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by raiyu 6y ago
Why large companies fail - they put revenue ahead of customers. How long a company can get away with that depends on their moats, competitive landscape, and what alternatives exist. In the case of FB, obviously there's a huge moat and
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by raiyu 6y ago
Well the original post was someone who had access to reliable safe drinking water, so I'm not sure where that is coming from. Also if you look historically over the past 100 years overall rates of poverty have declined everywhere. If y
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by raiyu 6y ago
Bitcoin is used as a speculative instrument because by definition it is deflationary. Which means it is more expensive to buy something with it today, then tomorrow. Just look at Chamath's tweet about how he bought a property for Bitco
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by raiyu 6y ago
The public bathroom air blades drive me crazy. It keeps splashing the water back and forth, the air speed is too high and my hands inadvertently touch the sides and probably there are a bunch of germs circulating inside, as not everyone was
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by raiyu 6y ago
By the same token, Elon Musk is someone who succeeded, while thousands upon thousands of entrepreneurs fail, end up with debt, and don't have much to show for their work. So using survivorship bias to compare yourself to Elon Musk whic
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by raiyu 6y ago
Bitcoin is a modern day example of what happens when you have a currency that has deflation instead of inflation at it's core. It becomes actually more expensive to buy anything in the present, as a result, consumers stop purchasing, a
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Box Sign Simple, secure e-signatures where your content lives(box.com)
1 points by raiyu 6y ago|0 comments
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by raiyu 6y ago
There is a ton of backend stuff you need to do to make alcohol delivery work as well as sign up the independent mom and pop shops that do the majority of the business. So backend built, customer base, largest player in the space, and integr
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A/B tests are easy on Netlify(twitter.com)
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Uber agrees to buy alcohol delivery service Drizly for $1.1B(cnbc.com)
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by raiyu 6y ago
I’m sure they are still heavily investing in CapEx given their growth. You have to remember that AWS had a more linear path so capex investment was spread out over a longer time line. Meanwhile Google had to rebuild all of AWS infra and cap
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by raiyu 6y ago
The author makes the assertion that if we are all celebrating Apple's latest hardware, it is because the focus on their user interface has faded into the background and they have lost their way. But reading through the piece the only t
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by raiyu 6y ago
When we first moved office space to the city from Brooklyn, in 2012 we were seeing rents in the mid $50's, now at a record low (past three years) of $73 per sq ft, still quite a bit way off of where rent was less than 10 years ago. And
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Supabase Beta January 2021(supabase.io)
3 points by raiyu 6y ago|0 comments
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by raiyu 6y ago
The 1950s and 60s were great in America because Europe was decimated in WWII, heavy industry was alive and well, the population was growing, the government was helping GIs with housing loans and college, and imports and global trade had not
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by raiyu 6y ago
Ahh - touche - one time out of 6 - not looking like good odds for Republicans to be in favor of going the popular vote route.
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by raiyu 6y ago
Given that republicans have lost the popular vote in every election since 2000 I don't see them getting on board with going to a straight popular vote anytime in the near future to determine the Presidential election.
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GTA: Detecting affected dependent packages in Go(digitalocean.com)
1 points by raiyu 6y ago|0 comments
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by raiyu 6y ago
There's definitely been a less reported but positive side to the proliferation of technology and everyone now having a video camera in their pocket. I would love to see what social media looked like if the news went back to reporting j
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by raiyu 6y ago
I mean the writing was on the wall. It was the plot of several Bond films. The media tycoon by owning the news can disrupt governments. I don't think that social media alone is to blame, nor do I think it is the main culprit, it is an
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by raiyu 6y ago
Wait till some siblings get pissed off at each other and start deleting important files that the other one cares about =]
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by raiyu 6y ago
Yeah I think there is still definitely a segment that want the disk syncing, but for me it was actually becoming a hinderance and having everything online was actually much easier. Plus I started doing more file storage that I was accessing
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by raiyu 6y ago
My use case maybe different from yours but GDrive has worked well for me.
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by raiyu 6y ago
Signing into the same account on multiple devices creates security and ownership issues, much better to be able to delegate permissions and also keep ownership clearly understood.
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by raiyu 6y ago
Yes and I'm saying we should be thinking of unions on a broader basis. Not as a single company union, but as the union of American workers, and directly pushing for legislation. =]
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by raiyu 6y ago
That's certainly one perspective, the other is that in the consumer segment churn is high but also the are a tremendous amount of people. Dropbox had a head start but over time other companies like Google where able to build out compet
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by raiyu 6y ago
You don't need to setup the whole thing yourself, at DigitalOcean we launched the app platform so you can just connect your Github and one-click deploy your code base. You also have the rest of our services available so you can expand
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by raiyu 6y ago
The putting two in a box isn't a mistake if it is handled correctly. Understanding the technical architecture and managing and building teams as well as reviewing budgets and aligning to plans aren't two skill sets that are intert
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by raiyu 6y ago
Dropbox has been hammered by Wall Street ever since it went public. On the surface it should be trading well enough given it's revenue growth from when it went public to now, however, the narrative of competing with both Microsoft and
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by raiyu 6y ago
Proves my point.

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