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by brettproctor 3y ago
Interesting idea but no, the lights never change based on usage like this.
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by brettproctor 3y ago
These folks just put up a long post trying to weigh the risk v reward at various startup stages. Mostly summarized into: "Joining at Series C may give you an ideal combination of risk and reward. Series C startups had the highest weigh
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by brettproctor 4y ago
Is this really what is passing as journalism these days? Anyone who spends even a modest amount of time looking at incidents of justified use of lethal force can quickly determine that an officer having a reasonable fear of great bodily har
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by brettproctor 4y ago
I figured it was unlikely google would make such a mistake, so I looked at the docs. They use public key cryptography to generate a private shared secret that is hashed alongside the message. This prevents the brute force hash attack. http
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by brettproctor 5y ago
For posterity, they updated the post on Mar 7 and will be emailing anyone affected. "Update March 7, 2022: We appreciate the feedback from the community and our customers, and will be emailing users as part of this disclosure. We apo
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by brettproctor 6y ago
I could see this being really useful for the team I'm on, specifically for doing docker builds of rust binaries. The build always has to start from scratch, and being able to easily used a remote high power machine could really speed t
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by brettproctor 6y ago
I'm aware of the impracticability of everyone divesting out of USTs right now. Your points are entirely valid and are the reason the system is still being held together. My point is there exists some set of circumstances in which that
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by brettproctor 6y ago
Sometimes the only winning move is not to play :-) At some point it becomes irrational to keep holding USTs. I'm well aware it seems right now there aren't any other good options, but that can definitely change quickly.
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by brettproctor 6y ago
Most gold proponents would say gold being money and not a "currency" is the whole point.
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by brettproctor 6y ago
Really useful twitter as well: https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact
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by brettproctor 7y ago
Last time they dropped it from 5.25% to 0, and still had to print ~$3.7T. With only 1.5% to cut and GDP 50% larger than it was back then, how much QE will they attempt this round?
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by brettproctor 7y ago
(To be clear, I personally don't think the fed will be able to get themselves out of this one. I'm just stating most market participants think they can.) I certainly agree w/ you that it will take a fatal failure to kill th
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by brettproctor 7y ago
Hong kong already giving out $1,200 to each resident: https://fortune.com/2020/02/26/hong-kong-economy-stimulus-ca...
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by brettproctor 7y ago
The % of corporate debt rated BBB has also exploded. It is likely these companies should really be junk, but are kept alive by reluctant/agreeable rating agencies and historically low rates. "At the same time, the lowest rated par
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by brettproctor 7y ago
Agreed. I've also appreciated the quote of "Last time I checked the fed can't print a vaccine"
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by brettproctor 7y ago
To me, I think the most critical thing to make note of is the extreme focus on what the fed and other central banks are going to do. The fact that most people (rightly) assume that fed action is the most significant factor for the market sh
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by brettproctor 7y ago
A couple of fun behind the scenes stories which I think at this point are past the statute of limitations. Source: I was the Service Engineer on pipes for around a year or so. 1) When you went to the pipes landing page, there were a few dem
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by brettproctor 8y ago
Understanding the root cause of how our healthcare system developed is both crucial and completely lacking from most of these discussions. It is a tale of federally mandated wage control and specialized tax breaks. A quick google will show
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by brettproctor 9y ago
Can someone ask the author to google 'myspace' and 'yahoo'? Maybe 'sun' as well? """ Customers naturally gravitate to the platform with the largest network of customers (think Facebook). Or thei
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by brettproctor 9y ago
Anyone here will probably enjoy checking out commandlinefu: http://commandlinefu.com Especially looking down the list of all time greats: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes
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by brettproctor 9y ago
IBM currently at 380K according to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
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by brettproctor 9y ago
Also, specifically about minimum wage, raising it much more often than not has negative outcomes. There is clearly mixed research, but most studies including this meta-study make the case that at best there isn't much benefit, and more
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by brettproctor 9y ago
So given their current losses, I think we can agree that at their current revenue - costs the business model isn't sustainable. We can also agree that these aren't exactly great jobs, and that they provide no benefits. I don'
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by brettproctor 9y ago
Yes. Labor laws in general reduce options for those who need them most. It prevents people from making decisions for themselves and is condescending in assuming individuals are incapable of deciding what is best for themselves. I acknowledg
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by brettproctor 9y ago
"Uber losses expected to hit $3 billion in 2016 despite revenue growth" https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/21/uber-losses-expected-to-hi... So Uber lost ~$3 billion in 2016, yet in 2017 they're sup
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by brettproctor 9y ago
If only we could somehow prevent Uber from forcing people to drive for them, we could solve this problem once and for all... I really just can't understand the mentality of "These people are too stupid to realize they're bein
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by brettproctor 10y ago
Oops. From other comments appears its Plaid https://plaid.com/
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by brettproctor 10y ago
What do you use on the backend for auth storage? Yodlee?
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by brettproctor 10y ago
I've been a PE@FB for 5.5 years now. Still enjoying every day. I worked on data-infra for first 3 years as an individual contributor and ads for past 2 as a manager. The thing I love most about PE is that it really allows for people to
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by brettproctor 10y ago
Do you know how expert flyer works under the hood? Always been curious about their credit model. Are they charging per query since they're paying per query to the GDS companies?

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