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by phphphphp 4y ago
the units weren’t purchased, though, it was an order. If we take them at their word that they worked with a broker, then there’s numerous ways this could have happened. For example, the broker could have said “they’ll pay you $x per bag and
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by phphphphp 4y ago
There's important context: they had a signed contract that they were half way through executing on and they had been told to realise the full value of the contract they had to deliver the coffee. The natural conclusion in that situatio
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Veganism is a moral and ethical lifestyle choice with wide ranging implications whereas plant-based is a descriptor of the things that go into a foodstuff. A vegan will only eat plant-based food (and so “plant-based” and “vegan” are often u
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Donald Trump famously had huge influence over the FBI (and more broadly, the justice department). He fired James Comey because he did not achieve Trump's desired political aims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dism
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by phphphphp 4y ago
If any party was responsible for this FBI behaviour, surely it would be the party that was in power at the time? The Republican party were in control in 2020.
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by phphphphp 4y ago
LastPass is a standout candidate for worst password manager, as has been the case for many years. The other popular password managers, like 1Password and Bitwarden, are certainly not perfect but they're leagues ahead of LastPass. 1Pa
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by phphphphp 4y ago
For what it’s worth, TikTok monetisation is orders of magnitude less than other platforms (like YouTube) so her “millions of views” is likely to have generated a few dollars (certainly not hundreds of dollars). The viewership may have motiv
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by phphphphp 4y ago
If the hack of LastPass happened yesterday, sure, but it happened months ago. There are a variety of different attacks that could be executed in that time, and the sooner the attacks are executed, the better — because less time for credenti
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I agree: LastPass has been hot garbage for many years but it still has a significant presence, some guy’s low-value crypto wallets would not be the first we hear about a compromise of LastPass vaults. There are entire companies using LastPa
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Depending on the type of job listing on LinkedIn, the applicant count can be wildly inaccurate: if the listing is external, they will often record clicks on the button rather than actual applications! Additionally, even when a company is us
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by phphphphp 4y ago
There’s the need for a sort of… naive is probably the wrong word, but a type of optimism that is more than just being positive, a type of optimism that means you believe deep in your soul that your startup is going to succeed no matter what
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Most early stage companies are wildly optimistic about their future and are at constant risk of going belly up. As a candidate, it’s important to go into the process with your eyes wide open and to do your due diligence. If you need or want
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by phphphphp 4y ago
"Staging" means "an environment where multiple unreleased pieces of work are tested together before being released to production". Pre-prod and staging are synonymous in most organisations. A preview environment is an ep
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Preview environments are a lot like microservices in that they’re much more of an organisational tool than they are a technology tool. They’re great for organisations with many independent parallel streams of work owned by different people
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by phphphphp 4y ago
He made the claim on twitter: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1395474465794838528 ("Yes, with the SpaceX rocket thruster option package" is a reply to someone asking if 1.1 seconds is true).
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Except sama has quite explicitly said that these LLMs are not AGI and that there's a long way to go. Presumably it was deleted because either: it is counter to the lie sama is telling about his belief about what is/isn't AGI.
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by phphphphp 4y ago
“botnets” are boogeymen, it’s a story that doesn’t stand up to any meaningful interrogation. Elon Musk has simultaneously argued that Twitter is the most popular it has ever been, that there are hundreds of millions of real people using eac
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by phphphphp 4y ago
by which accounts? Their financial accounts show a company chugging along without much concern: they had cash in the bank and were averaging break even each year, as had been the case for many years.
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Stop calling it a layoff :) You left, the reason is immaterial. If pressed for a reason, explain that you feel that you have achieved all that you could at the company and are excited for a new challenge where you can apply everything you’v
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by phphphphp 4y ago
My prediction is that once the poll finishes with Yes winning, he’ll say that he cannot find a replacement so the only option is for him to shut Twitter down, but of course, it must be polled, so he will do a poll asking if he should shut T
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Twitter was doing fine financially, they were consistently floating around break even and they had lots of opportunities to move into profitability if their financial situation became tenuous. As far as technology companies go, they weren’t
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Twitter was fine before Elon, there were no existential risks to it. Everything happening to Twitter today is Elon’s doing. Any story otherwise is Elon’s preferred fiction.
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by phphphphp 4y ago
If your goal is to build an audience: focus on individual posts, not the blog as a whole. You don't need to spam links to your blog to drive traffic: I've written some blog posts that I have never shared anywhere but get a continu
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I think there’s a tipping point when purchasing articles individually becomes less attractive than paying for a single subscription even if it’s possible to spend less overall. There’s interface friction associated with making a payment (cl
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by phphphphp 4y ago
The rise of the paid newsletter and the prominence of the paywall leads me to be a little less cynical about the prospect of micropayments. A decade ago, when Flattr was prominent, the culture around paying for things on the internet was ve
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Writing is a form of communication, communication is the exchange of information: good information communicated badly is more valuable than bad information communicated well. Structure and clarity are inputs as much as they are outputs: foc
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by phphphphp 4y ago
non-competes aren't enforceable in california: https://www.perkinsasbill.com/are-non-compete-agreements-enf...
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by phphphphp 4y ago
A non-nefarious reason could be that the company doesn’t view digital publishing in the same way as we do: it’s possible that publishing is part of their service and so their attitude is, “a report is on our website if we have an active con
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I imagine his thinking is... he's the person running the business, if anybody is a parasite, it's surely the majority shareholders who do nothing day to day!
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I think that might have been true a year ago but at the time of FTX’s collapse, most market participants were underwater, especially the laypeople. The amount of money in the crypto market is definitely not anywhere near the supposed mark

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