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by bentlegen 3y ago
Ah, see I think denigrating the conversation by moving to personal attacks - painting me as a child who “stomps my feet” - is far less charitable. I legitimately wanted to see the data / could be persuaded. Aside, my personal anecdote
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by bentlegen 3y ago
Right, but you could find and link to that thread instead of “citing it” from memory. As it is it remains conjecture. (Aside, this thread now has 300 comments after just 2 hours. HN’s purported slowdown in the WFH era feels grossly exaggera
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by bentlegen 3y ago
> It's actually humorous that most tech "social media" like HN, Reddit, Digg, and so on were much busier back when most of us were in offices, because we all would bide our days doing anything but work. Do you have a sourc
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by bentlegen 3y ago
I hang out in those rooms too. My experience doesn’t mean good ideas don’t or can’t happen there. But I personally feel more “creatively productive” when I can read the room and gauge folks’ expressions/enthusiasm. People are different
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by bentlegen 3y ago
Seems off topic, but the equity I’ve been compensated with has been sufficiently worthwhile and I don’t feel hard done by. YMMV.
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by bentlegen 3y ago
I had a single casual conversation spontaneously in the office that directly led to a million dollar product getting created. It wasn’t even a “bouncing idea” talk, it came from nerds nerding-out at the lunch table. That one example sold me
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by bentlegen 3y ago
How you went from “seems plausible” to “this man must believe Cocaine Bear is happening repeatedly” is an impressive leap. Aside, I think your post highlights why commenting on the internet is so painful. All I‘ve done is highlight a factua
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by bentlegen 3y ago
Given that Uber was once caught booking (and canceling) thousands of fake rides on Lyft -- seems perfectly plausible. https://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-r...
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by bentlegen 3y ago
We created a society where homeless people have so few means, they turn to public transit just to have a roof over their heads and stay warm. Then we lament how public transit has become “undesirable”, never recognizing the active steps we
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by bentlegen 3y ago
Same. I feel it breaks the immersion, if only briefly. And I agree with the above commenter “how did this not get dinged a little bit for this”.
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by bentlegen 3y ago
Ok, let’s say instead he decides to label every journalist that published a “pro-vaccine” article with a “has published articles that promote vaccines” tag on their profile instead. He makes no modifications to anybody else’s profile. This
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by bentlegen 3y ago
Here’s an example of a factual label: I was born a biological man. If I choose to omit my gender from my profile, and Elon insists that my biological gender must be present because of some comments I made — and only on my particular profile
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by bentlegen 3y ago
I decided to quit Twitter after Elon decided it was appropriate for him to deface the public profile of a national news institution (the CBC). https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/musk-feuds-with-... I
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by bentlegen 3y ago
I don’t think I’ve mischaracterized anything, unless you’re telling me that you didn’t mean to paint this effort as meaningless posturing by ineffective environmentalists that would only have negative results. If nothing would make you happ
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by bentlegen 3y ago
So because nuclear or other solutions can’t “immediately” be stepped up (debatable, but it doesn’t matter), we should not bother to create the circumstances in which they would become beneficial? This go-nowhere attitude and is why people c
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by bentlegen 3y ago
I am not a particular fan of Cohen’s music, but as far as humans go, I think he led a fascinating life. He was a poet, a novelist, a singer/songwriter … and he found success (and failure) multiple times at very different stages of his
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by bentlegen 4y ago
I see that “Musk takes editorial control of users’ content by banning URLs he doesn’t like” isn’t in your list of improvements. Given your username is “Freedom2”, I don’t understand how “longer tweets” makes it worth it. To me it’s all wort
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by bentlegen 4y ago
It could be this website in 12 months or a few years. Or someone else. Doesn’t matter. To me your reaction is like dismissing version 1 of the iPhone as a nothingburger because it’s battery isn’t good enough to be practical at launch.
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by bentlegen 4y ago
It doesn’t matter. Given enough time and progress, it will be indistinguishable.
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by bentlegen 4y ago
And theatres need attendees, streaming services need plays, tourist attractions need eyeballs, etc. Just because a publication needs “clicks” does not make their argument invalid, or that they can’t achieve that viewership without debasing
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by bentlegen 4y ago
Wow, $2 is a good deal. I feel I paid that little to start, but now NYT charges me $20 CAD a month. I regularly debate whether it’s worth it or not, and it definitely stops me from subscribing to other publications.
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by bentlegen 4y ago
Re: “news companies should write articles that are worth reading in full”. Tell me: why is the first, highest-upvoted comment to every paywalled article posted on HN, actually just an archive.xx link that defeats that paywall? Coincidence?
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by bentlegen 4y ago
In terms of real dollars, those bonds will be worth less in 10 years because of inflation. You’re correct in highlighting that if they fronted the cash now the bonds would be less, but it is simultaneously true that they will be worth less
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by bentlegen 4y ago
You’re making this sound like some Ocean’s 11-level heist, and then discounting the premise you’ve created as being absurd. It doesn’t have to be that complicated. Perhaps he saw that the bank was in trouble and made a decision to sell shar
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by bentlegen 4y ago
I’m not a lawyer, but it’s unclear to me - a random internet observer - that anyone performed anything illegal. It strikes me more as a bet gone colossally wrong, basic human mismanagement, capitalism in action, etc.
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by bentlegen 4y ago
I think there’s confusion in this thread, as some are advocating that depositors be made fully whole, and some are interpreting Yellen’s comments to mean that’s what will happen.
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by bentlegen 4y ago
According to Bloomberg, the CEO sold 3.6 million dollars worth of shares days before insolvency. The sale was scheduled back on January 26th. Around the same time, analysts were commenting negatively about SVB’s earnings and liquidity posit
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by bentlegen 4y ago
I didn’t say that? I asked, what’s to disincentivize executives if the Fed backstopped all depositors money, now and perhaps in perpetuity? (Forgive me if I misinterpreted your position here. I have also edited this post for clarity.)
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by bentlegen 4y ago
The C-suite paid themselves millions of dollars via bonuses and stock sales right before insolvency. Executives got paid. What’s to stop future bankers from running the same playbook? (We can debate that this the stock sale was premeditated
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by bentlegen 4y ago
This has literally been an issue with banks for all of modern society. FDIC insurance did not materialize randomly. There are many answers: multiple bank accounts, holding other securities like treasuries (which are guaranteed by the US gov

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