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by s73v3r 11y ago
They're associated with bitcoin, and bitcoin business is quite shady. You may not like or agree with the reasoning, but I guarantee you that a lot of normal, non-tech people are going to be thinking like that. This is also in addition
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by s73v3r 11y ago
I'd say the opposite. While Airbnb is on the cusp of a payout, Google's an established and quite profitable company. They have plenty of money that they can use to make people happy. Airbnb has the promise of money, which will alm
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by s73v3r 11y ago
You could cut the taxes in half, and they'd still seek out tax havens. Don't capitulate to their demands. Cut off the ability send money to the tax havens.
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Which would require me to set up an account with them, which I may or may not be willing to do, due to the general shadiness surrounding bitcoin businesses.
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I'm not seeing why either of those is desirable, or a reason I should care about Bitcoin.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
I'm sorry, but this kind of pretentious schlock ("global paradigm shift", "emancipation") just makes me want Bitcoin to fail even harder. It's probably a nifty technology. Stop talking about it like it's t
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"Increasing the wealth of a bunch of early adopters (who supported the network/technology when it was vital to do so), seems to me to be a feature, not a bug." Why?
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Because no one wants to set up the account to fund micropayments. Any solution which would require the visitor to pre-fund an account, no matter how small of an amount, is destined to fail.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
That's nice, but doesn't change the fact that most people don't use Bitcoin.
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Those are good reasons. But I don't see anything about why one shouldn't be paid for it.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
I would say that if the new company is not in the same section of the industry, than enforcing that agreement is entirely unreasonable.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
I think the point is that most employers would say "no."
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by s73v3r 11y ago
You're assuming the rates are the same, and that your current company will allow you to take an unpaid week off.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"A work-hire test attracts the best programmers. It doesn't repel them." Not really. The best programmers have other stuff to do besides your make-work silliness. "Get them to show you they can do the work. Nothing else
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by s73v3r 11y ago
So why should anyone make a content blocker, unless they're someone with a mission to do so, like Mozilla or the EFF?
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"Wouldn't a small web business which relies on Ad money be killed with this move ?" Yup. "Wouldn't someone who wants to provide content for ad money eventually have to pay Apple some cut for displaying ads on app.&q
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by s73v3r 11y ago
And how are sites going to earn revenue in order to stay up? We've already shown that no one is willing to pay for it.
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If it were anything other than Mozilla, wouldn't that be a Con? Because then it'd be more likely that the maintainer would take money to let ads by.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"I don't see any reason why anyone should profit in this space." Because there's still work in putting it together and maintaining it? And because profiting from doing this means they're less likely to take money fr
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by s73v3r 11y ago
So basically, this is going to lead to a rise in "Sponsored Content".
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by s73v3r 11y ago
It really depends on how big the community is. HackPad was open sourced; it hasn't been touched in months.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"That's a speculation on your part" Whereas your post is speculation on yours. "Nobody asked them to support it" At the same time, if they do open source it, people are going to see that it was once Dropbox, and any
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by s73v3r 11y ago
Email is plenty broken. Spam, for example.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
Again, how was that not an option? Why did he have to get into YC? What's wrong with telling them that the type of unsustainable growth isn't right for their business now that they've had a chance to look at things?
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"So to your question, what's the end goal? Well, if we're right about our beliefs, hopefully we can become the next billion dollar company. If not, then it's the other two options: get acquired or die." What's
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"That's exactly my point. Silicon Valley rewards "go big or go bust", it doesn't reward "small, sustainable business"." Because if that's your goal, you clearly aren't passionate about what
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by s73v3r 11y ago
And yet, somehow he's still allowed to continue running for President. And still doing well.
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by s73v3r 11y ago
That would be just as bad, considering no one's really touched HackPad in the intervening time.
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I'm sorry, but I find that a whole load of horse shit. Especially in today's political climate in the US, I see there being absolutely no benefit to the people who's jobs are displaced. Basic income is a non-starter, especial
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by s73v3r 11y ago
"Next, you would need to understand that equity compensation is almost the only difference between an SV startup and pretty much every other type of company (I do)." Except that is completely false. When I worked at Western Digita

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