lyttlerock

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   Ask HN: Does anyone investigate open source packages before using in prod?

   14 points by lyttlerock 6y ago|38 comments
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   by lyttlerock 7y ago

   I think philosophically this has merit (see Riba[0]). Economically, I feel like it makes perfect sense to get paid for providing a service (i.e. loaning money). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riba
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   by lyttlerock 7y ago

   The key word here seems to be "up to". It'll be interesting to see how many employees (common shareholders) are actually willing to sell their shares to the investors. If they're holding on and the full $525M isn't
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   by lyttlerock 7y ago

   It's crazy how these things tend to snowball. In some ways isn't this how cults get started? Someone picks some arbitrary and weird thing that "initiates" an individual into an exclusive club. Then you get that first fol
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   by lyttlerock 7y ago

   According to Intel's latest quarterly report[1], 2,200 employees is ~2% of their entire employee base. Kinda reminds me how massive these companies are. [1] https://www.intc.com/investor-relations/investor-educatio
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   by lyttlerock 7y ago

   Bit of a meta question: how applicable are findings in rats / mice to humans. Does it differ based on the types of relationships the study is trying to find? I've always wondered this and have historically assumed the correlation