planetzero

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by planetzero 7y ago
"Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice" Time is limited. To be successful at anything you need to sacrifice time now for your future success. "startup leaders now give up their spare time to succeed" I've never been forc
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by planetzero 7y ago
He was let go from Twitter the first time for taking to many art and yoga classes and not doing his job. Why they brought him back again is the real mystery.
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by planetzero 7y ago
This article is basically saying: It only affects old people, so we shouldn't care. Many of us have elderly parents and small children and Covid-19 affects both to a much larger degree than the general public. It's also concerning
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by planetzero 7y ago
"SaaS just more popular/lucrative/financially gamable" Piracy definitely killed the ownership model. After Napster and prolific piracy of music for 10+ years, the value of music plummeted to almost nothing. Piracy is cl
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by planetzero 7y ago
I agree with all of these. but, the main driver is piracy. Look at products like 1Password. Everybody I knew was buying one license key and installing it on 5+ computers. Now that it's a service, you can't really do that anymor
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by planetzero 7y ago
SaaS is really one of the only ways to make money and build a company with software these days. Decades of piracy have pushed most companies to create a subscription service where the software can't just be copied.
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by planetzero 7y ago
I'm going to use the same argument used about copying/pirating proprietary software: They wouldn't have paid for it in the first place, so you can't count it as lost revenue.
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by planetzero 7y ago
I wish my parents had known that when I was writing code on the computer as a kid, it wasn't just 'playing games' and that it would result in a great career.
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by planetzero 7y ago
This tactic is used a lot. Especially by large companies looking for free info about a market they want to enter.
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by planetzero 7y ago
One of the worst contracts I ever had was for a small company running a SaaS for divorce attorneys to help manage their cases. The main selling point was that it would re-create state forms on the web and allow an attorney to fill them out,
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by planetzero 7y ago
I'v been working from home for the past decade. I think I've done my part.
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by planetzero 7y ago
15+ years ago, I was working on my first development job out of college and I noticed that there was a strange process running on my work computer that couldn't be killed. I traced it to a specific port and host and used telnet to conn
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by planetzero 7y ago
My Local Cosco was packed this weekend (US-midwest). I've been there on other weekends and it's not that bad. Many disinfectant-related products were sold out.
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by planetzero 7y ago
There isn't a free market because FDA approval takes at least a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars. The result is only a few companies can actually get a drug to market and without competition, can set the costs.
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by planetzero 7y ago
Why not sue the government of Norway while we're at it? Their entire economy relies on oil, which contributes to Climate Change. I really can't take environmentalists seriously, especially when nuclear reactor technology has been
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by planetzero 7y ago
Price fixing by the government will only make things worse. The US creates the majority of new drugs in the world and countries that have universal healthcare wait for it to be tested and released, create a generic for a fraction of the cos
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by planetzero 7y ago
I wish more people would learn from it: Monopolies are bad if it's a private company or the government. The outcome is still the same: a stalled industry, little to no innovation, and many times, high prices.
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by planetzero 7y ago
That ship has sailed. It taught me a lesson not to base any business on any 3rd-party platform. If I ever start a business on a platform again, my goal will be to move away from it as soon as possible. Amazon is a horrible company and alth
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by planetzero 7y ago
I think my issue with 'hidden figures' is that it's portrayed that it's somehow racist that they got no recognition for their part in the space program. Most employees at large organizations that are essentially low-leve
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by planetzero 7y ago
Amazon only seems to care about counterfeits for a certain protected class of seller. I sold DVDs about 7 years ago and bought them from legit sources and sold no counterfeits. I had nearly 100% positive reviews and would bend over backwar
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by planetzero 7y ago
You mean the waiting times that the proponents of Universal healthcare say don't exist?
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by planetzero 7y ago
"When we started selling tickets, I watched the eBay auctions for about a month. I kept detailed information (some on spreadsheets, some in my head) about what seats sold for what, which seats didn’t sell, which cities sold well, which
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by planetzero 7y ago
Reddit is filled with Political bots. Obama's campaign definitely used them in 2008 and 2012 and it doesn't surprise me that current candidates are using similar tactics.
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by planetzero 7y ago
"In the above situation, the data probably had more photos of whites than of other skin tones, meaning the model learned to pick out details for whites but was unable to do that for others. Not enough data can be dangerous." China
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by planetzero 7y ago
I used to answer spam emails and include a word document with all of my 'information'. The word document contained various photos of shit in the toilet with the occasional goatse thrown in. The scammer would get so angry and alway
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by planetzero 7y ago
I'm not sure why you are equating a single person, who is clearly mentally ill, posting prejudice comments to all prejudice comments as being associated with mental illness. This is the biggest straw man argument I've heard today.
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by planetzero 7y ago
Everyone knows slavery is a bad thing. If we keep dwelling on the past, we won't be able to heal and have a better future.
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by planetzero 7y ago
Why does this matter? If he truly is pledging $10B, it can only be a win for society and the future of humanity. It shouldn't really matter if he gets a tax break or not.
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by planetzero 7y ago
..so a mentally ill person says mentally ill things online and you don't think it's related because it offends you?
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by planetzero 7y ago
It's very easy to point out the world's problems and not provide an actual, realistic, solution.

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