nickfromseattle

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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
Check out this great tweet on Elon's $2m/launch: https://x.com/Tim_X94/status/1864279927014740327 "As an auditor I review public company financial statements. These financial statements are prepared
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
My laptop, phone and headphones are USB-C. Now give me USB-C on my watch, face trimmer, electric salt/pepper shakers, and every other gadget.
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
> * getting more security guards It will be interesting to see how VIP security companies respond to the proliferation of kamikaze drones.
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
I'd say it's worse than this. The Americans UHC (and CEO) harmed were all paying customers who were denied coverage for claims. Apparently (quick Google search), UHC denies ~30% of claims, while the industry average is 16% [0]. Th
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
Yes, being able to manufacturer and deploy your satellite services at cost is an insurmountable competitive advantage. There is one other player in this space, Rocket Lab. They are 5-10 years behind SpaceX, but are the #2 launched rocket in
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
> because IMO, it made THEM look busy / effective. A KPI in hiring is offers made / accepted. I don't think the HR team gets credit for reviewing applicants and running interviews that don't result in one/both of
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
>The Dems failed on this count massively The Dems failed to communicate inflation is a global phenomena and that the US has faired far better at reducing inflation, unemployment and GDP growth then the rest of the developed world.
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
It was only a few years old with a 1-2 dozen employees. Social networks hadn't been monetized in the way they are today. The market thought Facebook overpaid for Instagram.
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
Search is one of the top ways startups can generate traffic. According to some studies, it delivers 40% of referral traffic to websites. Does an answer engine calcify incumbents and make it harder for new businesses to disrupt them?
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
I have a fairly boring consulting business, blocked by Twitter for being malware. Fortunately FB / LinkedIn / WhatsApp all work.
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
Check out this more in-depth financial analysis: https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai-business/ > OpenAI's monthly revenue hit $300 million in August, and the company expects to make $3.7 billion in revenue this ye
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
> Is Sam Altman generally considered good at his job? No credit for popularizing the current generation of AI, kicking off $hundreds of billions in CapEx spends, and for more concrete achievements, leading the fastest company to hit 100m
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
> Not clear to me why Google has let parasite SEO become so successful This was in response to the millions of SEOs flooding the SERPs with ever increasing amounts of low quality / incorrect / harmful AI generated content. Goog
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
>Secondly, if a US citizens owns more than 50% of a foreign company, by default, income from that company counts as personal income, but taxes paid by the company to another government don't count as personal taxes. You can get arou
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
Plus the tax code requiring amortization of developer salaries over 5 years instead of the year the salary expense is incurred.
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
Maybe math is easier to score and do reinforcement learning on because of it's 'solvability' whereas writing requires human judgement to score?
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
I need to create a bunch of 5-7 minute talking head videos. What's your timeline for capabilities that would help with this?
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
The easiest seems like who is paying the "tip". If it's your employer, it's taxable compensation. If it's a customer, than it could be a tip. Then there would probably be a bunch of sub-bullet points defining whethe
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
> If they're not training foundation models any more, the talents of people like Noam Shazeer aren't so important to them. Why is the CEO important to model development regardless of talents? They've raised $150m+, have $1
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
> For those not keeping up, we now have commercialized blood-based screening tools designed for early detection of multiple cancers by analyzing cfDNA methylation patterns. Can you share some types of test / brands doing these testi
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
I moved to Barcelona and living in a walkable city is such a life upgrade. My whole life is within the distance of a walk. The grocery store, gym, doctor, friends, restaurants, beach, movie theatre, shopping, everything. I can walk across t
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
> why I think the data must be heavily biased. This is correct, but you can estimate the bias. B2B keywords typically have 2-5x higher search volume/month than the popular tools estimate, for exactly the reason you provided. More so
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
Ahrefs says "and other third party data sources to find keywords" [0] Pretty sure they buy data from software tools like free anti-virus scanners, toolbars, chrome extensions, VPNs, etc that resell their user's web browsing h
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
Walking pad so you can walk while you work. Helps minimize negative health impact of working too much.
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
The point of the anecdote from the book, Psychology of Money is that some financially non-optimal or non-rational decisions can bring peace of mind, which has a hard to calculate, but real value. The fear of my business being disrupted caus
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
How did you arrive at no elite universities is the cause of under investment relative to Seattle's status as a tech hub? According to popular research, the best founders are older, as in 40s. [0] Maybe older founders need/want to
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
I was born/raised in Seattle and I asked a startup vet why Seattle startup funding under performed so hard against the perception of Seattle being a tech hub. His answer is because the rich Seattle techies got rich by being employee #
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
I work in an industry already being shaped by LLMs. Today, it's eating away at the bottom of the market, but I assume it will eventually eat away at the top where I am positioned too. I was talking to a friend about the book "psyc
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
I read there was additional drama related to Sam leaving YC; unilaterally declaring himself Chairman of YC, including a YC blog announcement that was quickly deleted. [0] [0] https://archive.is/Vl3VR
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
>They also have to remove that "golden visa" in Spain due to the same problem Found this article that indicates Golden Visas account for 14,500 of approximately 600,000 home sales per year in Spain. [0] [0] https://w

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