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by mbesto 2y ago
Ummm okay? A scam implies someone is getting hurt (financially, emotionally, etc.). Who's getting scammed here?
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by mbesto 2y ago
Thanks! Super helpful.
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by mbesto 2y ago
This is not how it works. First, revenue is irrelevant. Second, the investment isn't a loan that they need to repay. They are getting equity. Third, Anthropic is exclusively using AWS to train its models. Which, yes, means if AWS gives
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by mbesto 2y ago
Curious - so how do you manage client-specific schemas then? Do you just have mappings in postgres (column1, column2, column3, etc.) or maybe store a client specific schema in bson per client?
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by mbesto 2y ago
There are endless amounts of stories and situations in which selling something before it really exists has helped businesses. It's totally plausible that a team working on video streaming at the scale of Netflix could figure out live s
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by mbesto 2y ago
There's a lot of talk from engineers about how this process is broken, but never a solution. What gives?
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by mbesto 2y ago
> trade skills Who installs pipes, builds walls, installs electrical conduits? Humans. > just collect rent checks from tenants in a pretty hand-off manner Dwellings still require regular power, heat, security, support and regular main
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by mbesto 2y ago
> actively thinking about this and dedicating part of their work to misinforming the poor intentionally. I'm reminded of the quote > “No one involved in an extralegal activity thinks of themselves as nefarious. I'm a busines
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by mbesto 2y ago
> It's what a lot people here have already said. Education is what is failing, EdTech didn't magically solve this. To expand this more globally - anything that requires human interaction fails at scale. Healthcare, trade skills
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by mbesto 2y ago
> but don't require 'collaborating with people in power'. You missed this qualifier: "person’s life within a larger social construct."
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by mbesto 2y ago
You can create an iOS shortcut to convert Spotify to Apple Music as well. This is how my gf and I share (she has apple music and I have spotify)
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by mbesto 2y ago
> Coding used to be about craftsmanship, precision, and knowing your tools inside and out. Coding, just like woodworking, is about creating products and solutions. Craftsmanship, precision, and knowing your tools is possibly how you make
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by mbesto 2y ago
First, the words predict and forecast are not interchangeable. Polls do not predict outcomes, they merely forecast them. Since predictions are purely subjective, saying they 'failed' is inappropriate. You can disagree with a subje
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by mbesto 2y ago
The ONLY way this gets fixed is if ranked choice voting is put in place. But this also requires the people in power implement it. Good luck with that.
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by mbesto 2y ago
> the political left have failed to show up with an answer, a policy, a plan -- anything, really. This is factually untrue. U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 was a legislative bill that was proposed by President Joe Biden on his first day in
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by mbesto 2y ago
> YouTube's revenue comes from large advertisers who can measure real impact of ads. Not necessarily. First, attribution is not a solved problem. Second, not all advertisement spend is on direct merchandising, but rather for brandin
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by mbesto 2y ago
Someone has tried - it's called OpenDoor and its stock is ummm not doing well: https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/OPEN
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by mbesto 2y ago
Seems like a lot of your challenges can be solved with https://storybook.js.org/
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by mbesto 2y ago
Doesn't sound like its actually been resolved yet. This is the only article I can find that refers to how much they've had to pay out of pocket: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/10/business/marriott-
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by mbesto 2y ago
Currently in Krakow, this city is absolutely gorgeous for the eastern bloc. Now I understand why.
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by mbesto 2y ago
Actually, CAP theorem is only relevant to a database transaction , not a system. The system has to be available to even LET the card process. This is why no bank would ever use anything BUT an ACID based system as data integrity is far m
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by mbesto 2y ago
> The problem is that consumers don't behave like that. Actually they do, just not on Amazon. If you search for 'tide pods' you'll find a WHOLE page of product listings on the first page of the search results full of
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by mbesto 2y ago
And the next sentence says "On the other hand, this is a $619 list price CPU"...
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by mbesto 2y ago
Just read more into it. You're correct. I think it would be dumb to solely blame MS, but I don't think you can completely absolve them. this comment right here sums it up: > Sure, but Windows shares some portion of the blame
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by mbesto 2y ago
> just like blaming microsoft for the crowdstrike bsod is stupid Wait, how is this stupid? Unless I'm missing something, wasn't the patch part of a Microsoft payload that included an update to Crowdstrike? Surely Crowdstrike is
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by mbesto 2y ago
For $600 sure, but its review isn't exactly glowing: https://www.servethehome.com/minisforum-ms-01-review-the-10g...
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by mbesto 2y ago
> Point being, tourism isn't all good for all people. Depends on your definition of "good". If by good, you mean an increase in economic activity and therefore wealth, then yes tourism can certainly benefit that. Let'
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by mbesto 2y ago
I always thought JSONB is a great use case for client-specific customizations. For example - a CRM application where you have structured DB tables like "account", "opportunity", etc. but then a client-specific table migh
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by mbesto 2y ago
We don't let people die with grace in the US. Not only is pathetic and not very noble, but its a massive drain on the cost of healthcare.
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by mbesto 2y ago
I'm already in my 40s. What's your point?

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