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by chipdart 3y ago
> To a first approximation, if you express a strong opinion about politics (particularly in these times), no matter which side you align with, you're going to alienate about half your customers, so it's always seemed like bad b
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by chipdart 3y ago
> Unionisation pressures (...) It boggles the mind how basic mechanisms to protect workers from health and safety issues and overall abuses are often mindlessly parroted as contributing to a company's problems. Listen, if you are in
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by chipdart 3y ago
> Also, tell the family they just have “bad luck”. It's not wrong, though. The Earth's surface is slightly over 500 million km². Let's say that something landing within a 10m radius of you represents a hit. That radius is
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by chipdart 3y ago
Saving you guys a quick googling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconel Fascinating stuff.
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by chipdart 3y ago
> Predictable Elon Musk dunking, but I'd like to see other people's ideas. Not firing teams responsible for enforcing terms of service. Not firing teams responsible for moderation. Not destroying the purpose of user verificatio
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by chipdart 3y ago
Once you force pay-to-post schemes, you are shutting down new adopters. Once your inflow of new adopters trickles to a halt, your business is dead.
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by chipdart 3y ago
Elon Musk complained about bot spam while buying Twitter in hopes to drive it's value down. Elon Musk does absolutely nothing about bot spam after buying Twitter in hopes of not driving it's value down.
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by chipdart 3y ago
> Actually, yes, because racism is an ideology and a world view that says your own race/lineage is better. I don't think that word means what you think it means. > Racists do exist, AND communists try to control society. Cle
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by chipdart 3y ago
> It's basically an ideology that has substituted class struggle with race and identity struggle. There are oppressors and there are oppressed, and the oppressed need a voice and people to fight on their behalf. Do you think that tr
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by chipdart 3y ago
So what exactly is coming around then? Is someone's life not going absolutely perfect a sign of bad karma?
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> Indeed, there is a reason for the saying "what comes around, goes around". Perhaps it's just me, but I don't see scaling down a project as karmic retribution for murder.
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by chipdart 3y ago
At this time it's just better to focus on the Redis project that matters. https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey
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by chipdart 3y ago
> The business needs marketing. For that you need data processing pipelines, user profiling, user segmentation, targetable ads, etc etc etc. Not to mention infrastructure for moderation. That's where the bulk of the complexity lies.
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> I reckon I could implement 90% of the end-user functional features of Twitter in a weekend. Building a Twitter clone is an exercise that's frequently used in system design interviews. It's a popular exercise because it's
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by chipdart 3y ago
> I'm not sure if your comment applies to Threads but if it does, and why not given the short time to launch, that Threads MVP had 100 M app downloads in the first 5 months. Irrelevant. I'm talking about the feature set, which
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by chipdart 3y ago
I think these stories tend to be based on a bait-and-switch angle. Minimum viable products only need to implement very basic functionality, just enough to get something out of the door. Limited tech stacks like Laravel/Django/Adon
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by chipdart 3y ago
I think you don't fully grasp the role and importance of self-publishing. Their main goal is not maximizing how much profit you extract from a book, but persist content in a format that is both easy to distribute and to store perpetual
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by chipdart 3y ago
Yes, you could. That's the point.
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I wonder what was the impact of the internet making it easy for everyone to just put together a website and dump their content in it. I'm not even considering self-publishing services. Just buying a domain, pay a hosting company to hos
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by chipdart 3y ago
> (...) it's literally a little like letting someone screw you with no commitment, then you being upset they don't feel the same way as you do. I strongly disagree with this take. Contributing your time to a non-profit is not &
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by chipdart 3y ago
> (...) the scapegoat will be government regulations. That's true in a sense. The only thing that stops anyone in the world from marketing a full self driving car is the risk of being held liable for killing anyone involved directly
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> But isn't it true that the car did drive itself? Are you really asking whether the car drove itself in spite of the car's inability to break and accelerate, including stopping on red lights?
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> On a philosophical level, I agree with you. As a practical matter, did anyone who actually purchased FSD feel duped? You're confusing two entirely independent positions. Customers buy what's on the market today. They buy the
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by chipdart 3y ago
> Their take seems to be that while those technologies have a promising future, putting too much into them now threatens the entire company in the short term. I don't think that's an accurate take. What I'm seeing is incre
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Ask HN: Cryptography technique to hide monotonically increasing GUIDs
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by chipdart 3y ago
This clown unilayerally decides to push hate speech, extremist propaganda and wild conspiracy theories onto the world, and then has the gall to post this blend of statements playing helpless innocent victim when his company is reaping what
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by chipdart 3y ago
China also has a history of interfering with democracies in general and the US in particular. https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-linked-internet-trolls-tr... Edit: it's funny how all of a sudden this post is being
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by chipdart 3y ago
> I personally don't care about an individual's personal political opinions. What bothers me is when those opinions start to interfere with business operations. That goes for individual contributors as well as executives. Elon
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> That's why it's so weird that they're (apparently) abandoning their plans for an affordable EV and going all in on robotaxis. Tesla's track record of bait-and-switch promises and lack of credibility leads me to beli
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by chipdart 3y ago
The real TL:DR; > Trump’s proposal consists of pushing Ukraine to cede Crimea and the Donbas border region to Russia, (...) Aka Ukraine capitulation. No wonder, as Trump acts like a Russian asset.

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