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by sombremesa 5y ago
There's no such thing as a "false flag", just as there's no such thing as a "false upvote". Fradulent? Abusive? Sure. But true/false implies these things are objective.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Thanks for addressing this. I think your approach of radical transparency goes a long way to quell paranoia around how HN works.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
The answer to this is probably FOMO (and it does work against GP's argument) — the VCs who missed out on the hot new startup will want to get on the second best rocket.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
If you think of Tinder or Fortnite as your “home” as TFA suggests it’s kind of hard to sympathize.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
DDG is also much worse if you Google things like “1 crore inr in usd.”
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Is that what I said? I don't think that's what I said. What I actually meant to say was that SV investing has ignored profit and looked at revenue for a while now.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> It's ridiculously hard to get to $1M ARR This is a blanket statement and it’s very wrong. Know better than to look at revenue versus profit. Then again, Silicon Valley seems to have long since given up on that idea!
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Your mom’s a compiler.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> Altering a poem is a whole different animal than editing a book or a movie, for instance. I don’t know about that. George Lucas has managed to butcher his own movies after the fact, and newer audiences would never know. Hundreds of tho
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Since they needed to be, for clickbait.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Something I've learned is that if people like the copycat enough, they will always defend it. That's what happened to Threes/2048, and that's what will happen here. The wiggle room between Lingo <-> Wordle is nar
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by sombremesa 5y ago
This seems like "IT-style" troubleshooting and fixing, and even then it seems half-hearted. Can't you install other browsers on iPad? You could also install extensions like stylish on Chrome and fix it therein. You could try
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by sombremesa 5y ago
How about $68k? https://www.privateislandsonline.com/canada/novascotia/big-t...
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> First used a mac in 2021. And there it is. Nobody likes change. If you hate it so much, go back. Sure, it has its issues, but people who've been using it for a while are VASTLY more qualified to comment on that. If I'm used t
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by sombremesa 5y ago
I got the sense that the author doesn’t have a good grasp on engineering nor on business.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> What a stupid post. I don't think someone who puts this in their bio is qualified to make that comment: > One of my favorite low key social engineering hacks is that I used to have a keylogger installed on every machine I own.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
That is such an awful URL.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
If you read past the title it’s pretty clear OP is asking for a general opinion of substack from a content creators perspective.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
Between "there's no guarantee that the message viewed by a user was actually written by the poster" and "You absolutely cannot fake a message being cryptographically signed without providing a broken verification functio
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> in the end, there's no guarantee that the message viewed by a user was actually written by the poster If you think about it, this is also true for web3 — true enough that it's broken. We don't live in a world where you c
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> While you're correct that a 4chan-like mechanism would provide a means of authentication, the hash would not be human-recognizable easily (basically, not meaningful) This part can be addressed easily with avatars such as those Gra
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by sombremesa 5y ago
I'm amazed that such stupid stuff takes up attention, and more importantly, takes up my attention. Thankfully it's just a minute or two, but clearly I need to be more careful about what I click on (and let into my head...I'
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> They swithed to battle royal and made one of the most played video game of all time. More specifically, they saw the success of PUBG and decided to copy it immediately. I suppose that still counts as a successful pivot!
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by sombremesa 5y ago
> Japan is, of course, just a place. You allude to this later in your comment, but it really isn't when it comes to paper (and to some extent, cardboard). The irony in your comment re:fetishizing is that TFA talks of traditions wher
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by sombremesa 5y ago
+1, but that's the audience which makes this an article worth writing. For people with strong resumes, it's hard to leave home without tripping on the offer letters jammed under your front door.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
It does. GP's entire argument is that power that can be abused should not exist.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
It’s likely even simpler than that. Animals live mostly by instinct. Predators usually sneak up on live prey and chase it, whereas scavengers will happily eat animals that are already dead. I’m willing to bet that the “play dead” strategy b
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by sombremesa 5y ago
By this logic we should surrender our arms and legs as well, and really just die.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
I don't know what kind of shop you're running where JS libraries are 'literally' getting blown out of water but I like it.
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by sombremesa 5y ago
How is it incorrect? Short term gains are taxed the same as income, which is exactly what both of us are saying. This is setup to favor people who don’t understand taxes, so they don’t screw themselves over. It ends up screwing people who d

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