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I agree with your initial idea, but you lost me at "hourly rate". I think doing fixed prices for fixed scopes allows any agency to scale up to a certain point. (Instead of disincentivizing efficiency through hourly rates)

The wording of a video title is determined by the rules of copywriting. You try to maximize clicks and gain virality. There is no correlation to the quality of the content.

In terms of website, I am not sure what you are referring to: acquisition.com is the actual website, that is dedicated to buying businesses. There is no paid course, all content is free. Technically the e-book costs 99 cents.

For some guidance on successful bootstrapping, I would suggest to look into Alex Hormozi (Youtube, Podcast).

So if I understood you correctly then further lowering the cost of experimentally determining protein targets could be a viable way forward that is completely orthogonal to computational methods?

Can you provide a list of the top problems in that space? Much rather try to understand them deeply myself and build a company solving them than just getting a job.

That is not specific to AI and we commonly do not think of it as problem. We call it visionary leadership.

In refusing to accept that any contribution you make to society is in fact a business, you will be doomed to build a bad business. You will talk about the emotional turmoil a feature request puts you through instead of being proud of your streamlined business processes and your ever increasing MRR.

This was a very interesting connection between headline and content. Based on the headline I assumed an article about entrepreneurship and tech. Even the first paragraph seemed to support my hypothesis. Snobby academics not getting what technical progress combined with market demand looks like.

Ultimately that was not the topic of the article. Yet, reading between the lines it still confirmed the my underlying bias that lead me to interpret the headline in the way I did.

As founder and main developer of a product, I feel that both the first suggestion of an aqui-hire and the second suggestion of getting a regular job at MSFT are completely ludicrous. Far too weak.

Framing this as becoming an employee at MSFT directly establishes a position of inferiority. This should have been about a licensing deal with the option to purchase some premium support on top to facilitate the integration. A B2B deal will never involve HR.

You don't have to be a tough negotiator yourself, but then please seek advice from a manager representing you.

Taking a high-velocity ride in a cage of aluminum? I don't want to engage with that at all. I am so surprised that safety measures such as airbags and seat belts are discussed. Obviously cars are too dangerous to exist.

Freelance software development and use an AI generated photo of a person in their mid 30s.

Gonna challenge the last part. You can probably make billions with disaster recovery, but I doubt that you can make anything with disaster prevention.

Not sure whether I understand your attack scenario: If the database itself has an exploit to bypass the append-only functionality: All is lost, agree. But if some of the hosts are compromised which push garbled/encrypted data to the database, you can recover from it by simply ignoring it as it does not overwrite any prior valid data.

Sure, but that applies to any kind of malware and is orthogonal to the actual question of ransomware. Fixing the vulnerability is more often than not simply an update of the vulnerable server software, while recovering the data and bringing the entire IT infrastructure into a functional state is currently the time consuming part.

I feel jumping right into __init_subclass__ without explaining why metaclasses exist and what problems they typically solve excludes the majority of devs on HN. Thereby limiting any discussion only to the advanced Python developer echo chamber, while discussion across very different devs is usually far more interesting.

How do you handle something highly noise sensitive like baby crying in another room while being on a Zoom call?

For some. For others it isn't.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Did you do extra-preparation on the extra room that is now available to you? E.g. foaming walls or door to have the same level of sound separation?

Which direction of sound separation is more important to you, incoming sound (not being disturbed) or outgoing sound (not disturbing sleeping people with your work)?

So basically there was no dedicated room inside the house for WFH before?

When you use your shed, what are the aspects that you came to value? E.g. is it more about the feeling of nature (because the garden is much closer) or is it more about the sound-separation from the rest of the home? Or would you be as happy with a dedicated room within your house?

Was it more about the building process for you or more about the usage afterwards?

I appreciate the downvotes as they confirm the emotional damage, but I am not a fan of misusing logical implications.

Obviously, in a pre-Covid world leaving your home to go to work was simply the societal expectation of how to acquire an income. WFH mostly came with economic downsides (lower salary, no promotions).

During Covid and post-Covid it's quite an interesting question why somebody would voluntarily lobby to add unpaid work time in the form of a commute to their day.

To put this into a context, we must look at the problems faced throughout human history: Major conflicts for resources, starting with a small tribe vs tribe conflict, going up to a full world war.

A globally distributed permission-less system is a great step to decouple force and resource acquisition. The majority of the world energy consumption could be spent on it while still yielding a net positive.

Would you be interested in purchasing this partially pre-build and delivered to you?

(pre-painted, Including windows, door, insulation, electrical and Ethernet wiring, fire-proof compliance, able to resist heavy rain)

Six elements total, clickable into each other. Assembly time under one hour.

If you are interested in this, could you please answer two questions (warning: My lack of understanding is usually offensive):

- Do you regret having children?

- Do you regret living together with your spouse?

The bargaining power is much higher on the user site. "I did not like the new feature. Take it back or we throw together some money to build a competitor. We already have all player data, it is on chain."

You asked for the econ perspective, so prepare for some darkness: When judging the economic productivity of the lowest class of wage workers the usual expectation is negative. Violent crime and substance abuse leads to a huge cost in terms of medical care and law enforcement.

If you have a way to keep them busy and earn esteem without hurting anybody, that's a huge economic benefit.

Regarding 1: Sure the game itself is centralized, for example Axie Infinity might even ban players who "cheat" according to their definition of cheating. So if you are a bad apple or get banned without justification, then block chain won't help you.

If however (some years down the line) the original game creator abandons the game, any group of people could jump in and revive the game (by re-creating or updating it or doing something completely novel) based on the state that is still available on the block chain.

I always like to imagine how we will look back onto subjects 5 years from now, which helps to come up with more precise terminology and potential perspectives:

"Generation 1 of play2earn gaming popularized in 2021/2022 was based on an ongoing influx of capital and generated profits only in the form of its redistribution. This changed when ... "

In scenario 1 (monopoly): Only one company with worker w1, price p.

prod_1 = punits / hours_w1

In scenario 2 (supplier + monopoly): Let's assume that the second company is not magic, but needs a worker to coordinate with the other company, mark up the price, etc.

prod_1 = (p-x)units/hours_w1

prod_2 = x*units/hours_w2

In summary, coordination between suppliers is an extra job which does not increase GDP. Productivity is decreased, because more hours are required to produce the same GDP.

1) It enables users to own their assets regardless of the state of a centralized server. 2) Standardized format to trade on any third-party marketplace. A player could sell to an investor who has no intention of playing.