Central Park South in NYC, and was introduced to Barkley by the bartender, who often connected solo diners/imbibers with
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by mattzito 8y ago
My interpretation, possibly missing something, is that these e-commerce sites are a long tail play. They have lots of peoples time committed to work on this, so why not build a network of random Shopify sites that sell stuff you can get el
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Real People Eat Quiche(nytimes.com)
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by mattzito 8y ago
I think "too late" could mean "too late to avoid a massively destructive economic catastrophe" without meaning "global extinction".
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by mattzito 8y ago
My first job was sysadmin of a third tier ISP back in the dialup days. The account management and provisioning system that ran EVERYTHING was probably close to 100k lines of csh. Everything was done via a UI that the shell generated as a
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by mattzito 8y ago
So bear in mind: 1) those are 2017 numbers, so if we assume they grew by the same amount, they’re over 400m this year, which makes it only 20x 2) the article mentions that SAP is paying a 75% premium over the IPO valuation, because the road
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by mattzito 8y ago
I’ve seen you make this claim several times in this thread, but haven’t provided any evidence. Can you provide a source that says that the federal government can compel false statements as part of national security demands?
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by mattzito 8y ago
Boeing planes can dump fuel, iirc.
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by mattzito 8y ago
You are 100% correct - in my haste, I conflated the old Tandem hardware line with the OpenVMS clustering platform. My mistake, I’ll see if I can edit my post.
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by mattzito 8y ago
Hey, for once my former life designing HA infrastructure is actually useful! The reality is that hardware HA was almost always terrible. Of the platforms you described: - Sun had no hardware HA ever, down to the unfathomable design that al
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by mattzito 8y ago
Yes, taxi drivers are not allowed to refuse service by law.
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by mattzito 8y ago
The mainframe infrastructure is both the core feature and showstopper bug of the platform. On the plus side, it has empowered countless core business applications to scale years, even decades, beyond their original development lifecycle.
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by mattzito 8y ago
I think there's a difference between capex and opex here - it clearly doesn't make sense for Exxon to build and design their own oil wells and pumps, as there's economies of scale and domain expertise for a dedicated vendor t
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by mattzito 8y ago
Right, sorry if I wasn't clear - what I was saying was "there's a lot of oil and gas companies on this list. A lot of the revenue for these companies aren't actually generated by employees, but rather by contractors, an
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by mattzito 8y ago
One item that I find potentially misleading is that, to my understanding, oil and gas companies outsource/subcontract a lot of the seasonal/irregular/less predictable work to third-parties. This means that these people are
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by mattzito 8y ago
I mean, it is certainly possible to be uprooted every year as a renter. But I've lived in two places for 14 years as a renter, and switching from one to the other was a significant upgrade. The first apartment was even rent control
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by mattzito 8y ago
My recommendation would be to read the book, then read the book "The Devil's Candy", which is about the making of the film, and then see the movie. The Devil's Candy is about how a writer was given full, uncensored acc
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by mattzito 8y ago
Google is also doing this now, fwiw.
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When your culture is defined around ideas that technology has a negative effect on your attitudes and shared behaviors, things like mobile phones are powerful signifiers. My point is that even highly insular cultures with strict restriction
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by mattzito 8y ago
Are you suggesting that communities can stay frozen in time, unchanging forever? Even the Amish have adopted cell phones and automobiles, and the Satmars in NYC are huge WhatsApp users. Any community that thinks they can remain totally insu
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by mattzito 8y ago
> how is the desire to maintain a common identity in your small town racist? On the face of it, no, of course, wanting to maintain a sense of community in your town is not inherently racist. But there needs to be a recognition and acc

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