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by rhizome 6y ago
What is the fallacy in saying you have to draw the line some where?
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by rhizome 6y ago
> Doing something sufficiently contrary to the interests of minority shareholders could certainly result in a lawsuit. I suppose, but does it? Ever? Not to be antagonistic but your entire paragraph is a hypothetical which is substitutin
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by rhizome 6y ago
If I can XKCD for a moment, you are one of today's 10,000 people to learn about The Tolerance Paradox! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Note: "a society" is not necessarily the public a
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by rhizome 6y ago
Related: "I don't watch or even own a TV" [ watches Netflix/YouTube on a laptop six hours a day ]
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by rhizome 6y ago
Well, one primary benefit seems to be to make loading indicators/spinners into first-class components.
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by rhizome 6y ago
That's probably something that can be measured: if the profile/wall fills out over several seconds, when do the ads appear? First, before everything else? In that case it would be cynical, but I agree that they might monetize the
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by rhizome 6y ago
Yep.
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by rhizome 6y ago
I think they're a good thing that disproves the conventional wisdom that corporations are "required" to act only in the profit interests of shareholders, that share price is the only measure of executive performance. Going fu
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by rhizome 6y ago
> How much power do the VCs typically have? I wanna say we don't know. Has there ever been an instance of any company getting their tranche(s) and saying FU to the VC, and there being any repercussions? It's a two- or three-le
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by rhizome 6y ago
> they still have an obligation to do right by the minority shareholders Fiduciary duty is extremely rare to be the subject of a suit against a, let's say, CEO. It's a complex area of law because it isn't actually a law,
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by rhizome 6y ago
> Every Chinese site I've ever used requires phone number or ID verification Frankly, this happens a lot in the West these days, too. Take OKCupid, for instance. And the third-party doctrine.
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by rhizome 6y ago
Polio didn't stop. Smallpox is not extinct.
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by rhizome 6y ago
Biweekly is easier for the employee, semimonthly is easier for bookkeeping.
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by rhizome 7y ago
Yeah, that's an imperfect strategy: https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/283188235055_/16oz-A...
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by rhizome 7y ago
I love this idea and I'm sure the only reason I overlooked their job ad here was because they were only looking for front-end'ers, but this is what I can't figure out (or find anywhere): what is the basis for disruption? The
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by rhizome 7y ago
Because revenue is dependent on the "T" in "CTO."
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by rhizome 7y ago
You're thinking in black and white. This is all hypotheticals of course, but the teams you speak of probably already have something , but why should they switch to yours? What do you even know about what they might already be using?
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by rhizome 7y ago
It's about elegance, you see. num%3 == 0 ? num%5 == 0 ? "fizzbuzz" : "fizz" : num%5 == 0 ? "buzz" : num
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by rhizome 7y ago
That is a distinction without a difference for me here, but the people have spoken regardless.
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by rhizome 7y ago
At the very least, having more than zero users. Maybe yours was pay-only, in which case you basically just spent three weeks coding for fun, but that doesn't stop you from continuing on in a solely bizdev capacity. I'm sure your a
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by rhizome 7y ago
> traditional web hosts, which are built around each server being exposed to the internet and until recently had no answer to VPC This is absolutely wrong unless you have rank n00bz leading your technology. This isn't even touching
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by rhizome 7y ago
I hope that in this light we can agree that using the term "free market" as a cudgel is a sign of immaturity. I think you're caught up in an is/ought conundrum though: "idolizing the idea of a completely unregulated
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by rhizome 7y ago
> The last 20 years of PC gaming has been one of theft and grand larceny by steam, valve, EA and co. We used to get dedicated servers and level editors in games. We used to have to deposit a quarter every time our character died, and wi
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by rhizome 7y ago
This is in the Tom Scott video, but in the case of this intersection there is a combination of conservation area limitations, light-pollution concerns, and a complete lack of electricity.
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by rhizome 7y ago
The thing that jumps out to me: there are WAY more page-loading indicators now than there has ever been before. Lots more jumping content, lots more laggy content population, many more elements sliding around...I know "worse is better&
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by rhizome 7y ago
> I'd argue if there is no path back to normality Well come on, it takes more than being "sorry" and building companies and "trying to treat everyone equally." Nothing he mentioned, besides apparently turning sn
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by rhizome 7y ago
> I think there is actually a form of manipulation / abuse that makes a leader objectively GOOD at their job You don't even have to get into cutting-edge management theory, the entire USA was built for the first half of its li
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by rhizome 7y ago
Heck, if you use Twitter a lot you've probably seen the return of the failwhale over the past several months: https://imgur.com/a/p6mYfIw
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by rhizome 7y ago
Is it still capitalism with strong antitrust? If so, why do capitalists keep chipping away at and denigrating antitrust laws? What about capitalism's concurrent drive: toward slavery for its workers? What about a third drive: zero taxe
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by rhizome 7y ago
> If they didn't do this, they would be exploited. You're implying that the way they're currently doing it is the only possible way to deal with the problem.

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