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Debugging CSS
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Causal | Full-stack Engineer | London (UK) or REMOTE | https://causal.app Causal is a human way to think and communicate with numbers. Our product is a number-crunching tool that's a bit like a spreadsheet and a bit like pr
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Retool Nears $1B Valuation with Funding from Sequoia
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How much do Facebook ads cost?
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How to Set Realistic Growth Goals
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Show HN: Probabilistic Buy vs. Rent Calculator
(my.causal.app)
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(author here) Thanks for raising this — I intended for that example just to illustrate the underlying concept of having balanced entries for a transaction, rather than to show how double entry is practiced today. The focus of the post is on
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(author here) I think it’s just as a sanity check to make sure they’re equal :)
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Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide
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This is awesome, determinants were one of the things that I never really understood during my degree
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Ahh I did a bit of googling but couldn't find anything nice — sorry! Most of the time, the complex stuff is broken down into smaller "lemmas" with their own manageable proofs, and then the proof of the whole theorem will be s
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Haha, yeah. Thankfully, the Maths exams were set up such that you could always get 60% (the boundary for a "2:1" grade in the UK — an acceptable score for most people) by just knowing the 'bookwork', which you could do b
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Yup, definitely changed the game for me, and turned on my 'intuition' spidey sense, of whether I actually understood a concept. We did do a lot of exercises in school, but they mostly just tested whether you can reliably apply a m
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Great post. Personal anecdote: I don't think I really understood anything in school, but I was decent at going through the motions of carrying out certain methods and recalling certain facts when I needed to. I went on to study Maths a
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Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide
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Ah sorry — was a permissions issue on the Google model. Should work now!
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Show HN: FAANG Compensation Calculators
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What Is Monte Carlo Simulation?
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Show HN: Causal Scenarios – Monte Carlo Simulation Plugin for Excel
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Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide
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What's a Financial Statement?
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Company Runway: The Flaw of Averages
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Indie.vc vs. Traditional VC: Interactive Calculator
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Yup, I felt similarly
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If you're interested in this stuff, I can highly recommend "Picturing the Uncertain World" by Howard Wainer: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691152677/pi...
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haha thanks, glad you like it!
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Hey, I'm one of the founders — thanks for submitting this! Happy to answer any questions :)
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Taylor Davidson's Excel model (#6 on the list) is actually general enough to be applied to SaaS or e-commerce: https://foresight.is/standard-financial-model He's also built a free e-commerce model template in Caus
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I'm one of the founders of Causal (#12 on the list) — this is one of the key things we've tried to address in a couple of ways: 1. Ranges vs point estimates: instead of assumptions being fixed values (e.g. my 'Growth Rate
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Great roundup! I'm one of the founders of Causal — https://causal.app (#12 on the list). We have 2 different SaaS templates built by Taylor Davidson (whose Excel template is #6 on the list): - Starter version: https:/
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