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by rchaud 1y ago
Ask Jeeves as a search engine was pretty awful. The natural language thing was a UX gimmick because it was a time when internet users wrote in full sentences. The pendulum has now swung the other way where the search engine now writes out t
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"Alexis on board" has about as much value as saying "Richard Branson is an investor". The difference in their goals now vs when they were young and hungry is in orders of magnitude. They are old, out of touch and spread
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by rchaud 1y ago
Most people visited Digg for the comments, not so much the posts themselves.
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Napster is so old that I remember its DMCA-compliant reboot from 20 years ago. My college gave students free access to it, all the music was a DRM'd WMA file. Most people who used it also downloaded a DRM-removal program to be able to
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by rchaud 1y ago
There is no Advertisers' Association forcing Netflix to bow to their demands to pay them billions of dollars to post ads. The problem is shareholder capitalism which demands infinite revenue growth by any means necessary.
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Netflix has been profitable for years without this bullshit. The question you should be asking is why they're spending untold billions churning out mountains of crap that maybe a handful of people watch, before canceling them anyway?
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by rchaud 1y ago
I remember Facebook execs making similar statements to push publishers to 'pivot to video' back in 2018, which ended up being a costly disaster. Without a detailed look into their user analytics, these statements can't be tak
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by rchaud 1y ago
Blockbuster was a movie service. Netflix is a straight-to-DVD content mill and has been for a long time.
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I hope that once and for all, we never have to read another HN comment saying "I'd pay for Facebook / Spotify / Prime / whatever" if I didn't have to see ads." They will never remove the ads. Your pay
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That assumes that insurers will readily pay out when such claims are made. Insurers don't make money doing that.
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The difference is that Neumann didn't attempt to conceal his scam in the slightest, and more importantly, he didn't break any laws, just screwed over his investors.
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How about something simple and accurate like "baby daddy"?
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She wasn't a "superstar" in any way whatsoever. She dropped out after 1 year of undergrad, with zero papers published where she was a principal author, or anything that would even hint that she knew what she was doing. She wa
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by rchaud 1y ago
Billy McFarland, famed "entrepreneur" behind Fyre Fest got out of jail and immediately announced plans for raising funds for Fyre Fest 2. Apparently there are enough suckers to go around, so why not just copy/paste the origin
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This is the primary positioning tactic used across the startup industry . Uber isn't a taxi app, it's actually the "future front end for millions to access autonomous transport". Doordash isn't a delivery app, it&#x
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The kind of work you speak of isn't going to get highlighted at opulent photo op events like "an interview with Stripe". Necessity is the mother of invention, so conservation and repairability advances are being made where th
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That's where the money is, and by extension, that's the product category where "Design" wankery is likely to still have enough cachet to not induce eye-rolls.
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I would imagine it's because Tesla replacement parts and repair outlets are far more expensive and limited in supply than ICE car manufacturers which make up the majority of insured vehicles. Longer repair time would mean the driver ne
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That's the equivalent of sitting in a movie theater with a camcorder. Not important enough to bother crafting a solution for.
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Doesn't seem like a hard cap when every BTC is almost infinitely divisible into smaller amounts of "satoshis".
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The early promise of crypto is not why Coinbase, Binance, Crypto etc have lots of highly paid, highly skilled employees today. They're there because of the money, the same way electrical engineering grads go to Wall Street in droves.
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by rchaud 1y ago
I'd define them as a large company acquiring a private startup. Slack >> Salesforce was a cash-and-stock deal. Postmaters >> Uber, all stock. In cases where the company being acquired is already publicly traded, those deals
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These deals are mostly in stock, not cash. $3b cash is not something most companies can afford to part with, and additionally, making deals that are stock-heavy creates an incentive for the leadership of the acquired company to keep working
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Non-public numbers may as well be pulled out of thin air. WeWork was a $50bn company according to its VC bagholders, and that was marked down by 80% once they released their books to the general public.
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I appreciate your response. I didn't mean to dunk on the idea; it is just that I too defaulted to trying to find the "right app" to fix these things and years later came to realize that tech is too general by design, and stru
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If it's a choice between IKEA vs a carpentry shop, I'll go with the carpenters every time. My childhood bed from 35 years ago is still rock solid compared to the cardboard crap that's "logistically more efficient".
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"Vibe Coding" sounds like a phrase that was coined in a Barstool podcast, or any of the lowbrow, hustle-culture heavy Gen Z-targeting "new media" outlets. Very sad to see the same people who railed against bootcamp grads
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> I find it most hard when there’s a mismatch in reciprocity. A sad part of life is acknowledging that in relationships, one person usually cares more than the other. This is why we're encouraged to build OK friendships with severa
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I wish this guy the best, but a "technology solution" is not going to be able to address the psychological burden of RSD, nor the executive functioning issues of ADHD. An Airtable sheet with a "Mark as Contacted" flag is
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> Or maybe we could stop anthropomorphizing tech and call the "hallucinations" what they really are: artifacts introduced by lossy compression. That would be tantamount to removing the anti-gravity boots which these valuations

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