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by ssharp 4y ago
This was one of the promises of SPACs. The idea was that large companies were IPO'ing too late (ahem... Stripe) and that there was no way for the general public to take part in the same kind of upside they could with previous IPOs like
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by ssharp 4y ago
Depending on where you live, small claims court is an option if the amount owed is within the limits or if the max limit is acceptable for you. Don’t underestimate the value of a well-worded, signature required snail mail, either. That usua
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by ssharp 4y ago
I think there' an initial reaction of something like "how dare they!?!?" However, AI the type of tool that going to level up mankind's capabilities to the point that curriculums will need to adjust to fit those new capab
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by ssharp 4y ago
When I first started using teams, I saw the Files capability and thought it would be a pretty useful feature. In practice, the UX completely ruins any benefit of having files integrated into it.
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by ssharp 4y ago
The training model data sets have inconsistent respect for robots.txt. Also, I believe most of these models are not continuously crawling websites to update their data like a search engine does. That means if you're crawled once, you m
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by ssharp 4y ago
It's certainly 99% dead for me personally but based on the ad dollars still flowing in, I'm assuming there is a still a big audience, even if it's on the decline. What's more surprising to me at this point is Sirius. I j
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by ssharp 4y ago
Are there good examples of people like this that then rose to the position of CEO and failed? There are plenty of CEOs who have failed, so is a disproportionate amount these "short-path" MBAs who have failed after climbing so high
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by ssharp 4y ago
I don't think my choices were particularly interesting, I'm was just loosely aware of their backgrounds and confirmed them as MBA graduates with a few searches. The parent comment (and a common HN trope) was about how awful MBAs a
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by ssharp 4y ago
Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, Jamie Dimon, et. al. are in charge of companies that are doing just fine.
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by ssharp 4y ago
Obviously hindsight, but the combination of 0% interest rates and the rise of retail investing post-March 2020 was fuel that had to run out eventually. Predicting tops/bottoms is a fools errand, however. If you thought Bitcoin was over
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by ssharp 4y ago
> But he just shut down Revue, which was exactly "Twitter's Substack" version Google Video was "Google's YouTube" but Google still decided YouTube was worth acquiring.
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by ssharp 4y ago
There are usually non-solicitation clauses as well that prevent you from actively recruiting former co-workers and clients/customers. That's different than a non-compete.
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by ssharp 4y ago
The Aptera is going to cost $30,000 (more than entry-level cars) and will only seat two people. I'm not really sure the appeal over an electric bike or motorcycle for an individual given the huge gulf in cost. This is not a good soluti
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by ssharp 4y ago
I’d recommend taking a few steps before doing a chargeback in cases like this: 1. Search around for back channel support. Google things like “executive customer support”. Often times these emails get published by bloggers, forums, etc. You
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by ssharp 4y ago
Shopify offers an official headless platform: https://hydrogen.shopify.dev
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by ssharp 4y ago
There are a lot of apps that having singing lessons. Yousician may be the most popular. I'd equate being able to speak a foreign language to singing in key. That's what the apps will be able to help with, at least from what I&#x27
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by ssharp 4y ago
Scott Adams blames the cancelation of his shown on "reverse racism" by whatever network was running it.
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by ssharp 4y ago
I haven't done much with Facebook ads since 2019, but back then the UI was a flaky, buggy mess. It was pretty terrible to work with. At one point they had a "Power Editor" and then a simpler ads interface. They combined these
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by ssharp 4y ago
People rave about Figma but I never really "got" it, compared to Sketch. Granted, I'm on a Mac, am only in Sketch for 2-3 hours a week, typically work alone and generally use it to re-arrange website items and hack up what a
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by ssharp 4y ago
The solution to this is $11.99 a month. The way consumers value things is insane to me. People will fork over $12 on DoorDash delivery fees, an overpriced drink, a coffee, etc. but to remove ads for access to an enormous vault of content th
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by ssharp 4y ago
I thought I was one of the last Fireworks users and I gave it up a few years ago in favor of Sketch! Once I learn a tool well enough to suit my needs, I really hate giving it up so it was a difficult transition. Probably why I never bothere
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by ssharp 4y ago
I used to love MIDI's and was always excited to run my whole collection through any new sound card. Of course, the best option was to run MIDI out to my Yamaha keyboard and play everything through that. It's still fun today, 25-30
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by ssharp 4y ago
For Snap? Probably. For Apple? Steve Jobs was never sitting on $100+ billion in cash. Though, Apple's buy backs + dividends made more sense given how profitable they were and how much cash they had on hand. Snap has never had positive
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by ssharp 4y ago
I hypothesize that Google's Ad business is much less prone to fluctuation than Snap's as well as Meta's. With Google's ads targeted so heavily towards search and remarketing, there is significantly more purchase intent b
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by ssharp 4y ago
There are lots of instances where I find a tool I want to try, sign up for the trial, see the inside of the tool and think, "I don't have time for this, I'll try it tomorrow". Inevitably, the 2 weeks or whatever run out
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by ssharp 4y ago
> For corporate environments it's about ease of repurposing the space and to be the least bit disruptive to where they're doing business. It'd cost a lot of money to remodel all the old red steel roof McDonald's if th
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by ssharp 4y ago
I'm curious how much time customer support takes for products around this price and how much impacts the viability of a business this size. At $8600 MRR * 12 ~= $103k. Obviously some level of expenses here but let's assume very hi
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by ssharp 4y ago
The bill the commenter was mentioning is currently in the Senate and hasn't been voted on yet. It would bring back the $7,500 credit for any EV that is built in the U.S. and removes the 200,000 limit. The bill also changes the mechanic
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by ssharp 4y ago
Since FB profiles are used in Marketplace, I've actually found it relatively easy to spot scammers or at least have a set of heuristics to judge whether or not a profile is legit.
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by ssharp 4y ago
The $7 cost is substantially lower for the manufactures buying these things at scale. That would apply to outlets and work boxes, too, but I'm assuming the retail / wholesale difference is much higher with the mobile home parts. I

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