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1. 31.▲
   by _6hmp 5y ago

   MicroAcquire is just a marketplace, and IMO not that good (as a customer looking to acquire). Tiny is explicitly modeled as a mini Berkshire Hathaway for tech (they also, as a sideline, sell bronze busts of Charlie and Warren). An easy exit
2. 32.▲
   by _6hmp 5y ago

   You're conflating introducing a new system for how companies hire with direct social interactions. How companies hire is fraught with bias so we should be attentive to not amplifying it. Your example is an obvious false equivalency.
3. 33.▲
   by _6hmp 5y ago

   I meant it in the sense of the long now. 53 years ago isn't long ago in the arc of human history. There are people alive who grew up where they grew up or live where they live because of it. The rest of your post doesn't merit a
4. 34.▲
   by _6hmp 5y ago

   In the US there is in fact a disparity in wealth between black households and white households in aggregate as a consequence of slavery, a lack of reparations for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and ongoing discrimination (see, redlining). So it&#x
5. 35.▲
   by _6hmp 5y ago

   OTOH an interesting language can be a recruiting draw. It probably helped them recruit engineers who were interested in the distributed systems and concurrency problems they were trying to solve. See for example Jane Street with OCaml. [edi