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i know a few very large startups that used it to fake their way into an exit unethical yes but really raises the question as to what we see is real or not
by zuzululu 4mo ago
i know a few very large startups that used it to fake their way into an exit
unethical yes but really raises the question as to what we see is real or not
- morkalork 4mo agoMoney is real. DAU that don't pay subscriptions, or don't lead to paid conversions on hosted ads, are worthless.
- BoorishBears 4mo ago"Raises the question of what we see is real" No they really don't, dishonest founders do that. You're one with the lower case shibboleth so I have no doubt you surround yourself with dishonest founders, but faking users is pretty damn low on the usecases for residential proxies. I said they're unethical because they tend to be hidden in innocuous seeming apps or sprung on unwitting individuals via clickwraps on their smart devices.
- zuzululu 4mo agoive seen unscrupulous founders fake traction during diligence, which is my day job but ive never seen one raise $4.5m for an ai agent startup built around pulling fresh web data, then openly cheer the unethical proxy infrastructure used to evade consent and blocks then inventing a fantasy about who i associate with instead of answering that conflict is an unusually loud form of projection
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- llbbdd 4mo ago> forced lowercase ??? shift is an extra key to press
- BoorishBears 4mo agohttps://www.businessinsider.com/lowercase-typing-altman-dorsey-block-openai-gen-z-2026-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/lowercase-typing-altman-dors... most shibboleths are subtle like that
- llbbdd 4mo agoI'm...not old enough to read a Business Insider article about being annoyed by lowercase letters.
- BoorishBears 3mo agoI think most young people (with friends to text) have already encountered this.
- llbbdd 3mo agoMost young people are familiar with lowercase sentences and have been for a while, yes
- Chu4eeno 3mo agoaseigo was the OG, «aseigo: the triumphs and travails of a shift-key-challenged KDE hacker» was his blog byline a couple of decades ago.
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