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by exogeny 6y ago
All of the answers give these fucks way too much credit. They designed it like a USB stick so underage kids could have them and their parents would be none the wiser.
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by exogeny 6y ago
>A spokesperson for Twitter told VICE News that they’re “prioritizing the removal of COVID-19 content when it has a call to action that could potentially cause harm,” a policy that they adopted on March 18. Since then, they’ve removed mo
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Nearly 50% of Twitter Accounts Talking about Coronavirus Might Be Bots(vice.com)
4 points by exogeny 6y ago|1 comments
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by exogeny 6y ago
When you have people who look just like you giving you ungodly amounts of money, it’s easy to believe your superhero story and ignore everything else. And then you hire people who also look just like you to reinforce it.
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by exogeny 6y ago
I’m torn. On one hand, this reads like your typical former-darling hit piece, bedrocked on out-of-context tales told by ex-employees with an axe to grind. On the other hand, they really are a paint-by-numbers of so many different but oh-so-
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by exogeny 6y ago
This is a fantastic idea, and great execution. Congratulations on a winner, Andrew!
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by exogeny 6y ago
Man, RIP necta :( I loved it so.
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by exogeny 7y ago
Noah Glass got hosed.
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by exogeny 7y ago
If the players involved don't actively trade, then yes. If the players trade often with a reasonable range of decision-making proficiency, the game is very fun. For example, just by dice rolling, you could get a lot of properties in th
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by exogeny 7y ago
Interesting to learn about this and compare it to the American experience. I was born in 1982, and my educational computing history was all Apple; Apple II, then the Mac, then the Performa, and then I can't quite remember. But Apple al
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by exogeny 7y ago
Here's an story that is semi-related to this. I visited the Playboy Mansion about five years ago for an event, and it was easily the strangest, most surreal residence I've ever seen. Nothing about it at all symbolized class or any
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by exogeny 7y ago
Even if I ignore all the different kinds of high school outreach they did, it’s obvious that they designed it to look like a USB stick quite intentionally. Fuck this guy.
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by exogeny 7y ago
For as much as I'd like to receive the utility of such a thing, I don't see how this is anything different than outright theft and therefore it should not be something promoted by any means.
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by exogeny 7y ago
This feels very similar yo Chick-Fil-A and In-N-Out and, well, the results are what they are.
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by exogeny 7y ago
He’s being downvoted because it’s a highly sociopathic argument. Humans also value empathy and compassion as well as mercenary self-fulfillment. Have you never been to, say, a soup kitchen or an animal shelter? I sort of suspect that the po
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by exogeny 7y ago
Count me as another person who lived in Pittsburgh and did not notice anything close to what he is describing. That’s not to say he isn’t right, of course. But for me Pittsburgh was an awesome, safe, affordable, and surprisingly culturally
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by exogeny 7y ago
Fantasy sports for money is a huge business here in the states - FanDuel and DraftKings probably do north of $200 million of revenue each in the vertical alone - and almost all of the top players have some kind of data science or math backg
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by exogeny 7y ago
I think a lot of the comments here are unnecessarily snarky to the point of being unhelpful. If I’m the operator of some public place - let’s say an arcade or a store - every square inch of my store that isn’t being monetized is inefficient
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by exogeny 7y ago
Anki, IIRC, also was a robotic toy company that was spun out of CMU. I believe it got a big check from a16z and then subsequently imploded.
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by exogeny 7y ago
Crypto reminds me so much of the dot-com boom in the late 1990s. Massive amounts of interest, amazing and potentially life-changing innovation, overrun with fraud they completely obliterates public confidence. I’m not a big crypto guy, but
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by exogeny 7y ago
I'd push back on your last point; there's a zero-sum feedback process here that is invisible. You're seeing the negative feedback from a vocal set of minority power users; the positive feedback from people isn't going to
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by exogeny 7y ago
I'm going to take the opposite of this argument, and for bonafides, I run the product team for a 1000+ person company. I'm going to assume that this thing was tested out the wazoo, both qualitatively and behind enough feature-flag
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by exogeny 7y ago
Makes sense. Why get the blood money via proxy through Softbank when you can simply get the blood money straight from the source?
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by exogeny 7y ago
This is 100% correct. FB and TWTR are publicly traded companies; their executives and their board have convinced themselves in an extremely cowardly fashion that their only duty is to the shareholders. They absolutely know that the second t
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by exogeny 7y ago
Deadspin, on it's own, was and is a profitable vertical. This story is completely about mismanagement and an unbelievably dumb calculation of believing the strength of a media brand is unrelated to its contributors. Further, don't
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by exogeny 7y ago
That seems crazy high to me, personally.
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by exogeny 7y ago
There have been multiple articles defending Elizabeth Holmes, and her personal politics are just as liberal. It's not about defending the person, it's about defending this vague entrepreneurial ideal of the renegade founder, the J
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by exogeny 7y ago
It's going to be wild in twelve months when we have the "Bad Blood"-ish book, the attendant sale of the movie rights, and the conservative-libertarian thinkpieces that vaguely defend him. But also, fuck this guy.
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by exogeny 7y ago
Very nice! The only thing I would recommend is after splitting, showing both hands even though the action is only on one of them.
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by exogeny 7y ago
This author is getting ratioed in the extreme on Twitter, and for good reason. Look, we all know that startups carry an inherent risk, and in a lot of cases, game-changing ideas look terrible at first. It takes a certain amount of chutzpah

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