dsugarman

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by dsugarman 2y ago
Everyone is so negative, cynical, and bitter on HN now, it's really sad to me. I went through YC in 2012 and I feel like the community here is unrecognizable, the quality of discourse is so low it feels hard to participate.
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by dsugarman 2y ago
Our employees average less than 2 days in the office a week and we had remote work before the pandemic. I myself work from home often. Our situation is different than Amazon obviously. I am living the life of the other group if we're
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by dsugarman 2y ago
I don't think OP actually disagrees, the chest pounding rhetoric is likely because they're covering up something deep inside that's saying "I know this is the right move for Amazon but I'm terrified of what that mea
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by dsugarman 2y ago
Your feelings are valid and they're doing this to perform better as a business.
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by dsugarman 2y ago
I don't know nearly enough to make a firm claim here but I don't think what you're describing sounds like a definitive counter example. There's a big difference between giving lower level employees creative freedom and
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by dsugarman 2y ago
Exactly my point, it's not a purely financial decision. It's barely a financial decision.
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by dsugarman 2y ago
I think another huge factor is that you are making a prediction on the future value of your degree over the next 40-50 years as a 17 year old who is probably more focused on succeeding socially and sexually. You add in the student loans th
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by dsugarman 2y ago
you don't really clarify why people should stop flying, I'll assume it's due to global warming? Personally, I think this is a fantastic idea, to simplify the user experience of flying to make it accessible sounds incredible.
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by dsugarman 2y ago
that makes sense but it still seems like there is an imbalance on expectations. It reads as they're great and there's not a lot of people as great as they are when in reality it's probably more like the overlap between the se
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by dsugarman 2y ago
If everyone had a requirement for marriage that you marry someone as smart as you, exactly no one would be married.
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by dsugarman 2y ago
https://abcnews.go.com/538/538s-2024-presidential-election-f...
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by dsugarman 2y ago
Sounds like a people issue
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by dsugarman 3y ago
People have free will; market rate is driven by supply, demand and economics of production and revenue. It's similar to people in the US willing to forfeit their financial future to see taylor swift live and the reseller market underst
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by dsugarman 3y ago
Doesn't sound terribly different than how I perceived the actual movie. I often describe Dune as a 3 hour trailer. I didn't hate it due to the visuals and the immersive sound at the theater but I would have probably been pretty
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by dsugarman 3y ago
Frankly I think you're answering your own question when you say "the Fed tends to err on the side of triggering a recession." Yea that's the point, maybe it would be less offensive to say they view their job as creating
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by dsugarman 3y ago
No, that's exactly how they look at it. They see it as they can't really change supply but they can lower demand by removing all purchase power and they look at the recession as a necessary goal to tame inflation.
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by dsugarman 3y ago
The fed pumped interest rates to bankrupt everyone and create a recession to drop demand off a cliff to fight inflation. The recession never came because people have weathered the storm through credit and other means. Fed is starting to d
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by dsugarman 3y ago
I don't really understand how any crypto is "unregulated money" and it's intrinsically the most tracable money store [Edited for some horrible mobile autocorrect attrocities]
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by dsugarman 3y ago
The thing is, you were probably getting offended often but not identifying your emotion, so it comes out in other weird ways. By identifying what was going on internally that you were surpressing, you were able to escape the toxic patterns
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by dsugarman 3y ago
what do you mean by this? that inflation is currently 1% or 10%? it's ~3.5% right now
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by dsugarman 3y ago
The mindset is super on the right track, going from working on something polished to "trashy" before validation. It's just not far enough in the not doing work until the idea has some validation axis. Yes, making an android
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by dsugarman 3y ago
It's actually the reverse. The product direction is dictated by the goal (OKR). Our objective is to increase engagement from management which we know we are accomplishing by hitting the key result of admin users increasing average us
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by dsugarman 3y ago
From the actual paper, it looks like what they did was worse than just adding the two and the article is nonsensical >Overall, our results revealed that 68% (23/34) of flavored and 13% (5/38) unflavored consumer Ω3 supplements
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by dsugarman 3y ago
There's a lot of incorrect math in this article. It says 80% of your revenue will come from 20% of your users then suggests a hypothetical pricing change that results in 43% of your revenue coming from 20% of users. It also says going
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by dsugarman 3y ago
They did the same thing for everyone though (until they figured out how to scale that thing). It's not wrong to do whatever you got to do to get your first couple customers but you should also be thoughtful on how it's going to im
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by dsugarman 3y ago
Bugs happen, it doesn't mean incompetence. letting your team know the impact of the bugs in production is helpful but breathing over their necks or throwing a tantrum when you have an impactful bug is not. Tell the team, make sure th
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by dsugarman 3y ago
I think in general it's safe to take a cynical view on every vendors aptitude. Many, if not most, people are terrible at their jobs and it's your job to find the good ones and hold onto them
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by dsugarman 3y ago
My whole point was to care about enterprise value and growth rate over market cap and p/e
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by dsugarman 3y ago
Toyota has 9% yoy growth, $220b of debt and a $260b market cap, tesla has >50% yoy growth, $5b of debt and a $820b market cap. Why are you focused on p/e ratio? It tells basically none of the story
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by dsugarman 3y ago
I think you have to define quality. If you define quality as the absence of annoyances I think you're probably over optimizing the wrong thing. You want to provide a clear, fast path for users to solve their problems and at scale you h

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