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by rexreed 5y ago
No new idea emerges in a vacuum. Every idea builds upon other ideas. Ever heard of the phrase "on the shoulders of giants"?
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by rexreed 5y ago
I might speak for some of those critical by saying that you got my attention with the "bootstrap" hook but immediately lost it when I saw the funding. At that point I had a hard time believing and following the rest. This might se
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by rexreed 5y ago
How is this anything like Office Space, other than taking place in an Office and occupying space? This seems like an extended Black Mirror to me.
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by rexreed 5y ago
This article is a thinly veiled promotion for Veritone's MARVEL.ai which doesn't even do translation into foreign languages. It's a text-to-speech encoder that has a variety of voices trained for different languages. The actu
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by rexreed 5y ago
That sounds like a terrible experience. Please modify your body (albeit non-permanently) in this particular way in order for this app to work. What if I said you had to sing "mary had a little lamb" exactly in the key of F# in ord
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by rexreed 5y ago
I use Backblaze as well but I'm disappointed the company doesn't support backing up Application folders or system folders. They also stopped supporting Mac OS X older than 10.13.
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by rexreed 5y ago
Indeed, that's the core of the argument made in this article here (from 2009) which is arguing for a return to cobbles / bricks for Georgetown: https://georgetownmetropolitan.com/2009/01/16/why-not-a
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by rexreed 5y ago
Yes, somewhat tongue in cheek, but it's an interesting thought exercise. For the high traffic streets where there is high speed and also lots of heavy traffic, for sure, asphalt dominates for many good reasons. But for the problems thi
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by rexreed 5y ago
Many Roman roads have lasted a long while. Maybe we should move back to cobble stone? Certainly easier to patch and replace and open up for underground utilities.
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by rexreed 5y ago
I don't get why the first response of the startup is to go on the attack and fight the NRC without responding to the substance of the claims. This is the part of startup behavior I really dislike. Fake it till you make it and be loud a
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by rexreed 5y ago
Other than the laxative industry I can't imagine a situation where shit is good. That being said it's a crying shame that a bank in the middle of the tech ecosystem with the very name of the tech ecosystem as their whole branding
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by rexreed 5y ago
Yes, although our experience in going through the painful PPP process with one bank caused our firm to switch to another bank. When sudden changes like the PPP loan process happen you can tell which banks are prepared and which aren't.
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by rexreed 5y ago
I've been saying this since 2016! So what can be done about it? There are certainly better search engine alternatives out there. But the market doesn't seem to want it? The average Joe and Jane still go right to Google for search
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by rexreed 5y ago
In what ways is this different from some of the cloud based AutoML tools such as Google Cloud Vision AutoML? Or tools like Roboflow?
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by rexreed 5y ago
Mixing investment and friendship is NEVER a good idea, and is definitely not the situation in my case, nor that of the other angel investors similarly burned in these situations. I live by Benjamin Franklin's words on never a borrower
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by rexreed 5y ago
It's pretty sad to say this, but the vast majority of Angel investors are hobby investors, not investing at any degree of "scale". And most often, let's be honest, these "investments" should be considered grant
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by rexreed 5y ago
The acquihire situation happens a lot more than might be anticipated, and usually it's the angel investors left holding the bag. Startups anticipating an acquihire in their future should really look for grants, SBIRs, or other similar
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by rexreed 5y ago
I posed the exact question here and got the non-answer that an unconverted SAFE is just debt, but it's not just debt. My understanding is that the valuation is not meaningful on an uncapped SAFE where there's no subsequent round.
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by rexreed 5y ago
But under what required re-payment terms? My understanding is that SAFEs are not really meant to be debt instruments, and that they are highly unsecured / non-collateralized forms of debt. I was recently screwed over as an angel invest
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by rexreed 5y ago
How does a "$375,000 is on an uncapped safe with “Most Favored Nation” (MFN) terms" work when the company doesn't raise a subsequent round? Say, they get acquired or go bust or something else happens?
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by rexreed 5y ago
The number of employees does not correlate to positive management function. In fact, it's usually the inverse. The faster and larger the company grows, the more dysfunctional it becomes by hiring into the organization culture mismatch,
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by rexreed 5y ago
These companies aim to dominate markets not by "best product wins" but by "only product wins". So much of the tech markets are winner take most (or all) and if the tech giants can't beat the startups, they try to ac
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by rexreed 5y ago
De-Googling / De-Facebooking / De-Twittering / De-Amazoning as much as possible
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by rexreed 5y ago
The use of obscure and unintuitive terms would seem to hurt the objectives of security proponents to explain how systems have been compromised. If you tell me my credentials were "stuffed", I'm going to assume it was some tec
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by rexreed 5y ago
Why are people preferring to read content on Twitter to begin with? I never go to Twitter as my primary source to read or learn about something. But maybe I'm unusual, and perhaps the current mode is scrolling thru stuff, reading stuff
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by rexreed 5y ago
Out of curiosity the meaning of "credential stuffing" doesn't jibe with what I would assume the term would mean. Why isn't the more obvious "password reuse" term not preferred? I would assume credential stuffin
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by rexreed 5y ago
I've been seeing increasing use of the phrase: TT;DR (Twitter Thread, Didn't Read). I'd like to understand what motivates people to publish content like this in numbered Twitter threads instead of blog posts. Is it because of
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by rexreed 5y ago
I posted a while ago a comment that large tech companies and their investors are not really motivated for decentralized systems, but that they have to tell the markets they are. Otherwise they will face increasing regulatory and liability p
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by rexreed 5y ago
The big counterpoint to the coin theories are the ones that have very small holes, if none at all: https://www.historicmysteries.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03...
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by rexreed 5y ago
Of all the theories, this seems plausible. Has anyone done that to your knowledge? The easy way to test this is to take an assortment of Roman-era coins and see how well they match up to the holes and ring sizes. The pegs that protrude coul

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