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thatthatis

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About thatthatis

I usually comment from my phone, please forgive any uncaught typos.

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    Comment #46565374

    Very ironically, this violates the MIT trademark in a quixotic pursuit of intellectual property ludditry.

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    Comment #44433025

    Glad we have a name for this. I had been calling it “context shaping” in my head for a bit now. I think good context engineering will be one of the most important pieces of the too…

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    Comment #27712495

    How does the encoding work? Did you write up the algorithm separately?

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    Comment #27710929

    Spare parts are expensive because they’re priced to willingness to pay which is usually “if it’s significantly less to repair than replace, repair”. $100 part + $200 labor is cheap…

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    Comment #27674921

    Email. Cold email costs $0.01 per message per address to send. How we distinguish warm va cold, idk

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    Comment #27630742

    What’s the deal with captable.io transitioning from “a public service for every startup to safeguard their equity from day one” to basically the same price model as carta? Why were…

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    Comment #24442302

    I can confirm. My company is a top 2,000 amazon seller (top 0.1%) and we’ve never bought or incentivized a single review. Our fake spot grade is “B” with some products getting “A” …

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    Comment #23538074

    https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/who-are-the-major-revenue-...

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    Comment #23447272

    Why not just agree that speed runs exclude the time between minigame start and minigame end, vs allowing an external tool?

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    Comment #22628307

    Also, stock buybacks don’t incur capital gains tax until the appreciated stock is sold. Dividends are taxed when issued. Maybe there’s an effect of executive compensation, but the …

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    Comment #21737474

    I always shot for a “B+” in college. My logic was that in 5 years I’d remember the content at a B+ level, and any incremental effort was better spent socializing or building studen…

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    Comment #21364094

    I’m of the opinion that the scariest words to a startup founder/employee should be “exit below the liquidity preference”

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    Comment #21179591

    For business users, can a single password be stored in multiple “shared folders” or groups? For example, can I share a password with both “marketing” and “customer support” The lac…

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    Comment #20917570

    There are at least two other factors: 1) most of these certifications come with large philosophical impact. You can’t choose to be a “social impact only” B Corp, for example, you h…

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    Comment #20852361

    But not the 2 dimensional index(match, match) use case, unfortunately

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    Comment #19887161

    Will LTSE support reg A+ early IPOs?

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    Comment #19264520

    If anybody is looking for an industry to disrupt: manufacturing, inventory, and logistics software is a complete disaster right now. I pay $X,XXX a year for manufacturing software,…

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    Comment #19161967

    In the success path it costs like a loan. In the failure path it gets paid nothing

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    Comment #19035018

    Let’s consider a more realistic scenario: shared account and a soon to depart disgruntled employee. The havoc someone in that situation could cause is substantial. You change the p…

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    Comment #18953057

    Linux is GNU and two other children in a trench coat functioning very successfully as an operating system. a variety ststem diagrams of the scheme: https://m.imgur.com/gallery/xxyr…

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    Comment #18953033

    In this case, AGPL seems to be an open source veneer on a free during development license.

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    Comment #18910893

    Notion feels like SVN. The implementation that is workable and delivers enough value to tolerate, but isn’t quite there. Somebody please take what they’ve done, fix the annoyances,…

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    Comment #18896618

    I use a pair of wired headphones nearly daily, not only are the advantages small but the overall item is worse.

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    Comment #18641310

    Let me phrase it backwards: how good is aggregate data that throws away outliers in a complex system that isn’t yet fully understood?

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    Comment #18326842

    There are even objective tests for pain based on heart rate response to exertion