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by mbesto 4y ago
> It was to have a record that is standard, digital, transferable, etc. Which translates into productivity. If something is standard, digital and transferable it means you can increase the rate of output in relation to its input (which i
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by mbesto 4y ago
> It has only been very, very recently that we have gone from "gender is a social construct" to "sex is a social construct." What? Since when is sex a social construct?
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by mbesto 4y ago
Good example: AwareOps tweets every time a solution goes down: https://twitter.com/awareops Is that spamming bot stuff or useful or both? How about the kid who wrote an app that tweets everyone position of a billionaire&#x2
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Advertising is ultimately a doomed business model as it works against your users' interests, yet requires those users to willingly use the product and engage with the ads. Sort of, but not quite. We had already kind of reached pe
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by mbesto 4y ago
Why does a new protocol need to exist when Mastodon and Matrix already exist? This smells of centralization masked as "decentralization".
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by mbesto 4y ago
> moving an icon a few pixels is also a purely aesthetic choice It's not. Aesthetics are actually a design principle: "Beautiful products/objects are perceived as easier to use and more valuable than ugly ones. Even if it
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by mbesto 4y ago
> You decide. I did. Steve Jobs is survivorship bias at its finest. I've met and interviewed plenty of "detail orientated" bosses and not all of them create trillion dollar entities. > Maybe he was just a jerk, or perha
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by mbesto 4y ago
> The guy had a vision that seems unparalleled. Yet, he asked a group of software developers to paint a data center rack mount because "it wasn't acceptable" and made people work until 3am (even though numerous studies sta
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by mbesto 4y ago
Just to further clarify as I've recently gone down the rabbit hole of Tailscale...but isn't the idea that I can make any part of the device running on a private, secure network? In other words, even if I'm connected to a no
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by mbesto 4y ago
Sure, but this isn't mutually exclusive.
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by mbesto 4y ago
Put.io uses magnet links. IIRC there is no way to track an IP address of a seeder because they use DHT's.
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by mbesto 4y ago
The downloaded files are technically sitting on Amazon's server (IIRC). Put.io doesn't know an illegal file is there (it's encrypted), so how would any one else?
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by mbesto 4y ago
https://showrss.info/ + https://put.io/ is easy as hell
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Have you ever used an Oculus Quest before? Between the full-screen Apple Music pop-ups and "suggested apps" when you search on the App Store, I think my Quest actually has less advertisements than modern iOS... The GP was say
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Yeah but qualify them by showing them the fucking software. As a potential buyer, I immediately ask to get a pre-sales person on the call otherwise I'm not joining the call. Get's them to move pretty quickly.
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by mbesto 4y ago
https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page The hallucinative effects are well study. Here's a great common example: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Scenery_slicing The amount of psilocybin and
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by mbesto 4y ago
> I would never try them again though. Too risky. I value my mental health too much. I know what you're trying to convey but I don't think this is the right way to say it. I akin Psilocybin to a microscope. Following the same a
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by mbesto 4y ago
Simple - they get clicks. Pop culture knows the movie 'Big Short', but they probably have never heard of a Nobel prized economist.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> For the rest of us, it's very much uncharted waters. Aren't economies all uncharted waters until they aren't (e.g. hindsight)? 2 years ago we hit a global pandemic and tech stocks were trading at absurd PE levels 6 month
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by mbesto 4y ago
Yup, we're trying to fix this here: https://www.awareops.com/
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by mbesto 4y ago
Exactly. In the "old IT world" we call this TCO = Total Cost of Ownership.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> It's hard to convince the team we are desperately underfunded when on the surface it looks like we're doing fine. Welcome to being a CTO :) I don't think a single one I interviewed ever said "nope I don't need
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by mbesto 4y ago
> So let me put it plainly: the CTO/VPE/Engineering Director candidate should pass your coding interview. In fact, they should excel. I've interviewed over 300+ CTOs over the last 8 years. I don't think the author is
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by mbesto 4y ago
Your snarky response actually proves my point. The responses from the individuals (including the CEO) are meaningless without action. The only action (beyond writing words) the company has undertaken is to take money from venture capitalist
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by mbesto 4y ago
> An IPO would be fine! And now instead of venture capitalists you have Wall Street to answer to.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> The JHU data was based on the best available data at the time, and was regularly updated. But how did you decide that JHU was presenting accurate data?
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by mbesto 4y ago
> As an under the age of 30 person, Covid is a small threat. How did you know this? What information did you use to determine that a 30 year old? How did you know to trust it? Did your view on this change in March 2020 vs March 2022 as m
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by mbesto 4y ago
Note - this is for Nomadlist that has a community of 1k people, not a corporate employee base of 1k people. Different value proposition here. Discord is actually a decent fit for them.
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by mbesto 4y ago
We're actually watching this in real time at Facebook. They're doing exactly as the grandparent comment suggests: https://www.pcgamer.com/mark-zuckerberg-spent-dollar10b-on-t...
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by mbesto 4y ago
This is M&A 101 and the innovator's dilemma 101. Adode is a great company because they generate 15B+ in revenue per year, not because it has unicorn developers. Large organizations are notorious for how slow they move. > Heck, w

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