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by mdorazio 4y ago
I, too, would like to know this and find it odd it wasn't mentioned at all. Most web traffic these days is from mobile devices, not desktops/laptops. And Apple at least seems to try doing a decent job of obfuscating trackable info
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by mdorazio 4y ago
1) The real world is not a simple economic model. The wage rate is roughly equivalent to the rate it costs to replace an employee, not their marginal value. If your argument was true, company profits would tend toward zero as wages rise. 2)
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by mdorazio 4y ago
fwiw, self-driving cars did not grind to a halt, development just did not move as quickly as the pundits and self-promotion claimed. I just rode in a fully driverless car on public streets in downtown Austin this week.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I think you have two common misconceptions here. 1) Wages have very little to do with value/productivity in a free market. They are almost entirely determined by supply and demand. Value simply places a ceiling on compensation. Thus, i
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I think you missed my intended point. Of course there are no perfect startups. However, at any given time there are multiple startups doing largely the same thing, but most of them will fail. I want stories about why Startup A succeeded, an
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I have yet to find a good series that address this well. One episode of the Autonocast does come to mind, though: http://www.autonocast.com/blog/2020/3/27/181-stefan-seltz-ax...
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Any chance they break out of the survivorship bias bubble in their discussions? I largely stopped listening to Acquired because of that. I want more stories about startups that failed while doing seemingly the right thing, and fewer about s
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I also think this is a must-read for would-be entrepreneurs. Probably nine times out of ten when someone tells me about their startup idea looking for advice I point them to this book first because they haven't done the basic validatio
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by mdorazio 4y ago
By showing they care about open source, there's a chance they'll attract developers and animators who care about that.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Surveyed by whom and how was the question asked?
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Here's their operating margin for the last 4 quarters: Q1: -49% Q2: -65% Q3: -50% Q4: -38% So what you want is a business model where the company runs purely on VC money instead of on actual profit. SaaS companies like Gitlab usually c
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by mdorazio 4y ago
So, how many put options have you purchased against the financial sector? If the answer is zero, I don't think you really believe it that much.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I'd really like to know where people are withdrawing their money from these banks to . They're not taking suitcases of cash, so it must be flowing to some other financial institutions. Is it going to traditional big banks (BofA,
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Those assets cannot plausibly be sold for their currently stated value in the near-term. That's the whole reason SVB got into this mess...
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by mdorazio 4y ago
An interesting writeup of a case related to this has some info [1]. Key points are the quotes about half-way through the article. [1] https://www.severino-law.com/blog/oqz4dx2ivdnzt7aqqrvbk9et11...
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Does it support importing svg files? As others have mentioned, the workflow looks a lot like the old days of Flash, which I really miss. I’ll definitely be giving this a try for future projects.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I genuinely don't understand what you mean here, and I say that as an American who has done a fair amount of carpentry. I can't think of a single time I've thought to myself that using fractions was superior to measuring stra
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Just a quick note on this since I ran into the same wtf? moment a few years ago. 1) Saw Stop holds a number of patents that legally prevented anyone else from adding the same tech to their saws. Most of the patents didn’t expire until 2021,
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by mdorazio 4y ago
A quick look on levels.fyi doesn't really support this. What are you basing that on?
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Yes. The author is referring to Mobileye's proposed definition of autonomous driving levels [1], which are somewhat different from the traditional SAE ones. At the hands-off + eyes-off level you don't need to pay attention at all
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by mdorazio 4y ago
You’ve very much got some survivorship bias and distorted facts here. It’s easy to look at PUBG, Minecraft, and Stardew Valley then assume that a one-man show that’s good enough will naturally sell a million copies. The reality is that thos
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I would argue that in the social media space, trends in "cancel culture" and just generally shaming people for saying something not supported by whatever is the current "woke" / "social justice" viewpoint
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Are you saving the match pairs somewhere? I imagine 1) there are a finite number of them, 2) doing an exact lookup in a DB first will be faster and easier than calling GPT3 and Pinecone every time, and 3) eventually GPT3 APIs will get price
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by mdorazio 4y ago
> When inflation is actually driven by consumers having too much money, fine, go for it. But when its driven by external factors And when it's both, as was the case in 2021-2022?
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by mdorazio 4y ago
https://archive.is/wiM4W A rather short and kind of disappointing article. This sums it up: > Though Mr Judge’s analysis revealed emotional stability and general diligence were crucial to managerial effectiveness, extrov
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I don't quite know what the author's conclusion is here. Capitalism is bad? Part of the problem in my mind is that consumers don't actually punish these behaviors. For example, Cyberpunk 2077 is massively profitable even th
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by mdorazio 4y ago
You seem to be in rather shitty video calls. This has not been my experience for ~90% of calls in the last year.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Are the building textures from photos? It looks a lot cleaner than I remember NYC being.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
If your theory isn't testable, it's not a scientific theory. Period. It's either a hypothesis or it's faith. When you go around denouncing people for asking you to make a testable prediction it just makes you look bad.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Doubt that magic pixie dust is the correct answer to "what's there?".

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