johnloeber

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by johnloeber 2y ago
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by johnloeber 2y ago
Where does it say that I lived in the US my whole life? You're getting ahead of yourself. From another blog post: > I grew up in Europe (mostly Germany, Denmark, Switzerland). I had never even set foot outside the continent until I
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by johnloeber 2y ago
I'm amazed that this is still an ongoing discussion. All of these "studies" have been distracting with muddied data from a very simple, unambiguous scientific fact: alcohol is a poison. By its immediate biological effects, it
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by johnloeber 2y ago
I've had the same thought for a long time. I think this is spot-on. Ballmer is underrated in that he put Microsoft into a profoundly well-resourced position that a better product leader was then able to make productive use of.
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by johnloeber 2y ago
I've been very happy with Dynadot. I don't like that domain hosting is just one of many products for Cloudflare and others (as we've seen come up for Google!) and have had bad experiences with Namecheap et al.
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by johnloeber 2y ago
Any idea how it was quoted without being published?
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by johnloeber 2y ago
The natural monopoly emerges from the economy of scale: eventually you are offering a product at a price that nobody else can profitably undercut, because they do not have the same infrastructure that you do. And obtaining that infrastructu
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by johnloeber 2y ago
Hi, author here. This is a good point that's worth addressing. Technology is not the reason it's a winner-take-most market. It's helpful, but in the long term, many players will have comparable technology. Utilization is th
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by johnloeber 2y ago
Author here - Good catch, thanks for pointing this out
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by johnloeber 2y ago
Author here - not an ad, I don't even know anyone at Waymo and don't hold any associated financial incentives.
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by johnloeber 2y ago
"In places with working public transit" is a huge caveat here. The vast majority of the US does not have what I would consider "working public transit". And those places aren't going to get it any time soon. Unfortu
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by johnloeber 2y ago
Hello! Author here. Quick responses: 1) With superior scale, the utilization of each Waymo approaches 100%. "Empty rides" going to a new pickup spot become more and more rare because they immediately get a ride close-by. 2) I thin
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by johnloeber 2y ago
Create one DB for the whole test suite, and then re-instantiate tables/schemas on every unit test.
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by johnloeber 2y ago
Worrying about the environmental impact of books is misguided. You use far more paper products in the course of your everyday life: paper bags, cardboard packaging, paper towels, etc. etc. Even for an avid reader, the impact is negligible.
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by johnloeber 2y ago
Not to distract from your point, but you mean topography, not topology.
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by johnloeber 2y ago
You really expect to open a bank account anywhere in 2024 without KYC?
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by johnloeber 2y ago
Not anymore. Online banks like Mercury will do it entirely remotely without any residency requirements, IIRC.
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by johnloeber 2y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong in making a traditional label that conforms to all other labels (i.e. looks aged). That's a design choice, and design choices that appeal to tradition are everywhere , even in software.
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by johnloeber 2y ago
This is a severely regressive policy, and -- by the way -- already the case. The vast majority of per-student resources are spent on the bottom 20% by performance.
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by johnloeber 3y ago
As a former D2 player, I don't think so.
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by johnloeber 3y ago
It's actually more than twice as high haha $57K, https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-...
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by johnloeber 3y ago
How many messages are you expecting to send? 300 - 500 USD/mo suggests hundreds of thousands of messages. Are you expecting thousands of users? If so, any chance that some of your users will pay for your service?
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by johnloeber 3y ago
Yep! The only thing that remains is to focus on that code being properly functional; i.e. avoiding side-effects. Side-effects and parallelism don't mix well. Wonder if this will give rise to more functional languages.
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by johnloeber 3y ago
Correct. NEMA was always kind of ill-conceived.
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by johnloeber 3y ago
Accurate. I had a similar reaction and ended up writing a detailed blog post about it: https://loeber.substack.com/p/12-what-i-wanted-from-wework WeWork was executing a strange vision of how "creative" work s
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by johnloeber 3y ago
Where was this island? Would love to go!
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by johnloeber 3y ago
SBF down, Do Kwon down, Su Zhu down, many many more to go... I've been amazed at how slow the law seems to be in apprehending the most egregious scammers from that era.
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by johnloeber 3y ago
It is actually not legal to sell anything in a capsule and call it a supplement in the USA. The FDA's guidance still applies. There are lots and lots of unscrupulous online supplement merchants who are breaking the law.
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What I Wanted from WeWork(loeber.substack.com)
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by johnloeber 3y ago
> "Most people do not care at all." I think that might be directly contradicted by your first sentence. People do care. Design matters, and typeface selection is a big part of that.

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