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by fasteddie 3y ago
Another headstone in the google graveyard. This one doesn't make any sense to me, either, unless there are weird regulatory issues they want to avoid since it seemed like a very popular registrar. Or maybe they just didn't want to
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by fasteddie 3y ago
This is one of my pet peeves of GDPR! Your nephew and IP Octet cases are very extreme edge cases that we shouldn't build policy around if there are major drawbacks to including them. It's bad there is ostensibly no compliant way t
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by fasteddie 3y ago
This actually was his second offense.
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SVB was technically insolvent last quarter and is now levered 185:1(twitter.com)
3 points by fasteddie 4y ago|0 comments
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by fasteddie 4y ago
The people actually building the buildings (developers) are, generally, different than the people renting out buildings (landlords). Developers profit when more units are built, landlords are hurt with increased competition. Also, recent Ca
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by fasteddie 4y ago
Regardless of relative value, in most cases it is cheaper to just demolish and rebuild office space than gut + renovate. SROs/boarding house cases make a little more economic sense for these conversions but are more unpopular uses.
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by fasteddie 5y ago
Especially once you get big enough to require a retention policy and have to delete your years of knowledge repository! Better off documenting separately from the start.
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by fasteddie 5y ago
As much as the HN crowd dislikes to hear it, the biggest gaming console in the world is the smartphone. PC Gaming is almost as big as the entire console market, bigger than any individual platform. Any publisher-focused antitruster would ha
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by fasteddie 5y ago
That's the point, though. I could make a non-crypto based money transfer software that does not store sender or recipient information in the db. That too would make it impossible for that software comply with the law. Or the authors sc
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by fasteddie 5y ago
A new small apartment in San Francisco cannot be built for less than $800k these days, so coming in a $333k per resident is not too surprising to me in a similar high-cost city with a building with a ton of amenities.
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by fasteddie 5y ago
As a mediocre armchair accountant, I'm interested in how to read their P&L since so much of the loss is depreciated clothing, which they presumably continue to rent out even after they mark down the value of the clothes. Presumably
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by fasteddie 5y ago
What? It absolutely needs to be up -- those ads being served are on Facebook and Insta, not display banners on random sites.
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by fasteddie 5y ago
This is a great, clean explainer. Series B seems to be the sweet spot to me if you would like to avoid working at a FAANG but want similar EV in your comp package, assuming you are decently good at guessing winners. At that point the compan
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by fasteddie 5y ago
I'm a bit confused reading this. Is the lawsuit that users signing up for e.g. Venmo didn't know that they were also giving their transaction history/whatever to Venmo, or that Plaid was then taking the data passed to Venmo a
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by fasteddie 5y ago
I once used a very dumb feature flag set up to get around a rule an Apple reviewer told us were breaking, just for review period. The supposed rule violation was around for a year and no one had flagged it except for this one reviewer, and
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by fasteddie 5y ago
ah, the Polish Alt-Right is a problem?
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by fasteddie 6y ago
It's just wild to me that HN commenters are predominantly starting the timeline at her resignation ultimatum, and not what prompted it. She was working on a known-to-all controversial research project, which was asked to be retracted v
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by fasteddie 6y ago
I'd wager the list of folks who: -hold a meaningful enough short position for a potential attack to be worth, say $500k or more (not a rando robinhood trader with a $200 put) -are not an existing bank or long term day trader is already
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by fasteddie 6y ago
I loved Sprig. I used to use them as my example of a favorite product when asked in interviewed. Problem: I am hungry right now and can't/don't want to cook. Solution: As the founder notes, once signed in, it was literally th
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by fasteddie 6y ago
As someone who as implemented similar CC blockers before: people who forget to cancel leave after one month, leave a bad reviews which affect future growth, and make churn numbers bad. I do not want many of those people, and will both send
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by fasteddie 7y ago
Maybe just a little before Casper was founded, I bought a memory foam mattress off of Amazon that was well-reviewed and could be delivered with Prime. It's been a great mattress. That's still an option today -- and at a few hundre
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by fasteddie 7y ago
This is an important plot point in the book the excellent Sci Fi novel The Three Body Problem.
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by fasteddie 7y ago
Looker is a lot easier for business users to do simple ad hoc analysis in my experience. Periscope is easier to turn basic SQL into visualizations and dashboards, Looker requires you to do some extra modeling to get it working. I've
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From Data Entry to Software Engineering at Flexport(flexport.engineering)
1 points by fasteddie 7y ago|0 comments
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by fasteddie 7y ago
Sure, but that's factored into LTV calculations. If the average customer lasts 5 years before they churn because "Everyone is using X", then you get 5 years of recurring rev off that marketing spend.
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by fasteddie 8y ago
In recent years I've switched a lot to watching a non-fiction author's 30 minute talk on youtube about their book rather than reading the book entirely. This is especially true for business/self-improvement type books, where
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by fasteddie 8y ago
Many of these companies (e.g. FullStory, Hotjar) obfuscate all input fields for exactly this reason.
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by fasteddie 8y ago
I find Blind to be a total garbagefire and den of negativity, which all anonymous social networks trend to.
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by fasteddie 8y ago
My unpopular opinion (based on reading this thread) is that VR's killer app will be sports. Sports is a great fit: -Once set up, it should be very straightforward to get cameras set up in a repeatable way. Venues have the money to set
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by fasteddie 8y ago
They are, but they are a non-profit, not a VC backed unicorn.

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