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Boring Company Raises $675M(electrek.co)
2 points by mchusma 5y ago|2 comments
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by mchusma 5y ago
I don't know the rest of the process, but 3 hours for an interview seems 100% fine. And practical tests are so much better than random abstract questions IMO. I think your solution is to watch and plan on firing many people within 30 d
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I agree with this. Overstating the negative effects of nuclear war do not help us prepare to survive the reality of it. The author states many times that we should still avoid it and it would be the largest disaster ever, but people still s
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OP may not realize how bad the dispute process is with banks. When a merchant gets a charge disputed, they may not know about the dispute for many days. Then, if the customer lifts the dispute, the banks most often continue to hold the fund
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by mchusma 5y ago
VVC is great, but AV1 is fast enough for realtime use, while VVC is not. Cisco has had it working for some time. Basically, AV1 to me seems like it's basically a zero tradeoff solution vs older codecs, so is a good "new standard&q
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I agree. I don't want the government to subsidize housing by 4-20%. I just want them to stop pursuing policies that drice up prices 2-10x. This includes things like minimum size requirements, minimum parking requirements, maximum heigh
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The challenge is that in some states, employer suits attorney fees are paid by the employer. So employees can hire an attorney on spec to threaten the company, and say "pay us less than the cost for you to defend this suit and win, and
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I actually agree it should be legal, but the argument is basically one of fairness. That in the market, retail investors compete against insiders. In practice. The world is unfair, and retail investors must compete against all kinds of peop
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by mchusma 5y ago
Re: Earn out. 1. My understanding is the earn out was discussed upfront, so not a reason to back out of a LOI. 2. I've been through an acquisition (different circumstances). IMO 1 year is critical to a good transition and honestly, wei
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I don't get why any of the social media platforms WANT to be involved in censorship. Just let people pick their own filters. It seems about 50% of the hate on Facebook involves them trying to be involved. The only answer I can come up
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I don't understand why there isn't a downvote in TikTok. I tried for maybe 3 hours total just to try and get it to show me a feed I like. To no avail.
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Do you feel this is a recent shift? My experience has been different (lots of family all around Ohio) but I haven't been for more than 10 years now, so I'm not up to date. If so, when do you think this change occured?
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The problem is not the law, but rather the class action lawsuits around these cases. I have no problem working with blind users to improve the accessibility of the website, but I have been sued by plaintiffs counsel in a state where we had
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I agree. Changing times on everyone was always silly. If a group of people want to change the time they go to school or work, they should just do that.
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I like this. We also strongly suggest that engineers do PRs first thing in the day. This has the benefit of minimizing interruptions, and a daily cadence to PRs is typically pretty good. Basically, interrupting your work to do PRs is genera
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by mchusma 5y ago
I appreciate the authors intentions, which appear to want to include everything during this time (e.g. increase in obesity and suicides). Basically, it's an overall view of the cost of the pandemic AND our responses to it. However, I t
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I think we need to eliminate the "employee bundle" and just talk more directly about what we want for workers and legislate that. Most problems here relate to the bundle concept. For example, healthcare shouldn't be tied to e
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My boys love Blippi, and I think his content is really good as far as these things go, for preschool educational-entertainment content. He basically goes different places and shows kids things.
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by mchusma 5y ago
France went 100% nuclear power in basically 15 years. I'd love to see the current conflict catalyze action here. Aggressive fission growth is the only way to fast track clean energy independence for most countries.
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It's definitely cool, but the 4% win here is nothing compared to continuing AV1 rollout. I also agree that YouTube and Google in particular seem well suited to incorporate additional AI models to massively improve compression, particul
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by mchusma 5y ago
Sort of unrelated, but I'm surprised aircraft need that spectrum. I'm not an expert, but my impression was that using lower frequency has lower speeds but longer range and less sensitive to interference. This seems better for the
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I do recommend the book "The High Cost of Free Parking." The podcast EconTalk did an episode with him too. It's very clear to me after reading these that government enforced parking minimums and free parking should go.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I don't get why pay range guidance isn't just completely standard. I have pretty much always had them and it's really helpful to weed out bad fits. As a job searcher, it also helps me to understand what opportunities to look
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+1 for Ionic. I have been able to scale complex B2B and B2C software apps (not games) very well with it. v1 to v2 was rough but since v3 its been great. I'd strongly recommend this to anyone who wants web and mobile apps with one codeb
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Very cool. I'm slightly confused by the term training though, isn't it more Inference than training? A model that in near realtime upscales images or creates a 3d reconstruction?
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Developing for mobile is so much easier overall with the Ionic framework. It's not for every application but I would say most applications it's great for. My first startup we needed iOS, Android, and web teams. For my current star
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I think being rigorous about definitions of things is good, kudos to the authors for that. I do think this is important for defining how we treat animals and AIs. However, they seemed to pick something that obviously matches the criteria? T
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I'd say the list price for audiobooks is deliberately high to make the subscriptions attractive. It worked on me.
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Fusion definitely has long term economic advantages over fission. The fuel is the most plentiful in the universe and the energy released from fusion is much higher than fission. The chart here shows the energy difference pretty well: https
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Elon wants >1,000 Starships due to the Mars launch window, every 2 years. He wants to get a million+ tons of stuff there quickly. At 100T per Starship, and 1,000 starships, it would take at least 20 years to get 1M tons there. Source for

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