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by mlinsey 5y ago
Ahh, in that case, the problem this solves is the database owner has admin power, and could take away your graphics card. This is similar to how I was always worried that Bank of America would arbitrarily change the balance in my account fo
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by mlinsey 5y ago
I disagree. It's true that the management style he had during the 1980's definitely would have had a stronger and faster backlash in the 2020s - he would have been forced out of the company even sooner than he really was. But thi
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by mlinsey 5y ago
Other comments have given ways to physically archive the webpage. Continually hosting it is a much trickier endeavor. Beyond just keeping the servers up, technologies will shift such that eventually html webpages, servers that talk using tc
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by mlinsey 5y ago
Podcasts feels like one of those apps Steve wouldn't have used, so it wouldn't have seen as much polish. I suspect this is why Keynote is fantastic but Pages and Numbers were unusable (at least, the last time I attempted to use th
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by mlinsey 5y ago
I dunno if I agree with this. If you're early on in your career, jumping in as employee #20 can be an optimal time to learn a whole lot by working directly with all the key senior people in the company. If you're later on in you
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by mlinsey 5y ago
They have said that only Tesla can best explain the best advantages of their cars, a similar justification that Apple gave when they opened up their own retail stores. And while I can now buy Apple laptops at Best Buy, I do usually pick Ap
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by mlinsey 5y ago
Mental health is a large part of the issue, but sometimes cause and effect can be murky. It's important to note that even the very large visible encampments in cities like SF and LA are the tip of the homelessness iceberg, there's
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by mlinsey 5y ago
I find either take here to be plausible, is there any good research? (I can't imagine how to ethically run an experiment, but maybe someone's figured that out)
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by mlinsey 6y ago
"Does your solved problem bluetooth headphones RELIABLY connect to your current device (without having to unpaid with another device). That is game changing." Man, I wish my headphones did this. I constantly have to fiddle with
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by mlinsey 6y ago
For booking complex, non-fungible services (like Doctor's appointments, plumbers, etc) phones are great for high-bandwidth communication for follow-up questions, triage, etc. Phones also allow a certain element of salesmanship which d
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by mlinsey 6y ago
If YC were a non-profit, they definitely wouldn't have been able to raise money from LP's to scale the program, and would therefore been able to accept far fewer teams than they do now, certainly not everyone! I agree that there
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by mlinsey 6y ago
You're generally correct, but there are exceptions. The payor still has the right to see claims if they want to, and sometimes they will carve out certain services from the insurance plan that's administered for them, usually for
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by mlinsey 6y ago
After a Twitter employee suspended Trump's account on their last day of work in 2017, I expect access to his account to do anything at all is much more highly restricted within Twitter's internal tools.
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by mlinsey 6y ago
I'm guessing you work/have recently worked at a big tech company (FANG or one of the ~5 other companies of comparable size) and are seriously overestimating how common their best practices are. Unless by "passing grades as an
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by mlinsey 6y ago
I do think it's odd that so many prominent accounts were hit but not Trump's. I remember there was an incident a couple years ago that a trust and safety employee at Twitter suspended Trump's account on their last day. It&#x
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by mlinsey 6y ago
Yes. Also, we're about an hour in now, and Musk's account just sent out another tweet after the message had been posted and deleted several times. At this point, if it was just an account compromise, someone would have reset it by
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by mlinsey 6y ago
I agree with the other reply to you, but to address your point directly, it is probably true that a lot of the frontline workforce can't afford to leave, but the people in leadership positions and very high-level/well-respected IC
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by mlinsey 6y ago
Anyone who loses health insurance due to losing their employment (even if they voluntarily resign) is legally allowed to buy COBRA for 18 months. I think they are paying for it, otherwise this would be a fairly meaningless statement since t
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Taking care of 2M Essential Ears with Glowforge(feld.com)
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by mlinsey 7y ago
I feel like most quarters won't necessarily give easy opportunities for insider trading, because stock prices over the course of the quarter are greatly moved by macro trends that are hard to forecast. But there are definitely some sh
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by mlinsey 7y ago
The main study which backs up his guess is the report from the WHO's trip to Wuhan, where they actually did what was suggested above and mass-test random samples from the population, finding a very low incidence of positives. Personal
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by mlinsey 7y ago
this is true, but a lot of resources put into a new team that was completely walled off from the rest of the company, in terms of roadmaps and eng culture, could overcome this problem. I think someone at Amazon in the mid-2000s would not ha
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by mlinsey 7y ago
Most hospitals don't have all that much slack in bed capacity; especially at the tail end of flu season most of those beds are already filled. The hospitals may be extrapolating the growth rate of the disease and realizing how soon th
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by mlinsey 7y ago
I think this is inevitable if #1 is true. It may seem politically infeasible now, but if governments get really serious about climate change, then the price of many meats but especially beef will increase significantly, and that alone will
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by mlinsey 7y ago
In an ideal world, government would invest in many more low-probability/high-impact engineering projects. But this doesn't align well with political incentives - 100M on a bet that will return 50X 10% of the time is great for a pr
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by mlinsey 7y ago
There is also a monthly subscription plan. Dunno what their conversion rate is, but recently (maybe sometime this year?) they added a game-style resource mechanic where any mistake makes you lose a heart, which you gain back either by waiti
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by mlinsey 7y ago
No inside info on Uber, but it is common for options at private companies to have strike prices considerably below reported valuations, which is proper (and adjudicated by a third party) considering the reported private valuations usually b
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by mlinsey 7y ago
Are they really only marketing to those customers? Given the pitch in the keynote, I kinda doubt it. Reminds me of those fancy six figure sports cars that are capable of all sorts of things you would never do on a regular street...”it’s a g
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by mlinsey 7y ago
https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Programs-and-Initiatives/Health-In... The ACA requires insurance companies to spend 80% of premiums on medical care. (Sometimes higher and state law can affect this too). This means that
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by mlinsey 7y ago
Sorry you had to go through such obviously bad management. Just to give some context about how these guidelines are supposed to work at Google: being managed out for staying at Meets Expectations is something that's supposed to be only

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