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3y ago
Yep. Given the multiple we can safely assume the growth has leveled off, and Atlassian will say they can use their channel to reinitiate growth. Maybe they are right. Or maybe it ends up in the junk drawer. Either way they captured a potent
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3y ago
The is the equivalent of saying “you’d be unable to see if someone turned off the lights” and then implying that in order to sight the genetically blind you’d just need to give them a light switch.
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3y ago
The problem is that the reason it is random is to mislead. If it were a static number then it would be obvious it was faked. The value is designed to look like it is pulled from a fund whose balance is determined by market conditions. But v
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3y ago
Oh of course, but then it would be breach of fiduciary duty or maybe just gross negligence.
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3y ago
We can assume the authors know about negentropy. This response is like reading an article on quantum computer architecture and saying “Max Born explained all this in 1925.”
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3y ago
It seems parent’s difference is work-for-hire with a business function and defined deliverable is not creator work. Where do you think the line is? It seems obvious to me that an artist is a creator. If a person is stitching together Wordpr
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3y ago
No, they got there by designing insanely efficient integrated AC battery chargers and inverters at incredible power levels, which it seems no one has done before. Otherwise all one would have to do is get the batteries.
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3y ago
It isn’t just race cars, this approximate power level is widely available in consumer cars. Hyundai Ioniq-5 and other vehicles can utilize the increasingly common 350 kW connectors — including the Lucid Air, the Porsche Taycan, the Audi E-T
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3y ago
Many cities have reduced or done away with the parking minimums. It ends up being another way of extracting value out of the existing market, but does little to reduce the median price of new homes.
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3y ago
FTA: > In his budget address last week, the Mayor recommended $18 million in the city’s budget for 2024 go into new affordable housing and another $5 million in ongoing funding for building and maintaining going forward. > Statewide,
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3y ago
It is counterfactual in the literal sense. It is entirely possible that there are no real prices below $2k in urban centers because of demand and constrained supply. It is entirely possible that getting below this would result in a return t
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3y ago
Previously the title linked here was something like “Processed meats declared carcinogens” or similar
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3y ago
Working link: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/sep/18/the-truth-about... Actual title: The truth about nitro-meats: my seven-year search for better bacon Summary: In response to nitrates added to me
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3y ago
What is the philosophical drive?
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GP is suggesting that NASA was not given all of the evidence, ensuring that they would reach the conclusion they did.
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She is clearly in a crisis where she is facing losing a lot of external stability. I think the Venn diagram of people who “must write” despite having no idea what they are writing and the people who have issues with ego over-expression is p
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3y ago
It’s been a minute since I did this seriously so maybe my magic is out of date but I don’t think this is how bits to bytes works: > 100 bits / ~12 bytes > 18 bits / ~2 bytes I didn’t want to spend a whole lot of effort track
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3y ago
If you still act on your confidence, but learn to give the right answers understating it in conversation, it could be that you gave those same right answers on the test reactively and then their interpretation is probably flawed. In this ca
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Clearly you’re not in the field or you’d know that ______ is actually better understood as _______, which means your question doesn’t even make sense.
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3y ago
How do they/you remove the confound of becoming more conservative vs less confident, or do they assume that overconfidence and being conservative are opposites? I might be motivated to be more conservative because I have a reputation t
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3y ago
Presumably a store is somewhere you sell things and a marketplace is somewhere others can also sell things.
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3y ago
As a VC you would be talking to people seeking priced rounds, not convertible debt. Angels started using SAFEs because YC started pushing them. It doesn’t mean that convertible notes aren’t better for founders. Founders will conform to the
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3y ago
It sounds like your assessment of the complexity of a vehicle is specifically tuned to mechanical features of cheap gasoline cars. I would suggest it might be more accurate to describe this as personality instead of soul. Unsurprisingly ele
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3y ago
I don’t disagree with you, but that’s not what the video showed.
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I’m simply noting it is a different category than sequential memory and does not constitute a rebuttal of the conclusion of the linked paper.
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3y ago
I’m speaking specifically of early investment in debt, which does not have the impacts you describe and is typically intended to convert to equity. In my experience it is better for the founder than a priced round in basically every sense.
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> The authors of the paper seem to argue that this is distinct for memorizing information that is initially presented sequentially. It is: think about how you would naively work an n-back of randomly ordered symbols. Most people can’t do
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3y ago
In that video the chimp beats one human who thought he was smart but appears particularly bad at that test. They are different tests, though. You don’t need sequential memory to win that test, you just need near photographic recall and the
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> To be fair, I’ve never seen any other member of the animal kingdom drunkenly light their own farts Maybe you just missed it, or scared them off. > drug use and fire: https://youtu.be/qgtXTv0jGxg https://y
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One of the things that seems to have been kept very quiet about hydrogen is its ability to self-ignite when leaking from high pressure into air. The jury is out on the exact mechanism but most seem to think it creates a wavefront that has h
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