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by __loam 2y ago
Something can generate value and still have negative unit economics.
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by __loam 2y ago
They could try hiring one of the hundreds of thousands of citizens they laid off over the past 3 years.
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by __loam 2y ago
What part of poor unit economics do you not understand?
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by __loam 2y ago
I think there's a big difference between companies like Google and Amazon that were operated unprofitably for years but did have the option to pivot in to profitability for a lot of that time. I would also consider Uber more of an outl
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by __loam 2y ago
Likewise for the breathless praise. The early internet was a public project, it didn't have to worry about its own return because the point was to build a robust communications system that could survive a nuclear strike. Seeing as Open
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by __loam 2y ago
I would definitely be worried about ROI if my main product was something my big tech competition could copy easily because they did the research that led to my product.
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by __loam 2y ago
There's growth focus and there's doing some of the largest fundraising rounds in the history of silicon valley during a time when debt is the most expensive it's been in decades and still barely keeping the lights on because
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by __loam 2y ago
They're not talking about your anecdotes, they're talking about the capex and returns. Which are overwhelmingly negative.
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by __loam 2y ago
Using the behavior of one bad actor to excuse the abuse of everyone else is pretty bad.
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by __loam 2y ago
It's kind of tone deaf to launch a tool like this without considering this in the current climate. Not a popular take on hackernews but everyone outside the tech space is pretty pissed about this stuff.
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by __loam 2y ago
I mean you're allowed to do pearl clutching just don't be surprised when people call you out on it.
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by __loam 2y ago
I believe it was Knuth who said practice informs theory and theory informs practice. You need both.
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by __loam 2y ago
Lots of people (in tech at least) take time on top of mandatory vacation that can result in like 2 weeks of time.
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by __loam 2y ago
That's too bad that your business isn't viable without the largest single violation of copyright of all time.
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by __loam 2y ago
The nature of the copy does actually matter.
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by __loam 2y ago
I feel like at some point the people in favor of this are going to realize that whether the data was ingested into a training set is completely immaterial to the fact that these companies downloaded data they don't have a license to us
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by __loam 2y ago
Pips rise and software quality stays the same or gets worse. High performers get to delude themselves into thinking they have impact.
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by __loam 2y ago
Yeah it turns out humans have more rights than computer programs and tech startups.
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by __loam 2y ago
A lot of creative professionals work on commission. Social media is basically a requirement if you want to make money in certain artistic spaces. If you can't show your work in public you won't get jobs. Catch 22.
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by __loam 2y ago
Bluesky themselves have made it abundantly clear they're with the artists on this one. The firehose isn't a license to use someone's art for commercial software development.
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by __loam 2y ago
The US has been enforcing anti-trust law for over a century including against tech companies like Microsoft.
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by __loam 2y ago
Maybe network effect isn't the right way to describe it but clearly Google has a ton of inertia here since their company is literally the verb for search.
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by __loam 2y ago
Building a web index and search service to compete with Google requires huge capital expenditures and going up against a network effect that Google exerts on the market (often by paying other companies to be the default). The only company t
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by __loam 2y ago
The problem with monopolistic markets is that the new service won't quickly capture the market lol. That's why the DoJ is going after them, there are meaningful barriers to competition that creates incentives for Google to choose
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by __loam 2y ago
I agree that Google has an obligation to keep search results high quality but they're failing at that while also screwing over legitimate businesses.
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by __loam 2y ago
Amazon does have an oligopoly over utility computing along with ms and Google. They run like 60% of the internet on AWS. Tesla obviously does not have a monopoly on cars or even electric vehicles. You can believe whatever you like but it&#x
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by __loam 2y ago
Most of them use Bing's indexes on the backend and some competition does not mean that Google doesn't have monopoly power over the market. Firefox exists but Chrome still has a much larger share of the market.
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by __loam 2y ago
Search is an essential utility used by basically everyone on the planet with an internet connection. Google has a lock on 96% of that traffic and has increasingly made business decisions with respect to search that hurt the quality of the r
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by __loam 2y ago
Most companies are happy to keep taking without additional compensation.
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by __loam 2y ago
I've noticed this too. If you want to get better, you're basically responsible for doing it in your own time. Using work time for unproductive learning seems frowned on and punished.

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