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by tfehring 4y ago
For reference, the Detroit was the 5th largest (some sources say 4th largest) city in the US at its peak in the 1950s, similar in size to LA. It's now 27th, with about a third of its peak population.
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There was originally a $7,500 federal tax credit available. Tesla's eligibility for the that tax credit was cut in half at the start of 2019 and fully ended at the start of 2020, so anyone buying in 2020 or later would have paid the st
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by tfehring 4y ago
Definitely more common outside of tech. It looks like 72% of 401(k) plans have a vesting period, with the most common durations being 3 or 5 years. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/most-workers-wait-years-for-.
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It's cheap for weed, but expensive for a relatively high-volume part of a relatively easy-to-grow plant. Imagine seeing an $800/pound price tag in the produce section of your grocery store.
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Thanks for the link, I just applied as a mentor!
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I went to community college for free on Pell grants and then to a similarly priced state school, though not in California. It was a fine option for me and I’m doing well for myself almost a decade later, but it wasn’t a free lunch. I had a
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by tfehring 4y ago
It's definitely harder to count the time spent speeding when that speeding doesn't end in a crash, but the NHTSA still tries to do it [0]. About 19% of vehicle miles are driven at more than 10 mph above the speed limit on highways
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by tfehring 4y ago
I think the point is more that most of the hard work behind Twitter isn't in writing the "fancy" code at all - it's in developing the infrastructure that allows that code to safely propagate across Twitter's massive
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> I do not believe there is any credible theory that any investor could possibly have been unaware of these issues. I'm not convinced that the issues that caused Binance to back out even existed the last time FTX raised outside
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No, I wouldn't pay for this. I like the idea, but I don't think it actually solves the problem that it's trying to solve. As with actual VC investing, I think the hard problem is deal flow, not identifying the best prospects
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by tfehring 4y ago
It's easy to see how FTX's assets could be "worth" $16B in the absence of any real money coming into play, but I don't see how they could get to $16B in liabilities that way. The most obvious possibility would b
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by tfehring 4y ago
> Some residents in the small rural town of Lockeford have expressed concerns about privacy and safety. Amazon insists the drones are safe. I guess one for two ain’t bad.
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by tfehring 4y ago
Most tech companies have four-year vesting periods. Lots of people at my current employer, which IPOed in 2020, are still vesting shares from pre-IPO stock grants. As a result, those people have a very strong financial incentive to stick ar
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by tfehring 4y ago
For cases that Prophet doesn't cover I recommend bsts [0], which is much more flexible and powerful. Anything too complicated for bsts, I'll typically implement in Stan. [0] https://cran.r-project.org/web/pack
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by tfehring 4y ago
Quine Relay, "a Ruby program that generates Rust program that generates Scala program that generates ...(through 128 languages in total)... REXX program that generates the original Ruby code again." https://github.com&#
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Yes, though you have to take the square root of the sampled radius for the resulting distribution to be uniform on the unit circle. (The area of the donut with r>0.5 is greater than the area of the circle with r<0.5, but the naive imp
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by tfehring 4y ago
The drop in revenue per user is mostly due to regional mix. DAUs are up 34% Y/Y outside of North America and Europe, only 7% Y/Y in North America and Europe. Still, I think the answer is probably "aggressively cut expenses&qu
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by tfehring 4y ago
I'm skeptical that layoffs are the real reason behind this, since it seems like a pretty ineffective way to trim headcount. Even if this results in an additional 10%[0] of employees getting "partially meets" where they would
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by tfehring 4y ago
I think using Android can be either a low income signal or a Grey Tribe [0] cultural signal, and people on dating sites might want to screen out either (or both). Like you said, it’s about arbitrary norms, but we make assumptions about othe
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by tfehring 4y ago
It's not just a single drive-through window either, even in small towns in the US there will be multiple lanes at the bank drive-through, with pneumatic tubes to send your money and documents from the car to the inside of the bank [0].
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by tfehring 4y ago
An analogy that may resonate with readers here is that targeting zero fraud is like targeting 100% uptime in a computer system. You evaluate the business trade-offs and decide how many 9s of non-fraud are appropriate, knowing that (1) each
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For reference, 16.7% of adults aged 18-25 and 55.1% of adults ages 25-34 are living with a spouse or other partner as of 2018, down from 39.3% and 81.7% respectively in 1970. By my math that alone is responsible for an increase in demand of
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You can use git hooks or CI tools to unzip xlsx files when they’re committed and run an autoformatter on the resulting xml files. The xml diffs aren’t the most readable, but they’re usable.
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There might be a subreddit for your specific business-facing role, e.g. /r/ProductManagement and /r/FPandA are both pretty good in my experience.
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There's a fan-made version (I think from xkcdsw) with a happier ending https://i.imgur.com/VbKV9DF.jpeg
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It was also signed by Marc. It would be perfectly fine for him and his wife to have a difference of opinion, but if Laura holds a view that Marc holds to be actively harmful, as he has argued in the past, it's still hypocritical for hi
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by tfehring 4y ago
I'm not sure the math is so easy. Even knowing the direct cost savings in hindsight, engineers' time is expensive, and it's not obvious that the ongoing engineering cost of maintaining Trino on an EC2 cluster would be that fa
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There's definitely risk in the sense that YC invests in relatively risky companies, and anything that negatively impacts the long-term value of those businesses ultimately impacts YC. From, like, an accounting perspective, I have no id
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$125k * 400 companies/batch * 2 batches/year = ~$100 million/year deployed just during the batches. On top of that, they often participate in later funding rounds to maintain their 7% stake. Also, it takes a long time for tho
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There are well over 100k US-based software engineers at the five FAANG companies alone, plus a long tail of other companies that compete with them for talent and offer similar (and in some cases higher) compensation. All of those companies

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