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by dnissley 3y ago
While the invite-only period may have been necessary for scaling reasons, I have my doubts that it was necessary for buzz-building reasons.
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by dnissley 3y ago
Eh, this is at least a little different. Startups talk themselves up to investors where they need to convince the investors that they will be really valuable at some point in the future. This is compared to tax authorities who are only co
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by dnissley 3y ago
Screens that reveal the outside world (whether pass through video or other technology) have the potential benefit of allowing the user to exist in that real world for a greater overall duration of time (even if they are technically still &q
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by dnissley 3y ago
See "The rise of therapy-speak": https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-rise-...
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by dnissley 3y ago
This has nothing to do with rent seeking. You just don't like subscription models. Maybe you think they don't deliver enough new value through the thousands of engineers they employ to justify a subscription model, and that they s
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by dnissley 3y ago
Charging for a product that is actively being developed and improved is not rent seeking.
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by dnissley 3y ago
It has the most important (and most addictive) feature though: an endless feed
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by dnissley 3y ago
Simple: Pixels appear larger when they are closer to your eye.
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by dnissley 3y ago
My gut tells me there is still plenty of down-market demand for software engineers. Not sure how you would be able to show this though, maybe through average salaries going down? So "shrinking" doesn't look like jobs being de
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by dnissley 3y ago
> How can the "tech sector" be laying lots of people off ( https://layoffs.fyi/ ) but also crushing earnings and growing a lot? Here's one way to think about it: The rise in interest rates has set off a re
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by dnissley 3y ago
"It still counts as a recall"
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by dnissley 3y ago
Sure but saying they were "fired without being fired" implies that the company did some kind of covert layoff through underhanded means, e.g. giving people low performance reviews in order to get them to quit, or forcing designate
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by dnissley 3y ago
That was when the company was rescinding previous offers and laying off newish employees -- so there aren't a whole lot who stuck around long enough to reap the rewards.
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by dnissley 3y ago
Firing people without firing people? You are aware of the two major rounds of layoffs during the previous two years? Both of which came with extremely generous severance?
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by dnissley 3y ago
Are you implying that overseas landlords behave differently than local landlords?
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by dnissley 3y ago
Whenever a family member bitches to me about not being able to buy kindle books through the kindle app I count that as a non-geeky complaint about sideloading :)
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by dnissley 3y ago
I mean users do complain about not being able to sideload apps, which is an issue that is at least partially/minimally addressed through PWAs.
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by dnissley 3y ago
What seems illegitimate about this application?
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by dnissley 3y ago
"Passenger use" is the bet -- not purchase.
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by dnissley 3y ago
Aside from when someone I'm friends with gets their account hacked I don't think I've ever experienced spam through messenger
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by dnissley 3y ago
I tend to agree with you in general, that people feel they need to rationalize every single decision they make way too often and they should go touch grass, but in the case of marriage or other major life decisions I don't think this a
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by dnissley 3y ago
Apple can do what they want. I want them to be able to do what they want because I'm from America dammit and companies in non-critical segments of the economy like video games and phones should be able to do what works for them. Ain&#x
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by dnissley 3y ago
It's super easy to avoid all of this drama: Do not buy an iPhone. Almost any other phone will allow you to download and install arbitrary programs from any source that offers them. It's quite wonderful. It amazes me that people wo
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by dnissley 3y ago
> What makes you think that the kids of tomorrow are going to give a damn about today's notions of what's valuable? I mean, on a long enough time scale, they won't :) Same with USD, other currencies, or any given stock o
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by dnissley 3y ago
> STEM devalued non-STEM studies for years What does this refer to?
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by dnissley 3y ago
> The happiest people I see are the ones who live communally. I think we should be very careful here. Are you sure this isn't just grass-is-greener syndrome? By which I mean to ask: How have you chosen to live? Are you happy with
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by dnissley 3y ago
The answer is obvious when you look at who wrote this op-ed. Always remember: It's bad on purpose to make you click.
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by dnissley 3y ago
Trucks aren't 2-3 times more expensive to buy (at least in the US). A toyota camry (sedan) starts at ~$26k, and a tacoma (truck) starts at ~$32k.
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by dnissley 3y ago
How then? No need to be cagey
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by dnissley 3y ago
Is there proof of this?

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