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by throwaway23597 4y ago
See, you scare me. Should private speech in the home have consequences? Speech that not only did you not mean to make public, but you didn't even realize could possibly become public? That's the road to hell for our society.
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
The thing I'm starting to get increasingly scared about is what these US companies will do with the data that's already there . A significant proportion of our society has become totally OK with censorship, cancellation, and ostr
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
This thread in the media is dumb. It's entirely based on an offhanded comment SBF said about how much money is specifically in his bank account. Completely ignores any investment accounts, properties, physical assets, etc. But the medi
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
It's true, and it won't stop me from buying iPhones. I just wish Apple could recognize this and drop the ridiculous self-righteous moral facade. Same with pretty much all companies.
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
Apple: where it's totally fine to build products with what amounts to slave labor, and aiding the CCP in censorship is totally cool too, but Twitter is far too dangerous to be allowed on the app store because a meanie is in charge of
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
I despise the modern "safetyism" that these journalists seem to espouse so much. Don't let users post about X, it's "problematic". Don't allow users to access content from person Y, they are "problema
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
> NEETs? GINI-d? The "Outer Party"? Do you hear yourself? I don't know what those things mean, and I think it's pretty weird that you assume the average reader will. Did you not read the article? Do you not know what
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
It's funny to me how the simple category of having a job is weighted so highly in some people's minds. I live a life pretty similar to the NEETs described, in all honesty. I live in a suburb in my 20s, I spend most of my time on s
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
Hearing about this, my mind immediately went to the VC scene from Silicon Valley where they get better offers the more rude they are to the VCs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Zz-Nkkaxc Evidently there was some major tru
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
Very interested to see how this goes, especially in SF. SF is a city filled to the brim with crazy people, homeless, criminals, drug addicts, and a hell of a lot of people who hate tech for what it has done to the city's cost of living
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
+1. Musk needs to offer a compelling vision for what this platform should be. As of now I primarily know Twitter as the home of cancel culture, whiny journalists, and idiotic flame wars. That's not something I would devote 80+ hours a
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
I think more tech companies need to give up on growth mode and be OK with just being a regular old dividend paying company. I mean honestly, how big can some note-taking app possibly get? Or Snap for instance, which is getting into hardware
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
This is why I hate frontend so much. Frontend sits right at the uncomfortable intersection between overly complicated tech that's tough to understand, and demanding PMs and UXs who need the feature to look or behave a certain way. I
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
You don't have the right attitude. You have to have the mindset that even nuclear war is preferable to rolling over for Russia time and time again. Ironically, this is the attitude that best helps PREVENT nuclear war.
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
I personally have half a mind to submit an application once the smoke clears a bit. Musk is a man who moves technology forward. But unfortunately my software skills can't do much to help SpaceX or Tesla. But Twitter, that's a pure
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
I don't really like the Verge. I used to, but they just became so nakedly partisan and ideological that I just kind of gave up on them. So I came into this review with low expectations, because I wouldn't put it past them to try a
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
I do wonder how this crypto implosion will impact inflation and the average consumer. Crypto continues to have a ginormous market cap of > 800B. But it's unclear how much of this is due to shady schemes and wash trading propping up
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
This is such a meaningless statement. What exactly does Reuters define as "tech"? Is that Software Engineers? PMS? Hardware Engineers? Product Marketing? Data Science?
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
Y'know, this letter makes a lot of sense to me. It's an awfully large bet to make, though. If the bet fails, they might as well just become a dividend paying company, because they admit that they don't really have many growth
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
"'I f---ed up,' Bankman-Fried told investors on the call, according to people with knowledge of the conversation. He said he would be 'incredibly, unbelievably grateful' if investors could help." Christ almight
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
Cool effort, love the goal, but this is so tangential to the core business that I cannot possibly imagine that this (and many other X bets) will exist in a year.
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
To be honest, I have found "problematic" to be a great signal word, in that it generally only seems to be used by social crusaders whose opinions I could not care less about, and who never offer any actual solutions to their oft-c
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
I hated facebook and instagram soooooo much during HS and college... but there was really no choice. EVERYONE was on these platforms. People would immediately judge you as a weirdo if you weren't. I would have given anything for a yout
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
Man, it sure seems like the fed announcement yesterday spooked a lot of tech companies, eh? The thing I don't get is that the federal funds rate was also being raised in the mid 2010s, yet there was no corporate freakouts: https:&#x2F
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
I'm no economist, but isn't this pumping of free money was one of the main reasons we have so much inflation to begin with? America's a great country and all, but I don't think the people really know what they're ta
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
My bad, sorry about that.
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
LMAO at these journalists pretending they're so surprised to find this. As if they had no hand in creating this environment... and as if this wasn't the whole point to begin with. The upper class owns journalism and this state of
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
Eh, I mean to be fair, the proposal to "end world hunger" is really more of a proposal to "temporarily alleviate world hunger in 2022 only". And the plan outlined in the article seems rather optimistic, it assumes there&
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
Yeah, I think their portal to create an account got the hug of death, unfortunately.
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by throwaway23597 4y ago
This guy was just in the news proclaiming that NYC will be nuked and underwater within 20 years. He's a lunatic in my opinion. Well deserving of the nickname "Dr. Doom". The media loves him because he was right about one thin

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