emestifs

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by emestifs 3y ago
Probably better that op posted the unshitified link
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by emestifs 3y ago
Still in the "Introduced" stage. Given the amount of lobbying in the US, and isn't the US senate Republican controlled(?), and lack of bipartisan cooperation, seems impossible for this to go anywhere.
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by emestifs 3y ago
so it goes
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by emestifs 3y ago
There's situations where it makes sense to raise $X million. And then there's situations where it makes sense to take nothing, bootstrap and become self sufficient. How do you compete against YouTube, Big Banks, Twitter if you gen
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by emestifs 3y ago
There's a significant non-zero probability Reddit will break that loop themselves once they become beholden to big shareholders combined with their questionable internal decision making.
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by emestifs 3y ago
> Double-swiping the rewards card led to free gas for months — and a felony theft charge The software worked as intended. What's the felony?
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by emestifs 3y ago
> Or is there [or is there not a] no smooth road after all the bumps of the transition? That's the trillion dollar question
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by emestifs 3y ago
The closest to a large scale test was Covid stimulus across multiple countries, which at face value didn't yield great results and had some short term (<5 year) negative economic implications. But that was an emergency measure and d
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Ask HN: Future Socioeconomic Impacts of automation
11 points by emestifs 3y ago|10 comments
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by emestifs 3y ago
Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders
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by emestifs 3y ago
OP was asking about least likely
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by emestifs 3y ago
You quite delusional about a number of things. It's not even worth pointing them out.
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by emestifs 3y ago
What makes HN different from FB? Is it just the scale? You see stupid stuff posted here. You even see things get flagged fairly quickly. Crowdsourced moderation. But I can't imagine that would work for FB. Is it that there's liter
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by emestifs 3y ago
> startups having trouble closing rounds Game startups or tech startup in general? I can understand tech startups still feeling the effects of limited venture capital, I'm less familiar with gaming startups and their funding dynamic
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by emestifs 3y ago
> I don't think that's the way most people are going anyway Unfortunately some are. And not only that, but also full steam ahead on a 100% locked-in, read _all_ the AWS (serverless)services, AWS-only stack. I speak from unfortu
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by emestifs 3y ago
You're not alone. Many are seeing the same thing.
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by emestifs 3y ago
https://medium.com/membership - you pay medium, medium pay author some tiny subset of that.
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by emestifs 3y ago
Consider the holidays in December as well. It's possible some layoffs were finalized but not enacted until after.
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by emestifs 3y ago
enshitification intensifies. Sorry I know this is a low quality comment. But I think it fits with the irony of everything.
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by emestifs 3y ago
Gotta love the comment section, anyone can write anything they feel like, regardless of...well anything.
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by emestifs 3y ago
Firefox paradox strikes again. User brings up an unrelated thing, even if valid, to lessen something positive. You seen this pattern again and again in Firefox news threads.
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by emestifs 3y ago
You got downvoted and now you're original comment is greyed out. Now you're mocking people and calling them "sensitive". The fact news about Firefox gets upvoted clearly indicates it is newsworthy. You don't get to
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by emestifs 3y ago
No, people go after the devs too. I was specific about distinguishing Firefox and Mozilla in my post. Firefox in too often caught in the political/flame crossfire.
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by emestifs 3y ago
Thank you and everyone else working on the Firefox browser and adjacent projects for your hard work. Don't let the noise of the internet lessen what you and the team have done and continue to do.
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by emestifs 3y ago
The Firefox paradox: People b***h about Firefox's (lack of) market share, Mozilla doing stupid things (fair criticism), Firefox not having X (extension support on Mobile, moving from legacy extensions to standard manifest format) Then
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by emestifs 3y ago
Just a heads up for anyone thinking of replying, this is a just bait, no point in trying to use reason, it will be ineffective, you're just wasting your time replying.
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by emestifs 3y ago
A number to a text-to-speech system with Bard on the other end of course
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by emestifs 3y ago
Now only if it were that easy to get a phone number to speak to a human at Google
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by emestifs 4y ago
Lighrun, which appears to be an otherwise legitimate-looking SaaS company selling developer tooling, is engaging in the terrible practice of scraping and rehosting Github and Stackoverflow questions and discussions for what I can only assum
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Ask HN: Experience with remote.com for remote full time job
1 points by emestifs 5y ago|0 comments

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