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4y ago
A transaction for $25 that costs $3,000 to complete seems pretty plainly broken. Imagine that happening with your credit card.
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4y ago
I pray that the inevitable nft/crypto bubble pop does not trickle into the rest of the economy. I’d love to believe the ape nft stuff is also mid 20s kids like me messing around, but I’d imagine there is a whole lot of institutional mo
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4y ago
I share the same idea! I pretty much always use this template for my blogs because its obviously not wordpress/etc, just a blog with the content you want and nothing else. Content writing is the same thing, I just toss a word doc in a
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4y ago
Agreed. On the other hand its very possible to rephrase these much better than the site lists, and doing so earns you respect. In a meeting full of people where 1 person overcomplicates an issue, everyone on the call will know 1 person is o
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4y ago
Some strategies for rephrasing I like are (1) converting "you" to "us/we", (2) removing emotion/blame, (3) occams razor - assume incompetence over malice, (4) false timidness/fake blaming yourself. The per
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4y ago
I completely agree. It took me many years to learn the lesson, but communication like you have above produces better short term and long term results in 100% of cases. The website's answer come off as passive aggressive. I've gott
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4y ago
It doesn’t sound like you understand the purpose of an emergency fund or what it is. It’s for when a random virus takes down society and you lose your job, but you and your family still need to pay for rent and food for 6 months. That’s why
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4y ago
The link below is 100% not how this happens as it’s owned by oracle, but if you’d like to read about text/nlp and how it’s used in adtech today from a technical perspective this is an excellent read. This product has been the #1 produc
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4y ago
Without starting values and locations (COL) you can’t compare values in this way.
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5y ago
The us government. Register to vote? Change your address? Register a new vehicle? Drown in very well targeted spam containing personal information like your name, the vehicle you purchased, the dealership you bought it from, your address, f
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5y ago
>The issue is that Gimp lost its primary contributor a few years ago (don't know why, he just disappeared), and nobody has really stepped up since. >Like, that guy was the only one working on the gtk3 port. The gtk3 port is right
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5y ago
Full article: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200817-the-batman-eff...
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5y ago
This may be wildly incorrect, but a good offense may be the best defense. Seemingly all other military spending is the nuclear deterrent. An overly basic example: Nuking a country with 90% of money spent on defense means that country's
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5y ago
Or similarly our logic is not the same logic that our opponent operates on.
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5y ago
“Bitcoin will end all war” Now that’s a quote for the ages…
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5y ago
Post-car industry Detroit is such an interesting place. 20 minute neighborhoods exist naturally in some places around Denver where there are occasional 1 block sections of grandfathered in retail zoning. But it is wild how easy it is to see
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5y ago
The person running the test wants to spend their money effectively, not find out that their advertising is working. Running a test and finding something isn’t working is a positive result - it means you can move your money elsewhere and dr
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5y ago
Those are satire.
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5y ago
You can use 3rd party tools to conduct tests so they are not affected by the outcome.
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5y ago
The author doesn’t provide and data or specific info on what they did, but a few general points: 1. Seasonality. It sounds like they’re comparing a few months on to a few months off, which likely is affected more by the time of year than an
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5y ago
Person who isn’t an expert in advertising and doesn’t know how to run tests makes conclusions about advertising by not doing proper testing. Exciting stuff. This is why you hire an electrician rather than doing your own electrical work. The
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5y ago
For reference $2mm arr is $40k revenue per person per month. A hypothetical 75% margin means $30k margin per person per month. Very impressive growth and 100% something you and a couple people could live off of. It is not a moonshot tech co
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5y ago
Likely referring to normal people who lose money with coinbase. Trading stocks has at least some amount of protection because stocks have some legal requirements/vetting/etc to get on the major exchanges. Where as there are a who
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5y ago
I don’t see how this could ever be legitimate. Giving out an unlaunched shitcoin and a t shirt in exchange for the biometric data of people who very clearly don’t understand crypto or biometric data (read: random person in a mall, regardles
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5y ago
Thank you for the post. I had friends in college who were previously marines, but their entire school was paid for along with something to the effect of “Anything you need to achieve the career you want, within reason”. New laptops, writing
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5y ago
There are a lot of shades between “I think this work is interesting and potentially beneficial” and “I am a bad person”. IE “Digital advertising in its current form has existed for ~12 years. The current landscape is comparable to cars befo
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5y ago
~140k, 6 years experience. Chill job, not a developer.
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5y ago
I live in Denver and pay $15 at the very lowest. $9 food, $2 tip, $2 tax, $2 platform fees.
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5y ago
If a recruiter told me there would be 8 additional interviews, I would definitely not move forward unless the pay was ridiculously good. At least when amazon does the loop its 6 hours in a single day, and their pay is very good.
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5y ago
“Why did you build a mobile app? You should have built a new phone, app ecosystem, payment processor, and then an app” - mdoms
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