spoonjim

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901.
by spoonjim 5y ago
That’s great in this one case but it doesn’t solve the open source compensation problem. We need a new set of licenses that allow the general freedoms of free software but also force people making large sums of money with free software to s
902.
by spoonjim 5y ago
OMG dude. Your doorbell is already operated by a pushbutton switch. This is the cheapest and most reliable input device you will ever find
903.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Well he could also be pissed off that he’s interviewing someone who claims to be an expert in something he can’t even install.
904.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Clubhouse’s free fall has nothing to do with open source alternatives. Social apps are powered by the user base, not the technology.
905.
by spoonjim 5y ago
I just hope they don’t wait for it to fall and crush some innocents.
906.
by spoonjim 5y ago
This building is fucked and I wonder when people are going to accept that.
907.
by spoonjim 5y ago
It all comes down to the ease of suing people in the US. Because of that, everyone gets insurance, the insurance companies mandate all kinds of inspections, all vendors need to be certified and bonded, and go through a 4000 hour licensing p
908.
by spoonjim 5y ago
LOL. You don't become CEO of a $35 billion company by shepherding a $10m acquisition.
909.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Buying a company is often a very efficient way of getting something built. The price may be lower than you think and they get a team that's already worked together and isn't bogged down by internal Twitter politics. If the executi
910.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Twitter doesn't really understand what made it so successful. What did it start as but a blogging service limited to 140 characters? That's why they are so resistant to change. So they're looking for a company that has a user
911.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Sounds like a Quill customer should get their evidence in place because soon they'll be able to sue Twitter instead of Quill.
912.
by spoonjim 5y ago
The modern SV startup treats users the way that a coal miner treats a mountain or an LBO guy treats a middle market company. Just a resource to be exploited as they go from Engineering Manager at Salesforce to VP at Twitter and given nothin
913.
by spoonjim 5y ago
The only way any of this is ever meaningful is if it interacts with the non-Web3 world in a defined or enforced way. If there is an NFT that the US Copyright Office can enforce as being tied to the copyright of The Hunger Games, then that i
914.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Web3 is a really amazing grift that I feel very stupid to have missed out on.
915.
by spoonjim 5y ago
My solution: All rental contracts are illegal unless they include a 1% ownership transfer per year. That way if you rent for 25 years you own 25% of the property.
916.
by spoonjim 5y ago
How would one have prevented their IP from leaking?
917.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Every utterance from Wolfram is Mathematica marketing, even when he writes (amazing) eulogies for his late friends.
918.
by spoonjim 5y ago
It’s one of the best pieces of software in the world, with things like Microsoft Excel and Google Maps. It is run by an absolutely insufferable guy but he does a good job with it.
919.
by spoonjim 5y ago
I honestly wonder if a CEO who grew up outside the US is going to be a good steward of the uniquely American attitude towards free speech. Honestly, I don’t have a lot of hope for it.
920.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Interesting, thanks for the clarification.
921.
by spoonjim 5y ago
At the very highest level, the draw percentage is much higher. In the last World Chess Championship in 2018, all twelve classical games went to draws! It's complete garbage from a spectator point of view.
922.
by spoonjim 5y ago
It means the first non-draw. Almost all classical chess games at the highest levels end in draws which has completely trashed the game as a spectator sport.
923.
by spoonjim 5y ago
“ The quality of people willing to serve has been declining rapidly” Huh, I wonder why high quality youth aren’t more eager to fly across the world and kill 8-year-olds for the honor of the uniform…
924.
by spoonjim 5y ago
I mean, your side has won. California doesn’t execute anymore. In the marketplace of ideas, “Clarence Ray Allen should be left alive” is victorious.
925.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Yes, that would be the only reason to fire, and the only reason to lay off would be a massive change in financial outlook. For example if your biggest customer just switched to a competitor and now you have to do a big layoff or risk bankru
926.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Well there’s nothing that stops you from being fired or laid off on your first day. If you see that coming, more humane to rescind the offer.
927.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Well as Clarence Ray Allen showed, sometimes the only way to stop someone from killing people is to kill them.
928.
by spoonjim 5y ago
Some prisons do do this where the inmates suspected of being active gang members are just put in the SHU arbitrarily.
929.
by spoonjim 5y ago
The Clarence Ray Allen argument.
930.
by spoonjim 5y ago
It's not that the alternatives are non-existent, it's that their cost (in dollars or some other parameter) have gone up a lot. For example, if you don't use Uber or Lyft in San Francisco, it takes a LOT longer to hail a taxi

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