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new2this

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About new2this

Building things. Learn about it here: https://causalation.substack.com

Contact me at linkedin.com/in/mike-ferrell/ or causalation@gmail.com

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    Comment #40575023

    I have a Substack where I was tracking stock trades guiding by an ML model I built. Life got in the way, so I stopped maintaining it and trading with it, but the app is still runni…

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    Comment #40342853

    I've built a few sales team for early stage startups, and invariably the question comes up: "Inbound sales is working. Will outbound sales work?" The successful experiments I've se…

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    Comment #39228878

    Great example of Betteridge's law of headlines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

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    Comment #38179690

    The reason that email is different than Reddit or Twitter is because you're interrupting the person's day. That means that if you're asking for something from them, people will dis…

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    Comment #38040015

    Listen to his podcast (Against the Rules) from today and you can hear his take on the trial. I also recommend his interview of Matt Levine (5 episodes ago) to get a good TLDR of th…

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    Comment #36813002

    You should spend some time with sales leaders to better understand what's needed from a CRM. I took a look at your CRM product and understand that your long term goal is a great ec…

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    Comment #36001794

    I've been learning to code for the past year. StackOverflow was hugely important in the beginning. I haven't used it in probably 2 months because ChatGPT does an excellent job of n…

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    Comment #35976167

    Hey HN, This is a side project I've been working on for a few months as a way to learn Python. I'll call this the MVP stage, so please let me know what you think.

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    Comment #34631154

    The central allegation is that Tether would print coins for themselves that were not backed by USD and then buy BTC. Thus, artificially propping up BTC in a price range where they …

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    Comment #34003932

    >This is what I fear about AI making our jobs superfluous; it will also make our hobbies or anything we enjoy doing superfluous. Mountain climbing is superfluous by this logic- why…

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    Comment #33834645

    I remember some stat that the loudest voices are the 8% on either end of the political spectrum. I couldn't find where I heard that, but Pew has some data that mirrors that. I thin…

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    Comment #33816160

    Direct interview link, no commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyoGdwVIwWw

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    Comment #33802662

    >What's your assumption based on? Anecdotal. Seeing restaurants that no longer do sit down and only do delivery, plus the creation of the ghost kitchen market. I also have no data,…

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    Comment #33802462

    >I also think Standard Oil shouldn't exist. In fact, so did the US government in a landmark antitrust case that you may have heard of. Agreed, but "should/shouldn't exist" wasn't t…

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    Comment #33802025

    >Build a real business. If you can't be profitable without eliminating all the competition by undercutting them then jacking up prices, then you shouldn't exist This was a major pa…

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    Comment #33609026

    This description matches my experience interacting with multiple COO's at startups of varying size. Most CEO's I know look outwards and to the future, the COO ensures the company e…

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    Comment #33593883

    Clickbait title. Tether is only vaguely mentioned and there is nothing related to Tether operations- only to an employee at Tether. While this article covers an interesting topic, …

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    Comment #33562579

    His company is already based in the Bahamas, how much further could he fly?

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    Comment #33561213

    >Tell me which retail brokerages lost their customers assets because they gambled them away? Banks are required to keep a percentage of deposits in risk free assets as part of the …

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    Comment #33538056

    "Fools Gold" does a great job of documenting this contagion effect (among other things) during the 2008 crash. Highly recommend

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    Comment #33520848

    This comment seems to be focused on the viability of any individual crypto, but that _shouldn't_ matter for the value of a company like FTX. FTX has value because it has customers,…