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by freewilly1040 5y ago
Things in the physical world break down sometimes. It’s not a result of some calculated collective choice.
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Even granting him that WhatsApp and Instagram were indeed savvy purchases, I think it is fair to say that purchasing nascent competitors is no longer a tool available to Facebook. Both because antitrust scrutiny and because those competitor
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It's an odd argument to make in the context of Uber/Lyft, which have indeed "won" by any reasonable definition, and handsomely rewarded it's investors (which should be victims in the overhype / under deliver sc
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
To some degree you’re making the case for Uber. The fact that you as the consumer can be completely oblivious to local cab driver idiosyncrasies is part of the appeal, as is the completely frictionless payment experience. Ok, cabs work fine
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
A 10% improvement over an incumbent means a complete takeover of the industry.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
(tangent) It's hard to think of a website that wouldn't benefit from ban lists of some kind. Twitter's muted words feature is the predominant feature keeping me on the site. I wish something similar existed for this site, Red
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
What you describe is timing the market though? Specifically, getting in on a run with confidence you can get out before the crash.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
… and sourced from the same Bloomberg article under discussion.
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All three cities you list are over an hour to Fremont via transit. 45 min to 1.5 hour via car with traffic.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
Remember when Covid tests were scarce, and the rich and powerful were getting special access to them? The argument here is that without abundance Covid tests don’t make it to the mediocre everything store.
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I don’t really get this. Chess isn’t fun if your opponent is much worse or much better than you. My suggestion is to take advantage of LiChess Zen mode, which hides the ranking of both you and your opponent. This orients me more towards the
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
It’s baffling to me that managers are given coding screens. As an IC I really don’t want to deal with a manager’s half thought out PR’s slapped together in between meetings. Perhaps some shops give a light meeting load. But “manager code” h
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
It’s weird.
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I see a lot defending the researchers involved, talking about how great they are and how none of Facebook’s misdeeds are their fault. At some point though, when data is consistently not shared, and any findings not favorable to the company
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
Now apply a distortion that allows everyone to to make their life seem much better than it actually is, and it’s not difficult to believe these platforms cause mental health problems.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
I'm not sure the "open source" qualifier is needed there.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
I wouldn't really listen to the case on either FB or Twitter unless the person arguing the point is familiar with using the products as an advertiser. That is the core product, after all.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
I would be curious to hear what someone who’s written both go and Ruby with a type system (forget what it’s called) is. My view from the outside is that while Rubyists have correctly figured out that being strongly typed is an advantage, it
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
It's a bit early to say nothing will come of this. Google certainly has deep pockets and an incentive to push for prosecution, and indeed they have alerted the FBI.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
You can still pay for unlimited likes, right? I would see the limit more as incentive to pay than to limit engagement for the user's sake.
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I know one ridiculous oped was written but I haven’t seen much debate. This argument would have some legs if it asserted that these men, you know, committed a crime.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
The triangle graph is a bit of an odd choice. Why not just use a bar chart?
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
I think YC has not put out information like this because the data would show joining a startup as a regular employee is not remotely worth it vs publicly traded companies.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
4 year vest, 1 year cliff is the standard, and even that is going away at some places. An employer who wants to keep you will demonstrate that by compensating you well and giving you an opportunity to augment your skills. This offerer sound
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
I don't think people at established companies care about gaudy job titles at startups. Being a director at some chaotic mess of a company (and much of the time that is what startups are) doesn't signal competence. The opposite can
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
Is there any good data on what the risk multiple of motorcycle riding is vs driving, assuming responsible behavior? Ie, you wear the standard gear, you don't drive at reckless speeds, you don't drive drunk, etc.
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
At my company of thousands there used to me one right wing troll and one left wing troll. The right wing troll would piss everyone off in the #diversity channel, the left wing troll would insult the company and leadership along social justi
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
It's discouraging that the top comment is in effect sticking up for the billionaire caught red handed in a lie (think of the good things FB has done for us!). I'm sure people smoking cigarettes throughout the years have had very n
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
> Most users benefit from social media What evidence supports this? The story is about evidence that this is in fact not true. The software we are talking about is not dropped from the heavens. It is created by extremely large, powerful
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by freewilly1040 5y ago
The recent mask study in Bangladesh comes to mind. I hazily remember it finding mask effectiveness at about 10-15%, which caused the press to proclaim that masks work. However against an exponentially growing virus this reduction amounts to

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