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by mbesto 4y ago
> Many times-- not always -- the "B" team crushes the "A" team. Being underdogs promotes teamwork. It's clear you don't understand what A and B people are then. If the "B team" is crushing the &quo
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Waze tells you where cameras and cops are, Google Maps usually does not. Cameras are only really relevant in Europe. We don't really have these in the US. I do get the cops angle - google maps doesn't really do this. > I d
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by mbesto 4y ago
I've used both Tesla and Honda's Carplay for ~2 years now. I really enjoy Carplay (and the phone integration is a huge plus), but a few things: - re: waze - huh? Google Maps is just fine. The differences are such a personal prefer
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by mbesto 4y ago
Ya, anyone have a video to back this up? For all of Tesla's woes, their mapping screen is above and beyond superior to any native GPS I've ever seen.
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by mbesto 4y ago
Obligatory "tech is not an industry, but an operating model": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693634
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by mbesto 4y ago
> should pay more or less based on how much much people like doing them. Justify salaries based on supply and demand, and value creation. Reread your sentence and think real hard about it because you're saying the same thing, you&#x
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by mbesto 4y ago
> you'd excuse their behavior saying there are plenty of other guys out there they could go with instead. Where was I excusing it? I was simply laying out the market reality. If you want to say certain classes of professions "d
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by mbesto 4y ago
Gaming software engineers, relative to a FAANG engineer for example, are willing to work for less money, work in worse conditions due to a tradeoff for working in a field they are fanatically passionate about. It doesn't matter whether
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by mbesto 4y ago
Also, you make these announcements to appease analysts, not to be hidden from them.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> impersonate me No bank should be using your account details as a secret used to identify you.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> I don't feel comfortable giving my bank details to random people. What specifically makes you feel uncomfortable? If the person is truly "random" then guessing your account number is just as "random", no?
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by mbesto 4y ago
I know - I'm saying that you received that request in error.
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by mbesto 4y ago
You're conflating 'being dismissive' with 'being critical'. I think HN very much agrees that good UI is very important, so much so that they take the time to critiquing it when it's obviously bad.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> i couldn't check in and went elsewhere. > But i didn't want to cave in and called AirBnB. Thankfully, airbnb fully refunded the payment and i was able to find another accomodation in the last minute. I don't recommend
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by mbesto 4y ago
> But the general wisdom is to always try to take maximum advantage. While in Japan everything is paid up front because this is what is culturally appropriate.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> If you want buy-in, and better estimates, let the people that execute the work come up with the estimates. Then if the estimates are wrong, which they invariably will be, the team can only point their fingers at themselves. Weird advic
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by mbesto 4y ago
> I would love to see Waymo become another hose. Waymo is just another way to add more water to the hose. More leisure time not focusing on the road = more eyeballs. What percent of our lives do we spend driving?[0] "Our best guess
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by mbesto 4y ago
> but I'm not a fan of this modern era of schadenfreude that seems to be ever present on tech sites. I equally don't like the schadenfreude as you, but I also equally don't like the propping up of ridiculous business model
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Amazing to see how efficiently some of the biggest grifters exploited this dynamic to funnel money straight from investors and into their own personal net worth, while building businesses that couldn't have possibly been profitabl
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by mbesto 4y ago
(not an expert here) but my understanding is: sort of. I believe the biggest difference is that VLAN operates at Layer 2 and Wireguard works at Layer 3.
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by mbesto 4y ago
A few use case: - I have a SOHO setup at home: several PCs/ my work laptop, raspberry pi, synology and ubiquiti. It means I can access ubiquiti console and synology via network as opposed to be some janky proxy that those company'
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by mbesto 4y ago
This. I really want to sell my Model S (for like an Audi for example), but no one can compete with its battery: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k1DOw-NwvW8E8tQeXlac...
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by mbesto 4y ago
I personally know someone who consistently has 1-2k viewers. I would say $80k~$100k is more the norm for that size. $1M/year a stretch (including YT, IG, paid influencing, etc.) > gives you a very very very comfortable life. Monetar
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by mbesto 4y ago
Of course, but you don't think the gov't is more selective and more punitive against the larger players? Law is inherently discretionary.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> but at the very least, they are countering Big Tech. Honestly, I think this is partly to do with the fact that very few of these "Big Tech" companies are founded and primarily operate in the EU.
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by mbesto 4y ago
He's an exception to the rule. Same with Shroud, Dr. Disrespect, etc. In fact there's a whole bunch of OG streamers who can play literally any game they want and they still have strong following (LIRIK, Soda, etc.) simply because
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by mbesto 4y ago
> arguably entirely fantastical market cap The idea of using market cap as a frame of reference for crypto needs to die. There are much stricter controls about how a company issues more stock (and thus can inflate or deflate the price) t
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by mbesto 4y ago
Amazing that AirBnb's dev team can release something this smooth and advanced but its messaging system is simply unbearable to use. What's up with that?
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by mbesto 4y ago
> But if they do, share your profits fairly. How do you determine how much profit an employed CTO makes versus a customer service rep? What's fair there? My estimated guess: you have no idea.
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by mbesto 4y ago
That's not the Big 4. There is "Big 4" and "MBB", that's it. Big 4 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_accounting_firms Big Three / MBB = https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F

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