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by majani 4y ago
The average tech share is a non-voting share in a loss making company selling bits on the internet with the promise of a bright future. Barely any difference with crypto
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Lots of old men yell at clouds every time a new media company takes over the people's attention. Here are some criticisms of the first books ever printed. Note the familiar plea to think of the children: https://uh.edu&#x2
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Stated preferences vs revealed preferences. Saying that you care about privacy makes you appear smart but in practice most people only care about privacy in embarrassing situations
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They did. It just didn't work
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I'm glad a big government supporter such as SBF is out of crypto leadership. Crypto is an anarchist experiment and it should remain that way
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There's just so many insurmountable physical limitations to VR. I wonder what Facebook are thinking will mitigate for that
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They dish out RSUs like candy, and that's what puts tech workers in the 1%
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Glasses will simply never be cool outside of some niche communities. They are a sign of disability and weakness for most people
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This isn't just a white elephant, that title belongs to projects like the unfinished Dubai islands, which "only" cost about $8b. A forced purchase worth $44b for a company that's lost up to $1.5b in a year is a sword of
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It is well studied that only a tiny percentage of social media users actually post. The rest just lurk. So posters aren't a good sample size
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Of late I have been seeing people going viral for posting some incredible career trajectories. Usually involving someone in another career who made the switch to tech by doing a bootcamp, and within a year they were in FAANG. Now that I thi
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If you were a game dev who had toiled for years on a game you hoped to sell, you wouldn't be talking this way
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In gaming, Free has some bad connotations, especially for console gamers who are Stadia's target market
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Sounds like you have a child or relative who might be using your account
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I've gone through the same process with pg's essays. Might be the fact that I've come to realize that the reality of the Silicon Valley VC scene is so far removed from the rest of the world that I need to take any advice comi
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It would matter if it was highlighted. People care about repairability of expensive items. Admittedly, it is a secondary concern, but I would say it is probably the top secondary concern
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This is what should have been Facebook's next big bet for this coming decade: to make WhatsApp into the superapp to end all superapps.
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Because it's just common sense to not want close to $20 billion of stock flooding the market in a short period of time
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Moreover, the Scandinavian system locks in economic stratification much more than the American one
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Your argument started well but veered off the tracks. The examples I would give of parallels between gambling and gaming are arcades, loot boxes, merchandiser machines, and free-to-play games with a virtual currency
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Another interesting layer to this is that Adobe only has $5b in cash according to their balance sheet, so the overwhelming majority of this deal is probably in Adobe stock with a long vesting period. Also the deal being done in a downturn m
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$20b is an offer nobody can refuse. Bird in hand and all that
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It was most likely a retrofitting discussion. Copper doesn't blend with modern designs and color schemes so retrofitting it would be ugly
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Mobile gaming has been extremely commoditized though it's still possible to get a billion dollar company out of the sea of copycats
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That's your opinion. There are areas such as supermarkets that are low margin by nature and most definitely should exist
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Same. They're definitely shaving off points for black features: dark skin, 4C hair, larger nose and lips. It is what it is man
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To be blunt (like the AI is): glasses are a signal of a disability, similar to crutches, or neck braces
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Not necessarily. If your company has strong fundamentals, for example Microsoft, then blitzscaling is not needed because not even a free alternative can compete with you. And if you don't have strong fundamentals, you really shouldn&#x
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Also nowadays the marketing guys will want all manner of tracking pixels to measure their marketing efforts
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exactly. If I live till old age, I fully intend on living out my last days as a drug addict rather than some futile, painful attempts at curing a terminal illness

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