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by mikedouglas 3y ago
He explains earlier in the article that he tries to apply a “consumer” lens to all tech purchases, so he can more honestly evaluate them. The point being that he’s applying a bunch higher bar than someone with his interests and net worth wo
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by mikedouglas 3y ago
This is likely impression expansion from Reels. Same thing happened when Stories was introduced.
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by mikedouglas 3y ago
At this point, I'd flip whatever mental models you have for how 2010-era Microsoft and Google operate.
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by mikedouglas 4y ago
No, because the FDIC would collect higher fees commensurate with the increase in insured deposits. It would reduce profits for banks like SVB which have a large number of uninsured deposits and were able to take advantage of a "fed put
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by mikedouglas 4y ago
It's overwrought takes like this that fail to see the real issues at play. Many of those projects were all good faith efforts and I haven't seen a shred of evidence that a16z was mass dumping tokens (most articles confuse a16z&#x2
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by mikedouglas 4y ago
From another Silicon Valley veteran: this was a horizontal team that lost its exec sponsor and so didn't have a clear way to make impact. This kind of thing happens all the time at companies and panicking is uncalled for.
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by mikedouglas 4y ago
This theoretically should be possible with MVCC, right? It's not an area I've explored and I could immediately see some issues with resource clean-up, but I could imagine it being possible with most modern DBs.
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by mikedouglas 4y ago
I've heard Google uses design docs pretty extensively for internal projects. Does anyone have a publicly shared example?
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by mikedouglas 5y ago
Related: Stripe has previously announced they were restarting their crypto team https://twitter.com/edwinwee/status/1447953485132025857
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Paradigm's Matt Huang joins Stripe's board of directors(stripe.com)
3 points by mikedouglas 5y ago|1 comments
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by mikedouglas 5y ago
IAP is a platform-enforced monopoly that allows Apple and Google to extract a flat 30% from every digital transaction that happens in an app. It's one of the clearest examples of the deadweight loss from monopolies, as businesses that
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by mikedouglas 5y ago
Full text of the bill: https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/8.11.21%20-%...
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by mikedouglas 5y ago
Who has a mortgage without interest payments?
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by mikedouglas 6y ago
I think it's more complicated than that. It's not clear that users do intrinsically own this data. Without the product and the graph attached to the product, this data won't exist.
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by mikedouglas 6y ago
Solve for the equilibrium. Market salaries at the top hubs will eventually go down, and salaries outside them will rise.
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by mikedouglas 7y ago
Brex differentiated itself by using your bank history to determine your credit limit, meaning that founders didn't need to personally guarantee their corporate cards early on in a company's life. It seems like Stripe is doing some
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by mikedouglas 8y ago
Placements at the university aren't the property of the individual being paid, so it's illegal in the same way that embezzling funds or stealing trade secrets would be.
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by mikedouglas 8y ago
Augur hasn't really seen any uptick in usage: https://dappradar.com/app/673/augur
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by mikedouglas 8y ago
Specifically the section on "funding secured". Any reasonable person would interpret that as Musk having a term sheet in hand. This sounds more like "funding potentially interested".
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by mikedouglas 8y ago
They work really well thanks to the invention of the spark plug, the carburetor, the supercharger, and decades of iteration. For many years, they were objectively terrible. Ethereum is three years old. ICE is 200+.
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by mikedouglas 8y ago
Funny that you mention the 19th century, because another example of a system that required an ever-increasing series of hacks to solve major flaws is the internal combustion engine. Whether the problem that Ethereum solves is anywhere near
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by mikedouglas 8y ago
There’s a housing crisis and employees are affected. If they want more people to work at Menlo Park, they need to address it.
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by mikedouglas 9y ago
Simplification is a red herring (notice how corporate state taxes are still deductible). Republicans needed a pay-for for reducing corporate/passthrough taxes and eliminating the estate tax. It just so happens that high wage earners in
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by mikedouglas 9y ago
Due process is a legal concept, and fundamentally, a restriction on the state (for very good reasons). I think it's fine for commenters on an internet board to use P(crime was committed|shady trading patterns) > 0.5.
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by mikedouglas 9y ago
How? There's a $3000 cap on THL against regular income and capital gains is only taxed at 15%. $1M in realized capital gains is a pretty extraordinary circumstance.
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by mikedouglas 10y ago
If your hypothesis was correct, shouldn't these lily-white small towns in Pennsylvania and West Virginia be paragons of social connectedness and happiness, instead of the epicenter of the opioid epidemic? The problem with jumping to th
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by mikedouglas 10y ago
Are you located in North America? I really doubt Facebook would've rolled out any Super Bowl-specific features to Europe/Asia/Africa/South America.
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by mikedouglas 10y ago
It's not a viable way to look at investing in ad companies. Advertising has historically been zero-sum (about 2% of the economy), and there's huge returns to scale (more data, bigger advertisers, etc). Unless your inventory is uni
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Ray Dalio's post-election financial outlook(linkedin.com)
3 points by mikedouglas 10y ago|1 comments
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by mikedouglas 10y ago
The load issues were prior to (and sparked) the switch to MLBAM.

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