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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Tragedy of the commons in action
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
It's not just about profitability though. I'm a bit rusty with my corporate finance, but internal rate of return (IRR) and weighted average cost of capital (WACC) can dictate that even if an employee is making more than what they
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
It's the perennial HN question that ignores how much global companies need in-market sales, marketing, and support teams to grow.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
That was Microsoft for the longest time and it destroyed their work culture.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
A "typical dose" is 40-60 mg, lasts 45 minutes, and leaves you wanting more. A coke addict will need at least a gram no matter what they're doing, hence why a gram is a benchmark for coke use. Nobody is going to drink 10 cup
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
The point isn't tech scalability - the point is that scaling to that many visitors requires payment, and many cloud providers have anti-fraud mechanisms in place to prevent scammers from doing this quickly and easily without being trac
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Coca tea is far, far too weak to even get a similar effect to cocaine. For example, It takes ~1 lb of coca leaves to get 1 g of cocaine using chemical extraction, so the tea doesn't even come close. Most coke addicts will switch to am
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Kratom does not contain opioids and very little is still understood about it's pharmacology. It is not the same as drinking coca tea for cocaine addiction.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Coca leaves are not a substitute for cocaine. Most coke addicts will switch to amphetamines and booze if they're desperate, not some tea.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
The traffic burst would be huge for the Tesla tweet. That type of scam introduces more complexity, such as requiring hosting for millions of visitors in an hour, which can leave a traceable trail.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Half the reason these consulting firms get hired is to be a scapegoat by the director/exec when things go south. Liability is one reason they can charge a premium.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Android does not have an iCloud equivalent, so naturally Android is not going to have a setting to disable sharing cloud data with the Chinese government. Google Drive doesn't work in China because Google isn't kowtowing the way
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Right, which is still Apple complying with the Chinese National Intelligence Law and giving up private customer data to the Chinese government.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Their opaque moderation tactics also killed it. There were the transparent obscenity warnings, but then there were also shadow downvotes for certain terms that even closely resembled a human name, which was rife with false positives. You
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Apple keeps data in China. [1] They specifically made the move because of China's National Intelligence Law. [2] >To comply with the law, for instance, Apple announced that it would transfer the operation of iCloud in Mainland Chin
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
It took Charli D'Amelio just 12 months to get 60 Million followers on TikTok, which took Pewdiepie 10 years on Youtube. The hype is believable.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
The Chinese National Intelligence Law applies to any and every company operating in China right now, including Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, etc., not just TikTok. Ironically enough, Google is one of the few major tech companies
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
This is just more of the usual "The Fed has really done it this time and here comes it's inevitable collapse". There will likely be inflation but it's considered better than the alternative right now which is stagflation
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
That requires electricity, which is spotty in a dystopia. Best to stick to encrypted smoke signals.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Except the dark net reputation system is completely broken. It's trivially easy to create new accounts and maintain parallel alternate accounts on dark net marketplaces, even going so far as giving yourself fake reviews to pump up repu
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Fun Fact: These types of bets are how life insurance started, with milk maids and cow pox.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Over half the transactions in Venezuela are in US Dollar cash now, not Bolivar or Bitcoin. That's not an example of a dystopia switching to Bitcoin.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
They're not saying that bitcoin is sophisticated (it's not), but the entire backbone of the internet is. In some post-apocalyptic dystopia, people aren't going to be using their phones and laptops to make payments with bitcoi
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Dragonfly was canned after Google employees revolted. I'd be surprised if Google could even get a project like that resourced again without more leaks.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Yep. Also FL is over represented for some reason.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Worth noting that these are the house members of the committee overhearing testimony: David Cicilline, RI (D), Hank Johnson, GA (D), Jamie Raskin, MD (D), Pramila Jayapal, WA (D), Val Demings, FL (D), Mary Gay Scanlon, PA (D), Joe Neg
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Yep, automotive car dealers in my area have different names on their LLC and the dealership. It's a tough one to crack but implementing google street view would solve 70% of the checks.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Ha, does this qualify as a headless cms?
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
>Alternatively, that role would have been filled By someone else. If your hypothesis were true, then the rate of Fortune 500 companies being founded by immigrant families (40%) would be representative of the % of immigrant families in th
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Yep - there are already major players in that space: https://www.algolia.com/

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