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by npunt 4y ago
It seems like a bad way to run a bank if these kinds of large risk decisions (buying ~$80b in 10y bonds at ~1.5%) are solely driven by a few execs and the BoD, while everyone else in the bank is just a drone. If employee comp (yearly and ev
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by npunt 4y ago
I appreciate the complexity of the unwind, and that many employees may not have had a direct hand in the risk that SVB accrued, but I think there's a bigger picture at play. Banks are supposed to be one of the bedrocks upon which the e
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by npunt 4y ago
What other banks that startups use have an exemption to Basel III? Would love to understand broader risk to startup ecosystem.
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by npunt 4y ago
If you have histamine intolerance be aware that Lion's Mane may trigger a histamine response. Happened to my partner, which was frustrating since it provided cognitive benefits for her.
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by npunt 4y ago
Agree. I didn't want to moralize, just wanted to point out it's a shrewd business move. It's rather anticompetitive, though that is hard to prove in such a dynamic market. Who knows, we may soon be calling it 'antitrust&
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by npunt 4y ago
Yeah we're in an AI landgrab right now where at- or below-cost pricing is buying marketshare, lock-in, and underdevelopment of competitors. Smart move for them to pour money into it.
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by npunt 4y ago
"Wondering" = discovery = you're going to have a bad time
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by npunt 4y ago
Whenever there's a tradeoff between wisdom and cleverness, the tech industry tends to favor the latter. And the industry moves at such a pace that people in it have gotten quite used to thinking that anything that happened in the past
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by npunt 4y ago
Enshittification is a great term. Great piece by Cory too. I wrote something similar about 'UX Erosion' a few years ago about the same dynamic on social apps: >UX Erosion, n; 1. shiny new service & concept appears with grea
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by npunt 4y ago
This looks wonderful, but I can't help but think the medium of a PDF is not optimal for something of this scope (24 coauthors! 700 references!) and potential impact - it's goal is not just to share a new discovery but get a bunch
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by npunt 4y ago
Numbers yes, when you last contacted no. Core value prop of personal CRM is ease of keeping up w/ people, which means smarts of reprioritizing people based on several factors sort of like a personal assistant would, which means system
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by npunt 4y ago
Oh cool, so great to hear from a user after all these years! Some of our users were suuper invested, like keeping up with hundreds of people - far more than we anticipated. I think our top user was a pastor in Australia who kept up with lik
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by npunt 4y ago
They were the closest but yeah, biz is where the $ is if you’re anywhere near CRM functionality
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by npunt 4y ago
Lots of attempts over the years at this personal crm problem space but no success to date. I did one on Facebook platform in 2008-09 called Socialfly, our tagline was ‘be twice the friend in half the time’. Problem is there’s a lot of input
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by npunt 4y ago
Water does not absorb into parched dirt nearly as well as wet dirt. It’s a big contributor to flooding when rainfall finally appears, as the water has nowhere to go.
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by npunt 4y ago
Thanks for your story Jon, found it helpful.
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by npunt 4y ago
Jangle | AOSP Engineer, Senior Flutter Engineer, and Backend Engineer | San Francisco or Remote | Full-time | jangleinc.com At Jangle we want to reshape the relationship between people and technology, moving away from the extractive, attent
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by npunt 4y ago
The quotes are for the most part about ideas and creativity being stifled by reading, and this can happen to anyone - it's related to the curse of knowledge and the preservation of the beginner's mind. Reading others' ideas,
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by npunt 4y ago
Hah on the surface I suppose. But I’m not arguing whether people should think for themselves, I’m arguing that it matters when people should think for themselves. If you’re more curious about others ideas on a given topic than your own
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by npunt 4y ago
There’s much more to the story than writing is a way of thinking, and reading is a big input into writing. Specifically, how each interplay with ideas, as most of us after all are in the business of creating things. And here, the most impor
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by npunt 4y ago
The Beatles themselves didn't need to ingest the entire corpus of past musicians to be productive & inventive, but they did stand on the shoulders of giants musically (vs being born in some prior century), and they were in the righ
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by npunt 4y ago
Perhaps by the standards of what entertains you, TNG's talking isn't entertaining - I can understand that based on the current media landscape and the strong visual culture we're in. But if you know it carries a different POV
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by npunt 4y ago
They're reusing the old enclosure so they save on tooling & parts.
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by npunt 4y ago
Indeed, "it's just a toy" is often the place these things start
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by npunt 4y ago
It's just the new hotness
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by npunt 4y ago
Agree - eBikes solve so many problems if we could only create there infra for them. Aside from co2, which is partially offset by the emissions from materials and manufacture, the only thing EVs really have going for them is less brake dust.
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by npunt 4y ago
If there's one thing that the EU should be regulating its this USB naming madness.
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by npunt 4y ago
You’re scope creeping unnecessarily - even if we’re beyond carrying capacity for the planet the answer is not let ‘er rip with industrial chemicals. Better to address the issues separately, so you can make sure there are fewer unintended co
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by npunt 4y ago
This is a good point if you take the perspective that we are independent of our environment. Our desires and needs are natural, therefore we should follow them. However, if you consider that we co-evolved with our environment and all of its
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by npunt 4y ago
> So then how does one explain the unending UI regressions with every single major update? Strategy Tax. They have a bigger strategy they are pursuing to align iOS<>MacOS. This is the big ecosystem play that raises ARPU and improve

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