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by mgfist 6y ago
There are a lot of VCs out there. Some do well, some don't. But remember that unlike the stock market, investing in a VC means locking up your money for 10 years. Slightly beating the market is not worth the liquidity loss, you have to
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by mgfist 6y ago
Yup, just think of covid. It has accelerated digitization of the world in an unprecedented way, amongst the many other world changes it has caused.
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by mgfist 6y ago
Auntie Luna
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by mgfist 6y ago
Sane companies just have retention policies instead of doing some obtuse hack like this.
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by mgfist 6y ago
Capital is cheap
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by mgfist 6y ago
> Wealth inequality and social unrest in America is DIRECTLY related to corrupt and/or incompetent (you choose) Fed policies. It amazes me why most people do not grasp this. I think it is lack of education. Who do you think is beh
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by mgfist 6y ago
A better interim solution is having nuclear energy pick up any slack.
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by mgfist 7y ago
Used to use it at my company. It didn't scale well with many people. We switched to zoom a while back and it's been much much better.
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by mgfist 7y ago
It's funny because the economy is currently in one of the longest bull runs ever, and yet the above is no where near possible. The income inequality today is staggering.
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by mgfist 7y ago
That's simply because being profitable means you don't have anything better to do with your money, which signals to investors that you don't see any more growth opportunity. Mongo/elastic could both become profitable pre
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by mgfist 7y ago
How would you sell bug fixes? "Hi grincho, how would you like an update for X feature where we fix Y bugs for Z dollars?" Most people would respond by asking why they have to pay more money for things that should be working in the
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by mgfist 7y ago
Yes I meant TAM as the other person commented. Further more, even if amazon retail still isn't profitable (I haven't checked the numbers) AWS still wouldn't have spawned without it. Think of it as a pivot, even though they st
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by mgfist 7y ago
Yes my b.
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by mgfist 7y ago
That's not true. Road to profitability and market cap are what matter. Hypothetical: One business is making $100million in revenue, is losing $20million a year but has enough market cap to grow 10-100x and is spending most of its m
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by mgfist 7y ago
I haven't looked into password managers for a while. What do you do if you need to login on a random machine?
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by mgfist 7y ago
> but they're working for you by some twist of fate instead - if you treat them like a code monkey they're going to hate it, and you're wasting their potential. Well no one is forced to work anywhere, especially if they do
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by mgfist 7y ago
> Why are programmers not treated like CEOs in terms of pay levels? Because of scope of impact. The scope of impact of a CEO is the entirety of a company. A bad CEO can destroy a company, a good CEO can make the company financially succe
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by mgfist 7y ago
You can count cars going in and out.
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by mgfist 7y ago
Amazon isn't buying the goods though. The store selling the good isn't just selling it to Amazon, so it's not reselling.
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by mgfist 7y ago
I wonder what your opinion is of Kyle Mitchell https://writing.kemitchell.com/
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by mgfist 7y ago
I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here.
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by mgfist 8y ago
Missing the point that this is the first picture of a freaking black hole..
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by mgfist 8y ago
I'd go even further in the opposite direction than other responders and say this can be a good thing. Your child getting lost in ikea is a safe way for them to learn the dangers of getting lost and also a safe challenge to overcome. Si
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by mgfist 8y ago
If we want to be pedantic, this paper is the work of millions of humans throughout history, who have helped developed the math knowledge for such a project to even be feasible.
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by mgfist 8y ago
Just like all the male scientists in history. I bet you haven't heard of Einstein either then right?
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by mgfist 8y ago
So how do you explain all the famous male scientists and inventors of history? The most famous of them all are because they discovered cool things, not necessarily the "hardest" or "most significant" thing. Everyone know
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by mgfist 8y ago
I'm very interested to see how this goes. I think Google will be happy they decided to partner with the actual services rather than making their own clones like Amazon is doing. They could stand to gain a lot by offering the "real
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by mgfist 8y ago
LISP code is not a list as you know it traditionally. It's made up of cons cells. The code of other languages is not a cons cell, altho it is a list of characters. Very important distinction.
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by mgfist 8y ago
It's pretty easy to tell which side of Buzzfeed the article comes from. The investigative side has proper titles while the clickbait ones have a "Click here to see these 10 crazy news titles, #7 will blow your mind" kinda tit