wdewind

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by wdewind 12y ago
A lot of the "throw it up there and see what happens" movement comes from young engineers who literally lack the life experience to know what problems to solve. Given that scenario, and the intense pressure that comes from SV for
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by wdewind 12y ago
No, not really. In our (Justworks) case, our founder had to setup payroll, benefits and compliance for multiple companies (Adtuitive and Etsy) and so was intimately familiar with the problem when he started it.
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by wdewind 12y ago
Makes sense, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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by wdewind 12y ago
For those of us not working on cat photo sharing products for the ever shifting consumer market there is considerably less luck, throwing random stuff at the wall, and pivoting involved. B2B SaaS is pretty nice. Join us on the dark side :
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Do you think the banking industry will support the unbanked faster than a stable and accessible internet will reach them? I would guess so. It's unlikely that big, stable telco companies get created without banks. Edit: and also,
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Some of those things are worth paying for. The revolutionary thing about Bitcoin (from a financial systems perspective) is that those things are optional. If I don't want or need instant confirms, I don't have to use them. So
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by wdewind 12y ago
It seems that much of the "bitcoin is great because it is feeless" stuff is going to get eaten up by the services/fraud reduction layer put on top of it, by stuff like this. Right now, including miner fees, it seems like the
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by wdewind 12y ago
Thanks, I knew that was the mechanism but never knew it was 10%.
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Then again, even the Irish are getting irritated with the Brits coming over to Dublin to get pissed and get in fist fights in the street and causing other bits of ruckus. Stuff like this was the impetus for the federalized drinking age
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by wdewind 12y ago
None of which detracts from his point: we (Americans) are nuts about mind altering drugs, and most of the debate on both sides is laughably sophomoric. Europeans have a lot to feel superior about when it comes to these regulations. That t
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by wdewind 12y ago
While my initial reaction is similar to yours, keep in mind that what's being proposed by the article is the concept that no one sets goals well enough that they should be used the way they are right now. This is a premise I don'
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by wdewind 12y ago
> My hope is that as bitcoins get more popular, businesses like Coinbase will seem less important. > Instead, I need help getting bitcoins from all the people out there who have no idea how to get bitcoins. If these two sentences don&
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by wdewind 12y ago
> However it does a worse job at providing price stability. Isn't this only true if you measure price stability based on amount of changes in the price, but not magnitude of those changes? How can they lower the spread but simulta
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by wdewind 12y ago
What about spread reduction? Also curious on your perspective of their role in market making. Do HFTs ever end up buying a larger block than they know is being demanded and end up holding some of the remaining for a time?
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by wdewind 12y ago
Why would this matter to them if they are based in Scotland?
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Come on, we all know that if you have insurance and see your doctor with the sniffles, you can leave with a antibiotic prescription if you want. It really depends on the doctor, which is quite a bit better than arbitrarily ordering off
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by wdewind 12y ago
I downvoted you because keto really has nothing to do with this article besides the association with its author, and tends to be an inflammatory topic.
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by wdewind 12y ago
Is there anyway you know of to use DDG in the omnibar with some kind of autocomplete? That's the dealbreaker for me right now...I tried installing the chrome extension but it only lets you search in the omnibar by typing 'd'+
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by wdewind 12y ago
Yes, in fact Amazon already does this. It will frequently warn you if your AWS keys are published in Github.
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by wdewind 13y ago
> To a normal company, that's a tangible benefit to the agreement enough to make it worthwhile. Can you qualify this a bit? What's the actual expect cost to Comcast here to fix the issue? General ballpark?
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by wdewind 13y ago
Right, but having more last mile networks would create pressure to resolve the connecting last mile ISP to infrastructure ISP issue.
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by wdewind 13y ago
> it's almost always mutually beneficial to peer. But Netflix might be the exception here right? > You can't just ignore the monopoly argument. You're right, I'm just trying to disambiguate it from the net neutrali
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by wdewind 13y ago
I posted this because frankly I don't understand the issues well enough and was hoping a few people in the community who understand networking and infrastructure better could respond to the points raised in this article.
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Netflix and Level 3 Only Telling Half The Story(blog.streamingmedia.com)
9 points by wdewind 13y ago|5 comments
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by wdewind 13y ago
Yeah, this does seem to be a core issue. How can we make it easier for people to start last-mile ISPs? It seems like a pretty capital intensive business to get involved in :)
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by wdewind 13y ago
Thanks a lot for your response (and to the others who responded as well, appreciate it!). What you're saying makes sense, but just to play devils advocate... Disclaimer: The blog I'm about to post was linked from Comcast's b
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by wdewind 13y ago
Here's the part that doesn't make sense to me, and hopefully someone can explain it: Netflix pays Level 3 and Cogent to connect them to Comcast's network. Comcast claims that only the Level 3 connection is saturated, and tha
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by wdewind 13y ago
I guess maybe this is just an issue of semantics. I don't view the pilot being at fault if the training is inadequate, I view the training as being at fault.
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by wdewind 13y ago
Sorry, maybe I wasn't being clear. I don't think they are the same thing, my point is more that if you think someone is acting in bad faith you should fire them, but assuming they aren't, you shouldn't assign the fault
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by wdewind 13y ago
You misunderstand my point, I think. If you are running an organization that deals with a lot of complexity (airlines, web systems etc.), it's generally not a good idea to blame anyone but the system. If you look at everything syste

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