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by rchaud 1y ago
You're conflating managerial economics with macroeconomics. CEOs at publicly traded companies aren't hired to enhance the long-term productive capacity of the firm ("growing the economy"); they're there to calm inve
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by rchaud 1y ago
Makes sense. Previously the hype was so all-encompassing that CEOs could simply rely on an implicit public perception that it was coming for our jerbs. Once they have to start explicitly saying that line themselves, it's because that p
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by rchaud 1y ago
Might as well disqualify the iPhone for not having an Instagram app or a file manager if your frame of reference is 2010.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Some that are ~20 years old and still kicking: - Headphones and audio equipment: https://www.head-fi.org/forums/ - A/V equipment: https://www.avsforum.com/forums/ - Computers and Tech: https
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by rchaud 1y ago
Not remotely the same thing. HN's ads are text-only job postings for companies in YC's portfolio. "Online ads" on the other hand are an unregulated wasteland of scams, dropship brands, misinformation, titillation, and cu
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by rchaud 1y ago
Interestingly, I can still log in and post (and get replies) on Old Reddit with my 15-year old username and pw (no email or other form of auth needed). I remember trying to log in using that acc via New Reddit and it said that user didn&#x2
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by rchaud 1y ago
They're no less reliable than 128GB cards. The bottleneck is likely going to be whether the phone's filesystem can actually index 1TB worth of files without crashing. No such problems on a real computer.
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by rchaud 1y ago
I don't wear tight jeans and I've come to loathe having to put my phone in my pants pocket. If you're walking around a lot, the feeling is just annoying, you can feel it pressing on your leg the whole time. When I sit down, t
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by rchaud 1y ago
That phone had the worst camera I've ever used. I loved having it because it was XDA custom ROM-friendly, but good lord, that camera....
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by rchaud 1y ago
Which phone brand did you use where it was falling apart after a year? The rest of your comment sounds like you're saying you preferred the iPhone because it takes the option of customizability away from you entirely, instead of simp
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by rchaud 1y ago
Google Docs as a paid enterprise offering wouldn't fly without having Gmail lock-in and having that underpin Google SSO. That's what Microsoft has that market sewn up with Office 365, despite being several years late to collaborat
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by rchaud 1y ago
This is another recycled version of the "college is a scam" trope that comes around during every recession. I first experienced it firsthand when I graduated smack dab in the middle of the Great Recession of 2008-09. Those who had
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by rchaud 1y ago
> Big sis Billie continues to recommend romantic get-togethers, inviting this user out on a date at Blu33, an actual rooftop bar near Penn Station in Manhattan. “The views of the Hudson River would be perfect for a night out with you!” s
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by rchaud 1y ago
What features does this app have that couldn't be duplicated in an Excel file (or LibreCalc or MacOS Numbers)?
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If that were the case there would never be any topics on HN about housing, healthcare, education, elections, war or tariffs, yet the "/best" page says otherwise.
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by rchaud 1y ago
plus it might divert eyeballs from all the truly critical news about which AI startup got how much in funding to do something 100 other companies are doing.
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by rchaud 1y ago
To continue the pattern of throwing the military into regions of the country that don't vote for the regime.
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by rchaud 1y ago
That's called 'jamming' and it's been possible for musicians since the time cavemen figured out they could hit sticks on things to create a rhythm.
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by rchaud 1y ago
It's the only way for Spotify to turn a profit without all the human work of having to scout, sign and promote flesh-and-blood artists, the things that real music labels do.
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Is HN any more sophisticated than a PHPbb forum? The value is in the community and moderation, not the back end.
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...or just somebody who plays the SV networking game well enough to be in the room. Any number of Adam Neumanns and Sam Bankman-Fried-adjacent personality types could get through that door.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Paul Graham became thoroughly Thomas Friedman-ized about 15 years ago. He's a 30,000-foot cheerleader for "innovation" and "free markets" these days.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Those "99%" wouldn't be affected by this change as they can continue to use Safari and the App Store exactly as they do now.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Only in the US, where Apple has an AOL-like lock-in. The market share for iOS in Canada is similarly large but there is no iMessage lock-in here as Canada had Blackberry Messenger (also a lock-in app) way before iMessage, and shifted to FB
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by rchaud 1y ago
That sounds a lot like "Well our enemy doesnt follow the Geneva Conventions, so why should we?" Ask yourself what the benefit is of having the US as a diplomatic partner if you can get the same deal from China but with a more stab
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They're not gullible. They are in full agreement with the leadership's desire to punish the "undesirables" in their society and purge the values they don't agree with. That they too will eventually suffer the conseq
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> Millions of Soviet deaths; millions of Chinese deaths; deaths from the Khmer Rouge....these are not "violent capitalist repression". How come every citation of comparative body counts in the Capitalism v Communism Olympics al
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Who knew "Running America like a business" had so much in common with the Chinese Communist Party? Banning books, blocking access to websites and apps, protectionist tariffs to support local business and now forcing foreign compet
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by rchaud 1y ago
Non-hammer-and-sickle countries have done the same for centuries in order to amass wealth for its feudal lords. Only its targets used to be people in faraway lands whose humanity could be ignored in service of a 'civilizing mission&#x2
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The FTC fined them $5bn for doing that. Maybe that wasn't enough considering how profitable they are, but having some way to check their power is very different from a world where no checks exist at all, which is what AI policy in the

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