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lubos

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About lubos

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    Comment #48215481

    That 1.25B per month is not profit

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    Comment #37724274

    That's not entirely true. Processed food requires less energy to digest and absorb. Nutritionally it can be exactly the same food but the net calorie intake will be higher for food…

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    Comment #33964770

    > I'm just saying, being a remote-first company should may you less likely to do this, not more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization

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    Comment #31524649

    Amazon stock price is currently back to where it was before the pandemic. Look at the charts.

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    Comment #31373187

    Very impressive. The schema covers everything I need. This library desperately needs "Repeater" component which I assume would handle array of inputs. This would allow FormKit to h…

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    Comment #30473105

    Once you have paying customers and growth, the appetite for investor money goes down very quick.

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    Comment #28656619

    They could have been infected by locals in regions they've been travelling to. Many possibilities. Why do we have to speculate? Let's just wait for more data. The timeline of HIV p…

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    Comment #28624718

    This is great but I've noticed newer regions do not have feature parity with older ones. For example, me-south-1 and af-south-1 still do not support AWS DataSync fully automated tr…

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    Comment #28270914

    Hold your horses. TSMC is cutting edge. They got ahead only in the past 3-4 years. Car/appliance manufacturers do not use their cutting edge chips. The biggest use-case for these c…

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    Comment #26632339

    Random earthquakes is TSMC fork of chaosmonkey

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    Comment #26138094

    Looking at historical S&P 500 to Gold ratio, stocks are definitely more expensive but nowhere near dotcom frenzy. Either we see market correction or gold is undervalued and will ca…

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    Comment #25074503

    0.5% is immaterial for subscription-based businesses where profit margins are typically the highest. But... it adds up. For example, just looking at the last $39 USD transaction in…

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    Comment #25051949

    > We’re also a company that has purposefully operated right around breakeven for years. And here is the problem. Take VC money and now you are forced to run company at breakeven po…

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    Comment #24032409

    For most bootstrapped SaaS businesses, the number of active free trial users is so low, it's not worth your mental capacity. Also. You really don't want customers who will buy from…

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    Comment #24016872

    You always represent value even if you don't pay. You might introduce the music to someone who will pay. It's freemium model applied to music industry.

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    Comment #23857492

    I must admit, the landing page looks slick and very un-Microsoft.

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    Comment #23651025

    In Australia, independent administrator is appointed who is working on behalf of creditors. Government is usually another creditor so they are not exactly an independent party.

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    Comment #22931655

    You can close your position by buying the month after futures. This will require you to store crude oil for just one month. I think the issue is that storage facilities are almost …

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    Comment #21494336

    You will need to setup Amazon API Gateway which will give you http/https end point for your Lambda function.

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    Comment #21479165

    Appharbor does look like a zombie startup. The last blog post 5 years ago, the last tweet 3 years ago. Alexa ranks them at #466,765. I was their customer many many years ago but ev…

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    Comment #20909403

    Active Directory

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    Comment #20511321

    Can you give an example? In Australia, you'd need to buy hardware or software for more than $30,000 per unit to be forced to depreciate it over multiple periods. Anything cheaper t…