zx2391

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by zx2391 5y ago
What is the "top"? "Top" is where you live off capital gains, meaning - in the broadest sense, someone else is working for you all the time. That's not something I'd aspire to. That's just plain lazy. In
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by zx2391 5y ago
Corrupt police men in Indian sprawls know this for a long time. You cannot extract lots from a few rich drivers (in addition, you may face personal consequences as well). The best spots are where you have a many middle class to lower class
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by zx2391 5y ago
VW ships 3M cars per year, let's say a car is used 1h per day. Given all cars are used in this subscription model, we look at $765M MRR, or almost $10B per year, which is already about 10% of their current revenue. Given that autonomou
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by zx2391 5y ago
Sometimes I wonder what was wrong with a mostly static pages in the first place. Even http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ works fine, even in a slower browser - and I would say 80% of the sites today are less complex t
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by zx2391 5y ago
No offense, but I found the early replit so cool, I will replicate it as a weekend project soon.
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by zx2391 5y ago
Yes, I've seen corporate presentations on that matter, which basically focused on the zero-cost aspect. Well, you get what you pay for, I guess.
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by zx2391 5y ago
I maintain OS projects and my stance is simple: I'll fix thing, that are broken - mostly because I want things to work. I won't add new features for you, unless I really see the appeal. If you come up with a PR, nice! I'll ta
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by zx2391 5y ago
My personality seem not to allow me to just do one thing. Even today, I have a couple of jobs and I enjoy the variety of challenges. It's also risk management - basically any of my jobs could fail and it would not really affect me, whi
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by zx2391 5y ago
I have not implied that Google tried to be evil. It was just a very interesting observation (which I unfortunately did not experiment around longer, by removing ads again, etc.). Risk is too high for such things to be decided, but maybe som
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by zx2391 5y ago
A story from a decade back. Setup a site, low traffic, not much change over months. Added AdSense, within days traffic increased. I was thinking, yeah Google, why not turn the knobs a tiny bit - people will hardly notice and it's win-w
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by zx2391 5y ago
It's so obvious, isn't it?
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by zx2391 5y ago
I was under the impression that private equity was mainly a vehicle for the rich to get richer. Serious question: Do companies have no choice but to go this route or why are they doing this?
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by zx2391 5y ago
I experienced parts of CS academia and it was off-putting to say the least. Full of mediocre people who understood "the system" - not that much different from a direct-marketing operation, or a mafia - all while pestering CS profe
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by zx2391 5y ago
True, and people can use it today, that's for sure.
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by zx2391 5y ago
I read a Blockchain book from O'Reilly in 2015, when it came out and it left me with the distinct impression that this "technology" is vaporous. It could do anything, yet, almost no examples to try out, let alone real-world s
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by zx2391 5y ago
The smarter tool (i.e. AI) mega-trend will continue and there is a lot to automate across the globe. This will sprawl into biotech (drug discovery) and energy management.