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by switch11 6y ago
agreed 100% When something is postured to 'benefit the every day people' you can bet it does the exact opposite
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by switch11 6y ago
Among my friends and I there is NO ONE who is having a better dating life during the pandemic so not sure what the heck this article is about Where do people on Hacker News meet their future significant other or people they date? Bars - gon
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by switch11 6y ago
Agreed 100% -> Frankly its a bit scary that people honestly (and I truly believe you to be honest) believe Google could be a "most ethical" company. Among my friends there are so many that work for dodgy companies and believe t
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by switch11 6y ago
First: Product Market Fit Second: Monetization Third: Growth Culture isn't even in the Top 3 and might not even be in the Top 5 * One very important Caveat In today's zero interest rate, Fed printing press environment wh
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by switch11 6y ago
that escalated quickly
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by switch11 6y ago
very well put -> We are all in this together -- building a better overall financial and computing systems.
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by switch11 6y ago
This is arguably the best book I've ever read Would very strongly recommend reading it when you have 1 week to half a year free/avaiable It will really mess with your head and your perception of reality It's some really high
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by switch11 6y ago
you know something is wrong when Hacker News has better investment advice than all the 'experts' on Wall Street anyways, very happy to see so many people get it
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by switch11 6y ago
based on my own experience with Adsense we probably are * one other thing people should keep an eye on Google inserting Adsense tags into organic traffic people who were coming to your site anyways - Google pretending it's
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by switch11 6y ago
Yes, actually people would Many of the people who use Instagram are ones who stopped using Facebook due to privacy issues and their grandpa and grandma showing up They didn't know Facebook owns Instagram Facebook is stuck in this loop
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by switch11 6y ago
yeah, people like to believe Snowden didn't happen Look back at everything he revealed That's LITERALLY conspiracy Theory proven to be conspiracy reality And that guy, Keith Alexander, is now on the board of Amazon so giving large
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by switch11 6y ago
This is very well put Not sure why someone is assuming Facebook did this for an honest reason when Facebook is the best example of an extremely dishonest large tech company * The founder Zucker berg literally wrote - They trust me, the du
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by switch11 6y ago
yeah wonder how many of the people claiming Pret a Manger is worse than 7-11 have actually ever eaten at Pret a Manger
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by switch11 6y ago
Pret a Manger 1) Amazing food 2) Very nicely set up 3) Just read the blogs etc. that London women write about Pret a Manger. In their minds it's the kind of place where they can get good food and also find 'the man of their dreams
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by switch11 6y ago
Facebook basically wants to build a low key version of the matrix 1 billion people on universal income, doing nothing except getting up, putting on Virtual Reality headsets, spending 8 hours in imaginary worlds, where Facebook tracks everyt
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by switch11 6y ago
Excellent Comment Let's consider a few more examples of abuse of market dominance 1) Retail Me Not Google through Google Venture secretly invested in them and didn't disclose that Then for next 3 years, Retail Me Not was #1 for EV
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by switch11 6y ago
can we please keep the pro Tesla posts on Tesla threads For God's Sake Let this great guy who gave away $8 billion of his hard earned money get proper credit without dragging a @#$#$ subsidy entrepreneur into it
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by switch11 6y ago
I hear this mentioned a lot A) What you wrote: Not to mention the brightest engineers, managers are being sucked en-masse into FAANG and the supporting industries, where they waste humanities potential into improving engagement by 0.001%. B
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by switch11 6y ago
yeah, Nikola pretty much admitted they lied It's interesting that everything they have done is not PROVABLY fraud, and yet is on the very line between slightly unethical and actually illegal pretty crazy
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by switch11 6y ago
you write: this isn't the NSA or anything They sort of ARE the NSA NSA CIA are part of the fabric of Silicon Valley and especially companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook CONTRAST with Apple where as long as Steve Jobs was CEO Apple fl
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by switch11 6y ago
really need to stop letting Zuckerberg create multiple accounts and downvote this
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by switch11 6y ago
Very well put The biggest thing if you have been in prolonged vicious competition, is to Control Your Own Destiny and leave the basket of crabs behind For Nvidia this is a MASSIVE win Softbank are @#$@#$ idiots for selling ARM Right when AR
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by switch11 6y ago
This is interesting to me I watched some videos of Trevor Milton. He has ZERO signs he is faking HOWEVER A) Just because someone's body language and presentation is PERFECT doesn't mean they are telling the truth. They might have
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by switch11 6y ago
Isn't there a rule that more than a certain number of share holders -> Must go public This: alex_young 14 minutes ago [–] Won’t this force them to go public? Too many shareholders? reply How can they skirt around thes
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by switch11 6y ago
3 of the things most people miss is A) The intersection between people who love books and love technology is rather small B) There is no 'monetization ramp up' when producing products for books and publishing Monetization if you a
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by switch11 6y ago
Your answer illustrates what he's talking about You are not even realizing what he's actually saying HE's not talking about lowballing on salary He is talking about what percentage of the company you are going to get, how soo
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by switch11 6y ago
thank you for putting up this correction There is literally no company on the planet that can justify a 896 PE Let's see how long Tesla can keep things going with 1,000 PEs They are projected (based on stock valuation) to take over all
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by switch11 6y ago
likewise perhaps more to learn from those
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by switch11 6y ago
This: This sounds tinfoil hat crazy, but here we are. Not so crazy now At some point we need to just say it some of the largest tech companies are basically NSA+CIA partners and we're well on our way to having Big Tech completely integ
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by switch11 6y ago
Excellent comment speaking to this: If you hate the office that badly, you’re probably working at the wrong place. What percentage of people who 'prefer WFH' are just people who don't like where they work and who they work wi

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