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by klik99 1y ago
As a cultural mutt between US and UK, I think UK is "class-aware" and US is more obsessed with the idea that if we all wear jeans then class isn't a thing. I see the same class contempt in US as the UK, and not recognizing it
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by klik99 1y ago
Someone brought this up in a previous HN comment section as an example of trust in software ruining peoples lives. But your explanation is far more human and recontextualizes it a bit for me - it just happened to be that this was done with
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by klik99 1y ago
I suspect by "anybody" they meant anyone outside of the "relatively small but healthy sector", and therefore competitors such as Epic or GOG wouldn't count. Outside analysts think of games as a subset of tech and th
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"The company is the product." -> When I'm feeling more optimistic I see this is how VC sees their portfolio and how you sell it to them, but not what the company is in reality. Like playwrights who write under authoritaria
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For the last 5-10 years I've noticed a lot of people here are more willing to question VC as the sole or even ideal way to start a company, and since a major chunk of YC is to train how to raise money and connect people via demo day or
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by klik99 1y ago
I wish it were that simple, I think capitalism works best when personal self-interested incentives are aligned with what creates common good - IE policy is like game design where you design the rules in a way that provides an overall good o
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by klik99 1y ago
Genuine question because I think I might be wrong on this one, or maybe misunderstanding what you're saying - aren't there cases of shareholders suing CEOs for not acting in shareholders interest and winning? If there was no legal
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by klik99 1y ago
Maybe in theory, but in practice there is a strong power mismatch that causes investors to have a strong influence. Sand Hill learned it's lesson from Facebook/Zuckerberg and now always have a seat on the board. Only outliers like
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by klik99 1y ago
> Then it raised venture capital, hit scale, and needed to hit growth numbers and meet quarterly metric goals. The focus shifted from “authenticity” to “daily active users.” Having spent a few years in the VC world I have been increasing
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I doubt you'll agree with any article sources I could provide, and for a lot of diseases it doesn't happen immediately. Measles is one - 285 cases in 2024, so far in 2025 there have been 1214. I'm sure you'll have a reas
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Google AI says: "While the term "insane" is subjective, dumping a bear carcass in Central Park is both illegal and highly inadvisable." RFK believes "For decades, the CDC has kept a tight grip on the Vaccine Safety
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by klik99 1y ago
> Are artificial dyes actually bad for you? The fact that this is a legitimate question is very concerning. Some of these dyes are/were ubiquitous and there is very little research about them. IIRC a few have evidence of harm. Nothi
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by klik99 1y ago
Why did it take an insane person to actually get sensible regulation for food dyes in? Rhetorical question because I think people like RFKJr got into power because previous administrations didn't take care of the obvious things that ne
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by klik99 1y ago
Exactly this, it's hard to explain to a non-emacs user why TRAMP is so magical, but the number of times I tried to run something that was meant to run locally on my machine through TRAMP and it just worked is very impressive. It runs s
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by klik99 1y ago
Nice, I unfortunately need to work on Windows while also doing a lot of remote editing, so switched to emacs on wsl just to use tramp - I wasn't aware of watchexec which seems like a much better solution. However part of what makes tra
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by klik99 1y ago
This article assumes people are primarily accessing these things at home. Maybe for most apps / websites that’s appropriate but people access these things internet on phones in places where connections can be spotty, and it’s very frus
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by klik99 1y ago
Yes, that's a really good point. I had this nagging feeling of there was a commercialization aspect driving when I was writing that, since that's obviously what happened to punk, and you hit the nail on the head. I do think studen
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by klik99 1y ago
Kubrick frequently uses a two act - Barry Lyndon where he rises from nothing to peak at the exact midpoint and then falls to nothing at the end, or Clockwork Orange where he does a bunch of horrible things in the first half and the conseque
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by klik99 1y ago
One thing I've noticed in music composition (where I have more training/experience, but I suspect the same is true for narratives) is the rules get codified / standardized a generation after a style of music is popular. Bach,
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I just learned about kishōtenketsu thanks to this great video on How To with John Wilson ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-SwyF-Vvbs ). I'm surprised that it's not as well known in the west, considering how many g
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Parrot parents parrot their parents
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I thought AI was supposed to make people more productive with less time? Shouldn’t AI companies be dog fooding? In seriousness, I get startups require 7-day weeks - from the founders, who have enough equity that makes it worth it. I did tha
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by klik99 1y ago
I was gonna disagree with you, until I saw this line: "Mr. Friede’s first snake encounter, a harmless bite by a garter snake at age 5, started a lifelong fascination. “If I only knew back then what was going to happen,” he recalled, la
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The irony of asking on HN how to not use HN
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Pushing back on extremely biased reads on China doesn’t mean denying things that look legit. China does engage in more transnational surveillance than most countries. Most of what I read on China is distorted, exaggerated or simply the same
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Yeah, it's a good thing to be talking about pie in the sky ideas, most of which won't really work. The few good ideas that survive internet critics picking apart the smallest details could be interesting
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This particular way of seeing MCP that the article describes came up a lot during the early voice assistant ways - and I guess amazon did kind of attempt an app store approach to giving alexa more capabilities. In theory I like it! But in p
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Honestly if he announced tomorrow "Hey that was a hell of a bender, and I regret it - I'm leaving politics and focusing on running my companies" and he actually STUCK to that, then I'd be happy. Mostly because I believe
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This is why you shouldn't trust experts on stuff outside their speciality, this answer is just wrong. You don't even need to research it, the lived experience of being in a dentist office with mixed oxygen and nitrous produces the
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Literally why I'm here

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