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by rbetts 2y ago
Median wealth of a US households by race: white $250k; black: $27k; asian: $320k https://www.pewresearch.org/2023/12/04/wealth-gaps-across-ra...
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by rbetts 2y ago
The message is also that consumerism is driven by demand creation - and that demand creation takes its toll on both the demander and the buyer.
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by rbetts 2y ago
Many studies find that a majority of personal bankruptcies in the US involve medical debt with some estimates of ~500,000 medical-cost contributed bankruptcies per year. A hospital (might) not kick you to the curb if you are dying in their
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by rbetts 2y ago
The article discussed this and had an interesting point (and some stats for evidence) - that shooters waiting in the corner create space for driving to the basket.
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by rbetts 2y ago
Right? Trans people being comfortable being open in public. Obama's "open borders" while deporting record numbers of immigrants ( https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit... )
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by rbetts 2y ago
I believe (most) people contribute their ambitions to nurture safe, peaceful, friend-filled communities. AGI won’t obsolete those human desires. Hopefully we weather the turbulence that comes with change and come out the other side with new
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by rbetts 2y ago
Here's a paper by the author on the topic: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355443578_The_origi...
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by rbetts 2y ago
This assumes that vendors have IP rights to open source the firmware, which seems unlikely. Presumably there are third party commercial components they don't have rights to publish. A rule like this essentially forbids closed source so
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by rbetts 2y ago
That would make today the worst day to plant a tree?
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by rbetts 2y ago
I find the MBA hate on HN so weird. The founders and leaders of these companies are technologists first. We need to look in the mirror - there's no dodge that software developers, not MBAs, have built these invasive, addictive, mislead
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by rbetts 2y ago
> burn-down / velocity charts You need some coarse odometer to know where the finish line is. Burn-up charts are a reasonable input to that and can be very low effort. Just knowing where you hit the inflection point between new-issu
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by rbetts 2y ago
When your enterprise product is a superset of your open source product, you need a trigger that leads to buying. If that trigger is a feature, then it is only effective as a trigger if it is broadly useful to the product. In which case, you
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by rbetts 2y ago
Git clients became popular interfaces to SVN. This is how the organizations I was at moved from svn to git -- we/devs started preferring git locally and eventually migrated the backends to match.
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by rbetts 2y ago
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-husky...
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by rbetts 2y ago
Sales people are trying to discern what pain you are facing, your level of urgency for solving that pain, the consequences if you don't solve it, your budget, and your authority to make a purchasing decision. SDRs/BDRs are often c
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by rbetts 2y ago
You could sue a hammer manufacturer if they regularly advertised hammers as weapons to children and children started killing each other with them, though.
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by rbetts 2y ago
> how many miles your mouse had moved... I remember those! Perhaps something like "mouse pedometer?"
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by rbetts 2y ago
The US is large - but roughly 1 in 10 residents live around LA or NYC. As much as it is large, it is also non-uniform.
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by rbetts 2y ago
I feel like the focus on trace/log/metrics terminology is overshadowing Charity's comments on the presentation and navigation tier, which is really where the focus should be in my experience. Her point about making the curiou
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by rbetts 2y ago
While cost of food (as a percentage of income) has declined significantly, hunger is a real issue in the US and shouldn't be downplayed. Currently, in the US, there an estimated 40M people and 13M children at risk or experiencing hun
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by rbetts 2y ago
I think Gates has given away ~$50B - which would seem to be enough to tip the scales? I'd rather compare the billionaires by what they redistribute vs. the size of their hoard.
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by rbetts 2y ago
Who is ultimately responsible, though when data is stolen in this fashion? The analyst who ETL'd this to Snowflake without MFA enabled? Or maybe the employee who inadvertently installed a data sniffer that captured usernames and passwo
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by rbetts 2y ago
"Please don't take my job. Take my accountant's job instead."
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by rbetts 2y ago
https://www.thestorygraph.com/
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by rbetts 2y ago
I wonder if these indexing deals will become more antitrust evidence.
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by rbetts 2y ago
If you don't mean to say that trans people exist as a fad, you might edit this comment for clarity.
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by rbetts 2y ago
Looks like shipt/target successfully converted gig work back from a percentage of revenue (percentage of cart value) to a task based rate. Workers lose when they can't capture value proportional to the revenue generation they supp
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by rbetts 2y ago
I have aphantasia. I don't see / imagine imagery either awake or asleep. So I don't know that my dreaming experience is particularly different from my waking experience in this way.
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by rbetts 2y ago
> If we assume that the problem with self-serve BI is not SQL, but the context and semantics of the data, then it follows that the solution is to teach people about the data they're querying, regardless of interface. This has been t
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by rbetts 2y ago
Subscription implies that your costs are roughly the same across different usage patterns by different users (otherwise you collect expensive users who under-pay for the resources they consume). Or, that you can tier your subscriptions in a

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