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Just that there's a spectrum, and because most things are very close to zero (and because there's a lot of small positive things) it doesn't mean that everythin
by pas 4y ago
Just that there's a spectrum, and because most things are very close to zero (and because there's a lot of small positive things) it doesn't mean that everything is above zero :)
And ... selling weapons might be positive might be negative. Selling weapons to defend against Russia might be positive right now. Selling weapons to dumbass US civilians who then can't keep it safe seems negative.
How is talking to anyone dying actually advancing humanity? Hitting the brakes on the cult of meaningless clinging to life in hospitals would be some advance. Allowing people to say goodbye while they still can...
Jira definitely is from hell, but when it was not this cruel cloud-crazy incumbent it was doing some things better than the alternatives back then.
I'm not saying startups are good because they are small/new/risk-taking, but I'm trying to say that incumbents are usually bad because they have more monopolistic tendencies (than the startups that want of course also usually want to eat the market).