coastermug

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by coastermug 5mo ago
Is Liquid Glass not just a means to slowly force old phones to be obsolete? - My iPhone 11 is fairly slow now and they’ve probably bought forward my next phone purchase by a year
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by coastermug 1y ago
I’ve not got the context on why Brazil was chosen here (paywall) - but I coincidentally read a story on here of Richard Feynman visiting Brazil whereby he assessed their teaching and tried to impart his teaching and learning techniques.
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by coastermug 2y ago
People need examples of success in their network. Most people have frankly never met or heard of anyone who founded a successful startup- and therefore would never think of taking on such a risk. I agree that in some places there is a sense
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by coastermug 2y ago
I am a former Mech Eng who trod this path. Started at JLR, moved by self teaching into software. Engineering in the UK felt like it moved at a glacial pace that only made sense in the days of final salary pension schemes. Senior management
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by coastermug 2y ago
Klarna use a huge dark pattern on their payment processing (irrelevant of bnpl), whereby they store your details for future use by default, even without an account. Last time I checked you only needed a couple of pieces of easily identifiab
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by coastermug 2y ago
My local library inherited the staff from other libraries that closed well over ten years ago. This means they have a constant staff of circa 5 people, meanwhile they do no real outreach into the community nor are they friendly, and I am fa
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by coastermug 2y ago
I’ve noticed the risk appetite of investors in the Uk is much worse. They want a much larger slice of the pie early on, so there’s much less incentive to do a risky startup, rather than a sure thing like GS / Google. There’s nearly no
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by coastermug 2y ago
AWS textract now has the functionality to offer a table cell based on a query - if I’m not mistaken. I’ve seen nothing similar to this and would be very interested if there are other solutions.
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by coastermug 3y ago
Given a quick read, I enjoy it and see why it is different. I can’t get on with Medium because of their login process, and HN is great but I just doom scroll comments and don’t really use it for technical learning. - I already found an inte
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by coastermug 3y ago
Are you able to share that research thesis? Or any key papers on how this should be done? Knowing SOTA on these approaches is always nice.
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by coastermug 3y ago
Genuinely interested here, who are you referring to as ‘feral’? I see a lot of very well educated non-feral people in the UK struggling to make good wages and a ‘proper’ standard of living. I think that’s what is meant by a broken social co
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by coastermug 3y ago
My employer is now struggling to outsource our jobs to Europe because the prices are too high. I try not to think about it too much, but a move to Ireland looks enticing.
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by coastermug 3y ago
Who needs shelter when it’s so warm outside?
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by coastermug 3y ago
I believe this to be the case also. In the UK we have lots of cases cropping up of PE being the bad guys, but the current owners being to blame for buying these companies in unstable positions and allowing the sellers to make fortunes. It d
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by coastermug 3y ago
Magnesium is harder to machine. The chips produced can be highly flammable.
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by coastermug 3y ago
Thank you, this is a balanced and detailed response. I don’t personally “buy” the narrative that all LBOs are destructive. After all there are entire funds devoted to LBOs and how would these PE outfits carry on getting loans if their compa
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by coastermug 3y ago
What I want to know, is how do the banks keep lending to PE outfits? They are surely the losers in this situation?
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by coastermug 3y ago
Leveraged buyouts. I’ve seen them explained like a mortgage, except that doesn’t work in my head either.
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by coastermug 3y ago
I’ve pushed back on previous discussions on here about PE because of lack of detail about wrong doings, however this article is excellent. “dividend recapitalization” seems absolutely insane for anyone running a business.
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by coastermug 3y ago
I could see it being useful in helping people in these situations. Teaching someone to have control, as opposed to “unlearning” their helplessness (which presumably if default, can’t be done).
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by coastermug 3y ago
UK vs USA. You’re not wrong at all though. It’s also very interesting the lack of salary transparency that exists in the Uk. If you don’t poke your head around London, you can be blissfully unaware of the salaries that are available in Fina
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by coastermug 3y ago
Bartenders do not earn £50k in the UK. £50k is considered an above average wage, albeit PHDs can earn far more working elsewhere.
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by coastermug 3y ago
It looks like they recognise this failure “ In 2023 that purpose remains unchanged, but we are reassessing our founding assumptions and setting a course for the next five years”. Quite what that course is, remains to be seen. My personal ex
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by coastermug 3y ago
Perhaps we could stop (in the UK) subsidising the loss of jobs via AI through R&D tax credits. Government funding to eliminate the tax base…
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by coastermug 3y ago
So this is why I ask about profitability -at the portfolio level-. In your and the article’s example, the PE manager turns a profit not because he screws the business, but because he also screws the bank who loaned money. What bank will con
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by coastermug 3y ago
How does a PE manager expect to make money if their asset stripping decreases the value of the businesses? I’m assuming the value of the business plummets, but they use the sale of assets to pay themselves/their investors? Could someon
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by coastermug 3y ago
I’ll give a watch. My downvoted comment above confirms holding such views are indeed unpopular :)
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by coastermug 3y ago
I’ll provide an unpopular opinion. People who rigidly stick to the “furthest left lane at all possible moments” are far more dangerous than middle lane hoggers. I witness many, usually white vans, who seem to want to enforce this rule seemi
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by coastermug 4y ago
In the UK I’ve seen this called the “intelligent client” model. Basically a core group of PMs who outsource everything. In my narrow experience of being on the inside of this, it failed drastically as the internal PM team lacked the technic
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by coastermug 4y ago
What supplier would you recommend? WD and Sandisk have been my go-to for all things storage, but I prefer to pay a premium up to 20% for better quality.

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