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by somsak2 3y ago
bezos was a shit CEO for two decades and then somehow fell into a bunch of profit out of nowhere!
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by somsak2 3y ago
feels weird to provide an example that is less than half of the rates we were talking about, any others?
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by somsak2 3y ago
Aren't we talking about an environment where there are rampant cheaters? My perception was that this is by definition a low-trust company. Of course, it is always going to be easier to remove yourself from that situation and go to a co
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by somsak2 3y ago
If all you need to answer that question is "we're confident that X" then that's still a problem with the asker. Why are they confident? Have we modeled the data needs over time? What data are we even storing? Basic probi
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by somsak2 3y ago
HN has been talking about the disparity in CEO vs worker pay for quite a while. Here's a highly-upvoted post from a little over 3 years ago about exactly this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20707473 . Almos
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by somsak2 3y ago
"You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAFd4FdbJxs
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by somsak2 3y ago
What's your sample?
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by somsak2 3y ago
refers to "many screenshots" and yet provides none of them in the actual article, classic. anyone have actual references to what this looks like?
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by somsak2 3y ago
I mean, they own a huge portion of BofA. It's their second biggest holding by value https://hedgefollow.com/funds/Berkshire+Hathaway
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by somsak2 3y ago
it better represents reality, at your job you also don't have some objective measure you're being evaluated against. you just have to do well enough not to get fired
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by somsak2 3y ago
how long do regular workers stay on average at a company? 7 years is a pretty long time
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by somsak2 3y ago
You should look at Backblaze B2 instead of Cloudflare, it's even cheaper https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html
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by somsak2 3y ago
In mixed group chats with iPhone and Android, it is not that rare of an occurrence to have issues with texts not going through / being delayed. I also can't emote without a wall of text showing up, or edit messages after sending.
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by somsak2 3y ago
Skipping an ad using SponsorBlock has no impact on how much money the creator already received to do the ad.
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by somsak2 3y ago
if it were actually valued as an automotive company, it wouldn't have anywhere close to its current valuation
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by somsak2 3y ago
"Pitting the learning of basic knowledge against the development of creative thinking is a false choice." - make it stick: Brown, Roediger, McDaniel
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by somsak2 3y ago
How is it "generations of neglect" if we didn't even really know about global warming until the 80s? Maybe you can label the last decade or two as reckless but hard for me to get on board with such a long time scale when broa
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by somsak2 4y ago
>literally kill their employees source?
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by somsak2 4y ago
> The act of creating cards is more important than the study I see this claim repeated so often but I've yet to find any actual proof that this is true. Do you have a reference to a study?
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by somsak2 4y ago
bing
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by somsak2 4y ago
> less than a quarter of people who play video games are under 18 I think this is deceiving. Sure, in terms of raw numbers there are a good number of adult gamers. But I'd like to see this statistic play-time-weighted.
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by somsak2 4y ago
https://archive.is/YGPFT
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by somsak2 4y ago
I'd call being half of Azure's market share today a failure. Hell, they were better-positioned than Amazon to offer an AWS-like product when AWS itself came out.
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by somsak2 4y ago
> Google is much more diversified (total revenue is north of 250 billion) Over 80% of that revenue is still just ads though, not really very diversified. And even with GCP they are in a distant 3rd to AWS / Azure.
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by somsak2 4y ago
Wealthfront offers the same, but with 4.3% and $3m insurance https://www.wealthfront.com/cash
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by somsak2 4y ago
https://archive.is/RgOq3
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by somsak2 4y ago
I'm with you. The fact that Anki is FOSS, is still actively developed, and has a SQLite database that is easily queryable are also important considerations for me when selecting tools that will be used over such long periods of time. I
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by somsak2 4y ago
that's the problem though, the mind isn't a muscle. lifting weights can make you better in a different but related activity, like a sport. but the research on brain games shows that they only make you better at the specific game t
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by somsak2 4y ago
like what?
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by somsak2 4y ago
> higher quality accounts have been interacting less any source / concrete examples of this? I've asked for this before but all I ever hear are general, sweeping claims without any actual data.

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