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by mdorazio 5y ago
Have you tried to chop off a lobster’s head yourself? It’s a lot harder than you seem to think.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I have to agree - dating apps are depressing as hell for most men to use. The author appears to be female, which explains this view.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Did you look at drones recently? I ran into the same problems as you years ago on an outdoor monitoring PoC with stations spread over several dozen miles (it was cheaper to pay an intern than to deploy & upkeep the tech). For farming
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Contrary to popular HN opinion, management jobs outside of big tech do not actually pay that well. I’m assuming the parent poster wants to switch career tracks entirely rather than stay within his/her currently available roles.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Nope. The kind of online porn you’re referring to only became practical with widespread adoption of broadband Internet. That didn’t happen until the early/mid 2000s [1]. Meanwhile downward trends in teen sex started at least as far bac
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by mdorazio 5y ago
The first part of your statement would only apply if most mortgages were adjustable rate. They are not (at least in the US). ARM loans were under 10% of all loans in 2019 [1]. Everyone who locked in a fixed rate loan is fine until they need
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by mdorazio 5y ago
The "American Dream" was coined when the population of the US was less than half what it is today, and when significantly more of the population was perfectly happy to live in small towns rather than in dense cities. The US chang
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Property is not a good or service - it is a finite resource with its own economics. You're making a false comparison and then asking for proof that cannot exist. Not a good look.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Thank you for posting this - it's exactly the level of explanation I was looking for. And if you want to write a book with lots of factual information that isn't completely boring, you might want to try doing it in the style of C
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I disagree with both of your statements. Hypergrowth is a meaningless term and a startup is a type of company in a specific stage of its lifecycle. Running a company "like a startup" can be a thing, but that does not make the co
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I did not say that at all and I'm disappointed you would jump straight into a straw man argument. The parent comment and mine are about unfair advantage , not about IP theft. If you take your years of industry insider experience and
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I’m simplifying things greatly here, but TSMC was founded by a man who took his US semiconductor experience to Taiwan and got his initial fab partially bankrolled by the Taiwanese government to get it off the ground. Personally, I’d say tha
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Stripe is 12 years old, has ~4,000 employees, and does several billion in revenue each year. It’s not a startup anymore. Although I do agree with your general sentiment that if you want real work-life balance, an actual startup is probably
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I’d love to see a business flow diagram of how all this works and which parties are responsible at each step. The deeper I look into the shipping process the more complex and grift-oriented it seems to get.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
No, they aren’t. I unfortunately can’t tell you how I know due to contracts, but I am 100% sure you are wrong about the price and the implied assumption that Amazon will only buy from Rivian. Also, commercial van margins are nowhere near as
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by mdorazio 5y ago
+1 for PEI base, although it doesn't have to be spring steel. I ran a print farm years ago and used PEI sheets on top of the stock beds. You can buy them cheaply on Amazon with adhesive tape, cut them to whatever size you need, and a
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Benefit and cost to whom ? If I use your definition and apply it to individuals, that's exactly how money works. If I'm willing to pay for something then it must have more value to me than the money I am paying, otherwise I wou
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by mdorazio 5y ago
You've redefined general value to "durable underlying value". I'm not even sure what you would consider that to be outside of physical assets. Does GitHub have durable underlying value? I would strongly argue it does
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by mdorazio 5y ago
To those people? Yes, by definition. You seem to be conflating value to individuals with value to society, which is a massively different thing.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
You're welcome to provide a better definition.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
"Want" has nothing to do with it. If people are willing to pay money for a service, that service is by definition valuable. Many thousands of people are willing to pay money in the form of gas fees to transact on the Ethereum ne
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by mdorazio 5y ago
You are literally the exact type of bad customer the parent comment is referring to.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Did anyone get it to work with your own obj files? I dropped 5 different ones in the canvas and nothing showed up.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
The flip side is that they were buying these things when other interest rates were also correspondingly high due to inflation, so they got hosed in other ways (think mortgages).
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Now, what's the value of the bottom 300 YC companies? The median value of YC companies? I think we all know the answer, but it would be nice if pg gave an accurate assessment of how the VC funnel works and the actual likelihood for a
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by mdorazio 5y ago
If you think that Starship will massively increase objects in LEO due to lowered costs then you should also believe that more of those objects than before will be astronomical satellites. I.e the space industry pollutes the view from the gr
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Probably this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6079240/
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I, too, was very curious about this and was able to find out that when it launched in 1971, the record player was $6.85 [1]. That’s about $46 in today’s money. So I guess the question is how many parents today would pay that much for the “g
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by mdorazio 5y ago
Ok I’ll admit I didn’t believe this, but it turns out it’s partially true [1]. Hours worked by wage group increases up to the 95% level, then drops again. So the bottom quintile works substantially fewer hours than the top quintile of earne
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by mdorazio 5y ago
I don’t really agree with your first point. Obesity puts a huge strain on the healthcare system, increasing wait times and friction for people at a healthy weight who need services. It also increases health insurance premiums on healthy wei

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