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TLDR they were acquired in stock by a shady company that made up its accounting. It's a reaaaaaally long article.
by solardev 2y ago
TLDR they were acquired in stock by a shady company that made up its accounting.
It's a reaaaaaally long article.
- ab5tract 2y agoYou mean, it’s journalism?
- solardev 2y agoSure, it's journalism, but just REALLY long. I read the first few sections, had no idea what the story was about, and had to ask the AI to summarize it. Then manually skimmed for the relevant sections. A lot of journalism is written inverted pyramid style with the most important facts at the top. This piece was more like a long form investigative piece, which is fine, but without a very engaging hook at the start. It was a lot of fluff and exposition... I think I prefer bullet points for something like this, but to each their own.
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- swozey 2y agoBelieve me I almost bowed out many times. It was a lot of unnecessary fluff and not exactly how I wanted to spend the last hour of my night before bed.
- kevbin 2y agoThe article is boring and repetitious. I love a well-written long read. This isn’t. Bad writing? Maybe the article was edited or processed to show more ads?
- projektfu 2y agoPutting the important part of the story after a wall of text is called burying the lede. I think it's possible to write an engaging long-form article without a thousand words before presenting a thesis, but that's not the fashion.
- schnitzelstoat 2y agoIt could be much more concise though. No need to tell us the personal background of all the people. I think many journalists really want to be novelists though, and it shows.
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- auggierose 2y agoAppreciate the summary! What a mistake to make.
- solardev 2y agoHmm, weird. I actually posted this a few days ago, but the article was under a different title then. It looks to me like maybe Vice was A/B testing titles, it somehow got a second chance on HN, but with the existing comments merged in and their timestamps changed too...?! It's a lot clearer with the new title but it sure makes for some confusing threads.
- smrtinsert 2y agoFor those of us who were fans of Sierra it was about the right length.
- zoky 2y agoExcept I died three-quarters of the way through reading it and had forgotten to save, so I had to start again at the beginning.
- yard2010 2y agoDon't sell, don't put untrustworthy people in key positions and remember machine learning 1st rule - NO FREE LUNCH anyone who says otherwise is a disaster waiting to happen.