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Paranoid much? The media calls these large companies "startups" because the companies themselves do it. Because it makes them sound hip and trendy and worth in

• kabdib 11y ago
  Shades of 2000, when saying "We want to do XML and --" would get chopped off by the piles of money falling on you. Stupid, stupid . . .
• jerf 11y ago
  "Paranoid much?" Well, remember what working in the media is like. It's an industry where writing opportunities are contracting, advertising is stronger than ever, pretty much all but the top tier of newspaper is writing clickbait, it's perceived that there's little prospect of it getting better, and they compete with Congress for major institution least respected by the public. I wouldn't consider schadenfreude a paranoid theory, I'd consider it the expected outcome. It's hard to avoid wondering how much of the general tone of opinion in the media is a direct reflection of the fact that they aren't doing well. (Are they worried about the "1%" precisely because a couple members of the .01% are buying up their entire industry, and they see the .01% showing up in the reporting chain? I've seen people similarly wonder if part of the reason academia is so pessimistic in their writing is that their world really is in terrible shape and the sense of immanent collapse is scaring everybody.)