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by nytesky 4y ago
I am always wary of non financial metrics. Eyeballs, DAU, transactions. The old yarn about selling $2 for $1 and making it up on volume comes to mind.
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by nytesky 4y ago
Is Stripe profitable? I heard some of its financing is from PE and bank funding, which tend to be less tolerant of money losing or low profit operations. If they are not profitable they will need more capital eventually or to lengthen their
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by nytesky 4y ago
There’s a whole meme in blind about aerospace engineers earning peanuts. Not sure if there are too many wanna be astronauts or just the nature of finances when primary customer is the gov. Even SpaceX is supposed to pay only soso!
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by nytesky 4y ago
We need self driving scooters. You can summon them and they return to doc on their own when done.
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by nytesky 4y ago
The reason they want to lay off today is to avoid the stock grants, so it comes down which $$ was bigger. And honestly they were likely planning for severance anyways...
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by nytesky 4y ago
Wasn't this already broached in depth with a book showcased on NPR? https://www.npr.org/2022/05/31/1102165413/did-jack-welch-bre...
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by nytesky 4y ago
I think this may add value for a discussion on Roddenberry’s legacy. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/plane And the best new Star Trek is Orville, clearly carrying the mantle from TNG.
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by nytesky 4y ago
Pretty sure the killer app was spreadsheets. IBM was international business machines after all, and PC were IBM clones. Also word processing/publishing. Very clear applications with an existing market.
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by nytesky 4y ago
I would trim down what you need encrypted and store it in a password manager (some even handle attachments). For individual files I would just use WinZip AES encryption which is very portable and atomic (so bit rot only impacts that single
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by nytesky 4y ago
It does make me think about networking companies and dot.com. Fiber and networking gear considered themselves “real” businesses versus those “web” companies that imploded. Of course, all that IPO money had been buying their hardware and the
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by nytesky 4y ago
I thought a company like Snap didn’t make a profit, so I dont think the employees are netting 7 figures for the company? That probably only applies to Google, FB, Apple, Amazon?
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by nytesky 4y ago
So Figma is still not making a profit? It’s funny how so many acquisitions focus on revenue, which feels less useful without costs to acquire revenue (see $2 for $1 examples abound). Adobe is down $40B in market cap. Some of that maybe to r
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by nytesky 4y ago
Recently my gmail required password and only 2FA It would accept was hardware security key. No OTP or Google auth. It was weird
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by nytesky 4y ago
Doesn’t having a recovery phone make you vulnerable to a port out scam, basically invalidating any 2FA?
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by nytesky 4y ago
How is that good news? Their biggest rival is now part of a monopolistic Goliath? Or do you mean the valuation helps boost their value?
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by nytesky 4y ago
That is great, because hourly dew point is so important to knowing how comfortable it will be. Now we just need a lightening tracker in iOS weather…
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by nytesky 4y ago
I came here for same bear necessities!
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True. Would they accept Ooma number? Wish I could pay like $5/month for a forward only number that worked everywhere.
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My understanding was they would stop after today!
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Oh that’s a bonus for me, I want her to use it basically for phone, imessage, and find my!
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by nytesky 4y ago
My Jlab headphones have a solution -- whenever they turn on they are in "pairing" mode as if they are brand new. They seem to figure out when they find an existing paired device, but if not they are discoverable every time. Still
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by nytesky 4y ago
The other users in your family group will be able to add 3 addresses of their own; the 3 you see are just the email address for your root@yourdomain.com account. User1 will have their own set of 3; login to iCloud.com from one of the famil
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by nytesky 4y ago
My daughter as an iPhone 6, so its many versions pass and I think they have stopped security patches with this upgrade. How much risk is she of being hacked without those updates -- is there any way to track identified risks?
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by nytesky 4y ago
I use a Google Voice number for all of my delivery, business, etc phone calls. It has built in verbal call screening and the smarter spam filtering, and thus my personal iPhone # can be exclusive for my white listed personal calls.
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Ironically we do a lot to defend our privacy, such as kids not having any social media. I just pick my battles and recognize those I have already forfeited (I mean we could just use get walkies and speak in code, which we did before kids h
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by nytesky 4y ago
I’ve had this worry for years of a state level attack via network connected FSD cars. But I’m hardly alone, it was shown in a Fast and Furious movie, so people are thinking of it.
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I interviewed at Amazon, and while it was a long day with lots of questions, everyone I spoke with was great. I am not a developer but had to do a code assessment and the interviewer was very patient with my pseudo code and likely novice al
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My whole nuclear family uses find my. More than once I’ve helped give my wife directions by watching her dot on the map (Apple Maps had some problem). I regularly use it to pickup the kids when they have been walking around town. Rather tha
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by nytesky 4y ago
Has SNAP ever been profitable? It looks like it made $MM this year? https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/03/snap-finally-did-it-yall/ I think it raised $5B in various funding rounds? It's been around a de
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NPR positive spin on crypto as investment(npr.org)
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