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by mvkel 3y ago
For pennies on the dollar, and for a very specific strategy, which Mullenweg outlined pretty thoroughly. Did it work? No, but I don't know of any examples of an entrepreneur who bats 1000
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by mvkel 3y ago
This isn't how business works. A "CEO friend" isn't going to give you $125m out of the goodness of their heart so some random shareholders can save face. Worst case, the business fails, everyone happily moves on. How do
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by mvkel 3y ago
What makes automattic gullible?
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by mvkel 3y ago
I was not prepared for how shocking it was to witness totality. I've seen partial eclipses in years past and they were neat. But this was staggering. Like the sun disappeared and was replaced with a black hole.
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by mvkel 3y ago
Really disappointing takes in here. Considering it's a literal once-in-a-lifetime experience for many people, and the scientific nature of said experience, I assumed people would be a little more open-minded. Some things in life are wo
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by mvkel 3y ago
I've experienced some strange behavior with pm2 on my projects where a reboot would completely wipe the configs and I'd have to rebuild the processes (even after a pm2 save) If it happens again I'll likely look into doing it
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by mvkel 3y ago
I mean, yeah. Are most HN entrepreneurs targeting Venezuelan customers?
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by mvkel 3y ago
If I wanted to convert exactly zero customers, I'd offer crypto payments
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by mvkel 3y ago
If I still have to pay the processing fees, what's the advantage here? Having to maintain my own payments stack (and PCI compliance) sounds like a massive distraction.
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by mvkel 3y ago
How did the industry get away with calling proxies "VPNs" anyway?
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by mvkel 3y ago
This is fascinating. It sounds like viterbi builds probabilities from known data, is that right? Is it essentially looking at the faint signal now and comparing it to data from when the signal was stronger and extrapolating?
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by mvkel 3y ago
No encryption; security through expensivity. A major developed nation would be the only candidate with enough resources to build something to communicate with Voyager. But to what end? Voyagers are sent commands using the DSN, which is in h
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by mvkel 3y ago
Ok. A "mere" 20% would be a four day work week with zero productivity loss.
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by mvkel 3y ago
> AI hasn't changed a thing about my job > ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out Increasing productivity by 1500% sounds pretty earth-shattering to me. What would you rather
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by mvkel 3y ago
I use it every day as a thinking partner. The time from idea to "product" is so compressed, there are so many little utility projects that I'd never have shipped because the opportunity cost of making them was too high. The n
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by mvkel 3y ago
Compared to current consumer 3D printers, this seems like a massive step change. Curious what he meant about not needing support structures, being able to "print in mid air." How exactly do you pull that off? Surely gravity would
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by mvkel 3y ago
HN is tech-centric, and AI is dominating tech. What would you rather see instead?
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by mvkel 3y ago
"it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." If you're the incumbent, a paradigm shift usually forces you to intentionally cannibalize your existing revenue base
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by mvkel 3y ago
Is that what it does, though? I thought setting temperature to 0 would (extremely simple example) equate to a spam filter seeing: - this is a spam email But if the sender adapts and says - th1s is a spam email It wouldn't be flagged as
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by mvkel 3y ago
> Venture capitalists have a list of danger signs to watch out for. Near the top is the company run by techno-weenies who are obsessed with solving interesting technical problems, instead of making users happy. In a startup, you're
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by mvkel 3y ago
Curious how this performs against chatgpt with few-shot prompting. More and more evidence recently has shown that fine tunes/retrieval don't measurably improve performance over few-shot, but with this being such a specific domain&
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by mvkel 3y ago
> Think of what truly open VR headsets, smartwatches, tablets and smartphones etc. would be capable of, the rich ecosystem of apps and capabilities that could exist - but greed is literally holding us back by decades. What has not been h
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by mvkel 3y ago
What year would that have been? The first dot com boom and bust was entirely ad-driven, and before that, the internet wasn't much of an internet.
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by mvkel 3y ago
> We think the way you win in CRM in 2024 is by keeping the flexibility of SObjects, and then tacking on modern UX. What is driving that thinking? Is it something the market is asking for? > Salesforce is slow and clunky. And that doe
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by mvkel 3y ago
The variety of approaches in these comments is fascinating. Does it mean there's more than one right answer, or that no one solution is ideal?
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by mvkel 3y ago
Just came here to say: bill mill is an awesome human and I'm glad to see his work appreciated here!
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by mvkel 3y ago
This feels like a "now we can say we're open" PR play rather than contributing much value to the open source community. What is the practical use of this repo?
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by mvkel 3y ago
Isn't that just whataboutism applied in the wrong direction? Like two young siblings, "she hit me so I get to hit her back!"
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by mvkel 3y ago
Sugar is inserted into most junk foods, even if savory. The purpose is not to sweeten or adjust the flavor of whatever you're eating. It's to drive the addictive "must have more" response that your body naturally creates
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by mvkel 3y ago
...except for all the others. Use Claude in Safari and the browser completely locks up after a single response.

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