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by ponker 6y ago
90 paying users is cool but I wouldn’t say it “really blew up”
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by ponker 6y ago
Would they have been correct about the value of your equity?
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by ponker 6y ago
I don't know how it's going to happen (if I did, I'd be a billionaire) but I am pretty confident for the same reasons that I don't build my own mobile phones or furniture or sew my own clothes, I eventually won't
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by ponker 6y ago
The number of companies (big ones, public ones!) where I can't for the life of me figure out what they sell from their website is truly astonishing. I understand that 1) if I can't understand it I'm not in their market, and 2
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by ponker 6y ago
That's mineral oil, not cooking oil. Mineral oil doesn't go rancid.
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by ponker 6y ago
The quality level here is way beyond what Zoom has or needs. This is a professional tool for creative pros — knocking out an image background is too easy but video is a real challenge. And this kind of work at this resolution would be prohi
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by ponker 6y ago
Sure, but there is an ocean between the fraction of Lebron James' success that is luck (which is substantial, as you point out, call it 25%) and that of a lottery winner (which is effectively 100%)
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by ponker 6y ago
Yeah but in all that -- you get in a car crash, police look up your info, go to your partner's house, tell them that you're in a coma in the hospital, he or she freaks out and drives down to the hospital and is sitting next to you
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by ponker 6y ago
Not really, I can say that for example Karpathy is at the same general level as Levandowski and he hasn't been caught stealing trade secrets.
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by ponker 6y ago
A vast number of nonviolent inmates have been released in California: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
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by ponker 6y ago
The unsatsifying answer is "there's a grey area and a judge and jury decide" but the Levandowksi case is 100 miles beyond the grey area.
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by ponker 6y ago
No, you cannot compare becoming the world's best self-driving engineer to winning the lottery. This is like becoming Lebron James, it's tremendous talent combined with tremendous commitment.
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by ponker 6y ago
I don't think loyalty based on product quality is "fanboyism." I think that's called brand loyalty and it's hard-earned. I only ever buy Toyota/Lexus vehicles because Toyota vehicles have been exceptionally rel
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by ponker 6y ago
Well it's made easier by the fact that they only have one of each category. Want a desktop all-in-one? You'll want the iMac. This one is "the best iMac ever." They only compare them against themselves, so you can know th
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by ponker 6y ago
Or you could just say, life is too short to try to defend yourself against accusations of fanboyism, and just get up and walk away.
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by ponker 6y ago
It's a virtuous cycle. They ship very few products because each product is very successful. Each product is very successful because it's good and the awareness and consumer desire is high. And the small number of products both hel
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by ponker 6y ago
Nobody underestimates Apple's marketing. In fact I think it's the other way around, a lot of people pooh-pooh desire for their products as just marketing-susceptible idiots (e.g. "I could get the same features in an Android f
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by ponker 6y ago
The "fellow" title is used to give a person a lot more money and recognition when the person can't or doesn't want to be promoted into management/senior management. Chris Lattner ran Developer Tools at Apple so he d
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by ponker 6y ago
I mean that's counting on a lot of stuff to happen. Emergency contacts often don't get notified. A car crash that gives you the TBI breaks your phone, or they extract you from the car and your wallet/phone are left in the car
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by ponker 6y ago
Depends on the upside and downside of delay, but yes, definitely expect a false trigger on a 30 hour clock. Heck you can easily just pass out and not be online for 30 hours. Trip and fall and get a traumatic brain injury and your doctor may
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by ponker 6y ago
The situation that we have is that the only person who actually has the willpower to stand up to China (Trump) is simultaneously too idiotic and too self-centered to effectively do so.
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by ponker 6y ago
An immigration law is a blunt tool. It’s not going to make a clean cut.
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by ponker 6y ago
I mean Europe has to decide between the tourist dollars and the virus. Americans have demonstrated themselves unfit for the challenge of dealing with this virus so anyone who really cares about keeping their country healthy will ban America
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by ponker 6y ago
All companies become more sociopathic as they become more powerful. Look at Google's "Don't Be Evil" which went from inspirational, to corny, to sickening. The solution here isn't to try to support companies that wo
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by ponker 6y ago
I think it's 3. MS realized that it's not as powerful as it was in the 80s and 90s because Apple and Google took over a huge portion of the computing market with mobile. So they have "changed their ways," not because of
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by ponker 6y ago
This assumes that people decide the destination before deciding the mode of transport. In my experience this isn't true, specifically with the 737 MAX. I had a 4-night trip booked with my family to Seattle from San Francisco on a 737 M
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by ponker 6y ago
Wearing pants would be higher than 70% without government mandate -- does that mean that a law that you must have your junk covered an impingement on individual rights?
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by ponker 6y ago
Your DSL router is getting security patches because the primary business model for DSL routers is for them to be owned by the ISP. It's thus an enterprise product which tend to get decades of support.
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by ponker 6y ago
Inline raw links are annoying to read because either the link is properly constructed and just repeats the text leading up to it, or is a horrible mess of tracking GUIDs. Since most people aren’t going to click the link it serves more peopl
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by ponker 6y ago
If that is the strategy — evangelizing the Classics by naming products that sound vaguely like diseases that encourage further research — I’d have to agree and say more power to them.

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