mediaman

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by mediaman 6y ago
There's a psychological reward to having other people read what you write, and possibly getting upvotes. This reward exceeds the reward from learning the actual information. Many platforms are plagued by people more interested in being
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by mediaman 6y ago
Manufacturing company founder here - you are exactly right. I buy automation equipment. What I'm looking for is stuff that is relatively easy to program by my team (I do not have the money for tons of engineers to sit around programmin
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by mediaman 6y ago
It's an interesting choice. Which do you prefer? I'd prefer having an impact on the company versus an impact on a large number of users, because I would experience the impact on the company every day, but at the big company, the f
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by mediaman 6y ago
Does anyone have a counter to the idea that greater management confidence and expertise in remote work will unlock offshoring of IC tech roles, and therefore create a vastly bigger pool of low priced tech competition? The primary problem I
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by mediaman 6y ago
This logic would suggest that all increases in population (labor supply) in the history of humanity should be pushing labor down, because more people are competing for jobs. This is obviously, clearly wrong. Re-read what you responded to, e
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by mediaman 6y ago
The micro supply and demand view that increased labor force from greater participation rate by women causing suppression of wages is incorrect. Such a view would suggest that any increase in labor hampers wages. What actually happens is tha
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by mediaman 6y ago
Congrats on making the sacrifice to build something, and then following through to releasing this first public version. You will likely do quite well. I would suggest, if I may, that you are going to get a lot of people dismissing your prod
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by mediaman 6y ago
You might be careful about increasing price too much - some of the professional tools are not that expensive per month, and this is definitely aimed at a casual to prosumer level. However, to increase revenue capture, charging for templates
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by mediaman 6y ago
They already are very successful, and it doesn't require a consulting organization. Quickbase, for example, was recently sold for $1bn, and is one of the category leaders, with revenue over $100m. Their whole model is no-code business
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by mediaman 6y ago
I see a number of reports regarding slow delivery times from Amazon. My personal experience is the opposite: times were heavily impacted peak-COVID, but now are returning to the very fast times, and are often same-day (!) or next-day delive
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by mediaman 6y ago
The Sherman anti-trust act is very very rarely ever used in prosecution.
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by mediaman 6y ago
Absolutely correct. Coal is such a tiny, tiny portion of the "we need to figure out how much stuff is in this pile" market. Companies need that information both to keep their books in order (what's the dollar value of our in
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by mediaman 6y ago
This site seems to be equal parts dishonest and confused. Dishonest because they point out that Autodesk, a publicly traded company, has a portion of its stock owned by Blackrock, one of the world's largest investment companies. Not on
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by mediaman 6y ago
Additionally, purchases of corporate debt are not the same thing as issuance of grants to individuals or companies, examples of which are unemployment benefits or a portion of the PPP small business program. Historically, looking back at 20
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by mediaman 6y ago
It's a hellscape of boredom, not of pain. And many do choose boredom. A life of boredom was preferential to the alternative for much of human history.
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by mediaman 6y ago
UBI would make it easier to exit the big city. Housing would become much more affordable relative to total income in areas outside the most expensive metros. Suddenly you can take on a job that doesn't quite pay as much, in a lower den
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by mediaman 6y ago
That's not the way price economics works. In competitive markets, goods generally fall in price to the baseline level needed to get a competitive return on assets employed. While anti-market people often claim this doesn't happen,
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by mediaman 6y ago
...are you suggesting protests about brutality against Black Americans is primarily a Chinese ploy?
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by mediaman 6y ago
No, please refer to all the ink spilled on this already. They were very careful to avoid references to paying anything in the app anywhere, or linking to anywhere where payment could be made. This was always the rule previously. It's n
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by mediaman 6y ago
Has it actually filled the offering? The title says it has, but the link is to the prospectus, which merely must be available before they begin at the market offerings. There is no indication I see that this title is correct and that Hertz
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by mediaman 6y ago
The filing clearly states investors will lose their money. If you're intent on losing money, there are many worse ways to do it, and nobody can claim this registration is deceitful.
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by mediaman 6y ago
No, it is not illegal, nor is it market manipulation. Nor is it illegal to report positively on companies you're long on. Everyone knows a hedge fund is talking its book. But that doesn't make its research or facts untrue. Short s
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by mediaman 6y ago
People blame ads all the time, but the blame is surface level: they dislike ads because they are unpleasant. But this is blaming a symptom of the real problem. The real problem is tough to solve. Ads themselves, intrinsically, are not bad.
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by mediaman 6y ago
There's no mechanism to make it happen. It would have to happen through the courts, and the courts won't allow it. They can bully Twitter and threaten to e.g. withhold federal contracts (though even this runs into legal trouble) b
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by mediaman 6y ago
Yep. People may not want life to be about selling yourself, but that's the way it is. Anyone is free to reject it. And that person is likely to live their life without their work being recognized, their ideas being appreciated, or th
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by mediaman 6y ago
Slightly different topic, but Google also suspended our company's adwords account, I believe for using keywords related to COVID-19. The business is an American manufacturer that added capacity to manufacture PPE to make up for the lac
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by mediaman 6y ago
I don't think that's a counterpoint. It depends on executives continuing to believe F2F is superior. The evidence already existed that WFH is, generally, better. See Stanford's Bloom 2013. But executives are afraid to take bi
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by mediaman 6y ago
For more context, the head of the FS 2020 program has said it's "very high" on their priority list. So while they won't block launch for it, it sounds like they aim to introduce it not too long afterward.
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by mediaman 6y ago
It would not make economic sense. You'd spend far more money and CO2 output moving mountains of garbage and trying to sort than would ever be recovered by recycling some scraps of plastic. The supply chain of incoming recyclable materi
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by mediaman 7y ago
Interesting thought experiment: if NY daily deaths over the next two weeks average 400, that's 5,600 upcoming deaths from people presumably infected now. If about one-third of deaths are not accounted for (5,121 unidentified as a porti

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