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by baron816 4y ago
Blocking acquisitions is such a double edged sword. Yes you protect competition, which is good. The downside is that you remove an exit ramp for startups, which limits the incentives for startup formation in the first place. I have no idea
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I guess it was plastics companies like Dow that convince us that recycling was just as good. I have frequently encountered the attitude of "these single use plastics are ok to use since we can just recycle them". Even under ideal
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Yes, we need to help both boys and girls. They have different needs and need to be approached in different ways.
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I had a pretty bad experience with them when I interviewed about a year and a half ago. I don't remember all the details, but I recall them giving me (a frontend SWE) a phone screen problem that was all about micro-optimization. I thin
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No, it’s a coordination problem. If you’re the only one hiding your prices in fees, it can be an advantage since it looks like you’re charging less. Everyone has to do it to keep up, but since everyone does it, no one really gets an advanta
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Midjourney
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Yes, but I watch YouTube more than all the others combined.
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I pay for YouTube. Definitely worth it.
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There’s a type of seaweed you can feed to cows that eliminate their methane emissions, right? Something like 30% of water in the Western US goes to farming cattle feed. If you managed to replace that cattle feed with efficiently grown seawe
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The thing is, people on the far left and the far right DON’T want a liberal society. They want authoritarianism. They want control to suppress their adversaries.
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It’s really hard to make moral judgments on what someone should get paid. How much does a bricklayer deserve to get paid? How much does an insurance broker deserve to pay? How much does a blackjack dealer deserve to get paid? It’s easy to s
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We just need an across the board price transparency law. You should know exactly what you’re going to pay before you agree to any services. It shouldn’t be that hard.
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A lot of Leftist tech workers like to think they’re working in a coop. They think the company should exist to serve their needs, rather than the needs of investors and customers. It’s a recipe for catastrophe.
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edit: removing comment. I don’t think what I wrote was confidential, but I don’t want to find out the hard way.
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I bought a small amount of META when the narrative of its downfall hit its peak. It’s the first individual stock I’ve bought in 12 years. I’m now going to be up about 60%.
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Ain’t that the thing about pricing? I’d be ok with a Lamborghini costing $60k. But I’m not going to pay >$100k. Others will though.
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My understanding is that dogfighting shouldn’t be a thing with the F-35. It’s not like in Top Gun where the pilot needs to align the plane with its target to shoot it down. The F-35 pilot just needs to point their head towards the enemy to
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I’m willing to bet HN bought out the $2 sheets because of this.
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I want to see a study of the impact of Amazon on unemployment and inequality. Inequality has been flat and then declining in the US since about 2013. Unemployment has remained at rock bottom rates. I think a lot of this is the competition A
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Guys, please tip your AP News reporter. These people work long hours for little pay. It’s also a good idea to tip your HN moderator, and the SREs keeping HN up and running.
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> I met her on Polk Street. We’ve been on a few dates so far. She seems nice! That’s probably the extent of what 90% of guys would say about any woman they’re dating.
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Please read my whole comment. That's not anywhere close to what I'm arguing for.
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Read my last paragraph. I'm suggesting a way that would allow employees to leave whenever they want, but to derisk training for companies so that they still have an incentive to hire and train untested people.
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What? Can you please read my whole comment?
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You say this like "this is the moral and right thing to do". If I could snap my fingers and make it happen, then I would. That's not how the world works though. Companies have a profit incentive. And that's a good thing.
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When I first tried to transition into tech, I had a really hard time getting someone to hire me. I had a lot of potential, but no one wanted to take a risk on someone without experience. I still needed some training, and no one wanted to tr
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Yeah I meant in much in the way saurik says. There isn’t really a word for what I meant, but punish is pretty close. “Actor A does something wrong, so it’s ok to punish actor B” is how I characterize the parent poster’s statement.
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I wouldn’t feel bad about doing it to Meta, but Meta isn’t every company and every company isn’t Meta. You shouldn’t “punish” every company for the misbehavior of one giant one. Though I would still say it’s probably usually fine to back ou
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Last year, I came up with my own "Completely Scientific, 100% Accurate Compatibility Survey" which aimed to make first dates more fun than you get by asking the same old introductory questions (eg "6. What's a movie that
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When I want to buy something like an air fryer, I either want something to either tell me the best overall air fryer, or the best one for me (“best air fryer for individuals with small kitchens”). I don’t want to do a whole bunch of researc

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