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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
It's mind-boggling how often there are military disasters because of someone skipping a single obvious step like "fail[ing] to flip an offset switch" or "mak[ing] no attempt to warn any of the other Allied ships" af
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by ultrasaurus 3y ago
As always, Matt Levine is ready with the numbers: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-26/first-... https://archive.is/zJsPo
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
Short answer: read the contracts, everything is being done legally. Slightly longer answer: Let's say you own 1% of a $80MM company that raises $20MM. Your shares were worth $800k before and they still are (0.8% 100MM = 1.0% 80). The h
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
I'm not sure that's a high value-to-combativeness question, but I've known of some companies volunteering that they've only done clean term sheets ( vs https://carta.com/blog/watch-out-for-these-term
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
I had never really thought of that, but the ability to make you miss a flight is an amazingly strong coercive power relative to the stakes. The x-ray scanners usually have bold signs on them instructing you how to opt out. But if you do, th
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SF is now boycotting most of the United States (2022)(missionlocal.org)
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
According to Wikipedia it did pretty well: ...the most-ever for a Disney+ original title... the most watched program across all streaming services in the U.S. ... continued to hold the top position ... the second most-watched movie on U.S.
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
As always, Matt's great for a starter explanation (maybe not ELI5, but explained like I'm an adult with no specific banking knowledge)
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
There some 3rd party uptime tracking here that might be useful: https://app.metrist.io/demo/datadog
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
More info: https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/improving-pagerdutys-operatio...
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
We build a browser extension for people to demo their own SaaS ( https://www.demogorilla.com ) and while it's never explicitly blocked us, we definitely feel the friction in development from design choices because browsers
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
One of the best games we've found for sorta-involved players to join. Not everyone needs to come up with words, but everyone can guess (and like you said, come and go at random)
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
There's a lot of ways to say the same thing: because it's hard. - If you read original texts by great thinkers from Plato to Adam Smith, they really aren't easy to parse. If they couldn't do it, what chance do you have
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
With the fees, options are (slightly) negative sum. I'm a boglehead, but as I see it there are only 2 valid reasons to consider option trading: - Hedging: e.g. if a big part of your comp is in illiquid private stock in a company whose
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
Sigh. I wish this worked. Maybe we'll get to a point where AI handles a lot of the rote issues but until then, a lot of support is things like routine billing questions or even spam. Even if there is a meaty usability problem, there&
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
Fellow demo-enthusiast here :) It seems pretty cool, do you have a few non-Ziti examples to whet the appetite?
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
As a general rule, nobody will want to sell your product until you've proven a way to sell it (honestly, people only want to sell your product when you not only don't need them, but you don't want them).
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
There's a lot to recommend sales as a place to make money -- it's where the money comes from :) But to make big bucks you need to grok 2 things: - How to optimize your comp structure (which could be fun for nerds) especially arou
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
Today it's probably "Always be working towards the next step" :) Which means you need to have a clear idea of your next step. If they need a PoC, and that needs an NDA signed, then trying to close before the NDA is going to
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
Talk to any manager in sales/solutions engineering at your company, they are always desperate for people who know the product well and probably willing to train you.
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
Most important advice (and you can see it repeated here) is that you need to be used to rejection. An average developer might get never get a PR fully rejected -- a well oiled sales team expects to close only 1/3rd of their sales qua
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
The margins on coffee are amazing, but I suspect coffee makes up a smaller % of sales after 8pm so the late night mix might have much thinner margins.
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
Totally not my area to wade in on, but the fact that a 5-15% gender deficit starts before age 5 and stays roughly stable through graduation seems to imply it's not something that the school system is getting wrong: * Girls are 14 perce
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
For a small company, networking can be the first time people hear of the company. For a company like Google, I wonder how often networking translates instead into chances for other companies to hire away their people (without really helping
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
Taxes are a non-trivial consideration. Google employees in California have an almost 50% marginal tax rate plus I imagine Google gets better prices than retail monitors (plus someone else maintains it for you). So they'd need to give y
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by ultrasaurus 4y ago
Sales compensation is one of the most interesting, difficult and high leverage things a company can get right. The way I've traditionally thought of "under-selling" is: - You have multiple teams that could maybe use your pr
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by ultrasaurus 5y ago
Yeah they kind of run the gamut from "you can look this up on LinkedIn" (company size) to ones I'd defer to the CFO "Any plans to sell?" where I doubt you'd get an answer. One thing I'd add -- don't b
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by ultrasaurus 5y ago
Maybe "profit" is the wrong word. Anecdotally, the US has a lot of dedicated & spacious cell phone stores compared to other countries I've been in (where selling SIM cards is part of another store, like a 7-11 or an elect
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by ultrasaurus 5y ago
Agreed, looking at https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-particip... it seems like it's just the media age of workers. There are almost as high a % of 65+ workers as 16-19 and more 45-54 year ol
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by ultrasaurus 5y ago
This is common in the financial industry: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gardening-leave.asp

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