throwaway_trust

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by throwaway_trust 8y ago
I work in ad-tech and let me tell you all these wall gardens are so arrogant that they create their own metrics for measurement and bully industry (especially marketers to follow them). I strongly believe only way to bring these mega compan
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by throwaway_trust 8y ago
This is not right. I'm a founder of Series C startup/venture and I'd be inclined to take money from SB only if numbers are looking shaky. Going public creates a strong brand value, and liquidity for all the employees (not jus
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by throwaway_trust 8y ago
I do not criticize their decision to select customers with whom they want to do business. Definition of hate alone is extremely broad. And depends from culture to culture, country to country. Do we want many Interents with each having it&#x
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by throwaway_trust 8y ago
Not everyone is shill or a bot. I neither support nor critique their decision. They are entitled to make this decision. I just believe this is dangerous precedence to set and can open whole lot of can of worms.
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by throwaway_trust 8y ago
As much as I detest that site, this is now dangerous precedence. Payment processors choosing not to do business at their whim. Imagine scenario - there is a totalitarian government in some banana republic that forces these companies (who ar
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by throwaway_trust 8y ago
What was the reasoning behind social credit system? To keep track of bad actors or create surveillance nation? On a side note, this is what happens when "technocrats" become the ruling class in overwhelming majority. Ability to ap
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by throwaway_trust 8y ago
Fundraising might have fell through at last moment. Some major customer/partnership might've pulled the deal at the last moment. This all happens at startup level cashflow is tight. And all the investors thought there is no way th
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by throwaway_trust 8y ago
> I think they are going to fail, and quietly increase the human involvement once they realize that their AI isn't good enough. Then they will slowly scale back the humans as their AI improves, until the next controversy when they r
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by throwaway_trust 8y ago
To be honest so much corporate speak. Only Sergei's voice seems to be authentic. Everyone else trying to be extremely careful with their language of comments even though it's not a public event. And "misinformation" and
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by throwaway_trust 8y ago
All of them are too big and we need someone like Teddy Roosevelt going on trust busting crusade. This is the second position of POTUS that I agree with (first being merit based immigration, as I'm myself an immigrant). In a weird sense