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by Jochim 6y ago
I'm not American so I could be wrong on this, but wasn't it the Trump administration that passed the previous stimulus package that disproportionately benefited the largest companies?
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by Jochim 6y ago
Aren't we waking up to the fact that consumption doesn't make people happy though? In fact advertising now actively seeks to make us feel unhappy in our current situation, promising whatever it is the advert is selling as the key
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by Jochim 6y ago
In what way do the aggregators/reviewers not solve that issue for you though? If I see a place that has 100+ 5 stars on tripadvisor/yelp I'm much more likely to go than if I see an advertisement, because at that point I know
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by Jochim 6y ago
In response to 3. I'd argue it's a much bigger factor than we'd think. Instagram as a platform is now based almost entirely around influencers creating an idealised and unattainable representation of a lifestyle and then sell
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by Jochim 6y ago
I think it's to protect against the Identity Provider revoking access to the service you're dealing with rather than them blocking your account. We saw this recently with "Sign in with Apple" and Epic Games, where Apple
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by Jochim 6y ago
I'm not suggesting that acquisitions should necessarily be shared precisely evenly. I don't even think Josh necessarily earned an outsized return in this case. I do think that the current disparity in compensation that we're
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by Jochim 6y ago
Maybe I just have a high bar for what qualifies as toxic, but most of the thread seemed to be a reasonable discussion of what had happened. Obviously some people have made some incorrect assumptions at varying points, but I haven't see
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by Jochim 6y ago
> You think that when someone takes more than they need, they deserve to be shamed? How do you determine how much one can take? Shame is a pretty good motivator for encouraging people to behave in a manner deemed appropriate by society.
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by Jochim 6y ago
> You're free to have an opinion on whether his actions were right or wrong, but don't expect him to engage with your criticism when that takes a lot of time and effort (and is not part of his goal). I don't expect him to
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by Jochim 6y ago
HN had the audacity to do something other than shower the subject with unapologetic praise. An actual discussion occurred rather than a congratulatory twitter echo chamber. I'm actually a really disappointed in Josh's response.
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by Jochim 6y ago
Agreed on not joining a startup for the money. Although it seems like a lot of damage has been done in setting a cultural expectation that joining a startup early will see you become a multi-millionaire, to the benefit of startups everywher
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by Jochim 6y ago
A counterexample I'd offer is that upon being treated charitably those employees could then be incentivised to use that windfall to pursue their own ideas, seeing the success of their founder benefactor and being empowered with a finan
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by Jochim 6y ago
I think it's a good approach, it: 1) Works as a club for developers to get the time they need to improve processes and code. "Do you want to be responsible for the HN article about the incident this will cause?" would give mo
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by Jochim 6y ago
For startup employees it's more like they agree to help fix a car you intend to sell in return for payment and a take in the profits of the sale. A lot of startup exits seem to take the form of you then selling the car to someone for a
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by Jochim 6y ago
> "This kind of calling-out is common in HN and quite distasteful." Frankly there's nothing distateful about recognising that in a hierarchical system such as a corporation those higher up the tree have a duty of responsib
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by Jochim 6y ago
One argument would be that taxes from the sale could be used to fund better addiction treatment than is currently available. State sanctioned supply would then be taking money out of the hands of organised crime and using it to help the peo
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by Jochim 6y ago
The op that started this didn't suggest people just ditch their cars. He suggested they try to improve their transportation infrastructure to make other modes of transport more of an option.
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by Jochim 6y ago
How do you reconcile this view with fair use though? If fair use tells us that it's ok to use parts of copyrighted works for certain purposes, then there must be a legal avenue for obtaining those parts.
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by Jochim 6y ago
I don't think this is specific to Tesla at all. I think it's more that people are waking up to the fact that they no longer own the things they buy. We've seen the same discussions take place recently around ebook and music l
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by Jochim 6y ago
Also went to school in Scotland. We'd sing a hymn at morning assembly. I wonder if this was done to satisfy the requirement.
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by Jochim 6y ago
I didn't notice much/any speed improvement either. Losing the tab queue sucked and certain links now force open the youtube app rather than in Firefox. The url bar at the bottom is nice, but they released it without the ability to
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by Jochim 11y ago
Consequences for your actions are something only non-leaders should have to deal with...
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by Jochim 12y ago
I disagree that we'd be limited by human life span. I think rather that we'd see us moving away from individuals making "breakthrough discoveries" to progress eventually being something that might take multiple generatio
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by Jochim 12y ago
Car battery would be much less obvious as a form of vandalism though, unless you were caught in the act.
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by Jochim 12y ago
Mostly its combined drawbacks making it worse than the alternatives. It's pretty heavy, a bicycle of around the same cost doesn't weigh much more than some models. It has low range, you can get a motorised bicycle for much cheaper
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by Jochim 12y ago
I genuinely see nothing good about this product...
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by Jochim 12y ago
The charity outstepped it's bounds here, if the article is accurate. Organising an event for someone where that person expects a substantial sum to be used in a certain way and then keeping it for yourselves seems pretty terrible.
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by Jochim 12y ago
From the looks of it this is something they expect to be run by a small business with a few people. Not many individuals have space in their home to store and turn over 100,000+ items in a month. Or have "Physical presence in all major
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by Jochim 12y ago
But if you work 70 hours a week for the rest of your life you to might attain this status my friend! Think of all the riches and power you'd have for yourself! And because people are taught that massive amounts of wealth concentrated i
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by Jochim 13y ago
I believe the illegality is centered around conspiring to lower wages, the guys suing are claiming that this was achieved through the non-solicitation agreement. I can see how this could be the case, especially when it looks like the bigges

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