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by sbinthree 8y ago
I agree, but I'd argue they make sense at a high level just not as much on lower ones. The level they may sense on is the "design a way to keep kids busy with useful stuff while their parents work". In that sense, something t
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by sbinthree 8y ago
As if checking account insurance is effective altruism? And are you saying offering a neo-bank service involving skirting what's possible and passing the value on to customers isn't scrappy? And finally, did someone force you to m
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Agreed with this. Was involved in big platform company who handled it this way and it went well. A good way to do it is email the customer and say 1. You disagree with them 2. You respect their rights and will allow them to legally use your
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Is it possible that this is true and yet applies to only a small subset of people? On LinkedIn this comment got near universal negative response along the lines of "that's impossible." But when you read their titles, it was u
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by sbinthree 8y ago
I find as I get more experience I realize my limitations as a programmer so I can predict much further out where I'll run into trouble. It usually ends up being avoiding bad architectural choices, avoiding bad abstractions, avoiding in
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by sbinthree 8y ago
I am aware of an active use case to catalog mobsters who shake down retailers and identify them to others in the network.
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by sbinthree 8y ago
I mean we only tolerated those bills for a few months before we had to switch, but generally speaking we were handling on the order of 4-5M requests/day, mostly low bandwidth. API Gateway, and wasting lots of allocated server resources
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Certainly our AWS bill when we were using Lambda + API Gateway forced us to "think about servers" and why we were paying 10x more for slower responding application server to spin up for 15 minutes to process a request that require
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Many restaurants in downtown areas have separate order desks / staff / kitchens for online, it's a significant and growing percentage of their business. Space is almost wasted on a single floor of tables, generally it's
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Is efficiency the best health metric for an economy, or is it just an easy one to use? Many of the most useful things become natural monopolies because they are so good.
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by sbinthree 8y ago
A good way to measure what this person means would be removal cost: how harmed is society if this category of solution is removed from it one day?
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by sbinthree 8y ago
I would dislike all of this except markdown support.
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by sbinthree 8y ago
My wife and I had a child in Canada with about as extreme a complication as you can get (transferred to Level 3 ICU for the sake of mother and baby). We calculated that it would have cost at least $200k in the US in direct costs, let alone
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by sbinthree 8y ago
This list is excellent. Sales, programming and writing was going to be my list.
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Diligence is morally but not necessarily economically valued.
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by sbinthree 8y ago
I generally try to get as much work done (in life) as I can. Some projects I can work for 12 hours a day on, others I'm tapped out at 6, so I just maximize output. If output is below the debugging cost of that code or something, I stop
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Modern meat, save the expensive grass fed stuff, isn't even that nutrient dense. With the exception of B12, which you can get from mushrooms/nutritional yeast/supplemented, everything else is available in sufficient quantitie
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Yes. As the price goes up, people switch to non-meat protein. Similar to what is hopefully going to happen with fossil fuels and renewable energy.
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Teleological thinking and IQ aren't particular correlated. It is possible to believe in god across all levels of IQ. Atheists tend to have a lower capacity for teleological thinking. Scientism, as opposed to science in the strict sense
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Article like these are interesting. In our experience, API Gateway + Lambda burned through almost 5x as much money as Elastic Beanstalk, and involved so much refactoring to get around the weird limits (timeouts, recursion, etc.). Maybe if y
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by sbinthree 8y ago
My experience with my current company could be considered the opposite of this. People are willing to pay us large amounts of money (surprisingly so) because they need a solution for this particular problem and nothing exists, but they hate
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by sbinthree 8y ago
The challenge is that these are key fit questions. Hiring someone with experience doing high velocity one-call-close sales at $250/month is very different than hiring someone doing high touch field sales for deals that are $10k/mo
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Where in SaaS you might pay the first month or two as commission, in licensed software you generally pay 10-20% of the gross margin for the first year of the agreement. The mechanics of the sales process are very similar, the people involve
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by sbinthree 8y ago
On the one hand, Myers-Briggs is very useful for correlative anecdotes (ie. ENTJs have these problems, INFJs respond these ways, etc.). On the other hand, the test/re-test validity is low because people tend to mistype a lot. Maybe the
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Not to mention that daycare in cities where people who tend to be dual earner make big incomes tend to live can often cost at least half of the gross of the lower earning parent. Meaning working is something people do for a net contribution
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by sbinthree 8y ago
The VP of something should be more or less the best at that thing in the organization. The VPs in each area should theoretically be considerably better than the CEO is at that area. Specifically, at leading that area, which usually comes fr
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Schizophrenia incidence goes up with IQ from average, as does high functioning autism and bipolar disorder, the only health conditions that increase as you go up in IQ (all others decrease or aren't affected).
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by sbinthree 8y ago
As easy as it would be to dispel this as something only low IQ / low capacity for development people would fall for, teleological thinking tends to slant towards schizophrenia-spectrum nervous systems. If you plot schizophrenia on a co
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Enterprise wise, they are very forgiving in my experience unless it affects their customer. Then they are very unhappy, understandably so.
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by sbinthree 8y ago
Says the guy who started an overvalued ad network trying to divert attention to himself. Just because no one cares if an ad-tech CEO burns out doesn't mean people don't care about Musk burning out. Musk is a symbol for entrepreneu

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