morgante

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Ramp Sheets(labs.ramp.com)
2 points by morgante 10mo ago|0 comments
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by morgante 1y ago
We built on firecracker VMMs but today I'd just use a hosted provider like morph.so or e2b.dev.
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by morgante 1y ago
The exploit is there either way.
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by morgante 1y ago
You should treat running a code analyzer/builder/linter against a codebase as being no safer than running that codebase itself.
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by morgante 1y ago
A pretty straightforward solution is to have an isolated service that keeps the private key and hands back the temporary per-repo tokens for other libraries to use. Only this isolated service has access to the root key, and it should have f
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by morgante 1y ago
Yikes, this is a pretty bad vulnerability. It's good that they fixed it, but damning that it was ever a problem in the first place. Rule #1 of building any cloud platform analyzing user code is that you must run analyzers in isolated
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by morgante 1y ago
This is way too broad of a statement. The smartest person and the dumbest person I've met professionally are both investors.
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by morgante 2y ago
They don’t elaborate on the logging details, but certainly must good systems don’t allow log tampering even for admins.
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by morgante 2y ago
All of those battles involve battlefield tactics, and in several of them the numerically inferior force won — exactly the opposite of "death stacks."
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by morgante 2y ago
Unfortunately nuance is dead. I too wish Musk had tried to empower USDS instead of immediately alienating many of the people best positioned to improve things.
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by morgante 2y ago
That's not true. Look at USAID: they canceled everything, but there was a significant outcry about PEPFAR specifically. Now PEPFAR is back, and likely to stay.
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by morgante 2y ago
I'm not here to defend DOGE, but you're making the same mistake as the article of assuming the DOGE approach has no merit. Deleting processes somewhat randomly, then listening for the pain, is a pretty well-known technique for und
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by morgante 2y ago
The efficiency comparison is interesting, since it starts relatively evenly but quickly dismisses the value of the DOGE approach. Everyone I know who worked at USDS has been talented and well-meaning, but I can't help but feel they&#x2
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by morgante 2y ago
> It will never be enough for you. That's not a good assumption to make for everyone. There are many people who do grow income without growing expenses (see the whole financial independence movement). I spend about as much now as
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by morgante 2y ago
> However YC gets preferential shares; YC is not aligned with the common shareholders (founders; builders). YC invests on a SAFE, the terms are public.[0] For most companies, pre-seed SAFEs don't end up much above common. [0] https
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by morgante 2y ago
You're right. I was bucketing the pricing/payout issues into the loan terms but they equally apply if you don't take out the loan. Obviously there are many better ways to structure this if a sophisticated counterparty actuall
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by morgante 2y ago
Yeah I personally think the valuation is the least egregious part. If they get sued, they’ll have a defense for how they arrived at that number. It’s not 10x off. The bigger problem is the terrible loan terms.
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by morgante 2y ago
It’s Chicago. They’re likely getting kickbacks/bribes.
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by morgante 2y ago
OP would have to speak to his experience, but between a Google IPO and the $10M Virgin acquisition I would be surprised if he didn't average >$200k lifetime. Throughout this thread, it's clear you have an ax to grind. Startups
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by morgante 2y ago
> Seeing tts outcome of the startups he listed, it would have been much better to work as an enterprise CRUD developer at a bank, insurance company, etc Enterprise CRUD developers don't make that much. I'm confident OP made mor
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by morgante 2y ago
It's interesting how at least several of the failures were good ideas with bad timing/execution that others have replicated successfully. iCab: Uber obviously was very successful with this ~same premise Smart Charter: I assume you
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by morgante 2y ago
Also interesting that it seems like his relatively minor 1 year stint at pre-IPO Google was successful enough to pay for many other endeavors. It's a great example of the power laws in startups: it's much more lucrative to have a
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by morgante 2y ago
You can get a much higher hit rate with more constrained agents, but unfortunately if it's too constrained it just doesn't excite people as much. Ex. the Grit agent (my company) is designed to handle larger maintenance tasks. It h
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by morgante 2y ago
Amazon has scale economics, branding power, and process power. It would take years to fully rebuild Amazon from scratch even given unlimited money. Right now, OpenAI's brand is actually probably its strongest "moat" and that
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by morgante 2y ago
https://help.double.finance/en/articles/10262406-how-can-i-v... makes a big difference, since it sounds like Apex does have their own ledger of accounts, independent of Double. Evolve not having their own ledge
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by morgante 2y ago
I wouldn't consign it to the graveyard that quickly. It's a lot easier/more common for Google to kill internal projects and small acquisitions. A $16B write-down is far less likely, especially when many Googlers internally re
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by morgante 2y ago
Is the "sidecar" open source too?
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by morgante 2y ago
Incorrectly firing a high performer is nowhere near the harm of incorrectly jailing an innocent man.
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by morgante 2y ago
> This is such a weird request for technology workers. You want to work with low-performing coworkers? A ton of tech workers are, in fact, socialists who think job expectations should be 0.
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by morgante 2y ago
> If everyone receives a sufficient basic income, who will fix their toilets or clean their yachts? Obviously in this scenario we have robots that fix toilets and clean yachts. That's not even farfetched.

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