I strongly suggest you learn more about the history of media. Your post has nostalgia for a time that never existed. You may also wish to consider the notion that your perception of newfound media dishonesty has more to…
I love the way WA votes. I've lived in a half dozen US states, and it is by far the best experience. It makes it extremely easy to vote thoughtfully. No need for a smartphone. The information packet + drop box / postal…
It is reasonable and normal for governments to care when other governments attack their citizens.
One main benefit of a return is that it creates costs to Amazon (shipping, returns processing, then disposing of the returned product). I'd like to think this makes Amazon marginally more likely to do the right thing,…
Your AWS conspiracy theory is bizarre.
Yah good point. Most small businesses would suffer no harm at all from an adversary with an initial $10MM allocated toward an attack. After all, most businesses have no employees who have ever done anything even…
Cool. Did you know that Peter Thiel, in his own words, decided to "create a shell company to hire former investigative reporters and lawyers to _find_ causes of action against Gawker", and to then give it a starting…
I can't help but laugh that a guy who calls himself 'Smirking Revenge' is a stan for Peter Thiel's revenge by proxy lawsuit. If you were a fictional character, I'd think the author was being a bit heavy-handed with your…
To clarify, you are ok with billionaires having the ability to use the legal system to destroy any organization they personally dislike?
If Peter Thiel wants to pretend he cares about privacy, he should shut down Clearview and Palantir.
For what it's worth, her car is a 2016 Subaru. The fake shifts are very subtle when driving gently, and noticeable if you hit the gas hard. I'm curious if Subaru changed their shift programming at some point, or if it's…
This wouldn't be terribly surprising. My wife's internal combustion car has a CVT that emulates an automatic with gears and shift points, presumably because that felt more natural to drivers than having the engine just…
similarly to financial forecasts. a very good one-day forecast for SPY is between -9% and +5%. a very good one-year forecast for SPY is between -45% and +95%. a very good 20 year forecast for SPY is between 5% and 18%.…
It's really fucking clear-cut from a risk management point of view.
Yah, it's a real shame that the fossil fuel (and adjacent) industries spent decades spreading misinformation and disinformation, and funding the hell out of any effort that created even the tiniest bit of doubt in the…
I'm a Sr Manager at a FAANG company (and I started here in my 40s). My direct reports include other SDMs, senior product managers, and staff/principal engineers. You mention "trying" for management. If you haven't…
We generally trust that every page of a kids book will be roughly as expected given the title and author of the book. We trust the same of things like PBS kids programs. The same trust cannot be extended to YouTube.
In my last job we were sufficiently sophisticated users of AWS that we routinely had conversations with product managers to learn if specific features were on the roadmap, and if so, if there was an ETA. We had these…
A good way to have a great annual return in year y+1 is to have a 21% decline during December of year y.
That's absolutely true if you're selling to businesses (especially large businesses). I had the same experience hosting on AWS (having previously hosted on colocated bare metal server). An entire category of sales…
But I thought you said nobody ever did large acquisitions for customers.... weird, I must be thinking of somebody else. Since it would make no sense for you to try to take both of those sides at once.
Microsoft licensed their early OS. Dreamworks led with SKG and the tech followed. Oracle always had meaningful tech competition and fought with sales/marketing. Google is pretty true, though.
I said software business, so I'm not sure why you're bringing up AMD or Intel. As for billion dollar acquisitions.... Visio, GitHub, Yammer, LinkedIn, Instagram, Parse, etc.... shit-tons of them are done for market…
Can you name, say, three notable software businesses whose advantage was hard-to-replicate tech?
hard to develop technology is a very narrow moat. You have the first problem that well-funded competitors can almost certainly replicate whatever you built if they care to do so. You then have a second problem that…
I strongly suggest you learn more about the history of media. Your post has nostalgia for a time that never existed. You may also wish to consider the notion that your perception of newfound media dishonesty has more to…
I love the way WA votes. I've lived in a half dozen US states, and it is by far the best experience. It makes it extremely easy to vote thoughtfully. No need for a smartphone. The information packet + drop box / postal…
It is reasonable and normal for governments to care when other governments attack their citizens.
One main benefit of a return is that it creates costs to Amazon (shipping, returns processing, then disposing of the returned product). I'd like to think this makes Amazon marginally more likely to do the right thing,…
Your AWS conspiracy theory is bizarre.
Yah good point. Most small businesses would suffer no harm at all from an adversary with an initial $10MM allocated toward an attack. After all, most businesses have no employees who have ever done anything even…
Cool. Did you know that Peter Thiel, in his own words, decided to "create a shell company to hire former investigative reporters and lawyers to _find_ causes of action against Gawker", and to then give it a starting…
I can't help but laugh that a guy who calls himself 'Smirking Revenge' is a stan for Peter Thiel's revenge by proxy lawsuit. If you were a fictional character, I'd think the author was being a bit heavy-handed with your…
To clarify, you are ok with billionaires having the ability to use the legal system to destroy any organization they personally dislike?
If Peter Thiel wants to pretend he cares about privacy, he should shut down Clearview and Palantir.
For what it's worth, her car is a 2016 Subaru. The fake shifts are very subtle when driving gently, and noticeable if you hit the gas hard. I'm curious if Subaru changed their shift programming at some point, or if it's…
This wouldn't be terribly surprising. My wife's internal combustion car has a CVT that emulates an automatic with gears and shift points, presumably because that felt more natural to drivers than having the engine just…
similarly to financial forecasts. a very good one-day forecast for SPY is between -9% and +5%. a very good one-year forecast for SPY is between -45% and +95%. a very good 20 year forecast for SPY is between 5% and 18%.…
It's really fucking clear-cut from a risk management point of view.
Yah, it's a real shame that the fossil fuel (and adjacent) industries spent decades spreading misinformation and disinformation, and funding the hell out of any effort that created even the tiniest bit of doubt in the…
I'm a Sr Manager at a FAANG company (and I started here in my 40s). My direct reports include other SDMs, senior product managers, and staff/principal engineers. You mention "trying" for management. If you haven't…
We generally trust that every page of a kids book will be roughly as expected given the title and author of the book. We trust the same of things like PBS kids programs. The same trust cannot be extended to YouTube.
In my last job we were sufficiently sophisticated users of AWS that we routinely had conversations with product managers to learn if specific features were on the roadmap, and if so, if there was an ETA. We had these…
A good way to have a great annual return in year y+1 is to have a 21% decline during December of year y.
That's absolutely true if you're selling to businesses (especially large businesses). I had the same experience hosting on AWS (having previously hosted on colocated bare metal server). An entire category of sales…
But I thought you said nobody ever did large acquisitions for customers.... weird, I must be thinking of somebody else. Since it would make no sense for you to try to take both of those sides at once.
Microsoft licensed their early OS. Dreamworks led with SKG and the tech followed. Oracle always had meaningful tech competition and fought with sales/marketing. Google is pretty true, though.
I said software business, so I'm not sure why you're bringing up AMD or Intel. As for billion dollar acquisitions.... Visio, GitHub, Yammer, LinkedIn, Instagram, Parse, etc.... shit-tons of them are done for market…
Can you name, say, three notable software businesses whose advantage was hard-to-replicate tech?
hard to develop technology is a very narrow moat. You have the first problem that well-funded competitors can almost certainly replicate whatever you built if they care to do so. You then have a second problem that…