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   by zurfer 6y ago

   Thanks for the links. Eye opening for me is that hosting costs around 2.4 million and 55.6 million is for salaries and wages. That seems a bit out of proportion "just" for Wikipedia. You can easily employ 500 people for that(depe
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   by zurfer 6y ago

   What is a drag race strategy?
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   by zurfer 6y ago

   Thanks for the details! Fortunately we don't have time pressure. Firma.de looks great. Is Penta compatible to your oferring? Say, we don't want the commerzbank account but open the Penta account instead. Ideally we manage to autom
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   by zurfer 6y ago

   Thanks for the links! Both providers look great. firma.de comes with 20k Euro on AWS and stripe. That is a good jump start. :)
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   Ask HN: Is There a Stripe Atlas Alternative for EU or Germany?

   5 points by zurfer 6y ago|7 comments
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   by zurfer 6y ago

   No, You don't need more. This is compressed text. All of English Wikipedia is roughly 20 GB. You can train amazing and state of the art text models with this data in addition. Openai states themselves that they trained on "40GB of
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   by zurfer 6y ago

   I am a bit surprised that most people recommend to charge more. What I've seen in B2B SaaS is e.g. 2.5% discount every double capacity. So if you charge them 16 times more than your typical customer you give 10% discount. But this hig
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   Stonebraker on databases and venture capital (2014)(youtube.com)

   1 points by zurfer 6y ago|1 comments
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   by zurfer 6y ago

   Michael Stonebraker 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture (75mins)
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    it is on HN because it is a YC startup
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    generally agree, but I bet there is more like 500-5000 people that understand this kind of stuff. Most modern web tools support at least some basic functionality of synchronously working on the same document.
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    it's ironic that we have such a hard time preserving information of a technology that runs the world today, a technology that is called "information technology"
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    I could not find you on https://dbdb.io . Maybe you want to submit it at least there, so people will find it. How does kivaloo compare to other databases like Redis? Why should I use it? PS: fully understand that you might hav
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    better title: phosphine found in venus atmosphere, some scientists suspect microbes
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    well, someone payed 8k to show an ad to 2.6 million people it was just not a good ad
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    It seem's super cheap for planting trees. But it is not completely crazy. If I use the Lufthansa calculator to offset flights I roughly pay 20 Euro per 1000kg CO2 [1]. A litre of petrol produces roughly 2.3kg CO2. So roughly 450 litres
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    well your landing page looks better tbh. maybe you can team up ;)
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    looks really nice, I might integrate it into my next idea :) three wishes: - show the 1 line integration without me needing to login - "report a bug" should have the option to include a screenshot or image - the form should have a
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    worth watching. short summary: on average marriage makes people happy for some years, money makes you happy (but with highly diminishing return over $75k/year), kids do not make you happy (on average). But highs are higher, and humans
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    Interesting thought. I think this was also true in the past for many people: Oracle Sysadmin, SAP System Consultant,... You can build your whole career specialising in the stack of one vendor. Maybe today and in the future there will be mo
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    exactly, and one don't even need to comment on HN, but can just open an issue or even better a pull request ;)
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    What motivates wired.com to put so much of such a controversial statements in brackets? What did he actually say?
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    Nice question. I am not that old and only further aware of the more recent "cloud first" and "america first"
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    FOO is Salesforce. BAR will be my future start-up. After the IPO I will make sure that Salesforce acquires all our shares and your example will become the ultimate example for finance or stock text books.
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    Have we been working on the same team? :P The worst part (or best part of the joke) is that with a mathematical PhD you're very ill equiped for a discussion with your typical sales rep.
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    Well it's not even the right point to discuss. A lot of great software is developed in Europe (not necessarily by companies with European headquarters). But why should software companies be tied to a specific region. Great software can
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    recently there was a list on HN that estimated prices for exploits. I wonder how much this exploit would cost?
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    That's an interesting train of thought, but I hope it is not the future. The world population is still growing. Labour is still the biggest wealth distribution system for most people. To eliminate "low-skill" jobs seems like
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    I am sure this advice worked for you, but I find it ironic that to "finish" a side project, you should not "finish" sub-tasks. However I completely agree that you should make it as easy as possible for you to get starte
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    by zurfer 6y ago

    I like your idea of "technological development being fractal". Fractals get more complex by zooming in. On a high level we sat in front of a screen 20 years ago and probably will sit in front of a similar screen 20 years from now.