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by s3r3nity 3y ago
> I can't blame anyone for seeing $20 Billion dollars upfront and taking the offer, but did Figma even need to sell in the first place? It's a great question from a P&L standpoint, but like you said: the board of the compan
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
>I really hope Big Tech, including but not limited to Apple, gets broken up, they've gotten too big and have expanded far beyond tech, and I'm not sure we're all the better for it. Many of our retirement and wealth portfol
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
>Specifically, investigators have examined how the Apple Watch works better with the iPhone than with other brands, as well as how Apple locks competitors out of its iMessage service. I'm suspicious that much of this is a ploy to we
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Google admits Gemini demo was staged(engadget.com)
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
Apple already made the smart “move” by moving very slowly in the “smart home” game, even though tech bloggers ripped them all the time whenever a new Echo or Google Assistant device was released. Now rather than deal with all this cruft, or
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
> Only 1 14" screen and a different timezone Of all the optimizations I've done, moving to one screen/monitor ~10 years ago has been the biggest positive impact on my work, anxiety, and overall focus. When I was younger, I
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
This tracks with what I've heard from other friends & colleagues; one data point could be an anecdote but seeing/hearing similar stories multiple times over the past decade+ creates a trend. Google Product Management is almost
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
Not OP, but where I _may_ agree with the sentiment is that inflation has a wide distribution of impact by the underlying category of goods/services. e.g. food, energy, electricity, shelter, apparel, etc. Namely, even if average /
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
If ever you want a data point that HN is an echo-chamber sometimes, this number says it all: > Number of people who use Facebook each day (DAU): 2.037 billion (April 2023) If you estimate ~8bn people in the world, then a quarter of every
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
>engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira I see this issue all the time in bug reports and it can be pretty helpful to see a short video on how to replicate the issue. Depending upon the type of user submitting those re
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
Ad hominem [1] attacks, even if true, don't make the idea itself less credible. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
> More likely we negotiate the terms of debt forgiveness, such as tariff reductions etc. So instead of controlling our own destiny, we have to hope for good terms from negotiations with the holders of that debt - who can apply increasing
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
> But it still doesn't matter. It has never mattered. Following this logic, why pay taxes at all? If the amout of debt the USG taking on is irrelevant and a "scam," then why not just set tax rates to 0%?
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
Yeah that's what leads to situations like the Greek debt crisis [1]. You can't just rack up debt forever, and just assume that we'll pay it back later WITH INTEREST. You also can't just "cancel" debt; the bill
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by s3r3nity 3y ago
> at scale one time Bait? Bait.
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
Cool - they paid for their own bureaucracy with a bunch of small fines with no net benefit to society.
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
So 5 years later we need to search that hard for maybe one win for GDPR legislation?
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
Lol THOSE are actually useful / interesting / hard problems worthwhile solving - or at least working through. We need more computational biologists solving protein folding problems or the like to cure humanity’s greatest ills. NOT
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
There’s a balance being positive for effort vs giving everyone participation trophies. Sometimes tough but fair feedback is appropriate and needed. Let’s not pretend that the vectors for “effort” and “impact” should be orthogonal.
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
Cool - doesn't mean everyone with a reskinned app gets a participation trophy. Sometimes people need to hear tough feedback...lest you become one of those people that quit their jobs and audition on American Idol or something.
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
Sorry, nope. This looks exactly like Teuxdeux, and even borrows some very similar product marketing imagery. ( https://teuxdeux.com/ ) Also Weektodo: https://weektodo.me/ There are so many hard & interest
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
There is so much bootlicking right now in the Valley / VC / Tech Twitter communities, but more folks need to call out Sequoia's poor judgement directly. You don't get to hide behind the veil of "oh we're taking
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
I don't think that adequately explains why trends are disproportionately impacting men, specifically.
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
They've been riding off that "fame" for like 20 years, but it's a completely different situation today vs. when the program was at its peak.
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
Drizly was a separate startup that was bought by Uber in 2021
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
At the federal level they instead opted to side with union special interests, and therefore instead give those subsidies to union shops like Ford. Therefore it's likely Tesla wouldn't benefit as much as you might suspect...but eit
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
> If only we were hellbent on building communities where you don't need to get in a car every time you leave your house. Not everyone lives in dense cities, nor does everyone want to. >There's a better way to design cities a
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
> I hate the idea of streaming/cloud gaming. I will never sign up for such a service. I don't want a monthly bill, I enjoy building computers. I want to have the content on my local machine thank you very much. I totally think
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
Maybe? But I’m also ok investing the $10-20 per month in a service that can guarantee 4k @ 60fps on any hardware I’m using.
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by s3r3nity 4y ago
I disagree, because for 99% of gamers not trying to play competitive games, it’s virtually unnoticeable. I like to play Spiritfarer and some other family games with my partner on Stadia, and we’ve never noticed any significant problems - ev

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