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by takinola 3y ago
I would be surprised if this argument is borne by the facts. Sure, Bill Gates would be a trillionaire now if Microsoft remained private for longer but for every company that sees tremendous growth after IPO, how many see their shares sink.
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by takinola 3y ago
I'm curious. I run Ubuntu in a VM Fusion VM on my (Intel) Mac. Would that not work on a M-series Mac?
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by takinola 3y ago
The first time I saw the Milky Way with my bare eyes, I almost fell over. The sky looked like static from an old TV set. There were so many stars, it was overwhelming.
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by takinola 3y ago
I don't think the empirical evidence supports this assertion. I don't think successful founders are necessarily that much of an outlier in terms of technical or emotional capabilities. Sure, those help and I am sure there are to
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by takinola 3y ago
This is a pretty good illustration of the impact of raising capital. Building a company making $50M arr is really difficult and requires skill, hardwork and a lot of things breaking right for you. While it seems he got a good exit, it see
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by takinola 3y ago
IANAL but I would suggest checking on your assumption that there are no laws at sea if you ever plan on taking any actions based on that assertion.
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The crazy part of this story (and there are a lot of crazy parts), is that he kicked the whole thing off by calling the police to investigate a crime against him that was predicated on a crime he himself performed. It's basically &quo
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by takinola 3y ago
I wonder what assumptions are baked into our search for extraterrestrial life. Would we recognize a life-form that is gaseous? One that is planet-sized? One that communicates so slowly that it takes a thousand years to make a single sente
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Ask HN: Do you upvote? Why or why not?
67 points by takinola 3y ago|77 comments
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by takinola 3y ago
One option is to chase your curiosity. What do you find interesting? Not what do you think is useful or monetizable or responsible or whatever else. Find at least one thing you find interesting and do that thing for no other reason than
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by takinola 3y ago
I almost always buy my electronics from Costco. They often tack on an extra year of warranty at no additional cost. They also make sure the vendor offers good support if the warranty is needed. My only complaint is their website sucks ba
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by takinola 3y ago
You will most likely fail but there are examples of companies, like Groupon, that created negative value for their customers.
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by takinola 3y ago
When otherwise smart people do seemingly dumb things, you have to ask if there is some rational explanation for the behavior. My take, having experienced everything you describe here, is that from upper management's position, each of
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by takinola 3y ago
It is mostly about taxation. Companies get taxed where the money is made/moved. A lot of the money in big company balance sheets is in Europe where they have lower corporate tax rates. If they moved that money back to the US, they w
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by takinola 3y ago
The report is trademarked so you need a license to use it in your marketing. Plus, if you piss them off by challenging their rights, you may just not win an award in following years. The amount you have to pay (hundreds of thousands of do
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by takinola 3y ago
At what point is it less work to just build something real rather than have all these workarounds to support a fraud?
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by takinola 3y ago
There's a particular spot on a local highway that interrupts my wireless CarPlay connection if I spend too long in it (eg when traffic is slow). It's right next to an exit with a bunch of buildings (including a hospital) so I&#x2
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by takinola 3y ago
I would argue most people care about GDP growth targets but they just don't understand them that way. GDP growth is what leads to improvements in real human quality of life. It is your ability to get healthcare, housing, food and all
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Ha, I finally figured out how "this" works and then they changed it with arrow functions.
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I'm pretty sure closures are available to any function regardless of how they are defined. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Clos...
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I thought arrow functions were just designed to reduce verbosity and make code easier to read. Is there another reason?
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by takinola 3y ago
All too often CEO pay is divorced from performance leading to bad CEOs being ridiculously overpaid. Also, having a good CEO can generate multiples of their compensation in value for the company. Both things can be true simultaneously. Th
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by takinola 3y ago
> If I had an hour, I'd like to expound on the significance of Americans buying precious metal at a loss through a giant vertical monopoly. The only thing Costco has a monopoly on is $1.50 hotdogs. Also, inflation in the US has dro
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by takinola 3y ago
The sections on attaining enlightenment could have been written by Calvin's dad.
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1) As mentioned by another comment, B2B customers may care about the size of your team if you are doing something business critical. From their perspective, they don't want to depend on a product that may not be there if one guy gets
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by takinola 3y ago
Perhaps they have a different opinion than you do on the issue? I don't have a POV on this particular case but it seems reasonable to assume that there are other (reasonable) people that have different values and judgements than you do
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by takinola 3y ago
I once encountered -30°F one winter in Fairbanks. I visited a hot spring where, for some cruel and unusual reason, the facility was designed so you needed to walk about 10 meters out of the (well heated) building to get to the water. And
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by takinola 3y ago
Weirdly, the exact opposite works for me. As someone recently dealing with a measure of anxiety, I found that a 3 step process has helped remove the worst of it. 1. Examine the feeling - Pay attention to the thoughts causing the anxiety.
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As someone with a name that is hard (impossible?) for native English speakers to pronounce, I take the same pragmatic approach as you do with one caveat. I do not mind people mispronouncing or misspelling my name as long as they at least t
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2023 Ig Nobel Winners(improbable.com)
11 points by takinola 3y ago|0 comments

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