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by pevey 4y ago
I took a break for about 2 years spanning the time leading up to and right after my second son was born. It happened somewhat naturally, because I exited a startup and needed to move geographically for family reasons. I did some consulting
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by pevey 4y ago
Agreed. This is the worst possible way to address whatever problem the university thinks they have.
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by pevey 4y ago
This is but one example of one PAC for one party. I don’t know how many PACs exist, but easily hundreds. Thousands? A lot of money is donated to campaigns and PACs across local, state, and national elections, and a lot of that money is spen
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by pevey 4y ago
The short answer is, a lot of money. Like, a lot a lot. See a recent article from the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/03/us/politics/senate-republ...
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by pevey 4y ago
I remember when sendmail was the de facto standard, and postfix was the lighter-weight new kid on the block. I’ve had my own domain since the 90s and self-hosted at one point out of my dorm room. I continued for years after, but I gave it u
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by pevey 4y ago
This is true, it cashes out the carried interest as well, so if the new fund closes with a lower valuation for that investment, the investor was screwed out of more carried interest than should have been paid.
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by pevey 4y ago
The rationale that is usually given to LPs to make them go along is that the time to exit is not right, but the one fund that currently owns the interest is getting long in the tooth, so they need to move the interest to the newer vintage y
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by pevey 4y ago
Should add to headline... "with bitcoin" And that is 90% of the actual demand for bitcoin. The rest was speculation, and that is going away as prices fall. So imagine how bitcoin would crash if people stopped paying these ransoms
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by pevey 4y ago
It’s an insurance thing. The capital for Lloyd’s is provided by presumably wealthy individuals, who are called names. This historically is because they are the names underwriting losses. In the past, it literally meant their names would be
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by pevey 4y ago
And it's a one-click checkout that they apparently don't event WANT to be widely adopted. There is no pricing info on their web site. It is a "call us" type of sales pipeline. I pointed this out in another thread yest
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by pevey 4y ago
But if they did that, it would set a precedent that is going to come back to bite them when they have to let the rest of the staff go eventually.
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by pevey 4y ago
I have an ecommerce web site for a smallish regional coffee company I own. I heard about Bolt and was interested enough to go to their web site to learn more. Could not find a pricing page. Saw a form where you can request a demo. Realiz
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by pevey 4y ago
It’s funny how anything elective or cosmetic is like that. To be clear, infertility is a serious medical condition, and I’m not making light of it. The distinction I’m making is an economic one. When patients have more choice as to whether
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by pevey 4y ago
It’s amazing that any of these “agreements” are ever upheld by courts. As standard procedure, you have to agree to any and all charges, but in most cases they refuse to give any estimate of what those charges might be. They are “trade secre
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by pevey 5y ago
I’m not a fan of loot boxes or “free to play,” but it’s hard to take this complaint about dark patterns seriously on a site with a blocking popup and back-button jankiness.
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by pevey 5y ago
It's hard to justify Auth0 when you can use cognito or AFDS often for free as an addon to things you already need. Or something like firebase (or supabase or appwrite etc). I would trust any of those solutions more than Okta, which i
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by pevey 5y ago
I'm not the OP, but I find working with SvelteKit to be an extremely positive experience. It has completely re-sparked my love of programming. For the older people here on HN, maybe you can relate to this: I remember back in the late
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by pevey 5y ago
This same article was posted previously, so I will post the same response I posted on the other thread: Elasticsearch until recently did not nudge you to set up a username or password by default. I noticed the last time I installed it on a
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by pevey 5y ago
I think that is part of it, and part is also copying a pattern that is appropriate in some situations into situations where it isn't. Meaning: I totally agree with the article that asking to ask is a complete waste of time on Internet
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by pevey 5y ago
I personally love the front end frameworks, and I don’t find them frustrating at all. Knockout was a workhorse until angular came along. And then vuejs. And now I use sveltekit for pretty much any web app. The frameworks are popular because
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by pevey 5y ago
For those who don't remember or weren't alive, Long-Term Capital Management was the whale hedge fund of the day and had on staff at least one Nobel laureate, Robert Merton. They essentially bought into the "let's buy at
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by pevey 5y ago
Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell by George Finlay Simmons is one I go back to from time to time to make sure I have mastery of basic math. Someone gave it to me in high school. It’s a tiny book but powerful. It helped me a prepare for
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by pevey 5y ago
Totally agree. I love Cloudflare. I recommend it even for small businesses. It's easy to use and scales beautifully. The article says: > My issue arose when I realized that they remove your SSL certificate, then use their own. Cl
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by pevey 5y ago
Quickbooks for a startup makes a lot of sense. Pretty much any accountant you would hire has basic familiarity with it. Invoicing is built in, with a payments option you can turn on. Easy to set up and decent API and starter apps. I would
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by pevey 5y ago
There is also the Qui Tam route for whistleblowers in NY (or relating to allegations of wrongdoing that occur in NY or companies based in NY). https://www.nycbar.org/get-legal-help/article/employment-and... The wh
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by pevey 5y ago
I don't disagree. No way I would move up to a bigger house at today's prices. BUT...I've been saying that for a while now, so I guess I look like the idiot. No one really knows. Relevant John Keynes quote related to short
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by pevey 5y ago
> "It's very hard to convince somebody of a thing when financial gains depend on them believing in it," says tech luminary @TimOReilly... Tim is paraphrasing a famous quote by Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a
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by pevey 5y ago
That is often given as an excuse for this common experience, but it is not really intended. Top schools are assessed on their graduation rates. It is part of the rankings they are obsessed with. It serves no one--students or schools--for
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by pevey 5y ago
I’m pretty sure it is satire with a strong helping of “much truth in jest.”
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by pevey 5y ago
They are both wrong. Pico/nano.

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