billylindeman

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   by billylindeman 2y ago

   Chinese investors own ~20% of ByteDance. Mostly own by large funds (State Street BlackRock, Sequoia, etc)
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   by billylindeman 2y ago

   "They could simply have divested" What an odd thing to say. Why should a company that started the biggest social media app in a decade "divest" it to US oligarchic interests when it's a global application? It make
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   by billylindeman 4y ago

   When the electrical grid begins to collapse under the weight of "migrating to EV," people will be quite happy these legacy companies didn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are massive needs that ICE is still serv
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   by billylindeman 4y ago

   does this work in the background or do you need to run the backup task? I'm setting up a home server atm and curious about this for iCloud
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   by billylindeman 4y ago

   This is amazing. I can't wait to play with it
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   by billylindeman 4y ago

   To be fair, I did leave during COVID and it was actually impossible to get a Uhaul (September 2020). Moving back to SF in the next month for a new gig (after the startup I was working for ran out of cash and laid everyone off).
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   by billylindeman 4y ago

   So it's the girth that matters?
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   by billylindeman 4y ago

   We use it at https://tandem.chat . I work on the AV stack. WebRTC is pretty awesome.
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   by billylindeman 4y ago

   I also believe that it is flawed, but it is the model that most of valley is built on. It's frustrating. I wish more companies would just focus on building value and becoming profitable. VC funding for growth makes sense, but it shou
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    by billylindeman 4y ago

    I'm also incredibly bearish on CA and left for good last year. The quality of life per dollar is just so incredibly skewed, and the monoparty culture perpetuates terrible policies that will continue to strangle the state. I left the c
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    LOL if you can't get your own employees to want to you use your product you might have a problem .
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    I grew up in Metro Detroit. Moved to California in 2015, and while it's been fun... I'm moving back to Michigan (Downtown Detroit/Brush Park) next week. I certainly used to feel the lack of VC activity in Detroit, but that i
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    I think in general people don't understand counter party risk
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    LOL I built the first version of their android app back in the day. Can't speak to why they've been going after modders, but it's likely from a liability / legal standpoint. At the end of the day I still love their pro
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    CPI is almost certainly gamed. http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    It always blows my mind seeing the things people who work at google/fb are willing to "walk out" / "protest" over, and then these insidious things they're willing to just sit back and let happen. When I mo
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    Pretty much haven't listened at all since his move to spotify. I don't blame him for selling out at all, but spotify is garbage for podcasts. If he went back to youtube I'd probably watch again
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    I like to say a full rewrite is technical bankruptcy
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    windows 10 does a decent job at this
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    This change was actually what got me to switch back to iOS from Android. Google can fuck right off with that bullshit
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    i was really hoping that'd be in the cards for this wwdc announcement. It'd easily become my main machine overnight.
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    Also moved, don’t see myself going back
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    The virtual office is here to stay(blog.tandem.chat)

    13 points by billylindeman 5y ago|5 comments
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    I rock a 38" dell ultrawide. It's not HiDPI but it works fantastic for me. It's just about big enough to make me not miss dual screens, and it's awesome for games.
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    I think the best way to handle this is to try to compare yourself to your previous self and make sure that yields a positive direction. Comparing yourself to more successful people will always feel bad, no matter how successful you are. Yo
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    by billylindeman 5y ago

    what the actual fuck. as someone who grew up in metro detroit this disgusts me.
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    by billylindeman 6y ago

    "This article seems to suggest the answer is a fully automated smart home, with some kind of AI to intelligently manage your power usage. Sounds awesome, but I don't think that's ever going to be a reality outside the valley.
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    by billylindeman 6y ago

    It absolutely IS about currency. They're printing money to pay for shit they can't afford. That is in ADDITION to the taxes that will be levied. Big government spending is absolutely a waste of economic resources, and will make
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    by billylindeman 6y ago

    The fact that there were paid Facebook and Twitter advertisements for the news stories that "mevlin exited their short" makes me think they did not
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    by billylindeman 6y ago

    Exactly. IMO if there was a liquidity issue / settlement issue they should've gone to the SEC / NYSE and HALTED trading. Not manipulate the market dynamics via volume. It's incredibly shady, and I've already withd