repomies691

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by repomies691 7y ago
If it doesn't generate cashflow, it probably isn't worth anything. I would just forget the codebase and focus on how to create value somehow else.
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by repomies691 7y ago
How is art liquid? I don't know much about art but my gut feeling would be that it is very illiquid by default. Also very hard to value and difficult to know which pieces will actually have value 10 years from now.
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by repomies691 7y ago
> Compared to ruling by force, yes, democracy is inherently good for the people I don't understand why people here see democratic system as a replacement for ruling by a force. Democratic countries also rule by force in the end. Dem
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by repomies691 7y ago
It's not the alternative, democratic countries also rule by force in the end. The governments wouldn't work if they didn't have guns, prisons and nice interrogation methods in their toolset. With democratic country everyone h
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by repomies691 7y ago
Probably meant: business should make profit, from that profit the business can save some money for the rainy day. And I agree. However I don't know who are behind PINE64 - maybe they have some long-term investor backing them up, and th
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by repomies691 7y ago
Well, personally I would prefer them to make profit. I would be willing to pay a bit more since the product seems quite interesting - not actually in the current state, but what the product could be if the business actually flourishes. Bett
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by repomies691 7y ago
> Instead, all effort is going into a building a flawed second layer that is theoretically unsound and a usability nightmare. I don't know much about LN and actually I'm quite sceptical about it. However I have tried it now cou
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by repomies691 7y ago
It is more about the general "conspiracy" tone of the article. It is like "OMG banks can create money, what a conspiracy" by some people who are surprised by the facts on how financial system works when they finally lear
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by repomies691 7y ago
The good side of being ugly guy like me is that I always can spot these scams and never even respond to them - I just instantly block them. Because I know that no such a beautiful lady would actually approach me. However I guess the scammer
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by repomies691 7y ago
I'm not advocating for tether. But it is not a ponzi scheme. And I think that most of the users understand what tether is - they are not excepting returns, they also understand that it is unregulated vehicle where the backing can disap
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by repomies691 7y ago
Tether supply is 4.2 billion, Madoff defrauded 60+ billion, so tether is nothing compared to Madoffs scheme. Also, tether is stablecoin - people don't buy it for investment purposes. Patio11 is still sour that he was against bitcoin wh
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by repomies691 7y ago
> The whole technical debt discussion often makes me wonder if there's a fundamental distrust (or even disrespect) of software engineers as domain experts. LOL, seriously? Guess you haven't worked that much with other practitio
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by repomies691 7y ago
Similar experience with Estonia. It is way overhyped to what it is in practice. It is quite tiny and poor country, and understandably they try to attract foreign business and investors. However just some e-residency card which is not that u
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by repomies691 7y ago
> I think the point is that companies shouldn't be frat houses full of brogrammers. Usually the founders/owners decide what a company is. Often it seems to me that there are plenty of other motivations to run a company. The fou
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by repomies691 7y ago
When my partner was on pills, she had way more mood swings than after she stopped taking them. I would say our life changed quite drastically to better after she stopped taking birth control pills.
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by repomies691 7y ago
> what you call freedom I would call criminal. > In that regard cryptocurrencies have a problem. No, cryptocurrencies don't have a problem if some random guy on internet thinks nonsense.
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by repomies691 7y ago
> I feel much safer depositing my savings in a regulated bank than I would converting them into any type of cryptocoin. Is my perception wrong? I converted all my fiat back in the days to crypto. I didn't feel safer back then, but l
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by repomies691 7y ago
And a growing field of business, I would bet.
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by repomies691 7y ago
I know a handful of people who benefited a lot from Bitcoin by just speculating with it. They got wealthy, some even rich and now they have much better living standards. That group fits into the niche that were quite well "served"
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by repomies691 7y ago
> Remarkably bad at human and helping humankind. I would say that the way how Uber aggressively expanded throughout the world has massively helped humankind. Because of Uber, many countries have changed their taxi laws, and many local co
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by repomies691 7y ago
> For years I have heard that being a game developer is a miserable job, with long hours not matched by an adequate pay. > Does somebody have an explanation for such cut-throat industry? Software development generally offers good jobs
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by repomies691 7y ago
This. This is niche-within-niche-within-niche level stuff. Gaming nowadays is insanely big market and there are endless weird niches for all kind of tastes. Businessmen like Jeff discover some specific niche and make living out of it.
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by repomies691 7y ago
> If the context of the discussion was about developers instead of artists, how would HackerNews feel about someone lamenting the fact that they can't get any "affordable" developers to work on their projects? There are pl
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by repomies691 7y ago
> To make life changing amount, you need to join a company where the market cap goes to $10B+, but even then a Google employee probably would make more overall and with greater reliability than most startups. Btw, have to take in to acco
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by repomies691 7y ago
> Splunk isn't good at acquisitions. I've seen it first hand. I'd never go back there willingly. I hope the SignalFX crew ends up better. But at the end of the day you're working at Splunk. Is there some company that
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by repomies691 7y ago
On average, the problem with being an employee in a startup is that actually it is easy to over-value your shares/options. However, there are still lots of cash-out stories as well, where the employee has made nice bonus on top. But to
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by repomies691 7y ago
I think it is very easy to answer to this question in a way that will steer the discussion away from your work, if you want. Just answer with general decription like "software developer, in a small company", whatever. Unless you a
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by repomies691 7y ago
> I can only assume the "nothing to do" retirement crowd didn't do much when they were working, and therefore have no idea how to fill the time. Well, the common pattern seems to be for those who retire early that it was p
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by repomies691 7y ago
Funny coincidence because just few days ago I was using zoom for the first time long time. The image/sound quality for sure was crappy and it was lagging/spotty multiple times. On the other hand there was like 7 participants. I al
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by repomies691 7y ago
Every company I have worked for has had showers. Even the lousiest office I was working in back in the days had this kind of shower installed in the cleaning room. Did the trick.

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