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by speakfreely 1y ago
You don't seem to understand the implications here. This requires bootstrapped startups to have gross margins substantially above incumbents in order to compete and not be cash flow negative after paying taxes. It makes it substantial
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by speakfreely 1y ago
Unnecessary snark, especially based on my comment and what I was replying to. Hope your day gets better.
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Ask HN: Do indie bio labs and projects exist in modern genetic engineering?
2 points by speakfreely 1y ago|0 comments
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by speakfreely 1y ago
> I give odds of seeing the end of humanity in my lifetime at around 50%. This is not well-reasoned. Climate change, even in its most hysterical worst case scenarios, could make large areas of the planet uninhabitable, and cause massive
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by speakfreely 1y ago
Well, over a sufficient timeline, humans will just be a common ancestor species of a series of new, distinct species. That's how it goes. It's a bit disappointing to think that billions of years of evolution would result in only
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by speakfreely 1y ago
Yes, Instagram is your social resume. Most people use Instagram to "verify" you even if they find you on a dating app.
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by speakfreely 1y ago
I've reread this a few times and I still can't figure out if there's something wrong with me or something wrong with this post.
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by speakfreely 1y ago
This makes frontier research sound very similar to gambling. Any correlation in personality types?
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by speakfreely 1y ago
> The Cartels have substantially more power than the state. This is a common misconception. The state can absolutely dominate any cartel in Mexico, they just choose not to for political reasons. > relearning their ancient languages t
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by speakfreely 1y ago
One financial services company has hundreds of Glue jobs that are using pyspark to read and write less than 4GB of data per run. These jobs run every day.
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by speakfreely 1y ago
A non-trivial portion of my consulting work over the past 10 years has been working on data pipelines at various big corporations that move absurdly small amounts of data around using big data tools like spark. I would not worry about purc
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by speakfreely 1y ago
Are you referring to Air Marshal Fufu? The wiki article does not disappoint.
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by speakfreely 1y ago
I'm giving you an upvote because I am 51% sure that was just good trolling.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
This seems likely, but I cannot figure out why they are not trying to pass more legislation in the first 2 years if they're fairly sure they're going to lose the midterms. The only conclusion that can be drawn from their public ac
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by speakfreely 2y ago
I've actually used all 3 of them and didn't find any of them to be very easy to work with. As a developer, I do enjoy being able to go down to the markup level when I need to, but these platforms seem designed to keep you separat
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Ask HN: What's the quickest way to build a landing page?
4 points by speakfreely 2y ago|7 comments
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Tell HN: Dark patterns you should not use on your pricing page
6 points by speakfreely 2y ago|4 comments
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by speakfreely 2y ago
It is not just fashionable, it is downright easy due to his personality. His methods of communication on many topics, particularly political ones, are purposefully misleading and manipulative. But he is 100% correct about the need to becom
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by speakfreely 2y ago
If you're upset about the deterioration of rule of law under Trump, I have some bad news for you about Mexico.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Also, there one US embassy in Mexico, and multiple local consulates.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Average software dev salaries in major Mexican metros are around 30,000 to 45,000 MXN per month. So around $2,000 USD a month.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Podcast is "Grow your B2B SaaS", the guest was Ryan Allis.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
There's a "Growing B2B SaaS" podcast that had a guest that made an impression on me. He said tech is the wrong industry to try to grow a lifestyle business. You can do it, but your business is substantially more likely to b
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by speakfreely 2y ago
I agree. In the 2005-2015 era, I used to have admiration for those that worked at Google and wanted to be like them. Now I view them similarly to those who work at tobacco companies or payday loan companies. They've literally become
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Google is exactly the evil company that it founders set out to be against. It's a monopoly that crushes little people with no recourse (talk to anyone who has ever advertised on Google and ask what they think of their customer support
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by speakfreely 2y ago
USDS was already kind of set up the way you'd want to set up DOGE if you were Elon. It was designed for talented people from the tech industry to do "temporary tours" in the government.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Pretty amusing that Obama essentially created a SPAC for Trump and Musk to use to dismantle the civil service.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Only if you're trying to be objective. "Social mobility" in this case is their invented metric to arrive at their prearranged outcome for the study.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
Again, none of those directly applies to what DOGE is doing. You have to really stretch the meaning of those laws to try to make it fit. Prosecutors do this regularly, but the current US Attorney is unlikely to.
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by speakfreely 2y ago
As someone who witnessed the absurd corruption of the weird fiefdoms carved out by the horrifically inefficient career staff at the Department of State and USAID, I have to say that all this really couldn't happen to a better set of pe

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