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by speedplane 7y ago
> PR conultant's way of doing things: Spend the budget. If project was a win, claim own success. If the project was a failure, blame a business, never show results. Close but I don't think this is quite right ... "PR conul
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Owning 10% doesn't mean you're a peon. If you own anything, you're not a peon. However, owning 100% of something is simply a very different mindset than owning just 99% of something. In the former, you solely control you
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by speedplane 7y ago
> I think you mean, consider "accelerators" / outside-investment from Angels and VCs as a last resort? More generally I mean, give up a piece of your company as a last resort. Not saying investor money is always evil, some
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by speedplane 7y ago
> For most people, owning 100% of a company making $1M/year would be preferable to owning 10% of a company making $1B. It's not just that money has decreasing marginal value. It's about what life you want to live. Being in
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by speedplane 7y ago
> If you only own 1% of your company after raising funds, you've made some serious mistakes along the way. This was a simple example to illustrate a point. A more realistic example would be: owning 100% of a company making $1M/
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by speedplane 7y ago
> When jumping into a startup, the question “why not” has very real and consequential answers. Beware and take this shit seriously. The article listed a host of real and bad experiences, but it never said that if they could go back and d
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by speedplane 7y ago
Founder burnout is simply a result of the stress of the increased responsibility you have. Your employees expect a pay-check every two weeks, and even if you pay yourself nothing, you have to make that happen. Lack of income stability desta
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by speedplane 7y ago
This article should be another datapoint in every entrepreneur's handbook that simply going through the YC and Silicon Valley VC community does not ensure good outcomes. Owning 100% of a company making $1M/year is far more rewardi
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Gary vee talks like he does something amazing while what he does can really be done by a good cold caller. I don't see what he has done to earn the recognition he has. Gary Vee's main resume star is that he has become success
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Can they not be more efficient and still bill the same hours? What is stopping them from improving their internal efficiency but still pocketing the same amount of money? Generally, if you want to sell technology to lawyers, telling th
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Can they not be more efficient and still bill the same hours? What is stopping them from improving their internal efficiency but still pocketing the same amount of money? As a lawyer, if you read and understand a document in 10 minutes
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Nitpick: EAL6 is still semi-formal, EAL7 is formally verified design and tested. EAL7 is very rare, on the CC certified products page [1] there are only 2 EAL7 certified products: a hardware diode, and a virtual machine OS. You are def
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by speedplane 7y ago
> There were also far fewer users to really discover the nasty edge case bugs. If you consider why a company makes something reliable or not, it's a relatively simple formula: = Number of Users x (Benefit of Getting it Right x
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Of course what exists or doesn't exist in the universe that's not visible is pure unscientific speculation If something can only be proven to a 99.999999% certainty, is that still "unscientific"? What if scientists
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by speedplane 7y ago
> I am sure there will be no conspiracy theories from this news Well, yeah, because the government and military industrial complex censored all of it. But don't worry, Q Anon will figure it out for us.
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by speedplane 7y ago
In 2020, a company that provides a product for free without a standard business model will be met with skepticism: not just from investors, but from users. How is jit.si able to do this for free where many other companies charge? Are they m
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by speedplane 7y ago
> The question is why material design didn't learn from other people's mistakes. While reading the original material design spec, it seemed enlightened, but now its clear it's more of a standard than a best-practice. Its b
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by speedplane 7y ago
> There is an entire generation that has never traded through a crisis. Given that most crises seem to occur roughly every 7-15 years, there will always be such a generation. A hypothesis: the reason why crises occur roughly 7-15 years i
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Those people don’t know what is pin risk. Is it just me, or does it feel like the only people using Robinhood are college students gambling with their parent's money? Given that many extremely smart people who have devoted their l
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by speedplane 7y ago
This article misses the elephant in the room: how to define "reliability". Most software perceived to be reliable (eg, MS Paint, bash) have numerous bugs, it's just that no one comes across them. Software that is perceived t
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by speedplane 7y ago
> There are a couple of situations where outages are not normal or acceptable: 1. Dealing with other people's money 2. Monitoring/managing other people's health Generally true, but there is a couple of exceptions to this r
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by speedplane 7y ago
When we design policy around increasing the value of the stock market, we effectively give stock-holders power. Good policy should create efficient markets, not "high value" ones.
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by speedplane 7y ago
I don't yet have kids, but I have this abstract principle of how to raise them to learn STEM and generally become curious: don't give them anything until they build something similar. This principle can start at a very basic level
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by speedplane 7y ago
>> founder and team with nothing to lose is more likely to pull a rabbit out of that blood-equity-soaked hat. > what is "blood equity"? Even failing startups, with little cash and poor market penetration are often worth s
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by speedplane 7y ago
> A startup has no business running microservices. Microservices are only when the engineering team can't scale properly because they keep stepping on top of each other. While I generally agree with you in the vast majority of pract
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by speedplane 7y ago
> The market SOTA Abbyy is far from being accurate. While Abbyy is likely the best, it's also incredibly expensive. Roughly on the order of $0.01/page or maybe at best a tenth of that in high volume. For comparison, I run a bun
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by speedplane 7y ago
> PDFs are incredibly flexible. Text can be specified in a bunch of ways. Glyphs can be defined to the nth degree. Text sometimes isn’t text at all. There’s no layout engine and everything is absolutely positioned. Can't stress this
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by speedplane 7y ago
> What are the groups that would benefit most from the PDF-to-HTML conversion? Who are the customers that would drive this profit? I tried to make those sentences not sound contentious but unfortunately they do, but I am genuinely curiou
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by speedplane 7y ago
> The funny thing is that creating a universal algorithm to convert PDFs and/or HTML to plaintext is probably comparable in difficulty to building level 5 self-driving cars, and would accrue at least as much profit to any company th
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by speedplane 7y ago
> If you're using an OCR engine to understand PDFs that are nothing but a scanned image embedded in a PDF... what do you need a PDF parser for? This should be obvious, but the answer is because OCR engines are not terribly accurate.

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