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by slyall 4y ago
If my company is every worth $3b then I'll think about buying the .com for $300k. However right now $300k is much better spent on staff, hosting and other business things.
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by slyall 4y ago
Apart from one high profile NZ startup (possibly the same one) most companies seem to be okay. Lots of companies still hiring although not as aggressively as a year ago. I know someone who lost their job at gitlab and various others working
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by slyall 4y ago
On the other hand if AI is just an API call away it might allow lots of new products. Lots of bigger companies are offering AI Pixie dust, but pretty soon it might be something that every solo SaaS can also do.
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by slyall 4y ago
100% chance that stackoverflow will be sending nasty notes to the author (who appears to live in the US). 100% chance he'll have to take it down or change the name. You really can't use the exact name of the people you are cloning
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by slyall 4y ago
I was disappointed to see that Sergey Brin (Gen X) didn't capitalise emails (sometimes at least). See the first email in this article: https://www.businessinsider.in/emails-from-googles-eric-schm...
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by slyall 4y ago
I don't think the members of KISS were ever anonymous. They wore makeup on stage but widely used their real names.
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by slyall 4y ago
Corey Quinn ( well known AWS Pricing consultant ) does most of his photos with his mouth wide open.
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by slyall 4y ago
Article by Atul Gawande from a few years ago talking about Medical software, scribes and "virtual scribes" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-ha...
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by slyall 4y ago
But Crypto is too complicated for 99% of the population to use directly. Given that exactly what is it useful for then? The Stock Market is too complicated for most people but it is pretty safe for the average citizen to participate in ( an
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by slyall 4y ago
Exploring the Lord of the Rings by Corey Olsen It is a very deep dive into the text of the book. A weekly episode that usually gets through less than a page of the book. It has recently passed Episode 250. Episode so far are all on Youtube
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by slyall 4y ago
In this context "housing regulations" doesn't usually mean stuff like electrical standards[1] It means stuff like "houses must be single story", "no apartments", "yards required", "minimum 2
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by slyall 4y ago
You obviously plan to live a long time. I'm unsure as to how this would prevent long term planning or investment. A one million dollar piece of land presumably has buildings on it worth at least as much. If it is bringing in something
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by slyall 4y ago
Remember the Tax is just on the Land Value. You should be getting rent proportional to the builds and other improvement on the property. Thats half the point of a Land tax. It encourages you to build. 1% is typically the value most people t
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by slyall 4y ago
Reply to your edit. Yes, If something that is untaxed previously is now taxed then it's value will probably go down. There are winners and losers with every tax change. The rate of a Land Tax is usually proposed to be around 1% of the
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by slyall 4y ago
Perhaps you could explain this glaring problem better. "Take the rent" and "leaves a property worth a pittance" makes me suspect you have an incorrect understanding of what a land value tax is.
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by slyall 4y ago
A similar thing might be "well done" steaks. While somewhere between 10% and 30% of people like well-done steak this choice is mocked in articles, conversation, and internet discourse. It is discouraged (and sometimes refused) at
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by slyall 4y ago
I'm pretty sure the Dropbear counts as an alpha predators. https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/
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by slyall 4y ago
I had a friend who was employed by one of the dodgy New Zealand testing companies. Her facebook feed was full of lots of articles that deliberately confused the contamination from household meth labs with contamination from people who just
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by slyall 4y ago
Discussion on his previous article "Why the Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34512516
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How to make layoffs less awful(andzwa.medium.com)
2 points by slyall 4y ago|1 comments
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by slyall 4y ago
Not everything JK pulled from is out of copyright. But generally Authors are allowed to reuse all sorts of things. Compare say Battle Royale to the Hunger Games. Writing a story about Kids fighting to the death doesn't give you a monop
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by slyall 4y ago
I always tell people looking at Datadog to remember "DDDD" or "DataDog Don't Discount". Compared to most Enterprise vendors it is a lot harder to get a discount from Datadog. Most vendors will give you 1/3 off
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by slyall 4y ago
Yet in the "real world" companies are rolling out huge amounts of Solar and Wind while new Nuclear is a rounding error. Meanwhile armchair nuclear advocates keep saying this is impossible.
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by slyall 4y ago
Over here (New Zealand) they usually content themselves with insisting that Facebook must give money to old-media companies to compensate them for loss of revenue. I think part of the problem is that old-Media companies have lost a lot of r
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Maxcdn has shut down, twemoji via CDN not working anymore(github.com)
6 points by slyall 4y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 4y ago
I remember reading some a Terminator fan-fiction story where most of the time Terminators were intentionally in a downgraded mode w.r.t shooting. However when things were important Skynet made sure they could shoot properly, at which point
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by slyall 4y ago
But in this case we are talking about replacing single-story buildings cities with multi-story apartments. Just about every city has plenty of room to build lots of housing via upzoning.
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by slyall 4y ago
A fairly compared to some of the others. I used to run more but have reduced it a little. Hardware An HP Miniserver Gen7 with just 4GB of RAM 120GB SSD for OS 4 Disks (3,4,4 and 6 TB) No RAID 4 External Disks to match th
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by slyall 4y ago
Unlike the great music that was produced when you were aged between 12 and 22 ?
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by slyall 4y ago
The Podcast "One Year" had an Episode about the 1942–1944 musicians' strike. Most US musicians stopped recording music for nearly a year. Podcast: https://slate.com/podcasts/one-year/s4/1942&#x2

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