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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> They were an activist investor that actively rallied the Board to do buybacks I think you might be getting DFV and Michael Burry confused here.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> but they'll learn something from it. Unfortunately, I disagree. I think there will be stories written for the next bit about the handful that make bank, very few stories written about the people who lose their shirts and end up wi
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I've said this elsewhere, but no. There are two main differences here. 1. The scope of the change. My understanding is that Elasticsearch may use Lucene under the hood, but extends it in ways and for use cases that Lucene was not desig
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
The grey area here is more about what the "market" is defined as here. It's not entirely clear that the existing dominance that AWS has is different enough from "hosted search services" to be considered a different
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I'm really starting to dislike this notion of "Oh well Elastic deserves this since they build on an open source project, Lucene!" There are two main differences here. 1. The scope of the change. My understanding is that Elast
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> Amazon simply out-competes ElasticSearch with their own product when it comes to consultancy, services You're kind of right about this, but it's the issue that AWS just has a massive head-start with any client that already us
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> Imagine putting a sign on your lawn that says people can walk on your lawn and are even allowed to poop on it if they feel like it and then getting mad at them when they do so. I mean, sure. Someone can poop on the lawn. There is a dif
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I completely agree with your overall point, although there are definitely a lot of intracicies here. Overall liquidity is definitely important though. > Musk's shares in Amazon times the current share price This is clearly a typo&#x
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
For non-essential travel, I can 100% agree with you. Not all travel is non-essential though (to a varying degree based on your belief of what "essential" encompasses).
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
By this logic you're saying that advocating and inciting genocide is just an "unpopular opinion" that deserves to be protected. You know, because it's not against a specific, named person. I'm not even going convers
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> I feel like we've all been a bit brainwashed by the government in our notion that "free speech" must have limits. I very much doubt that that is true. I very much disagree. Hate speech is just one example. "Speech&q
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Trigger warning, but this reminds me of the Steubenville High school rape case (you can google it). A hacker accessed and leaked video of the situation in question (IIRC after officials refused to take action, and gone as far as too alleged
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
According to reports, their monthly AWS spend (prior to today, obviously) was ~300k (or 3.6M/year). 7.7k is not really a noticeable increase, and any alarms that did trigger would likely have been attributed to increased user growth
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Well that's embarassing. Updated, thanks.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
This feels like an insane precedent to be setting. Any platform that accepts user generated content can potentially end up in this situation. Amazon appears to be setting a precedent here that any platform that has not fully solved content
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I think OP's point is that if you're only reporting on violent stuff, it's going to look 100% violent, even if the majority of the content is not. Violence-inducing content is obviously not okay, but it's not fair to ign
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I'm waiting for the announcement tomorrow of "AMS: Amazon Moderation Service"
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> anyone with the chops to make $200k/yr from Facebook could start their own SaaS and make $400k/yr without too much effort. I'm sure some can. But "coding well enough to get a job at Facebook" and "being ab
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
You're right. Interest rates have a direct affect on property value. Note that I do believe that this effect isn't quite as present in the "ultra-luxury" markets (or at least as a much lower impact)
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I mean, not really. The financing contingency means that if your financing falls through, you get your earnest money back. Assuming a 500k purchase with 1% earnest money, waiving the financing contingency means that the seller receives at
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> you're basically saying that users who are capable enough to even need/use decentralised version control systems are too dumb and incompetent Do not put words in my mouth. I did not say that, you just did. I said that usabili
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> Nope. No backups, no sympathy, simple as that. This is a really garbage opinion. Long tail reliability situations like this is a major blocking point to large scale adoption of many things. No one wants to use something where the conse
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Phone numbers that are meant for account recovery and/or two-factor security only are most definitely not public info.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
This feels kind of like some sort of regulatory capture by DoorDash, etc now that they are big enough. Is there any way that this wouldn’t stifle any new competition?
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
I think you're focusing too much on "nuclear operator" here. As mentioned in the article, Homer worked a variety of different jobs throughout the season. In my opinion, it's not realistic for a high-school graduate with
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Because buying bitcoin after being paid in "real" money doesn't generate as many "bitcoin to the moon!" news articles that contribute to driving up the price of bitcoin.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
> I've rejected people for showing negative non-technical traits I'm not an expert, but this can be a really slippery slope to implicit bias creeping in to your hiring decisions, especially if these traits are outside of your a
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
Ya, but let's not pretend that most of these employees couldn't haved walked outside and ended up with a full line up of interviews scheduled for the first week after the holidays.
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
The actual title is "Element AI sold for $230-million as founders saw value mostly wiped out". This is an important difference, since the submitted title here implies they were entirely wiped out. It looks like this company rais
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by nrmitchi 6y ago
This is an extremely bad take. Due to exercise windows, people are often forced to either give up all of their options, or exercise them when it is unclear that they will be worthless. > So I sold part of my options when they were in the

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