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by a4isms 4y ago
I have mixed feelings about this, I definitely miss some of the playfulness of years long gone. But a simile comes to mind: The whizz-bang interfaces were like illuminated manuscripts. Beautiful. Works of art. Literal human artistic treasur
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by a4isms 4y ago
They’re for your Peloton.
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by a4isms 4y ago
I find Chrome indispensable on OS X. Whenever I begin to wonder if my Macbook Air has fans or not, I start up Chrome and whoosh, it’s like a Hawker Harrier performing a vertical take-off. At one point I was doing a lot of coding in a coffee
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by a4isms 4y ago
I am not a trucker, so I can't comment on the veracity of TFA's claims. But this rant reminds me of many similar things I've read about products that were designed by people only had superficial experience with the industry t
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by a4isms 4y ago
If there are some bad takes in TFA, please list the bad takes and why they are wrong. That would add value to the conversation. And frankly, sometimes a wrong essay or rant makes for a good HN post if it serves to provoke informative conver
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by a4isms 4y ago
These statements can all be simultaneously true: 1. It is foolish to walk down a dark alley flashing wads of cash; 2. Anyone who robs another person who is walking down a dark alley flashing wads of cash deserves to be punished harshly; 3.
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by a4isms 4y ago
All laws make you less free, but societies without laws also make you less free. Freedom is a slippery concept.
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by a4isms 4y ago
It doesn't run out of steam so much as it fits a particular scope better than others. We can bend over backwards to make it fit other scopes, like another commenter points out: FOMO is a headache, and social media could be called the a
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by a4isms 4y ago
I've been a part of this argument before. I have another, additional perspective on why growth is more important than cost-cutting in many cases. If there are costs to be cut, you can cut them today, you can cut them tomorrow, they&#x2
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by a4isms 4y ago
> It's the same thing as people say about fires. When you put out a fire you are a hero. When you prevent the fire in the first place, everybody thinks it's business as usual and nobody understands why you are needed. I got a d
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by a4isms 4y ago
"One man with a briefcase can steal more money than a hundred men with guns."—Don Corleone "One man with a keyboard and an internet connection can steal more money than a thousand men with briefcases."—SBF
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by a4isms 4y ago
When I was first going to nightclubs, Disco and Funk were counter-cultures. Disco was hated by the establishment because it was associated with homosexuality at a time when the Toronto police were conducting bath house raids and arresting b
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by a4isms 4y ago
I’m not sure what point you’re making. Let’s say I make a car. Cars are supposed to have brakes, lights, airbags, crumple zones, and so on, I don’t do any of that, manage to sell my cars for much less than my competition, and I get rich. Th
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by a4isms 4y ago
Incompetence is, “I had no idea companies have standard methods of bookkeeping and accounting, or that I could have hired people skilled in these matters, like CFOs, accounting firms, or managers with any experience whatsoever working in bu
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by a4isms 4y ago
Besides getting rich there is always the mission. So the question to ask Elon is... "How many people still working at Twitter hated all the woke crap like banning Nazis and were practically begging some conservative billionaire to buy
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by a4isms 4y ago
Or to put it another way: Interviewee: "What's my upside here?" Elon: "RSUs in this illiquid private company." Interviewee: "Under what circumstances do they become liquid?" Elon: "We have to first ma
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by a4isms 4y ago
Within the scope of an argument about the job mobility for Twitter engineers, Twitter is "just web dev stuff" or maybe "just planet-scale web dev stuff." The key point is that the skills these engineers have is valuable
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by a4isms 4y ago
As told in the old, old, story: Bernice can't sleep. She tosses and turns, tosses and turns. Her partner asks, "What's the problem?" "You know the $1,000,000 bridge loan we got from Fred's bank? It's du
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by a4isms 4y ago
Related: "One man with a briefcase can steal more money than a hundred men with guns." —Don Corleone, "The Godfather"
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by a4isms 4y ago
Digression: If you like "Enemy of the State," you absolutely must watch "The Conversation"[1] if you haven't already. You may decide, as many have before you, that it exists in the same universe as "Enemy of th
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by a4isms 4y ago
Some of the most interesting things I've read have been digressions from the main point. Your observation is a case in point: We're now talking about HN culture instead of wild times in the crypto economy. Is this a derailment? Or
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by a4isms 4y ago
Pedantic nit: Those are initialisms. An initialism is when the individual letters are individually pronounced, like "emm-bee-ess." An acronym is when the initial letters are pronounced as a word, e.g. SOAR ("Situation Options
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by a4isms 4y ago
Precisely. (I did not actually mean to suggest that Musk needed to follow the original LBO strategies, I was just saying that the end of the 80s LBO frenzy happened when those strategies begun to fail with massive LBOs. It's 35 years l
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by a4isms 4y ago
I can't speak for why someone else thinks this, and I certainly cannot read his mind, so this is just a general comment about buying something with cash or equity versus debt. If you buy with debt, you have to pay every month (or year,
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by a4isms 4y ago
Having been adjacent to the world of finance during the height of the Drexel/Milken/KKR leveraged-buyout craze of the 80s, I seem to remember that what ushered in the end of the excesses was a series of major failures where compan
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by a4isms 4y ago
I agree with you. This very much reminds me of Apple's Newton. It was actually quite amazing given the technical constraints imposed on making something to be shipped in volume, but not only was it underpowered for what it tried to be,
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by a4isms 4y ago
He played Saul, the hang-about with the Yiddish accent, and one of the two barbers. Arsenio Hall played played the other barber. Cuba Gooding Jr. played a customer. The joke Eddie tells at the end in character as Saul cracks me up to this v
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by a4isms 4y ago
The story I was thinking of is of Nicholas Alkemade, linked elsewhere in this discussion. He was a Lancaster tail gunner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade The story I linked to above is of Alan Magee, a
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by a4isms 4y ago
Good call-out! That was the scene I had in mind when I mentioned sitting in a barbershop arguing about the greatest boxer who ever lived, and while I didn't want to repeat that speech word-for-word, I was most definitely thinking of th
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"Any time we talking boxers, East Coast Elites gotta bring up Dicky Eklund. Dicky Eklund, Dicky Eklund, Dicky Eklund, that's all you hear. Stop with your Dicky Eklund, everybody know it be George Chuvalo!" https:/&#x2F

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