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by moorg 3y ago
You'd be surprised how many firms have subscriptions to billing insights, know-your-customer, fraud detection and other similar services. Many of the "AI" companies that are emerging do such things.
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by moorg 3y ago
Presumably. It's also possible that some organizations incur more than $9 per month in admnistrative or other costs to bill a single customer.
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by moorg 3y ago
For those who haven't followed the story: 2007 - the Clojure programming language is announced by Rich Hickey and gains quite a bit of traction over the next 5 or 6 years. It never becomes a "top 5" language, but it could st
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by moorg 4y ago
Five years in, no salary, and not enough earnings to pay for basic living expenses? That sheds a pretty poor light on venturing out on one's own. The author seems like a pretty bright person, and the About Me page lists an ivy league
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by moorg 4y ago
GitOps is great, of course, but it's possible to go overboard. Most kubernetes deployments in the wild seem to use argocd or fluxcd where every app deployment results in a new commit. The shortcomings of storing information in git? I
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by moorg 4y ago
Reading the ads, it's remarkable how many computer manufacturers there were. Most of them look like pretty small companies too, effectively showing how low the barrier to entry was to start a computer company. Shouldn't it be po
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by moorg 4y ago
Because of Title IV[1] subsidies and a decades-long belief that going to college is a sure path to the middle and upper classes, there's an excess capacity of professors. Without such subsidies, most of that driveling would never have
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by moorg 4y ago
Good observation. It reminds of Etsy giving up its status as a B Corp[1], presumably due to pressure from shareholders. Once the ship is set in motion, it can't divert its course even if it wanted to. 1: https://www.etsy.c