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by pbiggar 1y ago
If it's worth $18B, and Chrome is worth $34B, then the new company is worth $52B. Google gets 34/52 = 65% of the merged company.
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by pbiggar 1y ago
This is all I found https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/1b71unn/im_an_idf_sold... To be clear, you're saying YC hosted a soldier for an AMA? Where? Like as a speaker, or in Bookface, or what?
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Occasionally, when it comes to their attention, often after the reach has been lost.
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Can you share more about this?
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Yes, they know: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39435024
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Dang admitted they're getting brigaded months ago. They've chosen to do nothing about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39435024
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Not just that, but Microsoft's reputation is in the process of taking a nose dive over its human rights record https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-isra...
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by pbiggar 1y ago
I haven't had time to dig into the report, but this is utterly unsurprising given previous reports, and due to employee and former employee whistleblowers. See also: - From 7amleh: Erased and Suppressed: Palestinian Testimonies of Meta
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Have you looked at the history before that? It seems you're missing 77 years of frequent massacres by Israel, a brutal occupation/apartheid of the West Bank, and a 17-year blockade of Gaza.
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Yes, this is part of Project Esther by the Heritage Foundation. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/project-esther-heritag... US universities do a lot of research on Palestine and Israel's occupat
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Remember that these claims of antisemitism are all false. What they actually mean is "they had a student encampment calling out Israel's genocide in Gaza and occupation of Palestine, that the US supports with weapons, troops, UN v
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by pbiggar 1y ago
> UNESCO’s decision to admit the “State of Palestine” as a Member State is highly problematic, contrary to U.S. policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric within the organization. America First continues to be
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Yes, the NYPD is genuinely full of cops who support Israel. They have partnerships with Israel, they are trained by Israeli, the NYPD even has an office in Tel Aviv. Check out the training they get: https://jewishcurrents.org&#x2
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Can we talk about the fact that such a tool exists? A private company is able to take a photo and identify you. Scary shit!
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by pbiggar 1y ago
The requests - which fyi I was not involved in - are really smart. It allows Sequoia to take concrete steps to clear its name, via a transparent investigation into the racism in their firm, and to build solutions to it. I suspect Sequoia is
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Shaun Maguire has done more to tank Sequoia's reputation than a decade of founder unfriendly policies and advice. It used to be that you took their money and regretted it - now founders increasingly don't want their money at all (
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UpScrolled – new social network without shadow bans(upscrolled.com)
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by pbiggar 1y ago
This is no surprise. I raised the flag last year on Whatsapp being used as part of the genocide in Gaza [1] following the +972 article [2] on Lavender. This was an opportunity for Meta to signal that it wasn't in support of its technol
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Yes, this is correct. So for being unclear!
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Yes, the next version will be able to set up locally - you'll be able to install a single Darklang binary and run any darklang program without any further steps. See the explanations on https://darklang.com homepage. The is
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Stachu is really interested in bringing back the hosted programming environment in some form fyi. Just need to get the basics working first.
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Who are we talking about here? Looks like a comment was edited but now it seems like you're talking about Darklang?
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by pbiggar 1y ago
OK, interesting question. Long story short, companies are made of many shareholders with different needs and wants and financial expectations. We can split this into: "what are the needs of the investors of the Dark Inc" and &quot
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by pbiggar 1y ago
I agree it won't fit it, but IMO it will remove one of the barriers to adoption. The problem with doing something revolutionary, is that it's only going to be revolutionary in some ways, and it has to compete with things that are
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Source-available was a hurdle for adoption, and maybe it would have been a problem had we hit it big, but for the last few years we've wanted to get rid of it.
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Hey folks, author here. Happy to answer any questions about Darklang and Dark Inc.
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by pbiggar 1y ago
Extending strings is not a linear-time operation. Behind the scenes, the JS runtime allocates new memory for it. In the naive case, you start by allocating 1 byte, then when you append to it, you need 2 bytes. So you allocate a new string o
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by pbiggar 1y ago
They've already revoked the visas of Palestinian students for free speech that Israel doesn't like. As usual, oppression of Palestine and racism against China are used to fuel an expansion of the fascist state. If you don't r
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by pbiggar 1y ago
I run a non-profit called Tech for Palestine that is pushing for digital and real-world freedom. The efforts to weaponize the tech industry to control our speech are very frequently aligned to Israel as part of a movement to suppress Palest
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by pbiggar 1y ago
About 8 or 9 years ago, I talked to a friend who started their first software engineering job. They talked about their job as taking tickets from the JIRA board, completing the change, and putting the tickets back. They were expected to com

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