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by repomies691 9y ago
"By my math, Uber’s true value puts it as number four in the global market, behind Didi Chuxing, Waymo, and Tesla, who will become a future competitor should Uber make it to the autonomous future." Somehow I lost my interest to re
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by repomies691 9y ago
> If you want to enforce the same properties that the Ethereum network can, but you don't want to use anything associated with the Ethereum network, then you need to write something similar. And it turns out this takes work. I fail
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by repomies691 9y ago
"Try psychedelic mushrooms (only half kidding-- there are some studies that one dose positively impacts depression and anxiety)" As a founder, I generally agree. I have also done mushrooms a lot, I don't know if it is very wi
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by repomies691 9y ago
Well, sometimes it might be the only way to get your files back.
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by repomies691 9y ago
Markets gonna value what they want to value... I think it is good to have different options for people. Overall I think cryptocurrencies are undervalued - 40 billion market cap is nothing when thinking about the potential. However what cryp
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by repomies691 9y ago
Also have to take into account that hardware is ridiculously cheap nowadays. You can rent quite a lot of raw computing power with the salary of one engineer.
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by repomies691 10y ago
> 2. In case of restaurants in the US, generally servers make very little without tip. When you pay you are paying the restaurant and not the person who serve you food. I know it's different in other countries but that's just h
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by repomies691 10y ago
Tipping could work, if the tips are received anonymously with some time period. So that drivers would not know, from whom the tip came from. I'm not from US and generally I like the "no tips" culture. However sometimes I want
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by repomies691 10y ago
I wouldn't recommend that to the service provider, those have very high level of fraud.
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by repomies691 10y ago
I think most of this "blockchain talk" is just nonsense. Uber/lyft similar are very complex services, which are pretty pain in the ass to maintain and develop. What would be the incentive to develop such an app in decentraliz
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by repomies691 10y ago
I don't think it is black and white. Also trust is not black and white, and trusted persons can turn bad and unrealiable persons can develop to be reliable and trustworthy. If you are sure that you bring the best value by working remot
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by repomies691 10y ago
ralph plz
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by repomies691 10y ago
I know cases where too much focus on tests might be reason for a startup failure. Eg. instead of trying to find the product-market fit, resources are spent building tests, and then funding runs out. Of course it is very difficult to argue w
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by repomies691 10y ago
> Writing that test for the single expression setter won't cost you a lot. Yeah, usually it won't cost anything to the guy who writes the test, but he is actually paid. What it costs to the business/customer/etc and w
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by repomies691 10y ago
Quite lousy detection algorithm if you ask me. https://www.dropbox.com/s/zcjqwvxdpb455zu/quick_draw.jpg?dl=...
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by repomies691 10y ago
I have visited valley, have friends working there and work from other country, and I disagree. Working life is not that different. I think in valley you also have variety of companies of all kinds.
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by repomies691 10y ago
Not really "quitting tech" as in working on some different industry, but more like story about how the guy stopped working as an employee/in a traditional job. He cashed his stock options from Yelp and lives on that, but stil
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by repomies691 10y ago
Hmm. The employers I have encountered have been happy paying for stuff that brings some credibility to the company as well, such as certifications or master thesis grants. MOOC's just don't have the credibility generally speaking
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by repomies691 10y ago
Hmm. I've heard that also with AWS you can collect quite hefty bills easily. In fact I've heard stories that some startups have failed or had lots of problems because they've been using AWS too carelessly.
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by repomies691 10y ago
Dash is very dodgy, I wouldn't trust it. The solutions "supernodes" etc sound like the people running it don't really know what they are doing. Monero sounds much more solid to me with the ring signature system. I person
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by repomies691 10y ago
Why wouldn't I just use some trustful centralized solution for a cup of coffee? In fact, I myself prefer to use credit card for these, where I don't actually have to trust the payment method provider, but the payment method provid
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by repomies691 10y ago
Many bitcoin "transactions" are actually offchain transactions already. For example, with bitcoin debit cards you have bitcoin wallet, and then everytime you swipe your card, your account balance is deducted. Or at bitcoin marketp
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by repomies691 10y ago
I think it is pretty clear that the guy didn't care that much about his anonymity, similar to the pirate bay people. Accepting btc was probably more because of convenience of payments etc instead of anonymity.
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by repomies691 10y ago
It looks more like he didn't attempt to cover his tracks as all. Pretty much a non-story.
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by repomies691 10y ago
I don't see the problem of owners outsourcing the management. For me the most important thing about airbnb is, that it allows better utilization of resources. I don't care about the other details that much, I still choose my accom
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by repomies691 10y ago
This varies greatly from company to company. I would say in startups the pay related issues can have much greater variance than in established companies. The startups that have lots of cash flowing in but have urgent customers often pay wel
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by repomies691 10y ago
Well, you can always choose another phone. Except you can't really, because you want Apple. For any other manufacturer there wouldn't be any discussion about the missing plug, people would just laugh it off and choose another phon
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by repomies691 10y ago
How is this "serverless"? Quite clearly I have to configure a remote...
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by repomies691 10y ago
Hmm, currently the block size seems still manageable to me (80GB). Also you can turn on pruning so you need to store only the amount you want, and you can still use all the major use cases. You don't need to mine bitcoin to use it. It
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by repomies691 10y ago
LOL, the business model seems to fit pretty well to the douchiness of this guy.

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