powowow

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by powowow 7y ago
I love the way WA votes. I've lived in a half dozen US states, and it is by far the best experience. It makes it extremely easy to vote thoughtfully. No need for a smartphone. The information packet + drop box / postal vote is
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by powowow 7y ago
It is reasonable and normal for governments to care when other governments attack their citizens.
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by powowow 7y ago
One main benefit of a return is that it creates costs to Amazon (shipping, returns processing, then disposing of the returned product). I'd like to think this makes Amazon marginally more likely to do the right thing, because it takes
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by powowow 7y ago
Your AWS conspiracy theory is bizarre.
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by powowow 7y ago
Yah good point. Most small businesses would suffer no harm at all from an adversary with an initial $10MM allocated toward an attack. After all, most businesses have no employees who have ever done anything even remotely questionable. And
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by powowow 7y ago
Cool. Did you know that Peter Thiel, in his own words, decided to "create a shell company to hire former investigative reporters and lawyers to _find_ causes of action against Gawker", and to then give it a starting timeline and b
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by powowow 7y ago
I can't help but laugh that a guy who calls himself 'Smirking Revenge' is a stan for Peter Thiel's revenge by proxy lawsuit. If you were a fictional character, I'd think the author was being a bit heavy-handed with
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by powowow 7y ago
To clarify, you are ok with billionaires having the ability to use the legal system to destroy any organization they personally dislike?
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by powowow 7y ago
If Peter Thiel wants to pretend he cares about privacy, he should shut down Clearview and Palantir.
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by powowow 7y ago
This wouldn't be terribly surprising. My wife's internal combustion car has a CVT that emulates an automatic with gears and shift points, presumably because that felt more natural to drivers than having the engine just run at opt
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by powowow 7y ago
It's really fucking clear-cut from a risk management point of view.
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by powowow 7y ago
Yah, it's a real shame that the fossil fuel (and adjacent) industries spent decades spreading misinformation and disinformation, and funding the hell out of any effort that created even the tiniest bit of doubt in the public mind (be i
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by powowow 7y ago
I'm a Sr Manager at a FAANG company (and I started here in my 40s). My direct reports include other SDMs, senior product managers, and staff/principal engineers. You mention "trying" for management. If you haven't
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by powowow 7y ago
We generally trust that every page of a kids book will be roughly as expected given the title and author of the book. We trust the same of things like PBS kids programs. The same trust cannot be extended to YouTube.
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by powowow 7y ago
In my last job we were sufficiently sophisticated users of AWS that we routinely had conversations with product managers to learn if specific features were on the roadmap, and if so, if there was an ETA. We had these conversations because
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by powowow 7y ago
A good way to have a great annual return in year y+1 is to have a 21% decline during December of year y.
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by powowow 7y ago
That's absolutely true if you're selling to businesses (especially large businesses). I had the same experience hosting on AWS (having previously hosted on colocated bare metal server). An entire category of sales friction almost
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by powowow 7y ago
But I thought you said nobody ever did large acquisitions for customers.... weird, I must be thinking of somebody else. Since it would make no sense for you to try to take both of those sides at once.
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by powowow 7y ago
Microsoft licensed their early OS. Dreamworks led with SKG and the tech followed. Oracle always had meaningful tech competition and fought with sales/marketing. Google is pretty true, though.
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by powowow 7y ago
I said software business, so I'm not sure why you're bringing up AMD or Intel. As for billion dollar acquisitions.... Visio, GitHub, Yammer, LinkedIn, Instagram, Parse, etc.... shit-tons of them are done for market reasons.
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by powowow 7y ago
Can you name, say, three notable software businesses whose advantage was hard-to-replicate tech?
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by powowow 7y ago
hard to develop technology is a very narrow moat. You have the first problem that well-funded competitors can almost certainly replicate whatever you built if they care to do so. You then have a second problem that well-funded competitors c
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by powowow 7y ago
The fed holds US treasury bonds as collateral. Would you be worried about default if you loaned me a million dollars, and I gave you a million dollars of treasuries as collateral? It blows my mind that people are getting all worried about f
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by powowow 7y ago
You sound like an asshole.
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by powowow 7y ago
meanwhile Sam Altman is writing essays about how China enjoys greater freedom than America. If you think I'm kidding: https://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove
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by powowow 7y ago
I think our best hope is a multi-pronged approach that includes reusing the output (as you suggest), as well as reducing the output. This has a dramatically better chance of overall success than any single-pronged approach. As such, I hear