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by mbesto 1y ago
> The startups ecosystem will suffer extensive and catastrophic damage. These a feature, not a bug of how the startup ecosystem works. > The funding ecosystem will be set back years as this wipes out a bunch of VCs and investors. Once
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by mbesto 1y ago
Same here. Fastmail customer for slowly peeling myself away from gmail. Just keep giving me reliable email service and I'll pay you.
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True story - I know a guy who built an application using Excel for tracking toll charges for car rentals back in the early 2000's. Over time he built out a team and an application. Piece by piece he automated things, but he initially d
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by mbesto 1y ago
> Sure to the rest, but: Whatsapp had 55 employees and 450 million users when it was acquired. JPM regularly acquires businesses that do not look like WhatsApp and look more like Frank. For 99% of the acquirers out there, seeing a busine
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by mbesto 1y ago
> She pushed back on any direct vetting of the list using privacy laws as a shield and JPMorgan didn't challenge it due to competitive pressure to get the deal done ASAP. DD guy here. This is more common then people think. M&A d
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by mbesto 1y ago
> Thank you, your post cured my depression. (Sarcasm) I understand what both of you are saying, but I think its disingenuous to assume that happiness is simply the opposite of depression.
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by mbesto 1y ago
> SWE-bench, and many other AI benchmarks, have lots of eval noise SWE-bench has lots of known limitations even with its ability to reduce solution leakage and overfitting. > where there is no clear right answer This is both a feature
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by mbesto 1y ago
> include some specifics of the task and prompt. Like actual prompt, actual bugs, actual feature, etc. > I am still surprised at things it cannot do, for example Claude code could not seem to stitch together three screens in an iOS ap
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by mbesto 1y ago
Clean cap table and she probably provided a decent amount of the funding for the first startup. It's also more than likely a tax thing here. I don't think people ought to get too obsessed with the contractual details on this one.
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AI Prompt injection – trick Salesforce Agentforce into leaking sales(theregister.com)
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by mbesto 1y ago
Yes which is the definition of something that is very subjective. What you deem as "good value for the money" may be very different than mine...hence my comment.
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by mbesto 1y ago
> you're going to hit retire age someday. I mean so is every owner, whats your point? This is such a weird argument...
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by mbesto 1y ago
I'm not at the retirement age and I was able to continue to run the business, yet sold to PE. How do you explain this? Also, see my comment below. Feel free to list out all of the companies from those portfolios that match your criteri
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by mbesto 1y ago
Apax Partners rolled this companies together: https://www.authoritybrands.com/about-us/ I use ASP for my pool cleaning and they referred me to their electric company (Mr Sparky). Both have been excellent services and I
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by mbesto 1y ago
Here is a few examples of PE shops and their list of portfolio companies. Please name all of the companies that fit the criteria of "the business is suffering from financial hardship or the current owner is unable to continue to run th
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by mbesto 1y ago
PE gets a bad rap and for very correct reasons (especially at the large cap where financial engineering is rampant). However, there are a ton of examples where PE does add value and the customer experience improves. However it's imposs
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by mbesto 1y ago
This is so untrue I don't even know where to start... Source - have sold my business to PE and have advised on 900+ companies who have sold to PE firms.
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by mbesto 1y ago
Your website provides "paywalled hosting and sales platform for digital content creators" Are digital content creators lazy too? Why don't they just host their content on their own damn servers?
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by mbesto 1y ago
I think you're right, however, 18650 batteries do carry, on average, more energy density per volume and weight. > but the highest capacity 18650 out there is less than 15Wh and this advertises 77Wh. 10x 2000 mAh 18650 batteries in p
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by mbesto 1y ago
"Power bank cells are mainly divided into 18650 cells and polymer cells. The most common one on the market is 18650 lithium-ion batteries, with a market share of 70%." https://www.benzoenergy.com/blog/post&#x2
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by mbesto 1y ago
Sort of. C rate discharge is just another (confusing) way of state CDR. You might as well just say the CDR in amps. C rate is really just to give a comparison on battery chemistries to illustrate how performant different chemistries can del
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by mbesto 1y ago
> With the right instructions, Claude Sonnet 4 can easily write over 99% of most business applications. You need to be specific in your instructions, though. By your own statement then this is not an "easy" task. Software devel
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by mbesto 1y ago
This is a very poorly researched article. A few things worth considering: - 20,000 mAh is the rated capacity. Anyone who has tested 18650 batteries (which are the cells typically used in these battery packs) knows the rated capacity != test
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by mbesto 1y ago
> The rating is a measure of how many amps the battery can emit continuously for one hour. This is absolutely not true at all. 'Ah' is a measure of capacity and 'amps' is a measure of current. Batteries typically have
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by mbesto 1y ago
> You can argue how well that’s worked out for us And its an easy argument: The Manhattan Project engaged thousands of scientists, but over 16 notable principal scientists (with major published credits) were foreign-born and either retai
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by mbesto 1y ago
The first reason I knew this wasn't real is that Google doesn't have support...lol
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by mbesto 1y ago
For now...
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by mbesto 1y ago
I would definitely get EG4 over Expert Power for the reasons posted by other commentators. Example kit: https://signaturesolar.com/complete-off-grid-solar-kit-eg4-6... Add in a 15 kWh module and it's roughly the same p
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by mbesto 1y ago
Eco Worthy is not UL Listed and 45 kWh of RUiXU/EG4 is $10k+. Everything you've said is pretty spot on except for 45 kWh UL-listed batteries at $5,400.
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Ya, the OP is not telling the truth. One there isn't a "variety", second they aren't UL listed at that price. I've spent months researching this space for an off grid setup and these are the two best setups direct f

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