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by svnt 2y ago
They are deliberately using an inflammatory title and too-big terms for the constituencies they are describing. If they define the Global North as the United States and the UK, they should just say that. If by the Global South they mean Ind
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by svnt 2y ago
Most corporate software development is done in teams, and the primary limiting factor is not individual competence, but the ability to work well with others. It sounds like you will do just fine.
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by svnt 2y ago
This is not really about intelligence once you clear the bar of doing well in a CS program, which you have. The right solutions, and correct implementations, come as the result of a lot of effort and experience. If you are not making new mi
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by svnt 2y ago
I am honestly not sure what point you are arguing. I have personally activated, paid for, and sent on expeditions multiple Starlink systems, including the newer marine version. You seem very upset about something I’m not talking about.
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by svnt 2y ago
Ok, I went and looked and the free 30-day trial was already in place weeks before the natural disaster: https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/starlink-internet-review/ They didn’t do anything but offer the same
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by svnt 2y ago
If you donate something that is spare capacity on infrastructure that has a marginal cost of the data outflow from your servers on earth, and the customer has to buy aging hardware that you are also sitting on inventory of, and that hardwar
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by svnt 2y ago
It is marketing on the back of a natural disaster. Again, a nice gesture is actual charity, not a “the first month is free” promotional cliche.
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by svnt 2y ago
Yes, offering the service probably has some marginal cost, but I am positive it is well within their projected (and profitable) CAC. People who are donating have zero chance of a positive financial outcome. That is why it is called a donati
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by svnt 2y ago
They do not have exclusionary rights, that was the whole point of all of the telco and cable anti-trust work. I don’t particularly like Comcast but the internet has been successfully preserved as a commodity, and communities worth serving a
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by svnt 2y ago
I can see either a philanthropic/vanity project or (maybe? very optimistically?) a profitable business, but not both. Areas in need of humanitarian aid provided by airships is a too-small niche to (re-)develop entirely new flight techn
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by svnt 2y ago
I’m not sure how disaster recovery will be over in a month, or how monopolies will become major Starlink users undetected.
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by svnt 2y ago
So someone who doesn’t need to make money is building blimps to revolutionize air transport and you are proposing that company is going to then halt business during storms and travel to and float over hurricane recovery areas?
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by svnt 2y ago
My comment has little to do with zero sum, but I’ll assume you’re trying to imply that people in rural NC are going to re-subscribe to their local ISP and keep the promotional ISP, you know, once everything is repaired. But let’s change the
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by svnt 2y ago
It is weird what happens when you privatize so much and then find out too late it isn’t profitable for companies to have fleets of emergency internet blimps primed and ready to go 24/7.
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by svnt 2y ago
How long does it take to rebuild fiber infrastructure? This is not a kindness, it is a promotion. Six months would be a kindness.
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by svnt 2y ago
I don't know if I would call it smoke and obfuscation, at the time systemd was not widely deployed and the ssh functionality was not as developed, so it made sense to use autossh. Now it sounds like it doesn't make sense anymore.
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by svnt 2y ago
Honestly at this point Im out of date, but autossh also takes care of bugs or connection issues within the ssh link itself
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by svnt 2y ago
I think it speaks to beginner mistakes on the part of the founders. There are some exceptions but the typical demo day is absolutely stitched together from other peoples’ work. The difference is most hide this fact, instead of working in th
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by svnt 2y ago
Your mistake, the right way to do this is to optimize 100% for the leetcode interview and 0% for how to do a job. You get hired and undercontribute for nine months before putting in notice after you win another interview, which is easier th
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by svnt 2y ago
It’s an interesting point but your argument fails in that you get a standard deduction that probabilistically exceeds the expenses related to your job. Perhaps it would need to be something like x%revenue above $10M, y%revenue above 1B begi
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by svnt 2y ago
I think you meant this as a joke, but this is what we landed on about a decade ago and it was the most reliable setup we found.
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by svnt 2y ago
I haven’t revisited this issue in years but on a project for thousands of similar devices we found autossh much more reliable. I believe the issue is that the connections often fail or get wedged in other network layers; the only way to be
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by svnt 2y ago
Your equations do not account for the difference you mention, they only ensure growth will be slower and riskier.
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by svnt 2y ago
Not paying taxes while losing money sounds like fraud to you? What do you propose should be taxed, exactly?
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by svnt 2y ago
What are you finding them useful for?
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by svnt 2y ago
Assuming the video is real, it is conceivable the display is a combination of light screening and light emitting.
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by svnt 2y ago
Situations like this are exactly why trucks carry containers. You don’t want to reuse the containers for those two things but you can absolutely reuse the trucks. The trucks cost on the order of six figures, the containers an order of magni
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by svnt 2y ago
He didn’t say that other people need to put it into the hands of as many people as possible, only that his company does.
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by svnt 2y ago
> If we want to put AI into the hands of as many people as possible, we need to drive down the cost of compute and make it abundant (which requires lots of energy and chips). If we don’t build enough infrastructure, AI will be a very lim
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by svnt 2y ago
It’s weird to say but the whole startup culture has shifted, from founder to hacker and everywhere in between. It’s a victim of its own success because no one is writing feature pieces in media on quants or finance bros with the same gusto

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