JohnnyConatus

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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
That's one hell of a post hoc justification to justify the unethical and illegal behavior of the 1% to capture even more of the economic pie.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Reminds me of the QZ article where the Chinese bitcoin miners all swear they're only interested in blockchain as a technology, not as store of value. Suuuuuure.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Except Apple would still exist as one of the world's most profitable company. That's the underlying value.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
In other words, they tried to be clever in their structuring and now it's biting them in the ass. Hoisted by their own petard.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Not saying you're wrong, but this argument is irresolvable unless you can give evidence that either 1) Coinbase/similar are using bank facilities to provide liquidity, and in essence, being the market makers. Or 2) They're us
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
"A Growing number of young Americans are leaving jobs that produce things of value to create click-bait bullshit journalism about made-up or statistically insignificant trends"
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Tell them you have their private browser history.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
ITT people assuming they have an objective view of coworkers performance.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
I agree with everything you said except for one thing: developer salaries later-on are not artificially kept down vs the value they create. The are artificially inflated when they are younger due to the scarcity of developers. This is why o
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
/r/floridastartupman
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
> That would not only be them conceding that they couldn’t win on mobile, but that would also reduce them to yet another Android Phone manufacturer that has to spend tens of millions of dollars on low margin devices that won’t sell. Ther
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Yup. And the amount of work it takes to be competent in just one (such as AWS) will make it nearly impossible / not worth it for most people to run cross-cloud.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Unfortunately, this is pretty true. I tried to work with them a bit as a 3rd party content provider and I was shocked by how little secret sauce they really had.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
When you're trying to get to the morgue? I'm sympathetic to cyclists - I am one myself - but the average CitiBike rider rides like an 8 year old who just got their first bike.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Ugh. "Life in America's South"? More like "woman who barely knows a region and visited it for a paltry amount tries to inject herself back into the cultural conversation decades later via via her re-heated leftovers from
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Dear TekMol, We regret to inform you that starting tomorrow, our organization, our parent company, our subsidiary company, and our affiliate partners will no longer be able to provide you services. Unfortunately, all of our employees read y
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Chase suspended my companies' account for largely the same reasons FYI. I highly recommend moving to a bank where you can have an actual personal relationship with your banker. I haven't used SVB but it can't be worse than th
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Serious != genuine. Serious people are people willing to put their time and/or money into a cause. All power to these people but they are a fraction of the critical mass needed in any social campaign. Genuine people are people who are
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Yup. Assume there's two founders both of which draw a 50k salary, likely after months of bootstrapping. 400k is not even three engineers in SF.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
No more entries, we have a winner for the most obscure reason to dislike a social service.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
"If you could make a brown fizzy drink faster and cheaper than Coca-Cola, why wouldn't everyone buy it?" Rebuttal: store brand soda. Welcome to branding / advertising / marketing.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
ITT no one admitting that the problem with the recorded music industry is now the fans who expect bits that make sound to be free while other bits are paid. Spotify, Pandora, and Soundcloud fixed just about everything that people said was w
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
The problem with your argument is that you're looking backwards at what the government has done to predict what it will do. What if someone like Trump is elected? Oh wait, there went that theory. How about what the south African govern
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Your Mobile OS's Maps App + Your Mobile OS's Payment Provider == No advantage for customer's already having Uber's app. Uber and everyone else will be intermediated.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
I don't have access to the beta (yet) but friends do, and it is a legitimate product. They also have a slack channel where they're happy to answer questions.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Umm...$200 is a lot of money in many parts of the world. You never know who you might be responding to.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Eh. I hire developers overseas on the regular. Senior devs, or people who can pass for one, are making ~$30/USD/hour regardless of location if they have conversational level english skills. Yes, having skills I want as an employ
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
TL;DR - drop shipped from China.
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
+1
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by JohnnyConatus 9y ago
Ugh, yeah, I've recruited a few of these people. They're the worst because: 1) they're used to the benefits that come from a company that is swimming in cash 2) they didn't personally take any of the risk to create that

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