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by boh 4y ago
It's impossible to not "blow it" in the environment Evernote operated in. The default model for software startups was to leverage yourself to the hilt so can achieve some fantasy growth expectation VCs had for you. The growth
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If you're having AI write your posts and coming up with your ideas, you're either a spam site or a failing business.
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This is essentially innovation theater for a fairly lackluster core product. Adding AI for a feature no asked for is like straight piping your Honda Civic to make it sound like a race car. At the end of the day you're just driving a lo
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The financial news (WSJ, FT, Bloomberg) is definitely less blasé about it. There's definitely a sense that a scam is slowly being unearthed. I don't know if it's SBF previous political connections that are making most media o
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The Problem with Letting Therapy-Speak Invade Everything(nytimes.com)
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Aesthetics in general have completely stalled. The Brooklyn coffee house look, IKEA minimalism or boring Bauhaus architecture have been the default themes for most products/buildings/websites. A mix of impersonal mass production w
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An interesting read of the quoted text since the topic that is supposedly being defended isn't even mentioned. This is an attack on this whimsical philosophizing crypto-boosters use as a defense. No one cares about this "what is m
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by boh 4y ago
Thanks for finding the exception you need to prove your point, that must've taken a while. The argument that famous artists made a limited amount of art because there's only so much they could make in a lifetime is moot because of
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by boh 4y ago
Are you actually using BTC as currency? Have you done anything but traded it? We all know the answer--that's why this meta commentary on money is pointless and pathetic.
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Art doesn't have "artificial" scarcity.
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What exactly is the point of this mental gymnastics? For all this talk, how much of your crypto have you actually used as currency to buy things with? 50%? 20%? The typical Bitcoin holder spends 0%. The haters aren't the barrier to you
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Society is propped up by legal decree and violence. CryptoKitties didn't change that.
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Bitcoin is not above criticism nor are the companies you mentioned (all of which have been criticized for various reasons on this platform).
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I think all in all AI is a danger for everyone in the industry and there's no reason to sugar coat it. Pure economics makes whatever hopeful expectation of advantage created by the AI generated medium irrelevant for anyone with a livel
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This is definitely going to turn the climate problem on its head.
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Not to get off topic, but ending a formal letter to a business with "very truly yours" is weird and people still do it.
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My dog is an intelligent being and he doesn't share our affinity for math. We have to acknowledge that our concept of intelligence is human-centric. What we interpret as knowledge is based on our specific limitations and perceptions. W
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Uber was essentially a financial instrument for VC investors to pump and then dump on the public markets. It's main function was to produce creditability rather than be an actual business.
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Honestly this almost reads like an Onion headline. You mean a publicly available ledger is less anonymous than physical paper money that doesn't require any kind of identification to use? Who would've thought?
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This article is pretty funny. The writer does a good job of standing back and letting the absurdity speak for itself.
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VR is going to be a niche product even for gaming. It's fun and definitely a novel experience, but onerous for extensive use. It's way easier to sit in a comfortable chair and play on a traditional machine--particularly for any le
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Just having any methodology doesn't count, it has to actually serve to legitimize the model (which it doesn't). Pretty much every publicly traded firm has had MBA managers for the past fifty years, and yet somehow they still make
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So if you hire people without business degrees none of what you described will happen? If you hire a person to cut costs, you're looking for a person who will cut costs. That's what's being avoided conceptually in how this st
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What is the point of this study? If we don't hire managers with business degrees we'd see increases in employee wages and profits?. A person with a business degree is hired because the business hired them, and they're likely
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There's a huge gap between "that's pretty cool" and a feature length film. People want to create specific stories with specific scenes in specific places that look a specific way. A "Couple kissing in the rain &quot
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For the tech industry, "progress" is mostly defined in cost cutting, automation, market concentration, and increased profit margins. Yes I can now take a photo with my phone but my job is less secure, my environment is more pollut
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You're right, China now has nets to catch their suicidal workers. "Privileged" worker? The cult of the robber baron really has spread its wings. Not everyone is willing to talk themself out of a livable wage and benefits, but
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by boh 4y ago
It's amazing how cutting into corporate profits is now considered unethical. Educated people from first world countries wanting a living wage and benefits? How greedy of them. If there's one thing missing from every 10k it's
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Yes they do. They love to talk about that and do all the time. It helps make exploiting poor people with limited protections seem moral. Don't forget to mention how employing a person to work 16 hours a day making clothes or a phone he
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As companies continually erode employee benefits and aggressively seek out ever cheaper labor, we have to continually be reminded how innovative and great this "massive shift enabled in large part by new technology" is going to be

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