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by mbesto 4y ago
> And I don't think VR is going away. If it wasn't dead in the water in the 90s, then it's not going to die because the Metaverse failed. But its applicability is currently limited to a few niche applications like video ga
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Maybe the context of this appearing on HN is shifting the perception of this page, but this is posted on an individual's blog. If the author had the mindset of "literally don't have to write anything more than that"
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by mbesto 4y ago
> I mean, if you want to be totally pedantic about it, go for it. I do, because the definition is so loose that it gets manipulated by investors / the overall market. Great example: https://www.linkedin.com/posts&#x2
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by mbesto 4y ago
> "Tech" is a fairly broad category that includes both computer hardware and computer software No it doesn't. That's my point. Tech isn't an industry or a category. It's an operating model. The delineation o
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by mbesto 4y ago
> That is a pretty good structure for this type of web page. Not really. Honestly, it was kind of confusing to me too... All they had to say was "Apple makes it impossible to avoid playing a screen or animated screen saver during a
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by mbesto 4y ago
> tech is not their primary line of business. Because "tech" isn't a business. You don't sell "tech". Microsoft as an example is heavily diversified and as a software publisher they sell ERP software, operat
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Tech companies: Here we go again...under this view, every company is a "tech" company. Does GE or John Deere write software for their hardware? Absolutely. Are they colloquially considered "tech" companies? No. Twit
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by mbesto 4y ago
> which got scratched by his keys in his pocket, which Jobs found entirely unacceptable. Which required a technological innovation that may or may not existed at the time. This is like saying "autonomous cars can't ever hit a h
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by mbesto 4y ago
> If he's a successful entrepreneur, why does he need $20k to kickstart a book? It's because Kickstarter has nothing to do with raising money - its a distribution platform. He's getting distribution.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Self-driving cars are poised to dramatically improve parking overall. And interestingly, all of the parking lots in a city, in theory, will be obsolete, opening a whole bunch of opportunities for new urban design. The idea behind self-
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by mbesto 4y ago
Very meta (pun intended) but is there a website that allows you to say "I want to find an AI engine / application that does X", where X might be any iteration of terms: "magic wand tool that cuts an image from the backgr
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by mbesto 4y ago
> One of the "lies to children" we repeat over and over. The (2nd) greatest deterrent of crime is the likelihood of being caught. Police deter crime by increasing the perception that criminals will be caught and punished.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> they're checking what the business has recorded on its accounts adds up, they're not checking if the reality behind the accounts are correct. Not necessarily true. Depending on the type of audit, part of the audit is to cherr
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by mbesto 4y ago
You made a bold and unfounded statement: > it creates an externality we all have to deal with - we're basically subsidizing their credulousness by getting defrauded. and I commented on why I thought it was wrong (e.g. "you don&
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by mbesto 4y ago
> it creates an externality we all have to deal with - we're basically subsidizing their credulousness by getting defrauded. No one made you buy crypto on FTX. You have to do your own diligence. > It seems like they've just
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by mbesto 4y ago
Why not politely ask me what they are and maybe I'll answer. DD = due diligence LOI = letter of intent SPA = stock purchase agreement RWI = reps & warranties insurance
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by mbesto 4y ago
> which is to a large degree pension money. Then take this up with your local government then. There is a quantitative risk versus reward they take, and you should be glad that they take this bet. FYI - their portfolio mix for VC assets
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by mbesto 4y ago
> How much due digilence was done on SBF / FTX by The New-York Times and by the VCs who poured hundreds of millions into a pure fraud? NYT isn't an investor, so that's a total non sequitur. VCs on the other hand...VCs dont
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by mbesto 4y ago
> JPMC tried to verify user data but Javice claimed they couldn't provide user personal information "due to privacy concerns". DD guy here. This is the most plausible explanation. When you're under LOI there is a lot
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by mbesto 4y ago
> INR was flat vs $ and NIFTY also grew more than S&P500 > India is likely to be among the fastest growing economies in the next decade so a good bet for diversification for 5-10% of your wealth. I'm going to ask this in the
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by mbesto 4y ago
> My company asked me to install WhatsApp once, but I explained to them why I don't use it, and they didn't have a problem with it. IANAL but if this is on your personal device they can't compel you to do so. Otherwise the
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by mbesto 4y ago
Some of them did just fine: In January 2011, Groupon raised $950 million in its last pre-IPO fundraising round. Yet by the end of March 2011, the company only had $209 million in cash, as All Things D’s Peter Kafka reported. So where did a
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by mbesto 4y ago
> This seems like a weak case to me. This is why we can't have nice things. None of the charges have been disclosed so why even opine on this yet? It's all speculation at this point.
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by mbesto 4y ago
YC doesn't scale for students. In fact, no accelerator does (500startups has ~3k investments as well). Accelerators are about relationships, signalling, prestige, advisory, networking, etc. The success is asymmetric, because YC is a n
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by mbesto 4y ago
Based on a scan of the questions they aren't actually meant to be answered as a Q&A (despite the author's description) on a spreadsheet / document. They are more about probing questions to start a discussion.
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by mbesto 4y ago
What you're referring to is called "treasury management". Roku is not a VC backed startup (it's a public traded company) and they held nearly $500M in cash in SVB (idiots).[0] HN'rs love to criticize financial analy
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by mbesto 4y ago
I'm really struggling to understand the gripe here. > If they weren't really interesting, I simply wouldn't read them. They are, though. That's the dilemma. To provide an analogy: it's almost like you're sug
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by mbesto 4y ago
Matt Levine's newsletters are valuable for their ability to take very complex news, distill them down into simplified terms and make them witty and entertaining. TL;DR of his writings provide little value here. > But imagine if ther
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by mbesto 4y ago
> imagine when they realize one overworked highly paid senior can replace 10 juniors This already happens, the market is just not very efficient about it, e.g. a highly paid senior dev is not working at a company that only needs 2-3 deve
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by mbesto 4y ago
> the GOP is the awful, backwards party that is doing it anyway. My favorite part about GOP apologists is that you don't even have to explicitly say what's wrong with their platform, and yet somehow they always know what the cr

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