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by rexreed 5y ago
This is the answer I was expecting. There's clearly a non-scaling factor at work here.
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by rexreed 5y ago
The point I'm trying to make is assume that user-side functionality stays exactly the same - frozen - for say 10 years. Given what you say above, it would be reasonable to expect the company to continue to grow in any case on its curre
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by rexreed 5y ago
The above comment says: "many of the good ones are from poor regions in the world and you can find them on Fiverr doing kick-ass work for a grand total of $50. " That's what I'm replying to.
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by rexreed 5y ago
That doesn't make sense. Employees per revenue is not measured by market cap, but by revenue. Revenue was $3.7B as last reported. So you're 10x off by that measure. Also, not all employees are engineering and ad relationship manag
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by rexreed 5y ago
Which systems are the "hard" parts? Given zero functionality change, how much larger can and should Twitter grow? Is the complication a function of ad revenue, volume of content, user traffic?
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by rexreed 5y ago
What's the usual ratio of engineering / relationship management per ad dollar revenue?
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by rexreed 5y ago
I remember spending a summer on the Twitter campus and the whole time I was wondering - why the heck does Twitter need all these employees (5500 as of last count [0])? The functionality hasn't budged much in years. I get the need for I
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by rexreed 5y ago
Conveniently skipping the Greek letter Xi from Nu to Omicron [0] [0] https://www.mediaite.com/news/world-health-organization-skip...
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by rexreed 5y ago
How do you find those kickass ones on Fiverr among a sea of bad ones?
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by rexreed 5y ago
My original comment was "80% of the team is not in Europe either". I didn't say 80% in the US, and I wouldn't make that claim now. Furthermore, as per above link, Employees (est.) (Jan 2021) 2,863. Romanian employees are
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by rexreed 5y ago
Yes, counting the sales, marketing, solutions development, partner management, education, consulting, and other parts of the company, the vast bulk of the team are not in Romania, even though a large part (but not all) of the R&D team i
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by rexreed 5y ago
It's an unfortunate use of term, because while fizzy does mean bubbly and frothy, it can also mean unsustainable because the fizz in drinks never lasts. Author should have / could have used the title "Tech Investors can'
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by rexreed 5y ago
UiPath, while founded in Romania, is officially headquartered in the US (NYC) and is counted in US / NYC funding amounts. 80% of the team is not in Europe either, with the entire management team in the US. So they aren't usually
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by rexreed 5y ago
For individual developers not working in teams this is still a pretty good approach.
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by rexreed 5y ago
THIS is probably the answer, everything else is just ... convenient.
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by rexreed 5y ago
More detail here: https://news.sky.com/story/visa-to-hike-interchange-fees-for... But a curious note from that article: "The move to increase interchange fees will bring it into line with MasterCard, its rival pay
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by rexreed 5y ago
That's exactly my point. Without any causation, any correlation can be and often is spurious, so as to make the correlation meaningless.
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by rexreed 5y ago
Is it possible to feel sorry for neither of these parties? Visa sucks for raising interchange rates and Amazon sucks for blocking customers who have those cards. The customer ends up suffering since Visa will still make their revenues and A
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by rexreed 5y ago
So basically an online event multiverse?
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by rexreed 5y ago
So much of the current economy derives benefit from captive customers who are charged ridiculous fees because they have no other place to go (think drinks at a movie theater or baggage fees on an airline, but there are many versions of the
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by rexreed 5y ago
Vonage is notorious for not only preventing people from canceling online but making it hell to cancel over the phone. They frustrate people trying to port numbers and charge ludicrous cancellation and other fees. Totally extortionate and pr
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by rexreed 5y ago
Don't we all know the story of causation vs correlation? Here's some more interesting correlations: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kjh2110/the-10-most-biz...
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by rexreed 5y ago
a legit question. There's a lot of how but not a lot of why.
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by rexreed 5y ago
You'd be surprised. What if I told you Expensify uses humans to do OCR on paper receipts? You'd think computer-generated English fonts on white paper with mostly numbers would be easy for OCR. Think again. What good is a 98-99% ac
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by rexreed 5y ago
The dirty little secret that most don't even realize. Hey that's why data labeling / data annotation / human moderation companies like Scale, Labelbox, Hive, and others have been raising millions of dollars to fund their
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by rexreed 5y ago
How much of the AI is really automated, NLP AI and how much of it is human-augmented Amazon Mechanical Turk-level Human as an AI (Augmented Intelligence or Pseudo-AI)?
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by rexreed 5y ago
Quite a piece of work! https://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/
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by rexreed 5y ago
Not to be flippant, but in what way is Excel not a no-code / self-service BI / Data Analytics tool? Or where Google Sheets is heading? Serious question. The average non-technical user goes first to Excel or Excel-like things.
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by rexreed 5y ago
I don't think we'll be seeing a black banner on HN for this one, even though his controversial history is probably highly relevant to the growth of Internet society and culture. Is there specific criteria for who gets a black bann
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by rexreed 5y ago
As an aside, where is the line between dissent and contrary opinion and the teaching of falsehoods? For example it's one thing to debate matters of society and ethics but another thing to promote disproven scientific theories. Where is

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