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The legal system cannot keep up with the complexity rapid change of software. You will end up with one regulation that says you cannot track users, and another regulation that says you have to prove that you are effectively blocking Iran us
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I think you are conflating multiple groups. There is a group of people tired of woke culture invading their workspace. There is another group of people who are in a Pro-Trump bubble and believe that the election was stolen. There is another
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Exactly. Where were they when Christian Bakers didn't want to sell cakes for gay weddings?
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E-mail
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There are two separate issues: 1. Is it good that a few people at a few large companies can decide what is and isn't acceptable speech in America. 2. Do media companies have the right to end business relationships with companies who th
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Theranos is an example how how much money there is trying to find the next Jobs/Musk/Zuck/Gates. Everyone that gave Elizabeth Holmes money we hoping that she was the Steve Jobs of biotech. There is much less money for someon
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Most phishing scams required the target to have an emotional reaction that clouds their judgement. For example, if you get an email saying that your credit card was charged in another state, if you are worried about your finances you may pa
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Taibbi openly says that Trump is incompetent and is taking advantage of his idiot supporters. I doubt that Trump supporters will consider him objective.
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I call this "silver bullet consulting". The reality is that their customers have slapped a developer title on anyone willing to take their 80k/year job. And then they hire "product managers" who fill out schedules w
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Did you feel the same way about the Summer riots as the Capitol riots?
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You can't, someone will always be complaining about "X didn't get banned, buy Y did". The only solution is for Twitter to say "You all are right, our moderation policy isn't fair it leans to the left more than
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It is probably 99% true. You can occasionally find a company that is proud that they made their users happy. Notch with Minecraft might be an example of that. If you listen to VCs talk it is 100% about exit price.
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It is easier to scale up application servers than DBs. You want the DB to spend its CPU cycles on what its real value which is ACID.
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Twitter and most other online platforms have always shut down certain political groups like the KKK. KKK members have been silenced by most businesses. Is it theoretically possible that someone at Twitter or FB could decide that Democrats w
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Twitter bans things like calling people racial slurs, threating violence against people. If I wanted to do one of those things I would hopefully go see a therapist to understand why I'm acting that way.
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During BLM protests conservatives were posting pro police updates. Now that Trump supporters murdered a police officer reality has set in for them. This is the end of Trump. Most conservatives are good people who would never murder a polic
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I'm seeing this with the twitter ban. Trump supporter: "This is the erosion of free speech" Me: " Given that his supporters have already rioted and murdered, Twitter is trying to prevent him from inciting more riots&quot
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In 2000 AMZN was worth $500 per book sold each year and Enron was worth $.01 megawatt hour traded each year.
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What do you call it when a bunch of idiots get brainwashed by Trump and social media echo chambers into believing the election was stolen even though republican officials and courts have clearly show there is not enough evidence to overturn
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One police officer was murdered and congress had to stop their work. Why don't you tell us where the line should be drawn. If they had murdered 100 cops would that be enough? 5 senators? The vice president?
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People don't seem to be thinking through the "NO CENSORSHIP" goal. They want to go to a site where Trump can tell people to install "freedom software" with a link to Ransomware or Malware?
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The hope is that they will go back to watching sports, wrestling, nascar, porn, and whatever else these idiots watch. I feel bad that they got scammed by Trump, but they really should do something other than echo chamber themselves into a d
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I think most people underestimated how stupid hard core Trump supporters are. 90 percent couldn't tell you the square root of 4 or name a single city in India.
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Do a dns lookup for a large website. Then google that up address. There is a good chance you will see the domain name in one of the results
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Software 2.0 is happening right now. GTP-3 and Tesla FSD are examples of this. On the other hand software 1.0 was a victim of it success. People realized that they could build software companies with SQL hard coded into windows forms button
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If they read the user agreement they would see that the cash value of those items was zero. It is very similar to frequent flyer miles. Their value is zero. Delta can make 1 billion miles worth a diet soda tomorrow if they want.
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Western Union is also very useful, but the vast majority of transactions are not made by Western Union because it has tradeoffs that make other things like credit/debit cards and checks a better option. Bitcoin Evangelists are trying t
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Money is an instrument for transferring wealth. The reason you need it at all is because the barter system is incredibly inefficient. If buying things off of Amazon with bitcoin is quicker, cheaper, safer than using my Amex, I'm happy
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Dropbox is a total solution. It takes about 5 clicks and 10 minutes and you are getting the core values out of the product. Buying palantir is similar to buying IBM Watson. It is going to take months before anything is being installed. Most
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Mutations that spread quicker are also less deadly.

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