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by aluminussoma 8mo ago
If growth rate was really 50% YoY, their investors would not let them sell for $5 billion.
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by aluminussoma 8mo ago
Different businesses. Stripe main business is a payment processor. Brex provides credit.
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by aluminussoma 2y ago
I don’t think most Americans care about how Europe sees us. Instead, there is a thought that Europe uses America to protect its own interests instead of putting its own resources on the line. America itself has its own problems. America is
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by aluminussoma 2y ago
To put it differently, Yotta’s customer’s misfortunes are because they are poor and not politically connected. If Fidelity fails, their customers are rich and they vote: they must be made whole. Kind of like the SVB failure. SVB customers w
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I quit my high paying tech job at Meta after having panic attacks(businessinsider.com)
9 points by aluminussoma 3y ago|13 comments
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by aluminussoma 3y ago
My mother asked me for a phone recommendation and I told her to try OnePlus. It is a beautiful phone (for an Android) but very buggy. It often fails, at random, at it most basic job of making phone calls without needing a restart. I regret
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by aluminussoma 3y ago
I am planning to make the switch this year. As a long time Pixel user, Google's support of its own hardware has been subpar. My phone was only officially supported for 3 years. They will increase support for new phones, probably becaus
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by aluminussoma 3y ago
Here is why I find it hard to believe there is a cabal of mods: what is their motivation for shutting down Reddit? If this is true, these fiefdom mods are hurting themselves financially and personally by keeping their subreddits shut down.
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by aluminussoma 3y ago
Because they respect your privacy and don't feel the need to plaster your comment in every search engine?
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How the Soviets grew oranges in freezing temperatures(lowtechmagazine.com)
41 points by aluminussoma 3y ago|1 comments
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
Thank you for adding this perspective. The news reports we receive do not provide this context so it is easy to think it is only about numbers.
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
0% Interest Rate Phenomena. Much of the funds come from extra capital sloshing around the system, looking for returns. Once bought out, some companies incur more debt (easy because of 0% interest rates) much of which goes back to the new ow
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
I'm glad it works for them, and I am a little skeptical whenever someone fawns over Notion (is it a paid placement? Is it someone who is trying sell templates?). To me, as someone who uses Notion for work, it is a dystopian vision, lik
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
If Meta controlled the US Government, TikTok would have been banned years ago!
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
I feel for the OP. I would just like to plug a good porting experience I had with Twilio recently. I ported a phone number from Vonage to Twilio. They did an excellent job keeping me up to date. I totally expected something to screw up, esp
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
In house innovation is certainly a problem on the product side. What new Adobe products have come out in the last decade? Every new product or service is from an acquisition.
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
Adobe has been unable to find technological innovation organically (To their credit, their stock price soared through financial engineering). Adobe has instead augmented its capabilities through acquisitions. Today's acquisition of Fig
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
I was probably born long before you. And you are twisting my words.
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
For as long as I can remember, there has been a vocal group of doomsayers predicting financial catastrophe. Powell's speech is like catnip to that group.
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
Heroku has had severe security and service outages over the past year. A long time ago, Heroku was talked about in positive terms. More recently, I've only heard negative things about them and plans to migrate off. They poisoned their
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
iPhone+ iPad revenues compose ~65% of revenues. Mac revenues are ~10%. They are allocating people to where they expect to make the most money. I don't characterize that as coasting, just business sense. Overall, I still agree that Appl
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
> I don't believe this is the case as since 2008 the U.S. construction industry has not even built enough units to keep up with population growth. I believe this is a supply problem which is two-fold. A counterargument to this is th
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
I wonder if persistently low interest rates is the real culprit that led to housing as investment. I have been recently intrigued by FinTwit arguments that an excess of demand spurred by too low interest rates is the real reason for many sh
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
This is not quite the subscription based model I envisioned, but it is a big step in that direction. For example, you still need to make payments on the existing phone for 12 months before becoming eligible for a new device.
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
Hardware is also turning into a subscription-like model. You can't upgrade a component on your iPhone or Android without needing to purchase a new phone. With Macbooks, you can no longer update the hard drive, battery, and RAM. You mus
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
The increased rates make home mortgages unaffordable. This pushes housing demand to rents because people need to live somewhere. Rental prices increase while home prices decrease - bad, bad stagflation.
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
How does one analyze the gut biome? I imagine it involves running poop through a machine - what kind of machine? I would love to learn more about the technical process.
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
Netflix has the ability to automatically update the card number after it expires. It is a service that certain credit card issuers offer. These days, I would not count on an expiring credit card to automatically cancel services.
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
No you can't. Source: I, too, was at a terminal level at a FAANG.
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by aluminussoma 4y ago
I would only be surprised if the other manufacturers are NOT doing the same. We (collectively speaking) do the same at work. We optimize for what gets us promoted rather than what benefits the company. Companies optimize for revenue rather

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