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by charmides 8y ago
There is no such thing as a hivemind here, just the consensus that it is wrong to sell your company to an entity that puts profit above people's privacy and wellbeing.
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by charmides 8y ago
I think it is good that this community praises founders who do the right thing and condemns those who do the wrong thing, even though most of us will never play for such high stakes.
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by charmides 8y ago
Relatable or not, it is still a wrong thing to do and we should strive to be better people during the short time that we are alive.
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by charmides 8y ago
Thank you for the insight.
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by charmides 8y ago
I guess that selling user data and advertisements is worth more per user than I realized.
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by charmides 8y ago
Email is a highly competitive market with a low barrier to entry and thousands of companies offering similar services. It is nothing like hardware, so your comparison is bizarre. By the way, I was asking for the point of view of an expert
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by charmides 8y ago
I need to respectfully disagree with you here. In a free market, pricing does have something to do with the cost of providing a service because companies that overcharge would quickly lose market share to competitors, especially in a wildly
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by charmides 8y ago
I think paid email services are a great idea, but $50 a year and 2 GB of storage for Fastmail seems expensive to me. Why not something closer to five or ten bucks a year? Can someone explain to me why this type of pricing makes sense?
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by charmides 8y ago
>"Platform bias" isn't an antitrust concern, and, in fact, the President has no authority to "de-bias" private companies. This is a very common refrain and I would agree completely with this if we didn't liv
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by charmides 8y ago
The Trump administration's critical stance on the tech giants is one of the very few things coming from them that I support, even though their actions here appears to be rooted in self-interest and self-preservation only (just like eve
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by charmides 8y ago
Disturbing that it does not kill its prey first.
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by charmides 8y ago
Seems like my sleeping patterns are a lot different than those of most other people. Also, I felt depressed to see that people spend most of their lives sleeping and working or in some transition thereof.
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by charmides 8y ago
Regarding Point 4: One recurring point in a lot those post-mortem articles is how hard it is to sell software, but how (relatively) easy it is to sell service (incl. consulting). Why is that?
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by charmides 8y ago
I have not found much opportunity on PredictIt to exploit that sort of thing. Seems like most people there attempt to make rational investments.
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by charmides 8y ago
The difference in life expectancy between men and women appears to be significant across every human culture. The effect appears to be biological and not cultural.
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by charmides 8y ago
If you tell me why you would like to learn Java, then I could help you find the appropriate resources.
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by charmides 8y ago
Are you a native speaker of English?
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by charmides 8y ago
I believe the highest quality aggregator is the one published by 538: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/... and I think the most meaningful metric is the "net approval", i.e. the dif
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by charmides 8y ago
Why did you have to start from scratch at 35?
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by charmides 8y ago
I found the article to be mostly self-aggrandizing. With full respect for you, I think it is naive to believe that the author wrote this out of altruism.
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Ask HN: What can we learn from TempleOS?
22 points by charmides 8y ago|11 comments
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by charmides 8y ago
I felt similarly about it. The piece lacked cohesion, but the author still made some good points and I think it's fine that they have been discussed frequently before. Regarding start-ups, I think Wendy is a little bit too willing to m
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by charmides 8y ago
I think your hypothesis in the third paragraph is a little off. To take an example, many (if not most) Westerners are strongly against the farming of cats and dogs for meat, which is commonplace in some Asian countries. Those farmers are no
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by charmides 8y ago
That's a strawman argument. Pigs and cattle having the same rights as people is not why it is unethical to torture and eat them. Instead, it is because their behavior and nervous systems strongly suggest that they experience pain in th
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by charmides 8y ago
Politics are involved whether you like it or not. The idea of open-source software is a deeply political one.
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by charmides 8y ago
Doesn't mean we can't do our best to minimize suffering.
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by charmides 8y ago
That's just an appeal to tradition, which was a popular argument back in the day to support slavery.
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by charmides 8y ago
All of us are deeply involved in politics whether we know it or not and whether we like it or not. - Nashville , 1975
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by charmides 8y ago
The summaries of the case studies in Section 2 was disturbing, to say the least. I sometimes think about the NIPS consistency experiment from a few years ago, which I think also speaks very negatively of the current state of academic ML res
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by charmides 8y ago
Wouldn't you need to know the false negative rate too?

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