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by mattsoldo 5y ago
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (author of The Martian) goes into the relativistic effects as well, and it includes a crazy (made-up) fuel that could make it possible. Great easy read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show
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by mattsoldo 5y ago
Thanks for posting the PG wealth tax article. It is a highly flawed analysis. First wealth appreciates over time. So if your wealth appreciates at 15% / year, and the govt. taxes it at 1%, the net effect is growth rate is slowed to 14%
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by mattsoldo 6y ago
Yes, that is the correct term.
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by mattsoldo 6y ago
Is it the longest known exposure ever, or longest ever with a beer can?
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by mattsoldo 6y ago
Plus of the 10% of the shares soldo, most were to institutions with an understanding that they are going to hold it "long term" (i.e. which may be just a few months). Part of the IPO road show is for the company to select investor
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by mattsoldo 6y ago
It is a misconception that when a company IPOs and the stock pops, that the delta is money left on the table. The vast majority of the shares are sold to institutional investors. There are explicit or implicit lock-up periods in place. And
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by mattsoldo 6y ago
PM for GCP buildpacks here, AMA.
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Google Cloud Buildpacks(github.com)
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by mattsoldo 6y ago
This isn't the correct way to model wealth tax's effect on founder equity. Paul's model doesn't account for the changing value of equity over time. When a startup was at the seed stage and worth say $5mm, a founder with
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by mattsoldo 6y ago
I was expecting URL parameters "Famous_company" and"Hyped_technology" to substitute in the text.
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Google Cloud Buildpacks(github.com)
7 points by mattsoldo 6y ago|0 comments
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Connect to Your VPC and Managed Redis from App Engine and Cloud Functions(cloud.google.com)
2 points by mattsoldo 7y ago|0 comments
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by mattsoldo 7y ago
I saw someone do this with the plug to a laser printer once. The toner literally exploded in his face when he plugged it in.
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Google App Engine doubles memory on Second Generation Runtimes(cloud.google.com)
3 points by mattsoldo 7y ago|0 comments
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by mattsoldo 7y ago
I'll post the example source code here tomorrow after the talk (still tweaking it).
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by mattsoldo 7y ago
I'm doing a talk at Next tomorrow about just that. For now you are probably better of using Ruby on App Engine, assuming you need to use redis as a cache. Another new feature that we launched today is VPC Connectors, which allow Cloud
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by mattsoldo 7y ago
Spoiler alert. Sign up for the alpha by requesting to join this Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/appengine-standard-r...
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by mattsoldo 7y ago
Hi. I manage App Engine (the original "serverless" product at Google). This is a very understandable concern, given the importance of having a platform on which you can rely. Contractually Google Cloud provides a 1 year notice bef
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by mattsoldo 8y ago
Hi. I'm the PM at Google Cloud on the Second Generation runtimes. This is based on gVisor ( https://github.com/google/gvisor ), but it does not use the ptrace sandboxing that is in the mainline open source project.
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by mattsoldo 8y ago
It isn't limited to functions. Knative can run containerees, or with a build system take full app code and deploy it as a container.
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by mattsoldo 8y ago
Another PM on App Engine here. Historically supporting a language on App Engine required modifying the languages libraries to work on proprietary parts of Google infrastructure. This entailed a decent bit of effort on our part, and also mea
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by mattsoldo 8y ago
Countersue the doctor. Unfortunately without a suit to conterweight theirs, they only have upside. And file a suit against Yelp.
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by mattsoldo 9y ago
+1. The inability to invest against startups and other privately held companies seems like a big economic inefficiency. It would be a counter force to these sorts of nose bleed valuations.
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by mattsoldo 9y ago
It's possible. The Apple Newton is a great case study of a good idea that was too early. And the inability to minitiarize it sufficiently to fit in a pocket was one reason for it's failure. A few years later the Palm Pilot was muc
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by mattsoldo 9y ago
This is great evidence of the greater fool theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory I’ve heard some second hand anecdotes about Magic. Apparently they have one big technology advance, which is that the
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by mattsoldo 10y ago
This article states that former employees are "lining their pockets" at the expense of current employees who are "build[ing] future shareholder value" (i.e. creating value for VCs). But it ignores the fact that those for
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by mattsoldo 10y ago
Some interesting numbers: * The US Population is 320 million [http://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/demographics_profile.html]. * Our federal budget is $3.9 trillion [https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by mattsoldo 10y ago
It's great to see a lot of the good DNA from the Heroku Postgres team reflected in this release. Congrats on the launch.
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by mattsoldo 12y ago
The UX of this app is quite innovative and immersive. You are applying heuristics that are true for man websites, but don't apply here. I would say this is more like a simple video game. It would make no sense for example to have navig
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by mattsoldo 12y ago
There are two separate issues here. Requiring arbitration is one. Disallowing class action is another. You cannot conflate these two things. Disallowing class action is absolutely in-favor of Slack and companies in general. Class action sui

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