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by seibelj 4y ago
There are no limits to growth provided technology continues to increase productivity. If we were stuck with the same output, then productivity would scale linearly with the working age population, and in a shrinking-population world our qua
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by seibelj 4y ago
I work 70 hours a week. Surely you wouldn’t outlaw my ethic? And if a run a company, surely I could require my employees to work 5 days, 40 hours? The solution is to let business owners switch to 4 day weeks and then let the free market sor
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Snap Plans to Slash 20% of Staff in Cost-Cutting Drive(wsj.com)
2 points by seibelj 4y ago|0 comments
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by seibelj 4y ago
I am a contrarian by nature. Wearing my investor hat, I continue to be unimpressed with AI tools, including the latest image generation enhancements. I do find stable diffusion interesting, but I don't see the disruption. Similarly, I
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NHS waiting lists hiding 10m patients in need of follow-up care(thetimes.co.uk)
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Is anyone actually using co-pilot? They claim “millions of users” but I seriously doubt millions of programmers opted into paying $10 per month for it. A lot of these stats seem highly suspect.
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by seibelj 4y ago
Why make a string when you can create a new StringValue class, StringValueFactory, StringValueFactoryIterator, StringValueFactoryIteratorFactory, StringValueTemplateDecorator...
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Correct
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by seibelj 4y ago
Nothing stops anyone from structuring a new business like this. Many professional service firms such as private medical clinics and law firms are structured as partnerships, which is a co-operative type of entity. The tricky thing is buildi
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by seibelj 4y ago
Can you name an example of a monopoly that has developed in the last 50 years that didn’t occur because of crony capitalism?
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Stripe Valuation Marked Down 64% by T. Rowe Price Global Tech Fund(pymnts.com)
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by seibelj 4y ago
My company has a large typescript monorepo with many (~100) devs all committing to it daily. We use rush and pnpm (and eslint and some other stuff). Very solid repository. No complaints. Pleasant to work in
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by seibelj 4y ago
This is because you think too much. Most people just have kids and figure it out, same as it has been since the beginning of time.
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by seibelj 4y ago
Meat is nutritionally superior to plants. Humans do not process cellulose easily. It takes far more plants to equal the nutritional content of meat. I tried Beyond Meat as an experiment but it tastes awful. Real meat is better.
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by seibelj 4y ago
> What is 'red tape' though? No-one ever defines what red tape they would remove. Where do I begin? - Stop setting prices by government diktat for medical professionals' salaries and procedures. Stop preventing private e
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by seibelj 4y ago
I tried the Beyond Meat ground beef substitute once to see if it would work in tacos. Stunk up my house with a weird smell, tasted off even with all the spices, and made us all feel a bit sick after. No wonder their stock is tanking. Humans
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by seibelj 4y ago
Green energy (except nuclear) is inefficient, expensive, irregular, and the money for it goes straight to China and developing nations who mine the rare earth elements. Even Germany finally backed off from de-commissioning their last nuclea
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by seibelj 4y ago
https://recurforever.com/
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by seibelj 4y ago
My company pays SF-payscale salaries no matter where the employee lives. That's how we attract and retain the best talent.
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by seibelj 4y ago
My productivity went at least 10x when the pandemic happened. - No commute - No 1 hour lunch (walking, buying, eating, cleaning up) - Not in an open-desk office where I'm constantly interrupted - Meetings are much more focused and I ca
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by seibelj 4y ago
Being a poor immigrant in the USA is far, far superior to being poor in many Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Honduras, and Guatemala. Only an extremely naïve and privileged person would even pretend that isn't the case.
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by seibelj 4y ago
I think the difference is if you do it yourself vs. trust a third party. The third party is charging a risk premium.
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by seibelj 4y ago
I worked in an office next to an Uber clone that was clearly unsuccessful. Yet they had a significant Series A from a Russian oligarch, then got bought a few years later at something like 10x the Series A funding amount by a different Russi
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by seibelj 4y ago
Everyone in YC sells to each other. It's quite encouraged to buy from other YC startups and test out their tech as alpha customers because it increases the valuation of the YC network (including your own company). It's a very inte
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by seibelj 4y ago
Every single business can be a vector for money laundering. From cash laundromats to high end technology, if the launderer owns the business then it has potential. I would estimate the government catches somewhere in the ballpark of 0.00000
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I want to take the same public dollars that are funneled directly the monopolistic, corrupt, badly run system and instead give the money directly to parents to use as a voucher. If they like their current public school, wonderful, they can
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by seibelj 4y ago
Is any of that actually going to be a massive industry-defining feature? Marketing blogs are already negative value to me, relying on AI to write something as important as my resume is a non-starter, and marketing emails already go straight
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by seibelj 4y ago
Please, put your children in terrible schools out of some sense of social justice or whatever. I myself will do what is actually good for my family. Given the school down the street from me had its Vice Principal of Gang Violence execute a
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by seibelj 4y ago
There is a place in society for schools that will treat you like cattle and babysit you all day. There is also a place for academically challenging schools that provide a strong education. I don’t want to ban the latter in order to improve
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by seibelj 4y ago
Thank goodness in America we have the constitution to prevent such authoritarian activity.

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