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541.
by mbesto 2y ago
No. Performance is a feature[0]. It's neither good or bad, it's often a desirable feature but it doesn't mean it's bad . A green screen UI will kick the shit out of any modern day web UI (compare old school Infor with a
542.
by mbesto 2y ago
Where are your customers located? Wherever its easiest to physically get out to them would be your best bet.
543.
by mbesto 2y ago
And I can create a class action lawsuit for literally anything I want. Doesn't mean I'm going to win. What's your point?
544.
by mbesto 2y ago
> everyone pays it "pays it" is relative. The merchant is generally charging 3~6% more than they would otherwise if they didn't use a CC. Said differently, assuming all other things equal, buying the same good for the same
545.
by mbesto 2y ago
What? It costs me $10M to run something every year, it now costs me $4M to run something every year. I have $6M in my pocket every year now in perpetuity. Compound that annually with the assumption that I maintain or increase top line reven
546.
by mbesto 2y ago
The "~" is important. Most merchants are incurring anywhere from 3~6% on charges made via CC. Likewise, your actual cashback varies (for example the highest I'm aware of is BoA's 2.65% cashback) and the average consumer
547.
by mbesto 2y ago
$6m in perpetuity is like infinite and engineers can be fired.
548.
by mbesto 2y ago
> But then don't you get that back as cashback and such? Huh? You mean in the example scenario if I charge $500 for a car rental and get 2% cashback from my CC. I find out the car rental is charging me an extra $100 for gas that I n
549.
by mbesto 2y ago
Sure, but collections for something they have no justifiable reason to collect on? To be clear, what I'm suggesting is (a) hypothetical to understand the business rationale and (b) is under the premise that what is on the bill matches
550.
by mbesto 2y ago
There'd be no market for $2000 cash upfront.
551.
by mbesto 2y ago
> There are still costs for backhaul, interconnect, colocation space, dark fiber, network hardware, and transit to fill the gaps. Genuine question - aren't those gaps essentially what make a video streaming service operate at scale
552.
by mbesto 2y ago
This is a huge feature of CCs that most people don't recognize. You're paying an extra ~3% to credit card companies in exchange for the ability to dispute a charge. If a merchant (in this case Hertz) accepted cash, you would get a
553.
by mbesto 2y ago
> There's a silicon lottery Isn't there also an environmental factor that hasn't been fully explore? Are we sure there isn't an alternative to the cooling mechanism on the CPU than the two options the parent and Jeff
554.
by mbesto 2y ago
> Is there any hard evidence that founders who secure funding earlier are more likely to provide a VC with a successful exit? There really isn't much hard evidence about any correlative patterns about early stage VCs. Which is why
555.
by mbesto 2y ago
> The whole point of the entire thing was its affordability No, not really. If it was just affordability you could buy a used ProLiant server for the same price on Facebook Marketplace and have 20x the computing power. Raspi has been abo
556.
by mbesto 2y ago
> Most of the VCs have already spent their money in the last couple of years. Lol no. There is about ~$500B in VC dollars, not to mention $1.2T in buyout dry powder still floating around. Not to mention venture funds raised continue to g
557.
by mbesto 2y ago
In my mid twenties I had a mundane 30 minute commute in a crowded London tube which meant no internet (maybe thats different now). I cranked through so many books in that ~2 year timespan.
558.
by mbesto 3y ago
I've used DDG and wanted to like it. I used another paid one and it wasn't great (forgot name). I've been on Kagi for the last 6 months and love it.
559.
by mbesto 3y ago
Also, that requires the creator to build the whole step by step process. Being able to automatically generate the format would be HUGE.
560.
by mbesto 3y ago
I've actually heard this from lawyers before - essentially that if you use a JS library that is GPL and that code gets sent to the user via the browser, that its now considered "distribution".
561.
by mbesto 3y ago
Super interesting. I recently went down the DIY rabbit hole for solar, electricity, etc. I tested out https://stepify.tech/video/O8eVxRVwlnw and looks decent: 1. It took about ~45 seconds for the page to load once I pu
562.
by mbesto 3y ago
Curious - whats the real life implication of using GPL in this case?
563.
by mbesto 3y ago
"tons"...which?
564.
by mbesto 3y ago
Exactly. If you are taught to balance a checkbook, it inherently forces you to budget.
565.
by mbesto 3y ago
> navigating health insurance, paying taxes, budgeting, managing credit, home maintenance, vehicle care The self-perpetuating lie in American life is that all of these get solved by <insert market good/service here>. Silicon V
566.
by mbesto 3y ago
Except that use-case doesn't even work because any service worth a salt just blocks the VPN's IP addresses. For example: US citizen living in US goes to the UK and uses VPN service to watch US-based netflix. Netflix blocks this.
567.
by mbesto 3y ago
> I'm annoyed mainly because people around me make bad decisions that have an influence on my own life. So, like smoking in restaurants?
568.
by mbesto 3y ago
Automattic does like $200~$300M in revenue.
569.
by mbesto 3y ago
percentage != absolute value This is like saying walmart isn't highly profitable...you make up for it in volume.
570.
by mbesto 3y ago
Fair. But it doesn't really explain why they wanted to stay on RDS. This is their reasoning: > over the past few years, we’ve developed a lot of expertise on how to reliably and performantly run RDS Postgres in-house. While migratin

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