moltensodium

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by moltensodium 7y ago
I have never met a startup founder that wanted to address a problem or improve the world. Instead they all want to make sure that the Series A investors are happy. Nothing else really matters besides doing whatever the investors think will
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by moltensodium 7y ago
Maybe this is just a generational thing, but I still have never clicked on an ad. I hate ads. I don't know anyone who likes them. I don't know anyone who has intentionally clicked on them. I have literally never met anyone who pla
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by moltensodium 7y ago
Jack's last tweet in this thread: >paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle Ignoring the technology aspects of this for a min
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by moltensodium 7y ago
This example is wrong, it should print "after fork" twice as both processes would run that.
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by moltensodium 7y ago
The argument that it is simply too dangerous to provide electricity when it is hot and windy is just so bizarre. What was the point of building all that infrastructure if you built it so poorly it keeps killing people?
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Founder of SoftBank-backed car leasing startup resigns after layoffs(theverge.com)
3 points by moltensodium 7y ago|1 comments
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by moltensodium 7y ago
That's a big part of the problem right? We've stratified information access such that special elite groups get to decide what the lowly commoners are allowed to know. We know what's best for them. In theory this would be fine
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by moltensodium 7y ago
Yeah, outside of Lee Harvey Oswald this guy was the most important prisoner in the history of the USA. The fact that he just "suicided" in prison and we're all supposed to move on and share links about suicide awareness is ut
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Deadspin pivots to non-sports coverage as owners demand shift to sports(twitter.com)
6 points by moltensodium 7y ago|3 comments
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by moltensodium 7y ago
I think we have officially scraped the bottom of the barrel now on ways to increase user engagement with netflix chipmunk mode. That's it. There is no innovation left to find in the realm of increasing content consumed per day. All don
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by moltensodium 7y ago
Not really, by 2005 or so we all knew flash was terribly problematic and making the web much worse. Some people embraced it for sure, but in my experience most people involved with the web at this time had objections to Flash (and Adobe mor
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by moltensodium 7y ago
The adtech industry embraced flash in a big way, youtube was defaulting to the flash player until four years ago. Plus the dozens of flash ads and trackers that were (and still are) placed into many ad networks. Now that the adtech firms sw
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IBM Earnings Fall in Prolonged Sales Slump(wsj.com)
2 points by moltensodium 7y ago|0 comments
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by moltensodium 7y ago
AWS is the most true tech company out there I think, I wish there were a way for me to invest in it outside of the Amazon borg cube media conglomerate trying to fight Disney.
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by moltensodium 7y ago
Ok. Just want to make sure we're all on the same page, this is about nationalism and competition, not freedom or trade. Pretending like we're opening the world up for everyone to become magical free millionaires just makes us seem
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by moltensodium 7y ago
The WTO/World Bank is an arm of the US State Department. The rules serve to further US diplomatic and corporate interests, not openness or trade.
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by moltensodium 7y ago
It's ok to make fun of the guy who gets in trouble for smoking weed on private planes and whose new age nepotism hire wife fires people for having bad energy. The reason people like this exist is because nobody has been ridiculing them
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by moltensodium 7y ago
Adam seems to be the scapegoat, somewhat justified of course, but the bigger problem of this company being an obvious scam with no way to make money has not been addressed.
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by moltensodium 7y ago
At this point there is a non-zero and growing chance the company collapses completely. They have no plans or research or any other projects that are expected to make money, ever, and nobody seems interested in another round of fundraising.
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by moltensodium 7y ago
You just perfectly described the problem with many universities nowadays. The way to advance your career in academia is to build a shiny new building and kick off an initiative or institute or something real you can put on your resume. We h
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by moltensodium 7y ago
Can you point me towards what you read on this outside of the article? Not doubting you it's just been like 500 years since I studied nuclear chem and I'm not sure what literature you're talking about.
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by moltensodium 7y ago
Thanks, not showing up in search for some reason.
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by moltensodium 7y ago
What company? What was built? It's a money destruction machine, not a business. They have no plans or experiments or research moonshots that they expect to be profitable, ever.
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by moltensodium 7y ago
Does WeWork not have a crunchbase profile page? I'm curious about who all managed to get out before the Softbank fiasco. Were employees allowed to sell shares on the secondary market, or are they all effectively hosed now?
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Some WeWork Board Members Seek to Remove Adam Neumann as CEO(wsj.com)
369 points by moltensodium 7y ago|232 comments
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by moltensodium 7y ago
"Oops"
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by moltensodium 7y ago
If the conventional explosives around a warhead go off in an uncontrolled manner then they are almost certainly not going to kick off a nuclear chain reaction. Things have to happen at a very specific time. But what you're going to get
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by moltensodium 7y ago
Bank loans are not that different from bonds, yes you are selling debt to the bank who is buying it. Debt is an asset that is bought and sold around the world just like stocks or magic cards. Most loans are then immediately resold by your b
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by moltensodium 7y ago
This guy Galloway also does a podcast with Kara Swisher called Pivot which is mandatory listening. They get silly but still shit on every bad actor in tech so it's super entertaining.
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by moltensodium 7y ago
AOL's garden (and Prodigy's before that) was always packed with ads from the first version, it was one of the reasons I hated AOL and was always just trying to get a simple TCP connection so I could just browse the web instead. I

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