retornam

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by retornam 2mo ago
please cite your sources, we can't take your comment at face value without citations.
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by retornam 2mo ago
State governments administer education separately, the Department of Education's job is to make sure they are following federal law. The Department mainly administers federal programs that dish out funding to states. Y'all really
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by retornam 2mo ago
> The Department of Education has spent $3 trillion since its inception in 1980, and academic accomplishment has not advanced at all The Institute of Education Sciences (IES), which administers research grants, is a division of the Depar
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by retornam 2mo ago
What do you think the GAO was setup to do? When was the last time you read a GAO report, if you claim to care about how the government spends your taxes and if they spend it efficiently? DOGE was a total non-starter for anyone who knows how
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by retornam 2mo ago
> What's the evidence for that? If your mandate is to identify fraud or optimize a system, wouldn’t your success or failure be determined by the number of fraudulent cases you successfully prosecuted and won, as well as the amount o
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by retornam 3mo ago
I used to have a lot of respect for YC and the kind of founders it used to attract. However, over the past few years, they have started attracting a certain type of founder that most people wouldn’t associate with. The decline in the qualit
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by retornam 7mo ago
I have a bridge to Brooklyn to sell you if you believe this. Standing up for whats right often is not easy and involves hard choices and consequences, your leader has shown you and the world that he is not to be trusted. I can't tell y
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by retornam 1y ago
Doesn't it bother anybody that their product heavily relies on FastAPI according to this post yet they haven't donated to the project or aren't listed as sponsors? https://github.com/sponsors/tiangolo#spo
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by retornam 1y ago
When was the last time you ran into an IRC CnC server?
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by retornam 1y ago
Indeed, it is undoubtedly advantageous for scammers and malware authors.
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by retornam 1y ago
It is worth noting that WhatsApp Trust and Safety team is more effective in removing and blocking large-scale scam operations compared to Telegram. For instance, Telegram’s founder was recently arrested in France for failing to adequately r
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by retornam 1y ago
Telegram is a haven for scammers and malware authors, who frequently use it as a command and control channel. These scammers and malware authors can now seamlessly integrate Grok into their tools. Congrats everyone.
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by retornam 1y ago
Cursor purports $300M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) but stays silent on churn. They made $25M from subscriptions one month, took that number, multiplied it by 12, arrived at $300M and everyone has been running with that line without eve
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by retornam 1y ago
$400M in real revenue versus $300M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) are totally different things. Real revenue is money actually earned, while ARR just multiplies one month's subscription revenue ($25M) by 12, ignoring customer churn
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by retornam 1y ago
If your assertion was true, we would see a hiring boom across the board, instead of mass layoffs and hiring freezes throughout our industry
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by retornam 1y ago
If enterprises require fewer software engineers, where will the market for IDE development wrappers come from?
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by retornam 1y ago
I'm skeptical about this VSCode fork commanding a $3 billion valuation when it depends on API services it doesn't own. What's their moat here? For comparison, JetBrains generates over $400 million in annual revenue and is val
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by retornam 3y ago
Link, please? I ask because I have used Wise multiple times over many years and haven't had a transaction take more than 5 minutes. I'm confident I'm not the exception. Cash App is US only and thus doesn't apply to your
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by retornam 3y ago
Where do you live? Almost all of Africa, many parts of South-East Asia, India, many parts (if not all) of China, and nearly all of South America are heavily cash-based societies. Try to work your way up to Northern Burkina Faso, which has l
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by retornam 3y ago
Wise is near-instant it doesn't take multiple days. Even Western Union has money in minutes to over 200 countries [1]. Almost all delayed transactions are due to fraud. The delay is often implemented to protect the sender from losing f
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by retornam 3y ago
Bookmarks launched in 2018 https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/28/twitter-launches-bookmarks... Super Follows in 2021 https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introduc