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by pembrook 1y ago
Utilities are infra-as-a-service. The point is that infrastructure is non-optional, you're not going to decide not to use it, and you rarely switch (in the case of utilities you often CAN'T switch). You set it and forget it. AI
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by pembrook 1y ago
Right winger says problem is government. Left winger says problem is corporations. Repeat ad nauseum. Yes both can be bad. 95% of regulations and 95% of companies work so fantastically that nobody realizes they exist. Sure. But re: regulati
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by pembrook 1y ago
Metered billing makes sense for B2B infrastructure-as-a-service type products (AWS), where as your company grows both you and the infra provider know the bill will grow manageably over time. Infra is set it and forget it. But for AI in the
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by pembrook 1y ago
This is the fundamental pricing strategy of all modern software in fact. Underpriced for consumers, overpriced for businesses.
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by pembrook 1y ago
> Anything short of taxing every residence which is not a primary residence AND banning foreign ownership AND reducing permitting toil AND raising interest rates, is going to fall short. You forgot eliminating favorable taxation for real
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by pembrook 1y ago
I won't defend Fink's role in pushing the whole 2010s ESG mania, but they were ultimately toothless in that too, because they are a glorified custodian of funds...nothing more.
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by pembrook 1y ago
While we’re debunking that can we debunk the weird leftist conspiracy theories around index fund companies like Blackrock “buying up all the residential homes.” Yes, the largest index fund company that sells investment products that allow p
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by pembrook 1y ago
Outsourcing more and more of our parenting responsibilities to politicians...what could possibly go wrong? But hey, I guess the elites in developed countries always know what's best for the children. What would we, the stupid unwashed
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by pembrook 1y ago
Which directly mirror the EU's failing economics. Both have collapsing demographics, collapsing social welfare systems (turns out forced government pension payments thrown into low yielding bonds for people in their 20-30s who should b
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by pembrook 1y ago
They haven’t been deputized, in fact the opposite. When they block a payment it’s typically due to some interest group threatening bad PR hit pieces on them. If you’re running a duopoly money printer, the worst thing that can happen is to h
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by pembrook 1y ago
These resource constraints create an extremely strong incentive for customers to try all competitors…this is what makes for the best products/services. When there’s no network effects it’s a fight over algorithms and compute and fundra
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by pembrook 1y ago
The fundamental issue is the existence of an iron clad monopoly of 2 payment providers. It’s a choke point on the entire economy for any sufficiently motivated interest group that wants to ban something that would otherwise be legal…lobbyin
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by pembrook 1y ago
So if we’ve agreed with OPs assessment that the problem in the UK is the government attempting to seize more power…how will becoming subjects of yet another government body that is even more powerful and less beholden to the people…help thi
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by pembrook 1y ago
You didn’t put anything in though, the lottery syndicate paid you to work as a janitor. And the point is the syndicate didnt win??
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by pembrook 1y ago
If it’s so easy to do that instead (and if you think that’s how startups work), why the hell would you join as an early employee instead of starting your own company? Hint: it’s not as easy as you think.
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by pembrook 1y ago
Okay, but how much do you think you deserve as an employee who has invested none of your money in the company and decided to join on a 6-figure salary only after the company is already through YC, is funded by top investors and looks attrac
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by pembrook 1y ago
The open web that Google killed is 20 years older than YouTube. Give it time.
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by pembrook 1y ago
Yes, this is the experience on virtually every content website that used to be tolerable or even good. But this is because there is no viable monetization model for non-editorial written word content anymore and hasn’t been for a decade. Go
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by pembrook 1y ago
They have not "begun" persecuting people for all sorts of things. Individual CBP agents have always had extreme authority relative to their position and have always had cases of denying people for extremely stupid reasons every ye
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by pembrook 1y ago
https://www.newsweek.com/how-many-people-are-being-blocked-e...
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by pembrook 1y ago
Who said money. Time and human effort are the most valuable commodities. That time and effort wasted on consultants and lawyers could have been spent on more important problems or used to more efficiently solve the current one.
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by pembrook 1y ago
Hard disagree on both GDPR and USBC. If I had to pick a connector that the world was forced to use forever due to some European technocrat, I would not have picked usb-c. Hell, the ports on my MacBook are nearly shot just a few years in. Pl
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by pembrook 1y ago
I could list a million examples. But here's one, imagine if selling a physical product in Illinois vs. Ohio required: - hiring a human representative in each state and paper-based filings and correspondance in different languages for t
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by pembrook 1y ago
OP said "state-of-the-art" specifically
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by pembrook 1y ago
6: Make employees much harder to fire, make companies much less likely to hire 7: Continue speaking 48 different languages and teach english too late so you have fragmented markets that on average can barely talk with each other at a 1st gr
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by pembrook 1y ago
They are good comparisons. All startups go against incumbents/competitors with deeper pockets. Re: Anthropic specifically, I tend to agree, hence why I'm saying the deeper pockets (eg. Google, Amazon, etc) are perfectly positioned
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by pembrook 1y ago
Uber operated at a loss for 9 years. They're now a profitable, market-winning business. Amazon operated at a loss for 9 years, and barely turned a profit for over a decade longer than that. They're now one of the greatest business
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by pembrook 1y ago
The funny thing is Claude 4.0 isn't even that 'smart' from a raw intelligence perspective compared to the other flagship models. They've just done the work to tailor it specifically for proper tool using during coding. O
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by pembrook 1y ago
This is true for all products. How much of your closet is filled with stuff you haven’t worn in at least a year. How much of your freezer is full of stuff you’ll never eat. How many of the books on your bookshelf will you actually read befo
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by pembrook 1y ago
Have you been human before? competition for resources and status is an instinctive trait. It rears its head regardless of what sociopolitical environment you place us in. You’re either competing to offer better products or services to custo

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