unusualmonkey

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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
> The point they're making is that fewer than 30% of monkeys would still be positive after so many years if it were random chance I'm not sure that's the argument being made, but if so, it's a terrible argument. I&#x2
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
A blind monkey throwing darts will beat the S&P 500 some of the time. The problem isn't that it's impossible to beat the S&P 500 (it's actually trivial), the problem is it's hard to predict which portfolio will
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Bitcoin claims to be a great store of value, but is terrible at it. Seriously look at the last 10 year chart of Bitcoin vs USD (or if you want purchasing power) - its far, far too volatile to be a store of value.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
AI is the tide. The sand forts are the 'guardrails'. Saying that 'Unions work' in this context seems premature.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
That seems to beg the question. Maybe YC isn't investing in the right founders, and that's why it has so many AI startups.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Because low quality games devalue the brand. It's often easy to guess which engine a game is made on, because they tend to share certain elements (UI, rendering techniques etc). If your engine is associated with poor quality games, tha
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
None of that prevents aquisitions. Companies would just be bought by wealth induviduals (or trusts, or whatever) as opposed to companies, and copyright/ip would just stay unde the original legal entity and licensed out.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Does unity want to support games where the vast majority uninstall it within a few minuites? Seems like having less of those games on Unity might improve Unity's brand.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
'near-verbatim' is the key. Though it'd be hard to copyright any code small enough to fit on a flash card.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Humans aren't required to use clean room design. Using copyrighted materials as inspiration/reference is not uncommon or illegal.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
What makes you think that 'idealism' is what produces unicorns? What makes you think startups are about 'dreamers who find it difficult to subsist in a stifling world'? I feel like you misunderstand startups. Startups ar
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
I don't expose SQL to the client because my client apps don't have good SQL support, my database server doesn't scale connections well and it would take effort to properly lock down the SQL permissions. That said, there are u
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
> they expose the data model and copy it as-is in GraphQL. This isn't inherently an anti-pattern. > GraphQL server is a special case of the BFF pattern, and the whole purpose here is to decouple FE from the underlying data model
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
I doesn't appear to me that YC's mission has anything to do with technological advancement (it's not mentioned here for example: https://www.ycombinator.com/principles ).
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Depends how you use it. We use Hasura, and find this massively decreases the cost of making production ready API's vs traditional REST development.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Why is this an anti-pattern?
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Even in this reduced claim, you haven't established this was a frivolous decision or due to 'taking business less serious'.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
You've not established that has anything to do with titles. Nor have you established killing lidar was a bad idea, or puts people's lives in danger. Remember that hype isn't the same as substance.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Can you prove any connection between the two?
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Sounds like this would be a good system to have a bunch of idealistic developers work on pet tech projects. This doesn't sounds like a goopd system to encourage developers to work on business problems - which are often boring and requi
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
I moved to Vegas, both cities have a great assortment of amazing foods.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
> Deserts are far from people So... you've not heard of LA or Arizona or Nevada etc?
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Let's say your correct and the founders didn't know ebay could scale (even though this was during dotcom bubble and raised millions of dollars in investment) so what? That doesn't mean it's not possible or that a savvy e
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
I have to disagree. An auction website that everyone in America can use? A marketplace for small crafts that is nation wide? A social network that connects a large creative community and show cases brands and products? It's not hard to
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
The flip side of this is that if your idea is not able to scale... it might not be worth doing. Let's say the market of your idea is $100M/year, and in a best case scenario you can get $10M/year... that might not be a lot, es
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
So if increasing healthcare expenses allow them to earn more profits, then why do you think having capped profits means that insurance companies are 'not the problem'? Insurance companies are incentivised, under law, to have the h
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
> It's enjoyable to blame insurance companies, but the reality is their profits are capped by law - they are not the problem. What a delightfully naive view. Answer me two simple questions: 1) How are insurance companies profits cap
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
> But people watch 720p content all the time! 1) People don't tend to watch 720p content on large FOV displays. For example, 720p on my phone is fine, because it takes up less FOV than a theater. 2) Content can be upscaled, picels c
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
I'm sorry, but that's kinda of nonsense. You can build a fairly successful startup with little to no engineering. Sure, engineers are usually pretty important (they're great at automating tasks to improve efficeincy)... but s
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
I'm a huge proponent of GCP - done both green field and AWS -> GCP migrations. However, losing google cloud domains is hard to defend, and makes promoting GCP hard.

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