nickfromseattle

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by nickfromseattle 3mo ago
Or Outlook.com, their free webmail alternative to Gmail?
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by nickfromseattle 4mo ago
In the long term Intuit is probably a $0 because you don't need TurboTax to file a UBI report.
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by nickfromseattle 5mo ago
Palmer Luckey. Many of the things he discusses, he brings an interesting angle I didn't think of, and has changed my opinion on numerous topics. Great orator.
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by nickfromseattle 7mo ago
A cool use case; you can tell ChatGPT voice to act as a translator. When they speak Spanish, translate it to English. When you speak English, translate it to Spanish. Works pretty good.
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by nickfromseattle 8mo ago
I was an early employee at MigrationWiz (BitTitan), always cool to see recognition of the co in the wild. Geeman, the founding CEO would have definitely sent a C&D immediately, but BitTitan was acquired by a PE firm and I don't fin
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by nickfromseattle 11mo ago
According to Binance, he owns 90%. Whether he is CEO or not probably doesn't prevent him from influencing Binance operations to support Trump's coin.
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
> Physical exercise is wasteful compared to other things that can be done with ones time The human body is meant to move much more than society in 2025 compels it to move. There are countless studies on health, mental health, longevity a
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
What are the variables that prefer local GPUs vs cloud inference? Is connectivity the dividing line or are there other variables that influence the choice? Anduril submersibles probably need local processing, but does my laundry/dishes
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
A trick. Archive.is --> URL you want to view --> https://archive.is/xaMbk
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
I don't have any info on your product, product category or skillset / interests to give you actionable advice. But I have put together a list of marketing communities, blogs, and people that have a high signal / noise ratio f
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
This reads like it was written by a developer 'who doesn't get marketing'. > Nothing you post there is going to change your career. I can attribute millions of dollars in revenue to LinkedIn, as can a lot of my 'Linke
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
>What is the right amount of spending? I am 'dumb money', but my understanding is the 'smart money' thinks the sustainable target deficit is 3% of GDP, and we're currently running at 6%. [0] [0] https:/&#x2
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
I built a Facebook group / community of my target market. 0. Created Facebook Group 1. Optimized my FB profile as a landing page for this community 2. Join all of the other similar groups 3. Send friend reqs to prominent members in oth
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
> My weight is stable but each time I go to US for a couple of weeks I bring back 3-5 extra kilos I live in Spain and visit the US yearly, here are my thoughts: A) "Being on vacation" and eating / drinking a bit more loos
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
> I've seen no justification for the government deciding that from 2022 on we should actively discourage R&D, it just seems to be a mistake. My understanding is that this was done in order to balance the tax bill passed by the T
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
I run a company with almost 100% of the staff located in Europe. Because of this, everyone has 38 days of PTO with some people taking even more unpaid time off. This means everyone is always out of office. We also have a very significant am
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
My conversations with non-tech friends and family indicates non-tech people don't like AI because of the perception that it will negatively impact their jobs / career, and ability to pay bills. This makes sense to me. 54% of Ameri
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
Search is one of the best ways for startups to compete against incumbents. AI will prioritize known / most popular brands. Want to start an alternative to QuickBooks? Using search you could get hundreds of thousands of people on your
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
Rocket Lab did ~$123m/quarter in Q1 and ~$400m in 2024 [0], while this article claims, "Around $130 million in annual revenue." I don't think it's Rocket Lab. [0] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks&#
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
Note, Google also uses user interaction data from Chrome to influence the search results. [0] [0] https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-user-interaction-...
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
How much blame do we assign Sundar for this outcome? Yes, he was just continuing where Larry / Sergey left off, but it did happen under his watch. Is there anything he could have done to avoid this outcome? In a way that Google shareho
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
An extended family member worked on using lasers to launch payloads to orbits. [0] Here's a quick video demonstrating the technology, using lasers to lift a small prototype several meters, back in, what I believe is the 90s: https:&#x
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by nickfromseattle 1y ago
American, lived 100m from the Danube for 4 years while in Belgrade, Serbia. One of my life goals is to boat across Europe. Hopefully in something bigger than a canoe, but we'll see.
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
Serbia has the 5th highest amount of civilian guns per capita. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
I worked at a company that expired credits after 365 days. My layman understanding is the credits sit as a liability until consumed, and the alternative is having potentially millions accounts with a combined hundreds of millions of dollars
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
Side question, let's say Grok is comparable in intelligence to other leading models. Will any serious business switch their default AI capabilities to Grok?
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
Are they demoing API capabilities, or moving up the stack due to low moat for foundation models?
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
I was talking to I believe an FB engineer and this must have been 10+ years ago at this point, he said, - FB found restricting access was difficult because engineers do sometimes bump into incidental user data while doing their job - And en
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
> But if you don’t know how to create products that people want, market it, have funding for it and not get crushed by a larger company that can throw a team at it, you won’t be successful. Yes, but you can keep trying. In entrepreneursh
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by nickfromseattle 2y ago
As a nerdy, middle class, white guy, I and many of my male friends have been arrested between ages 18 - 25. Usually for drinking underage, public intoxication, or small amounts of marijuana.

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