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by svnt 2y ago
It sounds like you have never been in the position of e.g. establishing hiring protocols and used those not to get the best people into the company, but instead to ensure that no one who has the potential to outperform you gets hired. At th
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by svnt 2y ago
We need to go a bit further than just calling out lying: the people who both appear qualified due to larger-organization experience, and who are looking to escape to a startup role, are often those whose techniques depend on the naïveté of
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by svnt 2y ago
The program had waiting lists on some classes larger than the class itself. If the problem was they needed new blood it seems they could have hired it in right over the top. The one year term limits the ability of these other instructors to
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by svnt 2y ago
It may be throttled by energy supply and water supply at a desirable site, but not by country-level energy costs and water costs, which is all this blog post is looking at.
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by svnt 2y ago
It isn’t ready, you should test it more and try again later. It looks like an order of execution error, maybe you were thinking the statements would be sequential but they are non-blocking? Full context: > definitely human: hello I am a
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by svnt 2y ago
You don’t understand the terms you’re using in the context you’re using them in, and you don’t seem interested in learning to use them in the same way as everyone else. This steadfast refusal is preventing your understanding from progressin
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by svnt 2y ago
They ran it for three or four years floundering and if I recall tried to sell to Excite for $1M but failed before they bought Adwords and it started to work for them. I don’t think it is some universal truth, but it was the reality of the t
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by svnt 2y ago
It’s difficult to find a response for this that doesn’t descend into sarcasm. By revenue, Microsoft’s gaming business is roughly the same size as Salesforce and Intuit combined. What you possibly meant to say is individual accounts always h
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by svnt 2y ago
Google never charged $20/mo. No one would pay it. This is different.
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by svnt 2y ago
You strawmanned my argument into brittleness, but there are significant other options such as that there may not be sufficient technological reach to even construct a reasonably accurate complex system. I did not say things can only progres
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by svnt 2y ago
Complexity-matching. You have one complex adaptive system with a simplified interface to another complex adaptive system and you leverage that to understand the first, where trying to reduce it to a toolkit that you can internalize is impos
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by svnt 2y ago
I’m really not sure of your point. If I have a huge market opportunity and I can grow the business by spending the cash flow, I should do that instead of distributing that cash flow as profits. That opportunity will most likely not persist.
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by svnt 2y ago
In PR terms they are managing the Overton window. As a strategy it is sometimes called gradualism or incrementalism. Five-year-olds do not use this technique, they do what they want when they want to with no regard for their public image, w
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by svnt 2y ago
The accountants can’t be bothered because your comment isn’t even using basic terms correctly. Your comment suggests that reinvested cash is being "hidden" as expenses, but in reality, these reinvestments are usually recorded as c
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by svnt 2y ago
Superficially they were setting record sales numbers up through last year. https://newsroom.subway.com/2023-02-02-Subway-Announces-Seco...
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by svnt 2y ago
Agreed on both points. Minimum wage needs to move, but doing so too quickly could make things worse. There is a psychological training aspect, but it is unclear to what degree it correlates with the underlying financial reality. Are they bo
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by svnt 2y ago
I realize this is HN and not WSJ, but after Starbucks and McDonalds this seems like another demographic-broadening indicator in the “many people are newly not paying for relatively cheap, easily available cooked food” category. Tech employe
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by svnt 2y ago
You are essentially saying that some people oversimplify and equate traction, GTM, and PMF. As you note, lack of PMF can be a reason why there isn’t traction, but it isn’t the only reason. You can have a good GTM and good PMF and still have
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by svnt 2y ago
These answers are a much better presentation of your position in the market than how you described the company in the post above. I found TimescaleDB after I wrote this — it does look like the answer to my problems from a decade ago. I don’
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by svnt 2y ago
Context: started a company that did essentially this about a decade ago. Haven’t looked back much. My data may be stale or just biased. > We used old control software that spit out data in massive 10 GB CSV or TDMS files. After a long da
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by svnt 2y ago
They weren’t arguing the specific times, but the article itself reads as if AI generated and not as a real report of someone’s schedule, by someone who would know that person’s schedule. The follow-on conclusion from that is that the times
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by svnt 2y ago
We are in an interesting time. It would be easy to skim something like this and say “those who don’t study the history of philosophy are doomed to repeat it,” and this certainly seems to hold here. This has all been said. But what happens w
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by svnt 2y ago
Some of these are a bit different in scope to some of your points, but here a few things I believe aren't really covered: Predatory hiring: Hiring key employees from competitors primarily to weaken them rather than to benefit from the
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by svnt 2y ago
As soon as they formalized a metric to distinguish a monopoly, it would become something deliberately managed by entities who wished to wield monopolistic power. It would change the shape, but not the definition.
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by svnt 2y ago
It’s a bit like a pick-n-place and conformal coat setup for circuit boards except gardening has none of the requirements for precision of circuit boards. This kind of thing seems to be happening more and more as people get more and more dis
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by svnt 2y ago
Here is a readable article by Watson that is probably among the more relevant: https://www.richardawatson.com/songs-of-life-and-mind There are many, and the paper itself cites many good sources including by Huang and Watson
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by svnt 2y ago
> But it’s not open-ended though (in its obvious form) since the VAE would have to be trained on various complex life forms and will probably not extrapolate well outside the support of the training distribution. That is always the issue
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by svnt 2y ago
It’s an intriguingly framed paper, and others have written about how gene regulatory networks store weights, etc, but this seems to me like it is putting too much emphasis on the direct mapping of the developmental process to a generative p
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by svnt 2y ago
>Sounds very plausible, but why bother interviewing anyone? Because then you don’t have to ask anyone else to lie for you, or count on them to do it well. There are other options here though, beyond just lying and pickiness, which includ
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by svnt 2y ago
It’s the same as farmers with wolves, coyotes, lynx, etc: shoot, shovel, shut up —just without the shoveling. That is, if you get the predator before it gets your object of value, the data point is lost. We have always been at war with Ocea

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