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by propter_hoc 3y ago
I know this isn't the craziest startup shutdown story, but wow. At $10MM of revenue they can afford to keep a staff of 50 at a fully loaded cost per employee of $200,000. Yet, according to Linkedin they peaked at nearly 200 employees.
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by propter_hoc 3y ago
I love the idea but can't deal with how much they wiggle. They all seem to only have 2 legs, which results in them being very wobbly, particularly at standing height. Interested to hear if anyone knows of any actually stable sit-stand
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China Told Women to Have Babies, but Its Population Shrank Again(nytimes.com)
18 points by propter_hoc 3y ago|26 comments
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by propter_hoc 3y ago
Here's an archive link: https://archive.is/ArnbD Pretty much spot on, it has a couple funny quotes like the Bluey episode about a cricket match beating the ratings of the actual cricket match, and how the ABC (Australi
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How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment(ft.com)
320 points by propter_hoc 3y ago|430 comments
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by propter_hoc 3y ago
Second person pronouns are so fascinating! Not only is "you" the formal, polite plural form, but calling someone "thou" was also seen as so informal as to be rude (in verb form, to "thou" someone). This has a m
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by propter_hoc 3y ago
What.cd was certainly better than oink in terms of the library (largely because it was started by seeders who already had the entire oink library) but was definitely missing the charm.
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by propter_hoc 3y ago
Man, I am a Stephenson fan but that is some purple prose!
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by propter_hoc 3y ago
I don't get the outrage here. Basically, this Web design company used a proprietary font to make a website for a client, that they then included as a self-hosted font file for the website that they deployed. They only had access to thi
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by propter_hoc 3y ago
I have to say it's massively unlikely that someone who read LOTR and disliked it would enjoy the Silmarillion.
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by propter_hoc 3y ago
You would need a dual boiler for this. IMO the best value dual boiler on the market is the Breville dual boiler. Alternatively there are standalone milk frothing devices that might suit your needs while allowing you to buy a cheaper espress
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by propter_hoc 3y ago
Made it to 3 fingers and then couldn't advance as my phone interpreted a 3 finger swipe as a screenshot. I'm counting it as a win since I learned a new feature of my phone!
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by propter_hoc 3y ago
FYI, it's "voilà", not "viola." A viola is a string instrument similar to a violin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola "Voilà" is a contraction of the phrase " vois là " me
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by propter_hoc 3y ago
https://makofintech.com/ We do a lot of thinking about the place of low-code or no-code in the industry. We're intentionally low-code, for example, because we think the accessibility gained by a no-code (graphical prog
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by propter_hoc 3y ago
Programming tools have a continuum between power and simplicity (or, lines of code, or developer efficiency). You wouldn't (couldn't) write a device driver in Python, but you also wouldn't want to develop a dynamic website in
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
Still works for me.
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
Didn't mean to put words in your mouth - I actually found your wording very hard to parse, which is why I said I wasn't sure what you meant. I agree that the Texas solution is likely a local maximum. Sounds like we both agree it&#
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
I'm not sure what you mean here. Looking carefully at what is, in most of the world, this wouldn't have happened in the first place. The Texas solution doesn't sound much better than the SF situation to me.
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
I downvoted you, not because I disagree with your point (although I do disagree with it), but because of your peremptory and dismissive usage of "STOP" and "level one challenge." This issue is not so straightforward that
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
Nice seeing angstroms used in real life!
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
I like a nice mechanical watch as much as the next guy, but this is just silly.
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
Game devs are the worst paid devs of any industry. Japanese salarymen are worse paid than FTEs in almost any highly developed economy. I wouldn't really expect that after this raise, Nintendo employees end up being paid particularly we
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
Really scary. For those unaware of how badly this kind of situation can end up, read about the horrific Goiânia incident in Brazil. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
> You chase after vanity metrics about you looking good like active users rather than how useful your product is. In what conceivable world is "active users" a vanity metric??
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
The kind of extreme sports you list having participated in have absolutely nothing in common with low speed urban bicycle commuting. It certainly makes sense to wear a helmet while doing mountain biking, BMX tricks or road racing.
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
What are you talking about? The SEC just announced their charges against SBF yesterday. They are nowhere near either a conviction and sentencing nor a settlement. It is impossible for the $20 million award you linked to be in any way relate
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
By definition the equity of a business is its assets less its liabilities.
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
Who is "Munro and co"? The top result on Google is this baby clothing brand: https://www.munroandco.co.uk/ Cute outfits, but they don't look like EV trucking experts.
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
Somehow these guys peaked at about 900 employees, according to linkedin ( https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockfi ) They've raised about a billion dollars of VC - https://www.crunchbase.com/organiza
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by propter_hoc 4y ago
As an entrepreneur in finance for 10 years, I think the guy's perspective is actually pretty understandable. When you've been in finance for a while and have learned how many footguns and ways to go to jail there are to get major

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