threedots

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by threedots 6y ago
It's funny to read a thread of people arguing over how good certain food is, as if that was some kind of objective matter amenable to resolution.
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by threedots 6y ago
I think you are underestimating the skill and craft involved in making some of these watches. Have you actually seen a movement? They're not made in a sweatshop in a low cost geography by some human drones. A watch maker is a high stat
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by threedots 7y ago
This is cool. I've been searching for a better screensharing tool but it always seems to be an afterthought in the conferencing tools we've tried so far. I usually couldn't care less about seeing the other person/people
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by threedots 7y ago
You are indeed parroting the advice of many people (lots of whom are anything but experts) but that advice contradicts the current guidance from the UK experts, who btw are these guys: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch
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by threedots 7y ago
He's following the advice of his government and its experts. The two most prominent of which have spent their entire professional lives studying infectious diseases. You are a guy on the internet with opinions. Why should he listen to
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by threedots 7y ago
Whether you think this is crazy or not depends on whether you share the premise this strategy is based on: namely that there is no solution which prevents widespread infection and that all quarantine measures are no more than temporary and
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by threedots 7y ago
It is a special harm directed at the poor with the justification that it's for the greater good. Much like low interest rates /monetary stimulus policies. They're justified on the basis that they are necessary/for the gr
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by threedots 7y ago
This is going to be brutal on working low income parents and their children. It seems no matter what happens there's always some justification for why poor people end up being the collateral damage.'Prevent the virus no matter wha
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by threedots 7y ago
Change in EV is not an appropriate metric to measure PE returns, you need to take into account recaps, dividends, loan interest and whatever other weird stuff took place.
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by threedots 7y ago
Both Monzo and Revolut have over 3m customers compared to 1.7m for metro bank. Starling is over 1m. So plenty of traction all for the challenger banks.
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by threedots 7y ago
I don't have a great answer for you. Usually they just hear about us or (less often) read about us. We do have a bit of previous so it's possible people know about us from things we've done before (though to be clear it'
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by threedots 7y ago
Don't believe the hype. VCs pretend you need to work and angle your way into meeting them and it's just a lie in my experience. I (founder of pretty modest start up) get unsolicited emails from VCs literally almost every day - man
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by threedots 7y ago
This is such an objectionable attitude and more or less nakedly entrenches existing privilege and social structure. For all those founders out there, just keep grinding and ignore self serving VC nonsense: good businesses are a heck of a lo
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by threedots 7y ago
I think they would benefit from a more dumbed down FAQ/set up. For context I'm at the upper end of non technical people in some respects (I write pandas queries everyday etc) but know nothing about DNS and this lost me pretty quic