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by rchaud 8mo ago
How much money was WeWork supposed to bring in when they were valued at $50 billion and it dropped to $10b when they put out their S-1 and faced some public scrutiny for the first time? This happened before covid and the switch to WFH. Were
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by rchaud 8mo ago
The course of history, from borders to leadership choices and technological advances like seafaring has been determined to a much greater extent by organized religion and state-sanctioned warfare than it has by the open and free operation o
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Markets only "figure things out" in a petri dish economy where: 1) There are no barriers to entry for competitors (e.g. protectionist tariffs, equal access to capital for everyone) 2) There are perfect substitutes available, so tr
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by rchaud 8mo ago
I had a Pinterest account back when there were genuinely great resource for niche things like Japanese graphic design. Since then, I've moved to simply having a local image/video database UI app like Eagle[0] and checking Are.na[1
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Definitely not Etsy, because it's the same deal over there.
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They're making money hand over fist with ads, I don't think they could care any less about the product than they currently do. The product at this point is a moldy sheath around the ad delivery system, as with any for-profit &quot
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Reliving Late Nights Watching MTV with ErsatzTV(rafichaudhury.com)
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> We are witnessing a civilizational "race to the middle," where the complexity of human thought is sacrificed on the altar of algorithmic smoothness. This has long been the case in the area of "business English", w
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Distrust of mianstream media and institutions and high trust in streamers, youtubers and podcasters who aren't regulated by the FCC or any sort of editorial guidelines and happily parrot conspiracies, fringe economic theories, pump shi
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Because the sample size for "mega-rich" selects for more psychopaths per thousand people than the sample of people who are "just rich". You can get "just rich" by being a doctor, or a partner at an IT consultin
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To Rogan's credit, he was early to the concept of video podcasts, which Youtube's algorithm picked up on after they lifted video time limits in 2010 (or thereabouts). His videos were so long that he also profited handsomely from p
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by rchaud 8mo ago
For the 1000+ headcount companies who sit outside the Silicon Valley webdev/software dev world, it doesn't. Silicon Valley looks at these as "products". Purchasing managers see these as "commodities" that need
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by rchaud 8mo ago
Maybe in 2020. Teams is the defacto IM app for enterprise now. It may not be to your liking, but most workplaces don't need apps to constantly be adding new features. They need videoconferencing, chat, meeting recording and AI transcr
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by rchaud 8mo ago
FB is what it is because of advertising revenue. Google already had a giant advertising business where jettisoning Google+ made no difference to their bottom line.
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- Pro-business think tanks to write "policy reports" with a predetermined outcome - PR firms that can get their policy mouthpieces on cable TV news - Police unions to get their endorsement (a favorite of "law and order"
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by rchaud 8mo ago
Stock valuation has moved further away from Ben Graham-era emphasis on analysis of cash flow.
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by rchaud 8mo ago
There are no good mega-corporations, only a honeymoon period where they haven't grown large enough to start horse-trading for favorable treatment from the state.
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Do you have any specifics about the law they allegedly broke?
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unfortunately it's also where the signal is distorted by the noise of a thousand blue check hangers-on who add nothing to the comment thread besides "great job, Mr CEO!", "this is a game changer", and other unquesti
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An unskippable ad for Skillshare plays while ChatGPT thinks about the best way to center an image inside a div.
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by rchaud 8mo ago
That's what a business would do if they were getting a loan from the bank instead of ravenous VCs that will pay their legal fees and settlements when theyget busted for training their models on copyrighted content, as long as they IPO
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by rchaud 8mo ago
Local LLM models? It'd sure be a shame if enterprise buyers cornered the market on RAM, GPU and storage supplies and put them out of reach for consumers.
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by rchaud 8mo ago
There is one reality that's undeniable: that political donations by individuals are strictly monitored and can land you in jail if violated, but PAC money is untraceable and unlimited. That fact alone has led to stacking the deck in fa
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by rchaud 8mo ago
What's not to get? The product is being bumped down in terms of priority so they can focus on AI word salad solutions. They are waiting for enough customers to end their contracts before they discontinue the product altogether.
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by rchaud 8mo ago
I'd say the inflexion point was in 2015. That's when Apple Music launched, sidelining the iTunes store where you could buy songs, in favor of a rental model like Spotify. That's also when they discontinued the Mac Server hard
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by rchaud 8mo ago
Apple has more cash reserves on hand than most countries do and yet its CEO had to scramble to stand behind Trump during the inauguration and offer a million-dollar tribute to stay in his good graces. Power > money.
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"Disruptor" = temporarily embarrassed monopolist.
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Flash required a browser plugin to work. It was handling video and 3D animation a decade before the <video> and <canvas> elements were added to the HTML5 spec.
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Rather a warts-and-all open web than a pay-to-play walled garden where you have to pay the feudal lord a tax for sharecropping on their land.
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by rchaud 8mo ago
And they said that using a browser with sub-5% market share would cause us to miss out on the latest and greatest in web technology!

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