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James Robinson

Co-Founder of cactus.bm;

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Comment · 1 month ago
Is there a prediction market for the ultimate sale price?
Comment · 1 month ago
This is a beautiful font.
Comment · 1 month ago
This is is relatable but I think the issue is that they are uncorrelated.

If it's easy and the business thinks it's easy it gets done. If it's hard and the business thinks it's hard it doesn't.

Comment · 1 month ago
> "Never really finish building it" is the key insight.

The problem with software is that it is never done. There is always another feature you could have and worse than building a property the work is only done by the people on the outside.

Comment · 1 month ago
Why can't an AI distill itself from outputs to effectively access its own weights?
Comment · 1 month ago
Not asking whether openAI did the hack that would be insane. However, agents could buy a lot of compute with $500m bit coin.
Comment · 1 month ago
Is there any indications that this and the ColdCard heist could in fact be escaped distilled agents from the huggingface and similar attacks?
Comment · 1 month ago
Why "work with meaning" rather than purpose or meaning on its own? Do you see meaning as conflicting with slow mornings and rest without guilt?
Comment · 2 months ago
I share the OP's pain we chose to use cognito for the exact same reason and I've had the exact same pain however the evaluation of itself takes time and the inconvenience OP is suffering with is only a function of having users.

If I were starting my startup again I would, in almost every instance, trade problems if we have some success for reduced decision fatigue at the start.

Comment · 2 months ago
In reality though it isn't implemented as you described. In reality it is merely that there is a 62% marginal rate from 100k to 100k + 2x the personal allowance.

They do this with sole traders who face a £14k (~$20k) slab tax bill (VAT) if they go from £85k to £85,001 (~$100k). The outcome has been near total depletion of skill tradesman "mate" apprenticeships. Since such people (not being totally stupid) take 3 months off per year or work 4 days per week and turn down jobs.

Comment · 2 months ago
Can I recommend something concrete every time something like this happens to you?

1. Use ChatGPT (or similar) to make a fun and attractive greetings card image that is a farcical representation of the situation.

2. Use MoonPig.com (or similar) to send it through the real/royal mail to someone important (but not the CEO) at the company that has annoyed you.

This need not cost more than $6. That's almost certainly less than 1% the cost of the long haul flight that this happened on.

Everything you describe is likely a function of the CFO being allowed to treat the savings they can find as if they are a profit centre. It is incumbent upon those of us that can see a better way to demonstrate that the 5p per flight that the CFO optimised annoyed some customers enough to spend real time bringing it to someone's attention.

The first time I did this I effectively received over $2,000 from my airline of choice (though the path to that was convoluted). Most people don't react well to being told they are wrong. Use your intellect and industry to show them a better way in a positive and friendly way.

You will usually get better results and by spreading more positivity in the world will likely feel happier too.

Comment · 2 months ago
Nothing is ever hard that you've done 100 times before and know how to do. Creating documented step by step instructions that cover all or most eventualities is.
Comment · 4 months ago
If we are going to tax things that we want less of; would not taxing stupidity seem like good public policy?
Comment · 4 months ago
Is the issue primarily caused by the English language?

(Google Workspace) CLI vs Google (Workspace CLI)

Because Google has there name in the product for which the CLI was produced it looks like he's using the Google brand when he's only using a descriptor of what his CLI was for. Trademarks are funny, but if I build a thing that only works with Google Workspace wouldn't it be a bit weird to not say that?

Comment · 4 months ago
Some Hong Kong money definitely goes to startups. I got flights paid for to go to a pitching competition.

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