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by somedudetbh 6y ago
Locally, that's a drawback. Globally, the unsexyness of passive index investing is the best thing about it. A huge percentage of the angel / seed / FFF capital in the world comes from bored people who don't want to talk
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by somedudetbh 6y ago
"In the Annals of St Bertin …"?
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by somedudetbh 6y ago
>-- For the working parent whose productivity has been slashed by 50% and stress has gone up by 50% due to parenting obligations, WFH might be terrible. Yeah, this is one of the things that keeps coming up in this discussion that bugs me
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by somedudetbh 6y ago
> I'm pretty sure he just had access to X.com, plus it's a cool domain. Is it really a strange fascination? I just think it's funny that he went out and bought the x.com domain for a consumer finance startup in the 90s, an
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by somedudetbh 6y ago
> Fortunately, Max Levchin had an answer: ”Oh, that’s easy. We can sync payments for email.” Scott Banister (who was the other outside board member) and I looked at each other and said, “That’s a great idea.” Email payments turned out to
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by somedudetbh 6y ago
> Coal-related air pollution causes an estimated 10.000 extra deaths each year across the continent. Radiation caused one direct death in Fukushima. What's the rationale for comparing indirect deaths from coal to direct deaths from
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by somedudetbh 6y ago
Latency is kind of funny in the context of jamming. Sound only travels about a foot per millisecond. An orchestra pit is thirty or forty feet across. A big festival stage can be thirty feet across. So we have these pretty ordinary situatio
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by somedudetbh 7y ago
There are many conflicting stories about the origin of AWS, but the whole "our infra is underutilized except during Christmas, let's rent it out!" is one that I never hear repeated by anyone with any claim to knowing what was
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by somedudetbh 7y ago
Being emacs, there's a bunch of different ways to do this. I use Cask: https://cask.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/installation.htm... Let's consider Homebrew bundle etc outside of scope and assume
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by somedudetbh 7y ago
It's so interesting to read different people's perspectives on here. I very rarely comment on here, but it's just wild to me how wildly different the conclusions we can all draw from looking at the same set of pretty simple f
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by somedudetbh 7y ago
From the article: "So the Android ecosystem is split between at least 1,728 combinations of OS - Brand - Device Model" It's actually _much worse_ than this. Here's a review of the "Samsung Galaxy S10+": https:
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by somedudetbh 7y ago
> For example in 2008 the CDS market alone was at some point "valued" at close to $36 trillion [1], while for comparison the US GDP back then I'd say was around $14-15 trillion People say this all the time, but regardless
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by somedudetbh 8y ago
This is a well-studied phenomenon known as Cartel Theory: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-history-rev...
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by somedudetbh 8y ago
There are basically two ways this can work: the old way, and the new way. In the old way, an implementation detail of the Keychain was that data saved in the Keychain would not be purged on app uninstall. Basically, the Keychain can be th
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by somedudetbh 9y ago
Magit is really an incredible piece of work. Thanks so much for it. I mean, I already use emacs, but I feel it would be a legitimate reason to switch to emacs, or even to use emacs just when dealing with Git operations.
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by somedudetbh 9y ago
IMHO, as someone who absolutely loves emacs, this is the biggest problem with emacs.
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by somedudetbh 10y ago
I agree. I think this book and a lot of others fall into the _why's Poignant Guide to Ruby which i still totally don't understand the appeal of if you already know how to program. I mean, _why is an interesting dude, who did a lot
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by somedudetbh 10y ago
Ha I just thought/posted the same thing!
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by somedudetbh 10y ago
Every time I read something about Sears troubles, it makes me remember this metafilter comment from 2007: http://www.metafilter.com/62394/The-Record-Industrys-Decline... Excerpt: "...In 1984 [Sears] starts a joint
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by somedudetbh 10y ago
Wow. I'd like to see you solve the dining philosophers problem without a robust distributed messaging system.
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by somedudetbh 10y ago
it doesn't. My point was only that lots of technology entrepreneurs view 'generalizable web of trust' as a good opportunity, when it is not, similarly to how they view 'tools to make it easier for non-technical people to
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by somedudetbh 10y ago
(HN made me split my comment) This is why the marketing pages for even the most generic products in the world almost always talk more about 'solutions'. Like, companies don't even know they need a database. They know that the
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by somedudetbh 10y ago
So, first of all, I love Excel. I think Excel is the most incredible piece of shrinkwrapped software ever sold. I often joke that I don't have any tattoos but if I got one, it would be the excel logo. At least, everyone thinks I'm
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by somedudetbh 10y ago
This is a pretty naive look at how services in this space work from someone who wants to build one. Uber is fundamentally unlike all of these other "Uber for X" startups. First of all, @paulsutter made a great point: the CAC is &g