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by mizzao 3y ago
Nice, make 'em find other ways to make money than rent-seeking.
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by mizzao 3y ago
Is every FTC article usually written in this accessible and readable language?
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by mizzao 3y ago
How on earth do the unit economics work when they are shipping cheap (often junk) products overseas by air?
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by mizzao 3y ago
Yep, locally installed programs sometimes don't even show up anymore when I press WinKey + <string> because whatever ad server they're running on the backend doesn't respond and it hangs the search.
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by mizzao 3y ago
Teach for America?
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by mizzao 3y ago
As soon as I read this, I thought of TurboTax and its mission to preserve the crappy system of filing US taxes so that its software can continue to profit.
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by mizzao 3y ago
The game is playing a minimax strategy, which means if you go first it will at least draw, and if it goes first it will never lose.
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by mizzao 3y ago
Must be intimidating to be on the Pika team at the moment...
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by mizzao 3y ago
For the reference of "business units" rather than functions in the comparison to Apple — can someone elaborate here on what a "functional" organization would look like?
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by mizzao 3y ago
I'm in complete agreement with the need to protect free speech and the right of those even with "ugly positions" to share their point of view. However, what happens when those "ugly positions" are algorithmically am
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by mizzao 3y ago
Content-addressed backups sound something like how git stores data, is that the best way to think about them? And if so, what would be the main differences between just committing to a git repo for example?
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by mizzao 3y ago
Wow, this article makes it sound like a combination of Outlook, Google Workspace, a database, Jira/Monday/Notion, and HR tools all combined in one platform. Not bad before for a platform before we entered the world of Oauth and Sa
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by mizzao 3y ago
I had understood that the main reason products were killed off so easily were the promotion incentives: you get big awards for launching a product, less so for maintaining it and growing it and doing the hard iteration work required to cont
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by mizzao 3y ago
When I first saw this book I immediately bought 3 copies, one for my kid and two for friends kids. And now... Computer Engineering for BIG babies is about to come out! Includes a mux, decoder, shift register, and addressable memory. I have
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by mizzao 3y ago
Is it executable by renaming the .txt file to an .exe or what?
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by mizzao 3y ago
Pretty torn on this one... There is the risk of privacy issues and the mechanism being abused. But on the other hand, motor vehicle accidents are the third largest cause of deaths in the US, a totally insane and unnecessary number. People w
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by mizzao 3y ago
Source? Where did that money come from?
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by mizzao 3y ago
Microsoft hasn't actually sent them all that money yet, and a lot of it seems to be in Azure credits that they can just pull. Then what are they going to do?
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by mizzao 3y ago
Yep. There's the apparent legal leverage, and then there's the real leverage of money and the court of public opinion.
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by mizzao 3y ago
This is the textbook definition of the religion of Scientism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
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by mizzao 3y ago
I imagined that a prototype device of some sort that was being shipped to Acapulco pulverized the truck or ship that was transporting it
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by mizzao 3y ago
Aside from patrick451's comment, what makes you think the original owners can make effective decisions for environmental sustainability today? Their descendants probably can't.
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by mizzao 3y ago
Is this due to the departure of Steve Jobs?
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by mizzao 3y ago
/s ?
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by mizzao 3y ago
Don't forget "Rewriting the technical interview": https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-intervie...
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by mizzao 3y ago
How do I know the hostages are alive?
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by mizzao 3y ago
I read all the classic negotiations books and think this one is the only one you need to read. IMO its core idea is NOT "how am I supposed to do that", as other posters say, but the role of empathy and uncovering hidden informatio
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by mizzao 3y ago
This reminds me of "military style communication" ( https://hbr.org/2016/11/how-to-write-email-with-military-pre... ) and BLUF (bottom line up front).
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by mizzao 3y ago
Mmm, seems similar to the game of venture capital!
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by mizzao 3y ago
I wrote about that overlap with entrepreneurship here: https://twitter.com/mizzao/status/1505529213612609536

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