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by ketzo 3y ago
If you care enough to describe advertising as “mind rape,” why use the service at all? Why should you be allowed to take a thing from them without paying for it in some way? Just because you are technically able?
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by ketzo 3y ago
> not that expensive yeah, but it’s hard to overstate how much less expensive “free” is than anything else. I don’t know how you do free video hosting for the entire world without YouTube’s model.
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by ketzo 3y ago
I think this is a great take, with one exception: I think the loss of (free) ad-supported YouTube would be a devastating loss for the world at large.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Why, from first principles, should YouTube allow this? Why shouldn’t they go thermonuclear? I understand ads are annoying - I block as many as I can! - but I’ve never seen someone put together a coherent defense of the practice.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Doesn’t preclude the ability, no, but there are only so many hours in the day. Writing good code is a very separate skill set from that kind of problem-space work, and software engineers are mostly hired for the former.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Good engineers work to deeply understand the problem given to them. They understand the different possible solutions, and implement the best one they can, given their constraints. Good product managers identify the problems to be solved, an
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by ketzo 3y ago
I think it’s not unreasonable to just want to start a startup for its own sake. - work really hard on your own business - create a new thing rather than work on an old one - work with a small group of very motivated people - low possibility
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by ketzo 3y ago
> I doubt Texas refused on this principal ...really? You do? You think Texas turned down federal money equal to 0.05% of the state's GDP because of the inflationary impact ? Refusing government aid on principle is literally a cam
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by ketzo 3y ago
It is notoriously extraordinarily difficult to fire an underperforming federal employee. It is possible, but generally, you are committing to keeping this person around for quite some time.
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by ketzo 3y ago
I understand the impulse. Truly, I do. But there's pretty much no human being alive that requires zero social interaction to feel good. And GP's point is that you gotta make friends while you are more able. You may not be intere
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by ketzo 3y ago
Sure, not everyone has a problem being alone, but most people do, especially when it's for extended periods and, critically, not by choice. This is a post about a society-wide problem. Human beings are social animals. Time spent arou
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by ketzo 3y ago
The Wikipedia article actually has a mention of that too, in regards to a pin on a tank machine gun. I’ve personally heard of a tiny device called the “fuck wrench”…
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by ketzo 3y ago
So, one meta-layer of discussion up: do we think the recent surge of Kagi discussion on HN is indicative of a real wave? Or is “picking a different search engine” gonna be something only 1% of users ever do again? I honestly think that even
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by ketzo 3y ago
I mean, the author does talk about using the watch with their nose. Same motion.
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by ketzo 3y ago
I really like this. It’s so hard to recognize when energy / restlessness is something I need to channel “productively”, or when I just need to knock myself out.
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by ketzo 3y ago
At least children can't sign up for a Robinhood account.
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by ketzo 3y ago
The merger makes a ton of sense — Unity was super late to the game building their own Demand-Side Platform for ads, and that’s how you make money in mobile games now, so they had to buy their way out of the problem. I mean, it’s horrible fo
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by ketzo 3y ago
I mean, yeah — because it was replaced by the iPhone. Not because that market shrank or was otherwise invalidated.
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by ketzo 3y ago
It’s literally the market that created the BlackBerry, one of the most influential devices of the last 20 years, so yeah it’s a big group.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Syncing to my phone apps is my big reason.
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by ketzo 3y ago
This could happen in theory, yeah, but in reality (especially in America) I think there's zero chance of that happening at meaningful levels The audience who buys high-margin grocery items is almost entirely separate from the audience
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by ketzo 3y ago
The publisher could, theoretically, double dip: Require a user to buy the game on Steam, and also require Nvidia to cough up the cash to list the game for streaming. I am cynical enough about the games industry to say this is possible, ev
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by ketzo 3y ago
You can't understand at all how someone with your coworker's voice might lull you into a false sense of urgency and safety? Security is a weak-link problem, not a strong-link one. You have to plan for the least security-minded
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by ketzo 3y ago
> There are all these horror stories in Silicon Valley of these companies who got to 150 or 200 million revenue and then didn’t grow Yeah, what a nightmare that must be. I’m being a little glib here — I understand that if you’re making
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by ketzo 3y ago
If you don't mind sharing, what are some of the issues you've had with Bun so far?
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by ketzo 3y ago
Servant leadership is great, but boy, this article is a whole lot of nothing. "To be a good leader, you need to trust your team and listen to them!" Gee, thanks. Maybe I'm being overly critical, but there's no insight, n
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by ketzo 3y ago
I mean, if you live in the American South during the summer, being outside works up a sweat. Physical exertion is going to leave you drenched no matter what clothing you're wearing. And there's a difference between active "
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by ketzo 3y ago
One thing that's not mentioned anywhere in this article is that a lot of that super-solid, heirloom-quality furniture is still around -- and people are very willing to buy secondhand! Facebook Marketplace/Craigslist/estate
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by ketzo 3y ago
It's a generalization, but the Apple ecosystem is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else. It's kind of a "suffering from success" thing because it is generally so seamless that any disruption is extra-annoying.
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by ketzo 3y ago
If you liked this, do yourself a favor and dig through the author's archive. Insightful, funny writer who takes a really pragmatic view of his own field in a time of great upheaval. Can't recommend him enough.

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