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by mbesto 3y ago
> Do you honestly believe that Meta's hundreds (possibly thousands) of both full-time and contracted out lawyers would collectively advise them to break the law? Knowing full well the outcome would be $Billions in fines? Yes, absolu
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by mbesto 3y ago
> either very uninformed And you provided no source and narrowly scoped profitability to singular projects. This is so myopic when it comes to how a business is run.
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by mbesto 3y ago
"Our widgets are profitable, but all of the R&D, sales people, back-office people, etc. etc. required to actually run a business makes us unprofitable" So ummm who's gonna pay all of those people to make sure the robots a
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by mbesto 3y ago
Which is exactly how Facebook works/worked - Sheryl was the person driving the business towards profitability and Mark wanted to "connect the world".
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by mbesto 3y ago
> 20 lbs of upper body muscle mass will kill your long distance running times. So will 20 lbs of lower muscle mass which I can gain through...you guessed it, running.
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by mbesto 3y ago
This. Zone 2 is where its at.
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by mbesto 3y ago
ultra runner here...I've never heard this before. can you provide sources for "considerable evidence"?
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by mbesto 3y ago
> You can still push it occasionally, but there's a really pleasant niche at 60-80% of your max capacity! Also, there's tons of studies that show elite endurance athletes train at Zone 1/2 (60-80% of VO2 Max) for 80%~90% o
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by mbesto 3y ago
Correct - infotainment on manufacturers like GM are more than likely completely outsourced to a company like Aptiv: https://www.aptiv.com/en/insights/in-cabin-user-experience
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by mbesto 3y ago
It's a publicly traded company - mainly investors/analysts.
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by mbesto 3y ago
> Why do companies write like this? It's just awful. You aren't the audience, that's why.
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by mbesto 3y ago
My favorite part of Web3 are the characteristics of decentralized and community governance. Yet, VC's are making huge USD bets on the "companies" supporting these projects. If these are truly decentralized and truly community
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by mbesto 3y ago
I don't disagree with anything you said. People want an answer to "I'm not sure what the best solution is here, but making the big banks even bigger is not it." And that's what it basically boils down to. You don&#x
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by mbesto 3y ago
The solution is simple, the implications are not: Eliminate the Fed. Banks eliminate inherent risk by being backstopped by the fed. A simple example of how this works is FDIC insurance. If a bank had all of its depositors holding $250k or l
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by mbesto 3y ago
So how does this compare to am embedded analytics service like SiSense, Looker? Is this sort of in between?
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by mbesto 4y ago
> but it's more like a voucher Vouchers already exist - they're called cashier checks. > transferred on an immutable ledger. Which isn't universally a good thing. If someone steals your voucher, there is no recourse. If
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by mbesto 4y ago
Super interesting, thanks.
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by mbesto 4y ago
For 90% of the web devs that just spin up Postgres/MySQL, why would you use Datomic over that?
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by mbesto 4y ago
> for people bright enough to write college level essays to be wasting their time writing them for rich people studying in Western colleges? That's an issue for the American education system, not Kenya's population.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> You realize I was speaking for myself, right? I never once said that SaaS doesn't provide any value to anyone. > solved a few problems for a few people Are you trolling?
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by mbesto 4y ago
> solved a few problems for a few people Absolute rubbish. The proliferation of SaaS has been absolutely huge for business productivity, in fact, I would argue that my professional services business doesn't exist at anywhere near it
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by mbesto 4y ago
Yes.
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by mbesto 4y ago
https://speed.cloudflare.com/ and https://fast.com/ are my go-tos
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by mbesto 4y ago
https://www.etf.com/etf-education-center/etf-basics/how-do-b...
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by mbesto 4y ago
Exactly this. I had a bunch of cash sitting in a Marcus account until I discovered I can just buy ICSH[0] and get another 50~100 bps by doing what the banks do - which is taking your deposits and buy bonds. This Apple savings account will l
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by mbesto 4y ago
I really like this description of empathy vs sympathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZBTYViDPlQ It was the first time I "got it".
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by mbesto 4y ago
> UMG spokesperson told the FT: “We have a moral... Fancy coming from UMG sitting on the moral high ground that they do... /s
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by mbesto 4y ago
> They could outsource the manufacturing and still sell to the same customers. Twitter could completely outsource their software development and still sell advertising to its customers. > Foxconn is a factory company. Wtf does this ev
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by mbesto 4y ago
So any company that uses internet servers to run code they wrote is a tech company? John Deere wrote the firmware on the machinery they sold to farmers that connects to a server on software they wrote. Are they a tech company?
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Twitter is a communications service. Ok so they're not a tech company. Glad we solved that. /handshake-emoji/

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