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by rfrey 3y ago
I must be mistaken, but your comment really sounds like you're blaming Twitter's revenue problems -- easily explained by mismanagement -- on an all powerful cabal of Jews.
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by rfrey 3y ago
I think my friends and I probably shouted STOP SHAKING YOUR EYES!! at each other ten thousand times. My parents must have been confused.
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by rfrey 3y ago
There has never been a tax expenditure, in the history of political mankind, that everyone agreed was "asked for".
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by rfrey 3y ago
To be fair, sys_64738 did not say that there WAS zero crime, just that they SEE zero crime. Which is probably true, and is true for many people in high crime areas too. Not too many muggings in an LA gated community.
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by rfrey 3y ago
James Hoffman gives a good history of Bialetti here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upgQsA5kLAk including their sale to Faema and later to a cookware manufacturer, their numerous brushes with bankruptcy, and the stiff comp
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by rfrey 3y ago
I don't think anyone believed the GitHub acquisition was just an aquihire.
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by rfrey 3y ago
I did not read this as gatekeeping, rather I read it as an opinion on the suitability of C for kinds of project. If vim + make isn't enough, then C is probably not the appropriate language. Not that you shouldn't use C if you don&
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by rfrey 3y ago
Seems like a best case scenario to me. - Less outrage farming in Canada - Meta/Facebook suffers a bit - Canadian media oligopolies suffer a lot - Government gets a black eye for doing Rogers' dirty work
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by rfrey 3y ago
Alternatively: you need to be O(Europe) to avoid being bullied by big tech companies.
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by rfrey 3y ago
Calling out "blackface" for somebody in the 90's dressing up as Aladdin is a definite tell for somebody's political biases.
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by rfrey 3y ago
How much Uber took in from the IP isn't relevant - the point is the investors could sell on the open market at the current valuation, which was a higher (in some cases much higher) valuation than what they invested at.
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by rfrey 3y ago
The things you mention are not the reason people prefer cars over transit. I think people prefer cars because of the point-to-point transport, the lack of stops unrelated to them, and the lack of a set schedule. All those apply to both priv
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by rfrey 3y ago
Sure, as long as the price gets negotiated in advance. The problem is the sudden change in terms. This is the free market in the same way that a NY real estate developer telling a sub "I'll pay you 40% of what we agreed, if you do
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by rfrey 3y ago
I refuse to believe that not cheating people by default, and not expecting others to cheat me by default, is synonymous with acting "more like machines than people". What a cynical, depressing world view.
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by rfrey 3y ago
The repls you mention are not like lisp repls. You're being downvoted because your comment makes it sound like you've never programmed a lisp but have strong opinions nonetheless.
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by rfrey 3y ago
Old YC was funding hackers as a way to compete with traditional VC. New YC is traditional VC. Hustlers yes, hackers no.
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by rfrey 3y ago
Starting with hand planes, dovetail/carcass saws, and chisels... and then moving to a table/bandsaw, jointer, planer etc. IS the best way to learn woodworking. Diving into riving wood, green joinery, etc. brings you to the next le
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by rfrey 3y ago
Given the possibility of invisible and essentially free screening of private conversations, the analogy is probably more "install cameras in every home that only the government can access". But we promise, they'll be turned o
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by rfrey 3y ago
I appreciate your commitment to precision in language.
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by rfrey 3y ago
I don't disagree with you, but there are a lot of companies (mine included) that don't care if they stand out. I need a website so people believe I'm a real company; as a place to convey basic information about our product an
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by rfrey 3y ago
> Evidently I've pissed off enough people who drink the red-white-blue kool-aid. You haven't pissed off anyone. People are downvoting because your comments sounds like they're coming from an edgy 14 year old who wants to s
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by rfrey 3y ago
> While engineering teams often thrive on routine and ritual (sprint planning, on-call rotations, recurring retros, etc.) My eyes rolled back so hard I'm not sure they'll ever face forward again. Lotta good stuff in this essay,
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by rfrey 3y ago
> "Startup" by definition is companies that need large-scale growth to succeed By your definition. And maybe a bunch of people who read the PG essay that narrowed the word that way. But not by the definition of 99.9% of econo
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by rfrey 3y ago
Because assessing and assuming risk is literally their entire reason to exist.
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by rfrey 3y ago
I have started businesses both in California and in Canada, and have not found it more difficult or more expensive to hire in Canada. Can you tell me what additional roadblocks or expenses you have encountered?
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by rfrey 3y ago
The United States is into its fifth decade experimenting with that theory. The results do not seem to support your assertion.
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by rfrey 3y ago
You are correct, of course, but to me HN is more similar to a bbPHP forum than Facebook or Twitter. (Forums are themselves central-platform social media sites, but to me they are quite different.)
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by rfrey 3y ago
Strange how all those smaller companies filing patents are so idiotic to work against their own interests. Somebody should tell them.
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by rfrey 3y ago
Imagine if HN just copied the first few paragraphs of the TechCrunch article and stole the pictures as well, completely cutting TechCrunch out of the loop.
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by rfrey 3y ago
So many asses out there excusing their self indulgent rude behaviour as "telling it like it is".

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