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by gretch 5y ago
No, I took the argument that would logically follow instead of purely reading it literally. Ethics is the basis of parent's argument. If what you are saying is true, that parent would yield their action is unethical, then the comment c
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by gretch 5y ago
So you consider it ethical to watch videos hosted on the YouTube platform with their own servers/datacenters, that a creator is earning non-zero revenue from and block all ads? Like block ads if you want man, whatever, but to take a mo
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by gretch 5y ago
Disclosure: work at google, not on stadia Not just marketing but greater business strategy. I knew it was over when you still had to pay for the games would not be the “Netflix of gaming”. I double knew it was over when I watched Microsoft
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by gretch 6y ago
Well actually if solosoyokaze had said something more like "This is probably referring to the rothschilds based on (link to historical information). It's reasonable to extrapolate that they were war profiteers based on (reasoning)
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by gretch 6y ago
Exactly. Doing this would 'dilute' her and the "new new taylor version" would be next to worthless
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by gretch 6y ago
Your hyperbole is going completely off the far deep end "billionaires are criminal by definition" What definitions are you using? When you talk like this, you're hardly helping your cause. Ppl just dismiss you as intellectual
727.
by gretch 6y ago
Yeah maybe. You can say “maybe” anything... Are this person’s experiences not valid on their own somehow?
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by gretch 6y ago
It's not that it's not believable, it's that the it's equally believable that a number of other vested parties could be doing it plausibly. You yourself just argued how low the barrier-to-entry for a campaign like this i
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by gretch 6y ago
Well they should factor in strategic loss by attrition. If you shoot a $1 million dollar missile at every $100 dollar drone, that’s a good way to lose a war. Not sure about mid ranking officers, but captains who are in charge of ships think
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by gretch 6y ago
No, a higher stock price (caused by the demand and transaction volume generated) is valued immediately as compensation. If your stock goes up, employee morale is high and ppl want to stay the rest of their vesting schedule. If the stock goe
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by gretch 6y ago
I don’t like Bitcoin at all but I like coinbase. Coinbase gives people what they want, quickly and conveniently, with a price ppl are okay with. A great business Bitcoin is not a thing ppl should want (IMO) It’s like going in a 7-11 and buy
732.
by gretch 6y ago
Is an astoundingly extreme claim. First we have to accept the premise that live music is “dead”. Second it’s due to some orthogonal factor like a smoking ban as opposed to recorded music becoming way more accessible through technology. It’s
733.
by gretch 6y ago
Well the parent comment is simply arguing against nuclear, and given that no civilization before 1940 had to think about nuclear, it’s not a bad take... Despite being somewhat of a subjective political position, Its not crazy to think late
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by gretch 6y ago
Disclosure: employee I hate that the HN audience put so much significance on google “abandoning” (it didn’t) this mantra. Anyone who actually understands depth in any topic knows that it’s not as simple as “don’t be evil”. Like oh cool than
735.
by gretch 6y ago
Marketing isn't magic. You can't just take anything and sell it uphill. If you could, why would anyone try to innovate on any level? Why are software engineers and product people paid more than marketing people at the same company
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by gretch 6y ago
There is no such principle in our free society of what is and isn’t a fair and equitable business transaction. The only tool we have for that is what the market (supply and demand) will yield. I can take a tiny piece of carbon, call it a di
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by gretch 6y ago
>nobody is actually experimenting Experimentation with society requires risk taking and uncertainty. Of course no one wants it. What if someone came up to you and said "hey we're going to put your kid into a new type of experim
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by gretch 6y ago
What about Facebooks 2006 redesign (although to consider this case study, we have to put aside the HN cultural disdain of FB and look at the situation clinically) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/faceboo
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by gretch 6y ago
These are all valid feelings / hypotheses about what happened, but even with the benefit of hindsight we can’t confirm them. For example, you think the real name policy tanked the effort. But did it really? Twitter verified status is c
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by gretch 6y ago
disclosure: I work for google "People who understand human beings" and the have the ability to synthesize those insights into compelling technology products are exceedingly in demand in 2021. Rest assured, we hire as many as we po
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by gretch 6y ago
I was playing the role of many possible counter-arguments to the parent comment. None of the views I expressed were actually representative of me. I was saying 'if I believed...' because I think many people on the other side actua
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by gretch 6y ago
Well the solution isn’t to gloss over it for them and just say “no the institutions ARE good.” I mean who is going to actually accept that. If we want the other side to understand, we have to speak to them in a way that they’ll understand i
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by gretch 6y ago
That’s exactly my point. Put DDG into your original post. It refutes your own argument which was based solely on how google is an ads company and Apple is a hardware company.
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by gretch 6y ago
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-advertising/apple-c... Apple makes 2 billion a year on advertising projected to go up to 11 billion in 5 years. While a fraction of total rev, I don’t think it’s correct t
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by gretch 6y ago
This is not a discussion of protocols, it's a discussion of being associated with known bad actors. Suppose that I have a history of doing semi-illegal things and that my wallet is publicly associated with real personhood. Example. gre
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by gretch 6y ago
The above user is only talking about their personal desires and opinions about Google. They don't speak on behalf of anyone else and don't pass judgement if G is 'good' or 'bad' for society as a whole. You are
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by gretch 6y ago
Define “the market” though. Why is it that tik tok can not exist and suddenly become a huge phenomenon in just a few years and Facebook can do nothing about it? That to me clearly says that FB doesn’t have a monopoly unless you define the m
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by gretch 6y ago
I disagree with this, here's why: 1. If you try to make the name descriptive, it could possibly be accurate, but lack precision. To take on your example "Customer Management Tools" - ultimately there's a whole host of th
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by gretch 6y ago
The Marvel Cinematic Universe Finale (infinity wars/endgame) I remember I saw Iron Man 1 in high school and it really felt like it was the beginning of something different. This movie wasn't like the other ones that came out each
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by gretch 6y ago
But in real life examples, the exact opposite has been playing out. Instead of you being sold to the richest, hungriest gas station, it's more like all of the gas stations racing to the lowest price to serve you, and consumers having n

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