rchaud

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by rchaud 2y ago
1) AI isn't that smart and doesn't search the Internet in real time, nor can it distinguish between real and counterfeit products. There's a significant liability issue if BigCorp AI sends visitors to IP-infringing shop sites
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by rchaud 2y ago
This is email marketing 101, HN'ers are massively overstating how many domains are getting blacklisted because of "marketing".
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by rchaud 2y ago
$99/yr is infinitely more expensive than $0. Again, the raw materials have been paid for (my time, my hardware). Windows, Android and Linux have managed to keep the lights on without charging a bullshit fee for the privilege of deignin
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by rchaud 2y ago
"Vibe coding" exists on the same spiritual plane as "Robinhood options trader" and "Twitch entrepreneur". Attaching one's earning potential to the strength of a platform that's often profiled in the m
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by rchaud 2y ago
Because it's an enormous waste of time writing code, doing QA and managing updates for multiple different platforms. Web apps inside a headless Chromium container is how many many "mobile apps" are built these days.
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by rchaud 2y ago
> I recently built a small iOS app for myself. I can install it on my phone directly from Xcode but it expires after seven days because I’m using a free Apple Developer account. I’m not trying to avoid paying Apple, but there’s enough fr
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by rchaud 2y ago
Yeah and weWork got a "$50 billion" valuation from its bagholders. Then they released their actual books for the S-1, and well long story short, they're circling the toilet as a publicly traded company.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Do tell, what is the rational way to discuss a company whose only visible top officer rants about about a "Woke Mind Virus" and simulatenously runs 3 other companies and an entire government department?
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by rchaud 2y ago
Being radicalized by the Internet isn't an excuse for teenage Isis fighters, nor is it one for a 55 year old man.
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by rchaud 2y ago
"Don't make me think" was certainly the guiding principle at play here.
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by rchaud 2y ago
The business model is: sell your customers' purchase information to a bigger tradFi player.
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by rchaud 2y ago
2026: IMF rings the alarm on plummeting yields on collateralized burrito obligations.
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by rchaud 2y ago
It appears that a simple bit of corporate 'synergy' camouflage has tricked you into thinking this is not a payday loan. Maybe those dunking on it are on to something.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Any guesses where the economic dystopia wheel of fortune will land next? - Doordash to pay drivers with free bets on FanDuel? - UberEats to develop a credit monitoring business? - SkipTheDishes to offer home liver function tests with every
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by rchaud 2y ago
Wouldn't count on that sticking around, I remember when these apps used to market "no tipping" as a feature. Now there's a giant tip screen front and center in the UI for completed orders.
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by rchaud 2y ago
SPAC IPO = not long for this earth.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Doordash is not the same as traditional online ordering. DD and all delivery apps are 3rd party middlemen that set their own menu prices and operate separately from the restaurant. Through this kind of obfuscation, they incentivize the grow
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by rchaud 2y ago
No, I haven't. I live in a city, a cab took 15 mins to arrive after calling the dispatch service. Uber can take just as long, because the request bounces around different drivers in the area, the time to arrive is dependent on which dr
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by rchaud 2y ago
Techno-optimism is the domain of people who're confident that they'll be part of the managerial class that gets alerted when other workers are going over their bathroom break allotments.
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by rchaud 2y ago
I'm struggling to think of any technological advancement in the past 20 years that's saved me time. The only real change has been a shift to WFH, but that happened independently of technological change in that era. Even things lik
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by rchaud 2y ago
If SPACs aren't a money cheat code, what are they? A real company puts out an S-1 to gauge market sentiment, and doesn't hide them behind a Richard Branson investment vehicle. > 23andMe isn’t doing a traditional IPO, but rather
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by rchaud 2y ago
Why would a B2C blood test company need to be publicly traded? The answer is simple: going public is a cheat code that unlocks millions in cash for deeply unprofitable companies that can sell tall tales to pension funds that need things to
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by rchaud 2y ago
If it's so valuable, companies can pay you for it, just as blood banks do for plasma donations. 23andme are double dipping by charging for these tests and turning around to sell the data for drug discovery research or wherever it goes.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Yeah, this has been common dinner table topic for Americans with European ancestry, despite American society's efforts to flatten everybody's identity into "worker" and "consumer".
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by rchaud 2y ago
I'd imagine you'd care at least a little bit considering you're paying them for the privilege.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Google the search engine could exist without being a privacy pest. But once Google bought DoubleClick in 2002 and made their ad delivery platform their own, going down the panopticon path became inevitable.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Google's ads business dwarfs everything else, so as long as ads can be integrated into apps deployed through Google Play Services, they're happy. Third party app stores mostly provide unprofitable utility apps Google aren't i
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by rchaud 2y ago
The more "computer-like" an iDevice is, the less likely its users are to stay within the confines of its walled garden. Apple didn't even deign to give their lowly iPad users a file manager until 2017. Post-iOS Apple's a
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by rchaud 2y ago
Text selection works fine on Brave Android (Chromium).
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by rchaud 2y ago
convert the bitcoin to fiat and send away.

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