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by saulpw 2y ago
Yeah and Jobs co-founded Apple with Wozniak. Wozniak was instrumental to Apple's initial success but clearly it was Jobs who took it to the mat. Same with Gates/Allen, by their IPO in 1986 it was billg at the helm and Paul Allen
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by saulpw 2y ago
Microsoft intentionally and specifically suffocated BeOS. That was not luck.
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by saulpw 2y ago
U+2588
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by saulpw 2y ago
Not since Milton Friedman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976.
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by saulpw 2y ago
It undilutes the stock, indirectly raising the stock price. I've heard it's like paying a dividend, except taxed differently. So shareholders should be happy, and the executives at the company who are making this decision typica
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by saulpw 3y ago
A majority of votes would be 50.1%. More votes than any other candidate is called a plurality.
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by saulpw 3y ago
> Imagine a video rental service where you can go in, and they will play whatever movie you want on a DVD player in the back room. How long can that wire be between the DVD player and the person watching before it starts being copyright
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by saulpw 3y ago
I like this viewpoint of "cooperate to compete". It's what we've been doing on a global scale as ~all nations have agreed to property rights, international trade, and abiding by laws they've written down. And in
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by saulpw 3y ago
How would that new design not become the next $30 template? Do we just have to redesign everything important every few years so they avoid the old/commodity look?
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by saulpw 3y ago
It's actually easier to control your external environment than your internal environment. If interruptions or distractions are like a monkey hopping around, then at least with an external monkey you can put it outside and lock the doo
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by saulpw 3y ago
- having a baby too young - felony conviction - paralyzed from diving into shallow water
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by saulpw 3y ago
Thank you for this! I've been wanting something like this for years.
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by saulpw 3y ago
I opt out every time too. I like getting the individualized attention and I consider it a free massage.
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by saulpw 3y ago
To be fair, this appears to be a case of greed: > Kearns sought $395 million in damages. He turned down a $30 million settlement offer in 1990 and took it to the jury, which awarded him $5.2 million; Ford agreed to pay $10.2 million rath
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by saulpw 3y ago
It is interesting that Google gets a lot of flak for canceling products, while Microsoft effectively cancels products all the time through EOL, but it doesn't register the same because they will sell you the next version (which is NOT
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by saulpw 3y ago
It's not easy
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by saulpw 3y ago
Bandcamp was acquired by Epic Games in 2022 and then by Songtradr in 2023. Its ownership and management has become less different from those other platforms, and it's no longer seen as indie-friendly by people who pay attention to the
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by saulpw 3y ago
Yeah but what would have been the point? There were several of these, like DR-DOS and 4DOS etc. They were modestly successful but without Bill Gates' ambition and cruelty and connections, were never going to go anywhere.
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by saulpw 3y ago
This is not a place of honor.
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by saulpw 3y ago
For me it seems to be a ~30 minute speedwalk almost every day. My bodymind notices when I miss it, especially 3 days in a row.
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by saulpw 3y ago
No, I don't think this type of action should be legal. I think they should do it anyway. Protest is more meaningful (and raises more awareness) when there are consequences. (You're Lawful Good, which is an admirable quality in a
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by saulpw 3y ago
Breaking the law isn't a moral question, it's a legal one. You break the law, you go to jail, okay. But what is this "it isn't right" business? Some innocent bystanders are inconvenienced, so what? These people
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by saulpw 3y ago
It isn't nice to block the doorway It isn't nice to go to jail There are nicer ways to do it But the nice ways always fail - Malvina Reynolds, "It Isn't Nice" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lWkV2Qp
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by saulpw 3y ago
That was 1995. In 1991, we had the ubiquitous intercontinental phone network, but overseas connections were >$1/minute and data rate was only 9600 baud.
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by saulpw 3y ago
Looks interesting. But, I want something open-source that runs on Linux, takes csv/json as input, and generates a clickable .svg. We come from different worlds :)
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by saulpw 3y ago
3x 12-hour shifts would be 36-hours/week, and would be fine. Doctors work a lot more than that though, and that's where the fatigue comes from.
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by saulpw 3y ago
I'd love to have this. Not just an updated visualization for 2024, but an ongoing project, with an automatic visualization generator, and the data behind that visualization open-sourced, in such a format that invited the history nerds
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by saulpw 3y ago
In actuality how it works is that the price goes up 10x and you experience 10x dilution. So everything seems up and to the right and the founders are 10x but when it comes time to cash out you're lucky to get a small bonus.
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by saulpw 3y ago
But notably, it's not old. No one wants the old stuff anymore, no matter how good.
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by saulpw 3y ago
I don't think it's good to have toxins on our lawns (where our pets roll around) or in our shower water either though?

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