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by ponker 6y ago
But then this is evidence that whether it’s an American company or Chinese company has little import on its ability to subvert elections.
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by ponker 6y ago
Ultimately I feel that this deal is so skeezy and coated in the slime of Trumpist corruption that I wanted it to go to the worst possible company and it looks like this happened.
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by ponker 6y ago
Well look at the development outcomes for India and Germany and jugaad doesn’t seem so great.
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by ponker 6y ago
Please don't fret about my downvotes... most people are morons, so a comment's votes are not an indicator of anything substantive about it.
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by ponker 6y ago
What is “manual review” here? The reviewer doesn’t have the ability to send the transaction through. It went to the circular file.
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by ponker 6y ago
I’m sure the PayPal CEO is deeply wounded by a HN commenter declaring that they haven’t “solved scale,” but perhaps he’s comforted by the tens of billions of dollars they make each year.
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by ponker 6y ago
I think the concept of a “Zoom town” is important vs a “Zoom hamlet.” It’s a lot easier to work with a remote 50 person engineering team than 50 remote engineers, because you can just interface with the head of the group and his/her di
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by ponker 6y ago
And those TVs created a lot of Chinese jobs.
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by ponker 6y ago
Developmental noise will be dominated by fetal development, not life after birth.
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by ponker 6y ago
Probably pretty predictive. Identical twins have different (but correlated) developmental noise and look anything from very similar to totally identical.
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by ponker 6y ago
I respect Snowden but his opinion on most matters these days is no more credentialed than “man on the street.” Whether I agree with him or not (here, I do) it’s not clear why he’s a trusted authority.
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by ponker 6y ago
Probably safer for the 14 year old but not for the pedestrians
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by ponker 6y ago
True all this. But still there's a joy in holding a record or photographic slide because there's no inscrutable digital device in between the artifact and its sensory experience. If you have a hard drive of photos you need a devic
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by ponker 6y ago
Very true very true... college graduate white woman victimhood is definitely the most in vogue
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by ponker 6y ago
Agree - it's a good strategy - victimhood has never been more venerated and a Bay Area jury just might bite.
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by ponker 6y ago
My favorite thing about vinyl collecting is that there's no digital obsolescence. You can build a record player out of a motor and a piece of paper. It's like having a paper book vs. an e-book or photographic slides vs. a terabyte
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by ponker 6y ago
Might work. Women are frequently seen as having low external agency so when they do anything impressive people look to find the man behind it and when they do anything bad, people do the same. Might work on a jury.
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by ponker 6y ago
Calling a fraud a fraud isn’t antipathy towards electric cars. It’s like saying that someone criticizing Donald Trump is against white men.
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by ponker 6y ago
But wouldn't that feedback loop work the other way too? That there's someone saying "as more toxic liberal garbage gets reshared, conservatives start ditching Facebook"? Leaving just the people who enjoy screaming at eac
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by ponker 6y ago
You forgot the cost of Mark Zuckerberg‘S eyes in your bedroom.
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by ponker 6y ago
Every single one of these companies to date has been vaporware, but very interested to see if we ever get one that isn't.
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by ponker 6y ago
A lot of bushy-tailed entrepreneurs don't realize that you don't need to give one flying fuck about compliance until you're in the billion dollar valuation territory.
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by ponker 6y ago
It could be a feature. No question that people with Slack likely send more messages per day than people with Teams. That could be a plus or a minus.
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by ponker 6y ago
What did my heirs do to deserve my money?
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by ponker 6y ago
Teams is utterly devoid of charm. If your goal is to "send this string to Jim Bob" then Teams works just as well as Slack but if you want an application that's enjoyable to use for multiple hours per day, Teams is not the dro
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by ponker 6y ago
Pinterest is not a useful comparable for B2B SaaS.
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by ponker 6y ago
This comment comes up for basically every company. It's very surprising that virtually every successful B2B startup in Silicon Valley is 10x overstaffed and the VCs and investors aren't bothered by that!
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by ponker 6y ago
Is a Facebook friendship between an Irish resident and a US resident US user data or Irish user data?
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by ponker 6y ago
One advantage of having multiple people do the same job is that unless both are dogshit incompetent, you can tell whether your problem is the person doing the job, or the job you're asking them to do. If you ask a running coach to coac
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by ponker 6y ago
Nobody hires consultants from a web page, but also, nobody hires consultants without checking their web page.

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