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by tyre 4y ago
How would OpenAI take a majority of AdWords inventory? Maybe it could write the ads but you’re paying for placement.
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by tyre 4y ago
> like FTX was on paper FTX was high-growth in practice too. FTX was a phenomenal business. It wasn’t like most crypto projects that are scams; their business and profits were genuinely massive. What they did was take consumer funds and
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by tyre 4y ago
The Romans never had access to coal , which was the energy-dense fuel that made the Industrial Revolution possible. Bret Devereaux has a (long) post on this, which I recommend: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/c
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by tyre 4y ago
The British Raj in India came about roughly 100 years after the start of the Industrial Revolution in Britain.
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They did an all-hands the day of the layoffs with everyone being let go. They walked through why they'd hired so quickly, the new information (both macro-economic and within Stripe) that caused them to reconsider, and where that led. T
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by tyre 4y ago
1. I don’t know what their salary is but I think it’s like a dollar. 2. They talked through their decision making process in hiring at the rate Stripe did, then what changed that made them do layoffs. They were very direct that this was the
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by tyre 4y ago
Stripe handled the layoffs incredibly well, in my opinion as someone who was laid off. The package was more generous than it had to be. The founders took responsibility and were transparent about the business. It was handled reasonably. I
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by tyre 4y ago
You might enjoy “How Tracy Austin Broke my Heart”[0] by David Foster Wallace. He reads her (young tennis phenom) autobiography and it’s filled with this type of language. He wonders if, in order to be a top tier athlete, they almost have to
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by tyre 4y ago
He was a chain smoker who had had multiple serious heart attacks before taking office. He quit cold turkey to save his own life, then lit a cigarette the minute he stepped out of the White House. Smoked until it killed him.
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by tyre 4y ago
If a business is competing successfully I don’t think you’re going to see software obviated every three years. Software isn’t like living beings that up and die. They evolve over time. Companies doing rewrites every three years have a hard
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by tyre 4y ago
It was renamed from global warming because the changing climate involves a lot more than warming. You had senators bringing snowballs into congress to “prove” that global warming is fake.
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by tyre 4y ago
I tried them for a specific task: finding surf camps for a specific date range and then calling them to check availability. I provided a list of ones I’d already looked into. They re-did the same list and charged $79, despite their marketin
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by tyre 4y ago
that’s literally what the article is about
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by tyre 4y ago
No, the US fought a war over slavery. The "states' rights" framing of the US Civil War skips over which specific right the southerns states were willing to die for. It wasn't abstract, though it was papered over as such.
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by tyre 4y ago
I think the point here is that this post was optimized to try to go viral. Most startups won’t have 4% as a minimum revenue cost. For example, you chose the most expensive Billing plan (Scale), which includes things startups don’t need. S
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by tyre 4y ago
and was extraordinarily hesitant to do so. The supply chains are a mess as it is, the US can’t stomach a rail shutdown this winter, and the votes aren’t there to pass sick leave. Biden isn’t a hypocrite; he’s never been a union absolutist.
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by tyre 4y ago
If you want to do GPU-intensive work on a laptop that can’t fit a high powered GPU (some of the desktop ones are quite large), then you can put it in an enclosure like this and plug it in to your laptop. The GPU equivalent of an external ha
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by tyre 4y ago
You must consider what the banks are lending with that ratio. It’s mostly mortgages, which are far less risky than what FTX was doing.
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by tyre 4y ago
With 9/11 specifically it didn’t do much for the immediate problem because there wasn’t much need for blood. People crushed under the weight of the towers weren’t bleeding out, they were just dead.
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by tyre 4y ago
very cool! Since you’re well within the power user category, any feedback on how to make the Stripe APIs better? Either for customers’ uses or for your own. I hear you on the object ids :) Happy to hear here or maddox@stripe.com
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by tyre 4y ago
I used to and now have a phone that’s 4 years old. I don’t plan on upgrading any time soon. There is nothing compelling about the newer models. “Better camera” pushed a lot of upgrades for a while, but my camera is good enough.
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by tyre 4y ago
There is a place to look up charges, though I haven’t used it myself: https://support.stripe.com/charge-lookup For general context, Stripe started as completely opaque from consumers. We’re growing in that direction, but th
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by tyre 4y ago
(I work at Stripe.) With Connect, you can do onboarding flows yourself with the Custom plan. Note that information gathering and regulatory requirements for onboarding across dozens of countries is a huge amount of effort. We have whole tea
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by tyre 4y ago
To make sure I understand, you (as a consumer) would like a way to log in to Stripe and see all of your payments and subscriptions connected to businesses that are using Stripe? Then cancel recurring subscriptions there? If you use Apple’s
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by tyre 4y ago
The author got it right. On the page you linked, it shows Radar’s ML fraud detection is free with standard pricing (payments.) There are other features of Radar that are built for fraud teams (not likely to exist at small companies), which
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by tyre 4y ago
The takeaway here is that calculus was good _for Donald Knuth_. But not every kid wants to go into math or engineering or STEM. And even the ones who do, is calculus the best use of that time?
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Is the detective being charged with lying to a grand jury?
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the pill that solves restful sleep will be worth hundreds of billions of dollars
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I had a similar thought with a recent job posting. As a hiring manager, I understand wanting grit, but would never list that as a top trait I am looking for. A job title should communicate role and impact. If “grit” is the role, that isn’t
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by tyre 4y ago
Yes we have this (I work at Stripe). It is an annual recurring grant that has a one year cliff then renews automatically to vest quarterly. Say you get an offer with $100k in RSUs. That’s then divided by the stock price and that’s your init

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