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amathyston Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

Nobody take the bait

amathyston ‘It’s Not My Responsibility’ to Save the Office Economy

There seems to be such a strong anti-RTO/pro-remote sentiment on HN. I don’t hold that against anyone: if you prefer working from home, then I’m happy for you! But here’s another take:

I’m a software engineer and I love working from the office. I enjoy my 40 minute commute (on sunny days I ride a bike and on rainy days I read a book on the train). I enjoy the separation in my life between where I work and where I live (often I don’t take my computer home). Eating lunch with my colleagues is often the highlight of my day. Many of my current and former colleagues have become lifelong friends. If my company went fully remote permanently, I’d look for a new job.

amathyston Australia's great example of government using technology found crude and cruel

You’re probably right but, man, I hope you’re wrong. We’ll see if anything comes of the sealed section of the report that’s been referred to the AFP (FBI equivalent).

amathyston Time is not a synchronization primitive

Where on earth do people find interns this is good

amathyston China sends 25 planes, 3 ships toward Taiwan

> China stages such incursions on a near-daily basis, part of what are termed “gray zone” tactics, aimed at intimidation and wearing down Taiwan’s equipment, exhausting its personnel and degrading public morale.

So probably not the start of a war as could be easily interpreted from the title

amathyston Palantir S-1

Used to work there now work at McKinsey. “Tech McKinsey” is apt. Just a lot more tshirts and LotR references.

amathyston Palantir S-1

Thanks. For my understanding, what’s the standard definition of “when it is earned”? If it’s a 5 year contract must all revenue associated with that contract be spread across all 5 years?

amathyston Palantir S-1

It’s not. They don’t have any data of their own. They offer a data integration platform and then a slate of apps on top of that platform for institutions to perform analysis on their own data. They do make a few plugins that mine social media and other “open” sources but have to do a funny ownership dance so it’s the institution that is breaching the TOS rather than them.

amathyston Palantir S-1

I heard from some friends that work there that over the last two years, they have been offering very large discounts on 5+ year deals if they were paid for upfront. One can assume that this is to shift revenue into the pre-IPO financial years so they can show this level of growth in their S-1