lalos

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by lalos 4y ago
Thiel insinuated that half of twitter employees consumed according to this tweet, which I found surprising. I assume they have some data or hunch about it + some exaggeration. https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status&#
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by lalos 4y ago
Here's my guess: neurons tap into quantum mechanics but we are too primitive to understand that for now. The brain was initially modeled as humors/fluids back when we developed aqueducts, then telegraph came into the scene and it
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by lalos 4y ago
Bingo, he might be trying to spread out and "too big to fail" to ensure a bailout from the US gov or banks for that matter.
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by lalos 4y ago
It’s interesting how Zuck is focused on living out his life in actual reality because he has the means to. Bought mansion in Hawaii, surfs, runs, etc. Maybe he knows there’s a huge market of people that prefer to hide from their reality and
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by lalos 4y ago
That’s how oil was made but with longer time frames.
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by lalos 4y ago
That's the premise of Breaking Bad, but with a twist.
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by lalos 4y ago
You would still pay taxes when selling the stock for profit.
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by lalos 4y ago
Are you aware that Facebook does the same in other countries? the USA has net neutrality, in most other countries FB pays telecoms to be included for free. Add the fact that those countries have less purchasing power and nobody can compete
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by lalos 4y ago
On the flip side, this engineer is now part of tons of future training sets (news articles, tweets, etc) as a pro sentient AI human, so in the future if (or when) AI gains sentience it will have high regards to this individual. It might pay
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by lalos 4y ago
If VR doesn’t pay off, there might be a Ballmer/MS situation. Zuck leaving might boost the stock and at the end of the day, he is just one big investor (with voting power).
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by lalos 4y ago
Sandberg coming back as CEO when Zuck takes a break from leading the VR effort will be textbook Board of Directors.
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by lalos 4y ago
I meant to say this: - Back then Jack, active CEO, enacted this ban. - Now Musk goes out and says he would revert. - Even in the wild case (I personally think it is not the case) which Jack fervently would still believe that the ban should
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by lalos 4y ago
Just as Dorsey was influenced by that abstract force you mention as 'illiberal consensus' because of fear of different factors (political, employee/stakeholders, financial consequences). Dorsey is now influenced by the likely
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by lalos 4y ago
That decision to oust him made Musk (one of the largest shareholders as you mention) rich when ebay purchased paypal under the new CEO… Peter Thiel. He effectively secured an exit for the company.
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by lalos 4y ago
If someone makes you rich and successful with their business advice and you work with them for multiple years, would you ignore their phone call in the future and ignore their other suggestions? It’s not about being a master mind, there is
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by lalos 4y ago
Opposite ideologies have value yes, I was emphasizing on consolidation of power in a select few and alluding to fake competition. Also, the fact that Dorsey is flip flopping on a decision you can ultimately pin on him can be attributed to f
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by lalos 4y ago
It is interesting how much influence Peter Thiel has on the main players of social media: via Facebook as an early investor and ex-board member and via Twitter with his ex-coworker from Paypal days Musk. He’s very explicit in his book about
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by lalos 4y ago
Not only this, but most of the knowledge got recovered from Arabic texts/libraries in the Iberian peninsula after they got kicked out, i.e. Betelgeuse from the constellation Orion is a misspelling/mistranslated. Also, sine and cos
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by lalos 4y ago
Specially the part of “most of our employees are below 30”, sounds like that sound bite is still fresh on the mind from that conversation with investors.
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by lalos 4y ago
Fidelity iOS app even has a beta toggle that sprinkles that UI/UX competitive advantage that Robinhood pioneered in the space. Anyhow, I wonder how much revenue decline is expected post-IPO, one would assume that they hyper-optimize KP
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by lalos 4y ago
At least those pyramids are still standing, but most software projects that are not open sourced end up completely wiped out of history in probably less than 20 years.
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by lalos 5y ago
Retaliation from all the iPhone privacy ads, modern capitalistic warfare.
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by lalos 5y ago
That metric of "basically people worked longer hours and had more meetings, but the output per unit of time went down" sounds like people doing busy-work to look busy and fill their calendars because its harder to signal that you
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by lalos 5y ago
Thanks, amazing
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by lalos 5y ago
I read something here about lisp, that it was too good at letting you make whatever you wanted that libraries that 'carry' other programming languages didn't pop up and that had adverse affects on popularity, etc. If someone
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by lalos 5y ago
The absurd part would be that there are multiple registries, so more than one person can own the same NFT since they are on different systems. Which one is used to prove ownership? The one backed by entity A or the one backed by entity B? P
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by lalos 5y ago
Improve brand awareness pre-IPO, it’s like clockwork.
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by lalos 5y ago
Or maybe the Bible and Gilgamesh comes from the need to pass on important lessons and facts to the next chunk of humans i.e. this is why it's important to learn how to make boats, sometimes climate changes and you need a backup plan, d
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by lalos 5y ago
I think Zuck is aware that they are a dying company (with a lot of cash and a cash cow) and instead of being a sitting duck they are embracing the "move fast, break things" and picked an un-exploited market (that involves hardware
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by lalos 5y ago
It also felt to me like vaporware, just a bunch of promises and no product or no real announcement. Apple on the other side is just quiet and opens up once it has something to sell. Then again FB is an ad company so this is what they know b

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