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by staunch 6y ago
Pretty funny coming from someone that uses "techbro" and "snowflake" in seriousness... If you don't think there is a new style language use by people who are most easily categorized as "Woke" then you&#x27
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by staunch 6y ago
It seems like Common Crawl is doing a lot of awesome stuff, but they're not attacking Google's stranglehold head on. Presumably this is because they lack the money to do so. Have they attempted to estimate how much it would cost
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by staunch 6y ago
> CTO Chris Wright tweeted overnight: "I am really outraged by FSF's decision to reinstate RMS. At a moment in time where diversity and inclusion awareness is growing, this is a step backwards." What does "diversity
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by staunch 6y ago
Google makes $150+ billion from Google Search per year. Running Google Search could be operated for likely (much less than) $10 billion per year. So, Google is in effect taxing us all $140 billion per year. It's not dissimilar from how
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by staunch 6y ago
Steve Jobs was probably the best team builder in tech (and maybe business) history with Apple v1, NeXT, and then Apple v2 and he learned this lesson well. "We went through that stage at Apple where we thought, ‘Oh, we’re going to be a
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by staunch 6y ago
Was the technology real?
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by staunch 6y ago
Which doesn't say much, since this is (presumably) only the case because Uber didn't offer YC the opportunity to invest, and not because YC wouldn't have been willing to.
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by staunch 6y ago
If the founders committed outright fraud, they should be punished, of course. But the burden of proof for accredited investors claiming fraud should be pretty damn high. Accredited investors are granted the privilege of investing in risky b
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by staunch 6y ago
Like most proverbs, it only seems insightful and true if you don't think about what it is claiming at all.
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by staunch 6y ago
I believe the reason it's "Series B" after like 10 VC raises is that Docker, Inc recapitalized and basically wiped out existing shareholders (former employees, etc). I'm surprised there's not been a stockholder laws
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by staunch 6y ago
> You can't have all the modern day luxuries (cars, airplanes, electricity 24/7) and somehow expect everything to just "hum" along. [Citation needed]
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by staunch 6y ago
True, but this analogy works just fine here. There's no contradiction if you consider the argument of preserving the status quo as total non-sense. Of course you should use a spaceship and its resources to improve the situation of the
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by staunch 6y ago
A lot of what holds people back from embracing this concept is a belief in "personal responsibility" AKA free will. Even George Orwell's quote hints at this problem: "...we must all cooperate and see to it that everyone
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by staunch 6y ago
> "...move to a company that appreciates such work and rewards it appropriately." Which takes 1-2 years of very hard work to discover, by which time the employee has invested a huge amount of effort for 10-30% more salary and 1
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by staunch 6y ago
Yeah, in other words, Stripe engages in exactly the unethical behavior I described above. Why does Stripe not insist on requiring customer consent for this feature created supposedly for their convenience? And we all know why: because a l
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by staunch 6y ago
That's a pretty lazy criticism given how much of the most modern and popular networking and system software is written in Go (Kubernetes, Docker, all the related infrastructure, etc). The "net" standard library is still very
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by staunch 6y ago
For the billions of people with smart phones, wouldn't this be very easily solved with a default app?
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by staunch 6y ago
We can't run the experiment but it's safe to assume most startups that took very early funding did need it to succeed. That doesn't really take away from the founders effort though. Although it does mean there were probably 1
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by staunch 6y ago
Yeah, of course there are trade offs, and that's not a balanced run down of them. Most of the issues raised there seem easily addressed in the modern world.
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by staunch 6y ago
This would be great. Could we go so far as to have the entire whole world operate on UTC, so we could have an Earth Time?
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by staunch 6y ago
Zapier is a good example of copying a good idea (IFTTT) and fast-following with good execution. Sure, copying can seem lame, but Google was copying Alta Vista, Facebook was copying Friendster, Microsoft was copying everyone, etc. Good ideas
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by staunch 6y ago
The practice of charging a replacement card is relatively new and not how credit cards worked for decades. Why wasn't customer consent part of the process? Because that would lead to a huge number of denials and account cancellations f
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by staunch 6y ago
Wrong. I'm speaking from the personal experience of knowing poor people who have been hurt by this practice. There's no reason this couldn't have been implemented by asking customers for consent. Consent isn't asked beca
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by staunch 6y ago
Imagine being a poor person that gets a replacement credit card expecting to ditch your subscriptions, to get your finances in order, and then getting billed anyway on your new card.
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by staunch 6y ago
Alternate headline: Stripe helps Postmates screw their customers out of $70 million > "By intelligently updating the credentials on saved cards that have expired or been replaced, CAU optimizes authorization rates to keep subscript
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by staunch 6y ago
You shouldn't do anything that will be permanent because there's a good chance this is a temporary problem. Maybe you could spend some time camping on a bicycle/hiking/slow-walking trip? Basically being homeless, but in
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by staunch 6y ago
Because it's counter intuitive. Living healthfully seems boring but feels exciting. Just like partying all the time sounds exciting but is actually super boring.
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by staunch 6y ago
When my workouts, diet, or sleep start slipping, I find working more difficult. When I do all three right, work usually seems easy and enjoyable. 1. Exercising well (45-60 min of strenuous exercise, 4-6 days per week, walks for sun exposure
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by staunch 6y ago
This is a great example of a problem where Apple has placed their own financial interests above their users. They could make their computers and phones highly upgradeable and repairable, they're brilliant at these kinds of engineering
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by staunch 6y ago
> ...whenever a company has a signifier of quality - a YC demo day slot, a high quality angel, pedigreed founders, or, even better, strong growth. In these cases, there are investor feeding frenzies... And therein lies the fundamental

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