TAForObvReasons

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by TAForObvReasons 3y ago
This seems to ignore the first part of the story, where Hashicorp builds up a community around an open source project and relicenses the project. OpenTofu and now OpenBao wouldn't have happened if Hashicorp didn't relicense in the
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by TAForObvReasons 3y ago
Creators with decent-sized portfolios will just train their own models. > He told me the training process took about 2.5 hours on a GPU at Vast.ai, and cost less than $2. This is a SaaS waiting to happen. https://waxy.org&#x2F
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by TAForObvReasons 3y ago
Valve's 2 hour refund option came in direct response to a 2014 lawsuit from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission[1]. Rod Sims, head of ACCC at the time, asserted that Valve's original no-refund stance broke Australia
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by TAForObvReasons 3y ago
Is it any more shortsighted than using the "open tools" in the first place? There will be integration costs and maintenance of integration with open tools. You may not be able to pay anyone for support issues because those people
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by TAForObvReasons 3y ago
It’s not sudden and it’s not limited to python libraries. The popular open source projects make great targets for low-multiple acqui-hires, derisking the investment. They also have huge established branding and generally obvious opportuniti
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by TAForObvReasons 3y ago
> You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain
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by TAForObvReasons 3y ago
You are intentionally misrepresenting OP. > When will VC companies stop *conflating source available with open source*? *Misrepresenting* "open source" is the problem. "source available" is the correct phrase
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by TAForObvReasons 3y ago
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
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by TAForObvReasons 3y ago
Discord video calls also beat the pants off Teams, Zoom, and Meet.
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by TAForObvReasons 3y ago
The author of Zod had an insightful comment on FOSS and monetization https://twitter.com/colinhacks/status/1422222156340072456 > whether an OSS project lends itself to monetization is a really interesting and s
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by TAForObvReasons 3y ago
This is still happening today. There are multiple VC groups trawling through GitHub trending and star lists to find potential investment targets. The Shopify acquisition of Remix ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3340599
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by TAForObvReasons 3y ago
When projects vendor or copy from other projects, license bodies typically include all relevant copyright statements and licenses even if the license body is the same as the parent project. NodeJS uses the MIT license [1] and reproduces the
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Does it matter if "the guy is doing proper crypto" if he is getting paid by "pyramid scheme money"? Arguably it is worse since his presence is ostensibly legitimizing the "pyramid schemes". It feels like th
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
It's not unreasonable for the US federal government to ban employees of the US federal government from using Australian banking apps on work devices issued by the US federal government. It is a separate conversation if any of those var
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
It is not unreasonable for governments to require all apps be published by US companies
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
If you walk the logic to its conclusion, you might be better off taking the ToS ban: "received wrong item but didn't fight" -> "concern that future orders may be wrong" -> "use amazon less or for smaller
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Repairability and general hackability are core design goals of the Steam Deck compared to other devices. On the software side, they don't hide the desktop Linux core.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
It's the VC-funded OSS playbook (restrictive open source, monetize support and advanced deployments until the open source loses potency, relicense). Cal.com took money from https://oss.capital/portfolio and others
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Bootstrapped small businesses can have the same scaling potential as startups. They just value sustainable growth over business fragility. It seems foolish during summers but that mentality allows bootstrapped businesses to survive winter
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Hosting is the obvious answer. Deno is monetizing in the same exact way ( https://deno.com/deploy/pricing ) and they managed to raise much more money with the same playbook.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
The key phrase is "in a downturn". When it is not a downturn, VCs encourage startups to grow at all costs. And it's extremely difficult to change course. VCs can change advice overnight but companies don't have that fl
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Not an accountant. 3 years is shorter than the expected 5-year depreciation [1], so if you took a section 179 deduction you may have to pay some of it back. It may actually be worse to trade in than to let the machine sit for a few years.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Not an accountant. If everyone involved is a US citizen, this year's gift tax exemption is $17000 per recipient. That means you can give up to $34K written as $17K checks to each parent with no fuss.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
You may write something that you publicly stand by today but not 20 years from now. You can't go back and erase what you wrote. At least with an opaque username there is an element of plausible deniability
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Stripe charges for protection https://stripe.com/radar/pricing > Chargeback Protection > Defend your business from the unpredictability of disputes. With Chargeback Protection, Stripe will cover both the disputed
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Suppose you wanted to leave. There are 2 choices: A) Voluntarily leave and get some sort of severance. B) Wait and gamble that the company decides to ask you to leave. If you wait and are not selected to leave, you likely won't get an
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
"winter" implies there's a forthcoming "spring". Parent is suggesting the possibility of a permanent impairment, that crypto may never "recover" to public interest and price levels seen in the last few ye
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
This same sort of rescinding happened in 2008 to college grads joining bulge brackets.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
It is absolutely possible for both to be true. Businesses want knowledge workers who are competent and can address problems but also willing to accept the compensation they are offering. Knowledge workers want to be compensated fairly wit
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
GitHub built goodwill over the years. There were many controversies, but there were also many die-hard fans. That didn't evaporate overnight. Microsoft bought GitHub (and minted 3 billionaires in the process) specifically to acquire

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