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by tschwimmer 2y ago
Krazam really captures the feeling of working for a mid-sized startup in SF perfectly. The pedantry, the braggadocio, and most of all the absurdity and the alienation one feels working on this stuff.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
WARNING: UNEDUCATED AND POTENTIALLY IRRELEVANT AMERO-CENTRIC OPINIONS BELOW I tend to agree with the other commenter, this guy should have registered as an individual without his VAT number and just use whatever receipt they gave him to cla
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
This is mostly re-reporting a longer report (Which they link to) from the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-sp...
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Hey, no need to cast aspersions on the infosec practices of Belorussian hackers, I bet they store their stolen credentials in an encrypted SQLite database as per industry best practice.
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yeah, not a Nissan in sight
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Fair point. I agree that many sellers are looking to make a quick sale without much additional hassle. I wouldn't buy a private party car without an inspection and I know that will cause me to lose out on some (good) opportunities. How
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
I will give you the best tip to not get ripped off when buying a car: do not buy from a dealership. The dealer has a staff of people who rip people off all day every day and have experience doing so for years. They have an established proce
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
The author's argument completely fell apart when they highlighted Israel's Haredim as a high fertility group that is socially respected. I don't believe this is actually the case. I'm not Israeli, but my strong sense is
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Thank you, I came here to say this. It seems like in many species of butterflies, the tips of the wings come relatively far in front of the head at the "apex" of the "downstroke" of the wings during flight.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
50k per driver per year sounds low. This page [0] suggests the low end is 60k and that's just what the driver makes, not the full loaded cost of the employee with benefits. I've seen the estimate for a loaded cost to be 25-40% mor
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
I watched some of this video and the guy admits that that's exactly the type of content he tries to create.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
There are a lot of 2nd-tier car makers that realistically can't develop the talent or organizational structure to developer their own self driving tech. The Toyotas/Volkswagons/GMs of the world aren't going to license th
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
be rich, got it.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
I can't speak to french apple grocery store selection, but I wonder if you should maybe go to a different grocery store in the US. In my area (SF Bay Area) at the most common grocery chain (Safeway) there are probably 8 or so varieties
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
I know nothing about kites but as someone who currently works at Google and knows a bit about how projects are funded, the first argument doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. At Google's scale, a materially impactful opportun
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Somewhat related, True Detective season 1 is set in this area. Reading this article made me realize that the the cinematography is very effective in using the pollution as a metaphor for social decay. Some stills: https://cdn.the
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
You will have to re-interview to get a new grant, and even for a strong performer with a well-established historical track record at the company can be a very probabilistic event.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
It depends on the shareholder agreement, but many do. However, many of these secondary markets facilitate private market transactions via a forward contract which is sort of like long dated put option.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Your point about languages and cross border regulations may be true, but is doubly so for the United States. In some (narrow sense) the US is like a highly devolved EU - you have 50 different countries but they all speak the same language (
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
0% chance that US lawmakers will allow low cost Chinese EVs to enter the domestic auto market. They’ll either implement protective tariffs or regulatory barriers or both. Aside from US consumers, everyone stands to lose from cheap EVs flood
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
It's not clear to me why the big asset owning carriers would continue to allow MVNOs. At some point the cannibalization from their own businesses is going to outweigh the revenue from the MVNO.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Intelligence is not the only physical attribute we excel in. Humans are frequently cited as the best endurance runners among the animal kingdom[0]. Some extant (and probably many prehistoric) tribes hunt via exhaustion, running down even la
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
I predict that Libgen/SciHub and pirate sites in generall will be rendered functionally inaccessible in the developed west in the coming years. My reasoning is as follows: Historically, IP owners have tried various strategies to increa
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Actually this sort of clarifies things for me (perhaps falsely) that the etymology is from a pineapple sort of looking like a pinecone. Looking at the plant that it grows from, it clearly would not be mistaken for a pine tree.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
70% seemed insanely high to me and so I checked this. It seems like the IMF has a similar (but not exact stat) that you quoted as 48%: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/NOR?zoom=NOR... USA is 42
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Perhaps this is a stupid question but couldn't you just tether it down? I suppose this would not be ideal for very rudimentary landing zones but depending on the forces involved would cleats embedded in concrete be sufficient?
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
Headline is misleading as the employee share of this is $6,575 for a family or $1400 for a single. Rest is borne by employer but is generally a tax writeoff for them.
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You sort of defeated your own point. This is an edge case, not a purchase influencing decision.
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
a minor nit here: I'm pretty sure the natural state of the modern human is hunter gathering, not farming. Seems like the modern human species originated 230k years ago [0] and agriculture a mere 25k years[1]. The overall thrust of your
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by tschwimmer 3y ago
This is one of these things that I'm shocked there isn't more widepsread uptake on. It seems to win on some of the more important dimensions: ease of use/UX (if executed well), power of machines -> faster iteration time fo

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