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Note taking has this behavior, see Obsidian, Roam, Notion etc and markup import/export. It sort of works but not really.

We need ANSI pomodoros clearly :)

Yeah fair. I meant as a default (either) on/off filter but your point totally render mine moot :)

Let’s just be unnecessarily skeptical. Follow me on this line of thinking.

“Hmm Elon has a reputation for not liking hard workers (the comment in his book about him getting mad the spacex parking lot wasn’t sufficiently busy on a Saturday), he’s doing a massive layoff, he’s stated this random goal (finish this or get fired)…..hmmm….ok team let’s do this: photograph me sleeping and post it, and then if I don’t get fired for being perceived as working hard, I’ll make sure you’re protected too”.

There is zero chance you’d post a twitter photo of your boss in that setting without pre clearing their permission. Also, as a former investment banker, I’ve slept under my desk a few times and always kept a sleeping bag hidden away. If you’re actually working hard you know how you do this? You either close and lock your office door, or go out of your way to obscure what you’re doing….no one wants to know or see you’re sleeping at the office like an animal.

Of course that’s the most skeptical least trustful view. Still, let’s take a grain of salt. The amount of PR she’s generated from that picture is massive. Assume she gets fired now; due to preempting with the sleeping on the floor pic, it’d cause a massive backlash. So in a way she purchased insurance, if you want to be cynical, for herself in a very calculated way.

Societally damaging? Was AT&T labs societally damaging? Xerox park? Etc.

Since when does HN care about the stock price of a random company? The share price reflected the ownership structure so the people that bought in were aware and not coerced to buy the security. We shit on corporate short sightedness and suddenly everyone and their dog has a highly opinionated high conviction bet on what a random company should do with its cash flow?

Personally, I don’t care. If dude wants to try to build the jetsons space car, heck yeah. I’d rather someone in society try hard stuff (positive determinism) than more stock buy backs (like apple) or cash just sitting on the balance sheet idly (like historical google). Even if it 100% fails, society is better if we do research that doesn’t look outright obvious at first…that’s how we get better.

Just a quest. Watch the first 20 seconds of this [1] and you’ll see the concept. Note, pass through was low resolution and in black and white. Sufficient for doing laundry but annoying.

1. https://youtu.be/CqkhjL3WvWQ

Ah yes sorry.

I don’t see how a 2018 tweet proves the 2021 release of verifying information that an investor was indeed willing and able and committed via assertion to fund the transaction.

The SECs settlement seemed particularly eggregious.

Lehman Brothers was temporarily disrupted due to “some issues”. Did it come back? Irrelevant.

It’s probably a unsolveable computer science problem to add a filter that says “how many times does this user rewatch content, or dismiss recommended content she has already seen” and then not serving stale content.

Personally, unless I’m quering something that’s fairly narrow, for recommendations you push to me please never show me anything older than 36 months. No, I don’t want an 8 year old video on this topic.

sometimes for a giant database you’ll sort by most popular, but, for most, you’d want the most recent. It’s super confusing what YouTube is doing especially after the last change that outright broke the recommendation algorithm.

This doesn’t make sense. Consider two scenarios: company ABC sells only in the USA and Company XYZ is otherwise identical but also sells to Asia.

You are implying that because XYZ has lower profit as a percentage yet higher profit as a nominal dollar amount, that XYZ will charge its American patients more. My intuition says both ABC and XYZ will charge Americans the same, namely the highest amount it possibly can under market/regulatory/PR/competitive considerations.

Medical Doctor in the United States. Undergraduate (4 years) + Med School (3 years) + Residence (1 to 3 years), roughly.

Not sure about California law, but aren’t #2 and #3 debunked? Particularly the take private from the released tech messages.

Someone on HN once said (perhaps fact check this), it took Steve Jobs 7 years from the iPod touch to the iphone. Time perception can be skewed.

Not replace but greatly boost. With AR, I used to love passing through the external environment and putting two tv screens up in the ceiling area with CNBC and a podcast, all while doing laundry and tidying up around the house; my net consumption bumped up quite significantly due to the ease and ubiquity of opportunities to consume content.

ImmersedVR has/had keyboard pass through so you could peek which is helpful even if you touch type.

From what I understand they would other drop other projects or literally not leave the office until the new feature was built. Again, from a book, you might want to fact check this.

Flash as in Shazam, aka the literal application of lightening. /s

That’s super pessimistic. What do you want him to say: “sucks all y’all lost your jobs but wasn’t my fault. Haha you’re unemployed now”. Like sure it’s not much, but without owning your mistakes how do you get better and improve to prevent them from repeating?

Don’t they share either Kleiner or Anderson horowitz as common investors and board members?

If the walls aren’t shaking, you’re not having fun.

Hard to save to a playlist too. Find a useful life tip? Forget about being able to find it later.

And TikTok has a BeReal copy :)

Everyone’s just trying to survive. In one corporate biography type book the author asserted Zuckerberg would institute “lockdown” when he thought they were behind features. I believe the instagram book had a similar claim about Sidstorm (sp?).

I guess when network effects are life you can’t afford to not be the network. Google was smart to nab YouTube. And android. Meta was smart to grab instagram and WhatsApp (and that same logic, after missing out on making a phone, I bet is why they’re rushing to own VR). Innovate, copy, or die, basically.

Not OP but just a guess, vultr was founded 2014 and linode is 2003. Obviously not a proxy for quality, but it’s one data point as to potentially why.

Fair. I’ve worked on divesting on unprofitable unit for $0 that ended up being worth $XXM and the distraction elimination it caused for management way more than outweighed the multi year ROI on the process. But your point stands. The counter argument to your point is taken to the absurd extreme you should be like those people on TV buying entire abandoned storage lockers full of junk in the hope of finding _something_. The fact that the boring company seems to partially be working (and many people on HN would likely disagree) is rear view mirror luck. Look at Facebook and oculus now, for an analogy.

Humbleness foremost. You know you can short or buy a cds on the debt? Might be a nice thing to invest in at such a high level of confidence.

A quick google shows QR came out in 2002, had apps on all phone platforms in 2010, and was native to iOS in 2017. So at a minimum you are 5 years behind, although you could use an app fairly easily.

The average phone life before replacement is 2.5 years in North America [1] so you are somewhere between 2x and 4x outside the median: an outlier but not outrageously so.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/619788/average-smartphon...

This is a little aggressive. The boring company is unproven technology in a perpetually capex heavy delivery model. If I was a spacex shareholder I’d probably value it at $0 in 2018, and strongly prefer it to be not associated with spacex at all.

Sigh. Sure. There’s 7 banks or so in the lending group, each with 5 to 12 FTEs touching or reviewing this deal before funding.

But sure, you’re smarter than them all combined, they’re wrong and underwrote a faulty deal and you’re right, particularly when having no info on the post transaction capital structure.

Being on the board of an American charity is kinda stressful imho. Even when you have D&O insurance if you’re on the board. Having buttoned up financials and processes and controls is a HUGE sign of relief for anyone on the outside considering partnering / joining / advising.