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by xivzgrev 2y ago
exactly! If my toddler bumps his head, I say it looks like it hurt, I'll offer to hold him, and depending on context, point out how he can avoid it next time. but yea, never just letting them run wild or saying it's not their faul
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
To me it's a red flag when a company takes on Softbank funding. I worked at a portfolio company earlier in my career. Their MO is to offer lots of money at inflated valuation vs domestic investors. This is compelling for founders - l
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Jim created Garfield for money[1]. It's not surprising that he likes anything that can make him more money, he isn't personally tied to the character. [1] Garfield was originally created by Davis with the intention to come up with
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Yah the way he reacted about “the internet isn’t working” is like the teachers who were anal about “can I” vs “may I”, but with some shaming thrown in. I’d say the same thing as the other teacher. I left out the word “connection”. But appar
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Competitive edge is new innovation and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. The rules and culture favor it in the US, more so than anywhere else on earth. China didn’t invent the iPhone or chat gpt. But they excel at optimizing.
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
The old adage that distributors mark up 100%, and then retailers another 100%, rings true here Nike is the distributor in this case
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
This brings back something we've mostly lost in modern times. Elders had respect because they knew a lot and had contributed a lot, and everyone knew that. But that's not scalable, and we migrate a lot more now. This is an engagin
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Oof this article hits like a kick to the nuts. Ive been unhappy with my career growth in past several years, and basically it’s because I worked on products / projects that did not make a ton of money. I knew this intellectually of cou
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Agreed. In my last job search I went months with no offer, then 4 within a week. Precisely because I leveraged the first one to speed the others along.
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Wow for SDR, 0.75xMRR for each demo? So if your typical MRR is $1000, you'd pay $750 per demo? My wife used to be SDR and I seem to remember she got paid much less, maybe like 0.1xMRR. Obviously your economics work & scale, just c
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
apparently it is. They earned $19M from program service revenue, and profited almost $25M. So they could cut the entire Google deal, and still be in the black. Not as profitable as before (obviously they've been investing their profit
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
I'm tired of reading gloom & doom about Trump's executive orders over the past 2 months and no one except lawyers doing anything about it. There's 3 million Federal US employees. If even a small fraction began to conduct
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The Art of Simple Sabotage (2019)(cia.gov)
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
I’m in the same boat! I wouldn’t say I feel depressed though, I’d say strained. There’s no “me” time. The thing that keeps me going (besides love for my family) is a little bit of hope. How can you take small steps toward a more balanced p
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Wow what a small world! When I was learning Perl in the early 2000s, I learned in part by copying and tweaking your scripts. Thanks for sharing these into the world. I found them a huge help.
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
You start helping humanity, as Christ did from the start or Gates did once he conquered the business world. Imagine the good someone as influential & rich as Thiel could do. Instead his “good” is focused on transforming society for uncl
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
I don’t think they’re similar at all. Musk is cutting things left and right, creating large messes and giving himself hand outs. He is making things less efficient (vs more). Cuban sees the mess, and an opportunity to make some money while
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
They built / manage login.gov? Oh boy. It’s one thing if Twitter has bugs. It’s another thing if people have bugs while trying to login or signup to government services. Or hackers finding vulnerabilities and no one to fix them?
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Small surprise: top marginal tax rates used to be 70-90% from the 40s to the 70s. https://taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-highest-ma...
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Yea I don’t often remember which folder I stuck something in. As a result I’m a heavy search user. I find 90% of the time I can quickly find what I’m looking for with a few keywords. For the OP, health insurance policy, I’d type “health ins
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
TLDR: it’s no longer enough to drive growth by jumping on the AI hype train. Ya gotta do, ya know, something useful with it.
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Rock on man. The contrarian attitude reminds me of the “I Sell Onions on the Internet” guy https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter...
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Thanks for sharing. When you said, “ I mean, I can certainly be organized for sizable stretches of time, but whenever I start getting pressed for time, or stressed, or lose my motivation for some other reason, it always reverts to the mean.
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Anytime I see a picture of North Korea I think 1) is the person now banned? 2) did insiders get punished? For this one, I worry for those insiders. They made their choice but I can’t imagine Kim is happy this got out.
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
An independent regulatory agency are established by law and function outside direct executive supervision. That’s the whole purpose: they’re supposed to be non partisan. But there’s a loop hole - this independence isn’t codified. Rather an
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
I mean, empathy for a criminal is ensuring they have their day in court. Free counsel if they can’t afford. Innocent until proven guilty. But their rights can’t trump victims, that’s not justice. Like someone else mentioned prop 47 was a b
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
I’m not sure what the right answer is, but asking people who are used to rough and tumble life outside to then behave civilly indoors with zero tolerance seems…set for failure? There are those that do succeed but those are certainly the mos
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Pretty cool. The summary at first was helpful, but then delves into repeating itself. I tried it on John wick. Here’s the latter part of the summary. The video calls out the cliché tropes and logical inconsistencies in "John Wick,&quot
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
of course Musk recruits young ambitious kiddos - they work hard, for not much money, and don't question authority (because they're blinded by their ambition) it's only when you get older that you see how rife this is for abus
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
100% - quote from parent fits perfectly: "It's a perfectly valid thing to stay for financial reasons, but that must come with acceptance that sometimes you'll have to roll over and take whatever they decide to dish out."

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