jacquesm

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721.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
Good luck with that.
722.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
That's a bit late I think.
723.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
Investors don't run the company, they don't make product decisions on a day to day basis. They may demand growth and they may be able to fire the CEO if enough of them band together but that requires them to convince the board fir
724.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
Hah, thank you, that's exactly my sentiment.
725.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
If you can't grow your business then maybe you should just be satisfied with what you have. Growth without limit has a name: cancer.
726.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
With 5400+ people I am betting that you have at least one person in your 'web of trust' that no longer deserves that trust. That's one of the intrinsic problems with webs of trust (and with democracy...), you extend your trus
727.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
I am Jacques' complete lack of surprise.
728.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
Banks still have tellers?
729.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
And only exists because of Google.
730.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
This is how you'll end up destroying planet earth. Shareholders have to co-exist with the rest of us, if you wreck your environment to please yourself you'll be like that guy I knew in LA that had a Ferrari that he couldn't d
731.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
You have cause and effect confused. They buy the property because of the goodwill, they can't get it any other way, they know they will destroy it but goodwill doesn't necessarily show up on the balance sheet, whereas the result
732.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
Don't assume they were in on it. Microsoft plays very weird games with platform access and traffic.
733.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
So they can drop them at some point and then hold the party that has now become dependent on those ads to ransom and/or as a way to soften them up before acquisition.
734.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
They're not even trying. But this time 'the hacker did it' excuse wouldn't hold so they had to come up with something new in a hurry.
735.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
Microsoft had a lot of goodwill?
736.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
Because it's Microsoft. Categorically incapable of respecting their users. What's interesting to me is how many people went like 'Oh, Satya really gets open source, this time it will be different'. https://n
737.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
> I read these comments and I almost wonder if it's just parroting of state sponsored stories. A good way to get a feeling for that is usually to read back in a posters comment history.
738.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
You should get yourself invited into YCs inner circle then, they could do with some help in that department.
739.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
You see, a pimp's love is very different from that of a square.
740.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
Stopped clocks...
741.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
That + AH or SB. Those are the kiss of death, especially when combined for the 30u30.
742.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
AI slop article.
743.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
You mistook a marketing effort for science.
744.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
The reason you mention 'poor billionaire Rowling' is most likely because she's the only billionaire author that you know by name. If authors regularly became billionaires you'd have left out that name.
745.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
And even if it would be enforceable, would you be able and willing to go through the energy and monetary expenses to enforce it? Especially against a big corporation willing to fight you.
746.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
In a word: wow. That demo just kept getting better and better.
747.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
One alien sysop to another: so, you're telling me we got hacked by some other civilization because of a supply chain attack?
748.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
Vindication, finally.
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by jacquesm 7mo ago
The chances of either Voyager ending up in the hands of intelligent aliens are remote compared to the chances of us blowing ourselves up. Be happy that there is at least a tiny possibility of a tombstone for a race which once upon a time ae
750.
by jacquesm 7mo ago
Amazing article. What really stands out for me besides the obviously interesting electronics details is the incredible mechanical engineering. Quite a few of the frames and frame components look as if they've been milled out of aluminu

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