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by slap_shot 4y ago
Slava wrote a postmortem five years ago - I'm curious if he looks back at it and feels any different. I was an early RethinkDB user - we probably had one of the largest RethinkDB clusters in production by 2013 at an ad network. I'
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by slap_shot 4y ago
Just a few thoughts from my experience of fundraising: > How much should we aim to raise and at what valuation? You don't generally get to pick your valuation up front: you tell an investors how much you're raising and the lead
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by slap_shot 4y ago
I shared an office and an apartment with Kyle in 2010 and I have vivid memories of him routinely talking how bad the state of password managers was at that time. I've been a happy customer since 2017. It's been surreal watching th
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by slap_shot 4y ago
> but otherwise obviously makes no sense, it's antithetic to the very idea of a business. How does it NOT make sense? The purpose of a business like this is not to generate some short term profit. These are winner-take-all markets -
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by slap_shot 4y ago
There's also a stigma against this path. I went to a community college for two years (it was free), and then transferred the University of Florida to finish my degree (a fine public R1 university by any standard), paying exactly $0 for
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by slap_shot 4y ago
The software industry as a whole needs to be more diligent with status updates. Our Snowflake clusters were failing connections for 30 minutes before this was acknowledged, all while their status page was reporting no issue at all.
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by slap_shot 4y ago
> But I think, other than the onset of Covid, and the last 6 months, I haven't seen an overly negative messaging. But that is exactly when they could and did do the messaging - if you were out there saying VC is drying up from July
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by slap_shot 4y ago
The government. I worked for the US state department for a couple of years by way of a major consultancy. Not sure you can get any more boring than that. And you'll make a solid six figures doing maybe five hours of work a week!
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by slap_shot 5y ago
The argument is that keeping the price low requires inhumane practices, but providing human practices doesn't command a price that would offset the overhead of being more human? That doesn't make sense.
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by slap_shot 5y ago
I think I pay $8 a dozen for Vital Farms eggs. My assumption is that a lot of that price is for whatever overhead is required to run things a bit more humanely than the average.
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by slap_shot 5y ago
This is off topic but as someone who grew up in a household that made their living selling things in markets, where prices were openly negotiated, I just want to share a thought: While you're absolutely allowed to express that a produc
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by slap_shot 5y ago
> Thankfully HN hasnt dropped in quality on that front unlike reddit. I've heard these sorts of shots taken at Reddit since I started using it in 2011 (I was late to the game) and I'm fascinated by it. I use Reddit every day an
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by slap_shot 5y ago
We've already started placing the bets across a dozen or so accounts to bypass this. That wasn't the point of the story.
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by slap_shot 5y ago
lol
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by slap_shot 5y ago
It only works for one sport and requires analyzing a ton of historical data and prop bets from all of the books.
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by slap_shot 5y ago
yes, so the question is what would he/she change about how it is advertised in the US (or I guess in new zealand)
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by slap_shot 5y ago
This is exactly my point. I'm not against outlawing casinos (i think you should be able to do pretty much whatever the eff you want with your body and money). BUT if we are going to allow them, should we allow them to only let people p
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by slap_shot 5y ago
we've started spreading the bets across lots of different accounts. the issue is we don't know which leg of the bet is going to be the one that profits, so you run the risk of one account winning too frequently and getting flagged
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by slap_shot 5y ago
casino and sports books are the same thing and are the unusual product I am describing
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by slap_shot 5y ago
I'm pretty Laissez-Faire about things, but a recent interaction with gambling is making me reconsider: My friend got a lot of free credits from the major sports books and wrote some code that he felt could generate a profit. We all thr
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by slap_shot 5y ago
> Gambling, and gambling advertisements, are deliberately designed to hook people to it as an addiction. > Only 25% of Americans regularly gamble > and just 2% of gamblers produce 50% of industry revenue. Very interesting. Do you h
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by slap_shot 5y ago
How about fast food or unhealthy food/drinks? And would you change anything about how prescription medication is advertised?
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by slap_shot 5y ago
> there's a lot more need for people who understand the data and data systems of a company and how to analyze that data than someone who can write some code (discloser: I run a company that builds software for data professionals, s
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by slap_shot 5y ago
:facepalm: of course!
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by slap_shot 5y ago
> and how Apple gets away with telling a whole generation of phone purchasers that they were holding it wrong. Okay. I'll bite. What does this mean? I hold my iPhone 13 the exact same way I held a Nokia brick in 2003. What did Apple
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by slap_shot 5y ago
Did the mushroom trip enlighten you? Did it change how you view the world? Were you worried about a bad trip?
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by slap_shot 5y ago
I've thought a lot about this recently: what type of person is subject to a greater amount of variance in the outcome of something due to good/bad advice than a founder? Other professions with the potential for drastic upticks of
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by slap_shot 5y ago
I've never bought an NFT - but do people actually look at block addresses to validate things like this? I just read https://networked.substack.com/p/web3-i-have-my-daots and there's a cute analogy about buyin
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by slap_shot 5y ago
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by slap_shot 5y ago
> Likely as a result, they had a sophisticated IP licensing and commercialization operation Because UF fucked up the Gatorade deal so badly. I went to UF and worked for a seed investment fund that spun technology out of UF's researc

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