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LinkedIn is the only social media where we can have a meaningful social following as a small software company. It has a positive impact on our sales.

The parent refers to the phenomenon described in detail here: https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-margi...

This is not a very good analogy because it assumes there is only one option if you build a rocket.

A founder should get funding through selling equity (to VCs) if the risks are high. If the risks are low, the founder get funding through debt, even if you're "building a rocket". Or bootstrap, if possible.

What every VC dreams is to get equity in a low-risk venture. Because the return is high, but the risk is low. That's why there is so much marketing that convinces founders to pay with equity.

Quebec now tests a hydrogen train.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/hydrogen-train-quebec-city-1...

The article mentions 1991. 1940 is better, but not by a large extent and definitely not enough to justify the use of "ever".

"ever" is added for sensationalism and actually means "during the (relatively short) period of climate observations starting from 1991".

PS. September was quite warm, indeed.

Why don't banks/police track down where the money went to? It's a wire transfer after all, not a crypto transaction. All account details are well known to both sending and receiving banks.

There was no respectable fight. They used the same signing key for all customers AND own corporate mail. It's a stupid rookie mistake. Exactly the type you would expect from a small-to-medium IT department.

It's ironic that data governance and access control are getting to be a bigger deal every year exactly because everyone migrated off premises to the cloud. People lost control over their data when they migrated it to the cloud and now they try to take control back by imposing more and more policies.

In reality, their business and reputation don't depend on security mishaps, because they are too big to fail.

See this fresh thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702095

People frequently overestimate the role of data in decision-making. Metrics, numbers and other quantitative information don't tell the full story. For a CEO to make decisions, the full picture must include qualitative information - risks, opportunities, market events, competitor's actions, etc. Metrics are just part of the full picture. Far less significant than many BI developers and "data teams" tend to think.

Psst, don't tell the author that enterprises spend 10x for high-code solutions too by hiring external consultants.

What makes you think that the big cloud is somehow more security-conscious? Because they said so?

1. It's definitely not a red flag. Solopreneurs can be successful and grow businesses to non-trivial levels of revenue and income. I myself went that path, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. I'd even argue, being solo should be the default option rather than an alternative.

2. There are 3 phases for your business:

   - Verifying product-market fit (this includes getting at least 1 paying customer)
   - Finding a way to get a more or less stable stream of new customers
   - Building up an organization

3. Running online business from a small town is a dream many chase :) At some point you will need lawyers and accountants, you will have to figure out how to deal with them remotely (that shouldn't be hard).

4. Marketing will become one of the hardest parts of your business once you verify product-market fit. Have at least a newsletter and a referral program - they cost little but work.

Amazon is a publicly traded company. Shareholders want to increase their stock value by increasing profits. Blaming only Bezos for greediness is not fair. He may be greedy but so are all the shareholders.

The real problem is big-money-driven design. Big-money stakeholders don't care about non-measurable things like user experience or user well-being. Big money thinks finance, and finance is always metrics, so everything else becomes metrics too.

A brilliant essay.

That's a good question. I don't think anyone has a good understanding of the causes of low fertility rates in Canada and in other developed countries. I personally think economics certainly play a role here, especially in high COL cities. However, there are undoubtedly other factors that affect fertility (e.g. health issues, family getting out of fashion in general) and it's hard to say if any of the factors defines the trend alone, or it's a combination of them that pushed the fertility rate down.

The fertility rate in Canada is far below the reproduction level. Any Canadian government has no choice but to double down on immigration. The alternative is financial collapse due to the lack of workforce and diminishing internal consumer demand that would span everything, not just real estate.

A breach like that requires a very good understanding of Microsoft's internal infrastructure. It's safe to assume that the breach was a coordinated effort of a team of hackers. This is not a cheap effort, but the payback is enormous. Hyper-centralization leads to a situation when hackers concentrate their efforts on a few high-value targets because once they are successful, the catch is enormous. I'm pretty much sure that there are teams of (state-sponsored) hackers that are already doing deep research and analysis of the internal infrastructure of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. The breach gives an idea of how well already the hackers understand it.

I would argue, it's time to decentralize inside a wider security perimeter.

@simonw, Datasette Cloud is a great idea! I wonder if it can benefit from additional ETL capabilities. How can I reach you? Thanks

VCs are secondary. You need customers more than VCs.

The vast majority of West-built planes that are currently being operated in Russia are stolen from their owners (they were leased and then Russia simply didn't return the planes when the lease was ceased due to the war).

Are you proposing to permit sending parts to repair stolen planes?

You didn't get the point. Your cloud provider can do things that you don't see and can't control. If you think all cloud provider's employees follows best security practices because they told you so, then good luck.

Exactly the same things now happen in your cloud provider. Now you just don't see them.

Pervasive advertisement affects perception and frequently creates illusory goals and desires (which is exactly the goal of advertisement). People who are not targeted/affected by advertisement don't have artificially induced goals/desires and thus live a more realistic life.

Their life is not shaped to a large extent by advertisement.

Looks neat! Signed up.

This type of view pretends to be smart, but only until you personally get robbed or mistreated. Then such people quickly learn that sometimes there's black and white. Seen many times.

With so many software developers filing taxes, why isn't there a decent open-source tax filing application?

If that's how your organization works, leave it.