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by salmonlogs 4y ago
A very large percentage of VC funds are funded by large assets managers, such as pension funds, state investment and sovereign wealth funds. When you manage hundreds of billions you need to diversify your investments across asset classes an
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
Quick Google shows Quebec Pension Fund managed circa ~$325B. They will invest across a range of asset classes and risk profiles. Looks like they put around $200M into Celsius which is about 0.06% of their AUM. Numbers might not be totally a
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
This feel like someone outsourcing their homework assignment
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
Where paused hiring = slowed down hiring in some teams and divisions. None of these companies have blanket paused hiring.
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
That seems like an insane usability trade off that would limit adoption quite heavily
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
Did you actually read the article?
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
This is an invalid argument. Mining needs hardware, which loses value as new hardware is released and mining gets harder. Thus, it depreciates over time.
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
Operating cashflow and depreciation curves are the most basic accounting principles out there, the author did not make anything up - he is applying a logical analysis to publicly available data.
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by salmonlogs 4y ago
Typically a small group of engineers/founders/investors for each project. Who are open for manipulation just like anyone else in the world. It's only decentralised if you ignore any of the reality and details.
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by salmonlogs 5y ago
I can't help but feel the views of the author are carefully crafted to support the agenda of lobbyists and pro fossil fuel groups. The logic is really quite weak and doesn't support the current situation. The author also posted ar
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by salmonlogs 5y ago
Using the efficiency of solar panels available today and the current energy needs of the world you could produce enough power with an area the size of Arizona. Assuming you ignore losses from distribution, storage etc. If you did the calcul
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by salmonlogs 5y ago
I've always thought of work as a game. How do I uncover the rules to maximise earnings within boundaries that provide suitable enjoyment and acceptable levels of stress. Spending a few months doing some leetcode revision to pass some i
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by salmonlogs 5y ago
Yep, lots of EPAM contractors working for Google
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by salmonlogs 5y ago
I share a tab/window and resize that window to be approx 16:10. Shows up nicely for others and I can still see the rest of my screen. If I had another window open for chat/notes/emails I can still have that at half my ultrawi
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by salmonlogs 5y ago
Note this article is from 2014
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by salmonlogs 5y ago
There are a bunch of companies out there that provide this as a service - remote employment. They setup a company in each local country and handle all the tax and legal implications.
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by salmonlogs 5y ago
> "monetize energy where it's cheap" This is also directly responsible for increasing levels of fuels poverty and inequality. Driving up the cost of energy forces people into making decisions on whether to heat their home,
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by salmonlogs 5y ago
> Soon your government will present you a new digital wallet based on the same tech. Only with one difference compared to the original crypto currencies: they will have full control over your wallet. And your wallet will have smart contr
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by salmonlogs 5y ago
American English you ask for someone to please pass the salt. In British English you first apologise for it: “I’m very sorry, excuse me, would you mind, could you please pass the salt, thank you very much”
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by salmonlogs 5y ago
Forseti is an open-source project to build dependency graphs of your usage of GCP services. It's primarily designed for security but can be applied into other areas. You could extend the model to understand relationships between servic
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by salmonlogs 5y ago
If the genius business model relies on trusting people because "we have tons of mutual friends" then its just friends of friends investing in each other. That is not even slightly comparable to Berkshire Hathway and shows a stunni
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by salmonlogs 5y ago
I previously had a 4-bay Synology and loved the UI but couldn't deal with the price jump to an 8-bay. I discovered xpenology.org which allows you to bootload Synology software on x86 hardware. I turned an old desktop PC into an 8-bay s
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by salmonlogs 5y ago
Anyone earning £100,000+ in the UK does have to file a return, however most of the calculations are done for you. Your employer handles all deductions from your payslip and gives you a summary form of all tax paid, which you then report in
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by salmonlogs 6y ago
“Either downsizing has already taken place” - direct quote from the article. And they are comparing the reduction between August last year and today. I would conclude this means companies planning to downsize already have done. The companie
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by salmonlogs 6y ago
Disagree - thousands of hits can provide huge amounts of insightful data to make A/B testing valuable and productive when its captured and analyse effectively as part of a broader UX and Design System strategy. If you don’t have those
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by salmonlogs 6y ago
What about a managed service like EKS or GKE? A minimum k8s config is perhaps 20 lines to spin up a service and expose the ports - that feels pretty achievable for bedroom coder?
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by salmonlogs 6y ago
Firstly - congrats on making great income by providing valuable skills to a hot market. When you say "none of my customers need kubernetes" is that because they are not using any of its benefits, or because they could do it anothe
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by salmonlogs 6y ago
Making money is the outcome when you build and sell something of value to others. If you don’t find a problem to solve or a way to deliver value to others they won’t be willing to pay you enough to generate a profit. As per the comment abov
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by salmonlogs 6y ago
I used to work from home semi regularly and always enjoyed it, I found the transition to 100% WFH easy and net positive. Conveniently I had setup a new home office in late 2019. No need to waste time and effort commuting and I am more produ
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by salmonlogs 6y ago
Yes I read your blog and it seems like you've written plenty of shell scripts and utils to try and abstract and automate away infrastructure, but it feels a lot like you are trying to re-invent the wheel when all of this and much more

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