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by polote 5y ago
There is an history of tech Startups doing very well financially when their founders leave. See Google, Microsoft, Apple
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by polote 5y ago
> https://www.ft.com/content/620e3d31-ba90-4cb6-ae27-6e2d0740d... 19% of britons are in favor of eternal curfews. It seems very likely that some percentage also desire lockdowns
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by polote 5y ago
Why do it in Bitcoin when you can do it in Lira ?
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by polote 5y ago
I said it spread faster at one point in time, what is different than what you said? Imagine delta and alpha are both introduced in a naive population at the exact same time. Which one will spread faster? No one has a clue
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by polote 5y ago
Doesn't seem a wrong stake, the population was naive to this virus, but except that what is special with covid?
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by polote 5y ago
We still don't know if Delta was much more transmissible than Alpha actually. We have only observed that Delta spread faster than Alpha at some point in time. Not only have happy holiday, but also have happy return to normal. Most adul
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by polote 5y ago
You usually don't have a sentimental relationship with her, that's another difference
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by polote 5y ago
> This could have been an easily avoidable data breach. Like Twitter has done it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Twitter_account_hijacking ? It is super easy to give lessons after the fact
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Wrap a website with a WebExtension(blog.luap.info)
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by polote 5y ago
VC are annoyed because someone may show them that their due diligence is useless. But it is always funny to see that VC thinks their decision process is smart when in fact most of their portfolio will not return anything. Is VC really more
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by polote 5y ago
Is Notion the tool with the most copycats? Slite, workflowy, loop, appflowy, outline, focalboard, ...?
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by polote 5y ago
> Have you heard of pol.is or vtaiwan I never heard about them, pol.is is interesting, I will read about it. As for vtaiwan I don't think there are similar problem that we are trying to tackle. It feels like vtaiwan is more like a f
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by polote 5y ago
Yes, having documentation close to source code is bottom-up and being able to index this documentation somewhere is the top-down. Some documentation are useful to have in both ways and some are not. But if you force people to use a new tool
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by polote 5y ago
I'm biaised because I work on a tool for this exact problem. Even if I agree with the article and the title, and I don't think it makes much sense. There is no way to solve those "problems" they are not even problems, we
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by polote 5y ago
I would be surprised they pay people when so many people are willing to talk about Notion for free. So yeah they started hiring Notion ambassadors (and paying them) recently, but much of the growth they had was without paying. I think they
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by polote 5y ago
> Is that really such a breakthrough? Don't evernote etc. do the same? Yeah it's the hype, today Notion is the go to tool for PKM, the same Evernote used to be a few years ago and the same others used to be before Evernote. For
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by polote 5y ago
> Although I have nothing against motorbikes I'm not cool at all with basically motorbikes getting a free pass because they're disguised as bicycles. A free pass for what ? You dont need a motor to reach 40kph on a bike, plenty
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by polote 5y ago
And notion 200m at 10bn valuation
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by polote 5y ago
> There are varying opinions when it comes to how to handle VC associates — one of the strongest coming from Paul Graham, who in sum suggests you never take a call with one. It’s an opinion I often hear repeated by other founders. Is tha
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by polote 5y ago
(2017)
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by polote 5y ago
The only thing that counts when you create a B2C product is how much time each user will spend time on your product per day. There is no goal to achieve for the user. Zuck is a very smart guy and knows that Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Ti
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by polote 5y ago
They have different goals, Pinterest's goal is to let user create collections of things, Wikipedia's goal is to be right. Pinterest is useful if you are looking for ideas of things that look similar. If you want to choose a pillow
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by polote 5y ago
Interesting that the author doesn't mention neither Wikipedia nor pinterest. They are the two biggest curators led website. The problem OP is mentioning is exactly why I read HN and that I have a newsletter about the blogs of HN [1].
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by polote 5y ago
> I wonder how many company started or partially started on HN that went on to IPO. I know Dropbox is one. Do we have a list somewhere? There are only a few places where you can easily promote your saas company, it makes sense that Saas
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by polote 5y ago
These one-sided apocalyptical type of content are useless: - They are porn for people who are already believer in global warming, and show more material to say "look that what I said will happen" without doing changing anything in
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by polote 5y ago
> It makes me believe Zuckerberg is completely surrounded by yes-men I feel like the opposite. Zuck is the only one to believe in the metaverse and as a result people who worked on the communication did it badly without a lot of convicti
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by polote 5y ago
Another open secret is that you can have the history of any posts' position here : http://hnrankings.info/ But they don't seem to compute the ranking exactly as HN does it. I guess they use the same formula but HN
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by polote 5y ago
The sum of upvotes of the comments which replied to you are probably also into the score
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by polote 5y ago
My bet is that some upvotes don't count either for your karma nor the karma of the post. And the upvotes that don't count are from account which HN considers as bots.
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by polote 5y ago
> Wow, that's not how I parsed the very same reposting rules. Some posts get reposted a lot see this website for example https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lihaoyi.com some were posted 7 times. This thing is tha

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