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by oldtownroad 3y ago
What’s that statement based on? Ownership doesn’t exist in nature, it’s a concept humans have invented and enforce through cultural and legal means. Ownership is just one method of providing occupation, but occupation can be achieved throug
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
There’s no obligation to run a company into the ground. If a company reaches a point where the end of its runway is in sight, and the company decides to let employees know that the company will be out of money in 2 months, to give employees
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
The cybertruck was announced in a different world, there’s no longevity to the novelty of something so “weird”. The high-like feeling of “oh my god that’s so weird I need one” eventually wears off and Tesla’s half-decade delays have let the
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
At a previous company, we were subject to semi-frequent attacks (of a much smaller scale). The operating assumption internally was that it’s a competitor trying to undermine us but it remains a mystery. Anyone involved in these type of atta
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
The blog post mentions that the website no longer lists the deprecated functionality. The website still says that there’s a free plan so my reading of the blog post + website is that they’re removing the free Always On feature and replacing
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
You can’t just get a legal order forcing a borrower to pay. A lender is at the mercy of a borrower’s willingness to repay unless the lender is willing to accept pennies on the dollar by forcing the borrower into bankruptcy.
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
All access was never 24/7 access to all buildings as far as I’m aware specifically because the building membership benefit is 24/7 access to your primary building. Which buildings were you able to access 24/7? Just one or man
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Are you sure? They’ve always been 24 hours 365 days a year for building members, and typical office hours for day pass visitors (9-6 Monday to Friday) — that hasn’t changed (here in London at least). Edit: https://help.wework.com
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Everything in business is a negotiation: these loans will have been established with the same leverage-everything negotiation style. WeWork are announcing it because their position would be weakened if it was leaked by their lenders but thi
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
A Pull Request should represent one change to the system (whether that’s a new feature or a bug fix). A commit to the Pull Request branch only has value in the context of the Pull Request. If you want a Pull Request to contain multiple atom
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
I agree. As a way to minimise the pain on GitHub today, we disallow force pushing and enforce squash merging. Force pushing is a nightmarish behaviour, once a Pull Request is opened the branch must be append only.
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Sponsorships rarely go 100% into the pockets of creators. The share varies but it can be anywhere from 25% to 75% because these sponsorships typically come through agencies and management takes a cut too.
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Broad appeal to a casual technical audience is why you see the same type of sponsorships. VPNs are very high margin and easy to convert. You’ll see the same in across other types of content, e.g: recipe boxes (Hello Fresh) are very common f
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
The title doesn’t match the content of the email. The email isn’t “begging for worse search results” rather they’re begging for more searches in the context of recent (at the time) Google Chrome changes that had reduced search volume.
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
OCD is a mental illness that has nothing to do with neatness, it’s a life-interrupting illness. You’re not engaging in OCD behaviours. “OCD” as a colloquialism for being organised is something we should avoid so that we do not downplay the
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
The cost of food delivery is dirt cheap, though, in most places it’s under $5. The reason it’s so cheap is because it leverages existing infrastructure and there’s an unlimited supply of people willing to deliver for below minimum wage. I c
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
most of the world loves tofu.
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
why does lead generation, a very normal and well understood business, require any of this payments technology? Why are you involving stripe instead of just taking a cut after the fact?
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Your website describes a system where you’re making payments into Stripe through your system (“We take an extra 1.5% if the customer's information is already saved through our system.”) and one that will “follow up with them to assure
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
The system your website describes sounds very sketchy. Payment providers are very nervous about sketchy behaviour because the cost of failing to detect it can be very high. They’re risk averse. The fact that you went live and immediately pu
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
> …we believe they have corroborating evidence through audio that suggests a deepfake is likely… Does that mean they have audio of the call?
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
And obviously untrue. If you’re an employee who just caused a security incident of course you’re going to make it seem as sophisticated as possible but considering Retool has hundreds of employees from all over the world, the range of accen
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Google Cloud Domains as a product will continue to function but it’ll be an interface to Squarespace: Squarespace will be the registrar. “Yes, you can continue to search and register for new domains using Cloud Domains. After migration, Goo
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
“By law, fintechs must work with a bank to do these things, and right now that means a legacy high street bank with mainframes. Griffin is the bank plus technology platform that all future fintechs would build on.” Did they write this in 20
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
CEO is a specific type of role that doesn’t have much relevance to someone like you. You’re much more likely to get value out of talking to a successful founder, someone who went from nothing to something. That said, a lot of it can be dist
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
Yes, you’re right, there are exceptions to the rule, but they’re few and far between. Compare the number of airbnb hosts with just 1 room rented out today vs. a decade ago and you’ll see that nowadays most hosts have multiple exclusive prop
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
I assume you’re joking but if you’re serious: hotels must go through extensive planning processes that include considerations for the local economy. Hotels provide jobs. Hotels do not increase the cost of living in an area and assuming loca
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
That’s not true. The Airbnb industrial complex is mature, “locals” renting out a spare room have been replaced by profiteers evading tourism taxes. Ethical tourism involves using locally licensed accommodation (which is mostly hotels). Any
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
I absolutely do not mean to suggest his work was not valuable or that he is a bad software engineer. I am sure he is very talented. My point is that his resume is the problem, not his skill. A resume is a sales tool, and sales is about know
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by oldtownroad 3y ago
You’re describing work that has no relevance outside of a megacorp like Google which even amongst megacorps is quite unique because it invents technology and can afford to do so. If you look at the type of work being done at “normal” compan

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