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by standapart 2y ago
Perhaps Plume will be the next company to be sued by Texas...
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by standapart 2y ago
tl;dr The author discovers the wild world of financial engineering and "float". Instead of settling usage changes for it's image service with a single charge, Cloudflare settles it with two charges in such a way that the cust
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by standapart 2y ago
Your investors need liquidity and private markets won't give you the valuation that you need. So get Google to buy Wiz for their nascent services play and plow the cash into this. Smells like July of 2000.
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by standapart 2y ago
A master class in enterprise software sales fit into a single comment. Bravo!
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by standapart 2y ago
However, scaling will get you your next round led by Nvidia... I mean Microsoft... I mean AWS...
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The xz attack may be bad, but trusting Microsoft certs is worse(twitter.com)
59 points by standapart 2y ago|19 comments
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by standapart 2y ago
If Figma continues along this path I worry that they are doomed. Generally, there are three paths to profitability: 1) increase pricing, 2) decrease expenses, or 3) offer new products and services with superior margin. It seems like Figma h
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by standapart 3y ago
Weirdly, they don't preference contracts for shell corps owned by, say, poor white trash from Middletown, Ohio -- despite these people meeting your definition of "someone who historically hasn't been paid well". But I di
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by standapart 3y ago
From subpoenaed communications we even know that certain figures who publicly denounced the lab-leak theory, privately believed the theory was plausible or even likely. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-covid-lab-leak-de
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by standapart 3y ago
I forgot that we're playing the demo games now. Well I'll see your demo, and raise you another demo https://x.com/sean_moriarity/status/1760435005119934862 Except that demo was done by a single person, w
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by standapart 3y ago
Weird... Things are starting to smell a lot like 2020, again...
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by standapart 3y ago
Exactly -- and CZ was always the fall guy. Yi is the mastermind.
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by standapart 3y ago
Some stories don't have a hero.
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Irving on Helen, Ilya, and Sam(twitter.com)
26 points by standapart 3y ago|29 comments
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by standapart 3y ago
What a wonderful way to cut headcount/expense and lock-in profitable margins on healthy annual revenue. Can only work when you have the advantage of being the dominant product in the marketplace -- but I gotta hand it to the board, I c
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by standapart 3y ago
Not really. There were things like Purdue, but that wasn't fentanyl. The fentanyl epidemic is the result of market developments in the illegal drug trade.
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by standapart 3y ago
So here's a little brain teaser about what you have to do when dealing with potential nation-state actors. This scenario is for the folks who are calling "hyperbole" when the actor is clearly, potentially a nation-state. This
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by standapart 3y ago
Nice post! Couple things that might be useful: 1. While JCH will usually be the most performant hashing method, naively, removing a node will affect all nodes of higher order. This makes the logic of node deletions somewhat more complex tha
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The FDIC's Bait and Switch(ft.com)
1 points by standapart 4y ago|1 comments
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by standapart 4y ago
Losses have to be paid by someone. Whether they're paid by "you, the taxpayer" or "you, the bank customer", they will be paid. Just remember that some losses matter more than others. Losses by community banks in Okl
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by standapart 4y ago
For some additional context, here is an excerpt from the hearing: https://twitter.com/SeidlerCorp/status/1636518949872451584?s... Here is my question: Certain individuals have argued on HN that depositors of SVB s
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by standapart 4y ago
This is a significant simplification of the matter. I doubt it works in reality. Replace the words "VC firm" with "Sequoia" in the previous statement and see if it rings true that Sequoia's reputation would be destr
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by standapart 4y ago
When the smoke has cleared, it would be interesting to quantify whether this event affected a (statically significant) higher percentage of YC offspring than other incubator offspring. Could be a selling point for alternative incubators in
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by standapart 4y ago
Requirements aren't the only way to steer someone to a product. Google pays Apple billions to be the default search engine on iOS. Nor does the lack of a requirement indemnify someone from responsibility.
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by standapart 4y ago
With all respect, Garry: YC is to blame for the consolidation of this risk in a single counterparty. Those who led all these entities from the same industry to bank at the same place must be held accountable too.
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by standapart 4y ago
Probably safe to say: Stripe isn't going to be able to raise a couple bil to pay tax liabilities in this environment.
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by standapart 4y ago
What if this was never about getting the money out of the crypto markets. Could it simply be about minimizing how many of the assets the bankruptcy could liquidate all at once? It may take a long time to recover these funds. Remember seeing
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by standapart 5y ago
There hasn't been a free market in health care in the US for decades-- thankfully though, the pig has kept it's lipstick and we give you the illusion of choice. Hopefully, in the next few years, we can just do away with this facad
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by standapart 5y ago
I don't have an RCT which establishes this. But I'm not the one who asserted that the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines prevented transmission. You have the burden of proof in this situation. Hence my reference to the astounding amount o
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by standapart 5y ago
This is not an RCT. The work itself makes this very clear, it's observational, based on what we'll call "pseudo-voluntary" testing. Just provide the RCT for your claims-- this is necessary since the vaccine is known to

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