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by twelve40 4y ago
not much privacy then, eh? somebody will be able to trace that key to you or other things you've signed at least PS I'm not too obsessed with privacy and I'm ok with assuming all my FB things including DMs can be made public&
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by twelve40 4y ago
its terrible, but given that after smearing this stuff all over the place only 4 people died, it seems to take a bit more effort than just walking around the city. Those shooters like Las Vegas etc we get here cause way more destruction wit
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by twelve40 4y ago
good for you, i can't imagine myself being under the gun to come up with a new funded project every year (or however often), would rather just work on some real product with revenue even if it's not very original
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by twelve40 4y ago
nope, switching to a lower level at the same company
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by twelve40 4y ago
sounds really exhausting... if that's the constant expectation and you're actually good at it, why work for Google at all and not fundraise for yourself? cuz you're doing all the same legwork but your ideas go to the man.
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by twelve40 4y ago
> Since demotion doesn't exist for various reasons maybe not in faangs, but I've seen CTOs and directors downshift to ICs in multiple startups and public tech companies. Honestly kicking them out instead sounds like a huge wast
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by twelve40 4y ago
I agree that we should try to be more positive. But for every useful startup there are dozens of quibis, juiceros and many others you mostly don't hear about, but would recognize as dead-ends if you paid attention. So where do you draw
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by twelve40 4y ago
> Why is Twitter still primarily follow-based? Why is Facebook? because I really really want to just follow my friends? and not get random crap shoved in my face? please?
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by twelve40 4y ago
why not just a progressive webapp at first? if you don't have massive native requirements like reading text messages, and don't want to shell out $200k, and are not pressed for more distribution channels like appstores...
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by twelve40 4y ago
i guess something like Airbnb Experiences?
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by twelve40 4y ago
so... given that right now ChatGPT works on a set of finite, curated datasets (not the whole entire web like Google) and doesn't credit the authors of its information whatsoever, you are saying if it becomes prominent and destroys all
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by twelve40 4y ago
which sites will get clicks? Right now it doesn't show it sources at all and it's an open question if it can do proper attribution.
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by twelve40 4y ago
> It doesn't seem like an especially hard lift to get ChatGPT to start indexing websites. That is a very bold claim unless you've seen their architecture. Maybe you have, or read something to that effect, but citation is neede
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by twelve40 4y ago
I didn't understand the jump from: > International water transportation is also cheaper than domestic, perhaps around 1¢ per ton-km to: > Let’s say airships captured half of the 13 trillion ton-km currently served by container sh
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by twelve40 4y ago
he says throughout the post that the main focus is intercontinental cargo market
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by twelve40 4y ago
I sometimes get to talk to a founder CEO of a very successful fintech unicorn, recently public. They are doing pretty well so far (little affected by tech stock rout). He's pretty obsessive about what "investors" (i'm as
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by twelve40 4y ago
>So why do layoffs at all if they don’t actually work? “People do all kinds of stupid things all the time,” Pfeffer says. “I don’t know why you’d expect managers to be any different.” That's a pretty ridiculous non-answer. The peopl
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by twelve40 4y ago
off base about what? that grouping windows makes the building look less cluttered? is that a crazy thing to say out loud?
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by twelve40 4y ago
this still doesn't shine light on why Twitter had 7000 people and whatsap had 50. I know about the ads and tools, that doesn't explain two orders of magnitude (besides I heard they were pretty basic)
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by twelve40 4y ago
> send Stripe the way of PayPal is that bad though? I know paypal managed to piss off a lot of people, and the stock is down, but they are making money and don't seem to be going away anytime spoon. They try to keep themselves relev
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by twelve40 4y ago
I dunno, I haven't really bought into Groupon hype. Its easy to imagine life without coupons. It's much harder to imagine life without payment processing. For all of its flaws, Stripe is plugged into almost every online business I
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by twelve40 4y ago
how? whoever runs WWW now (or will run in the future) will just magically forego the ad revenue? Especially since you mentioned not just Copilot-type tools, but the whole WWW, if/when ChatGPT becomes mainstream source of information, M
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by twelve40 4y ago
of course not, it's just a bullshit excuse. Just like currently none of the faangs businesses are hurting to the point where they just have to get that couch cushion money from layoffs.
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by twelve40 4y ago
haha siri at least had the modesty to say "i don't know" sometimes
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by twelve40 4y ago
soo, this is the question that keeps bugging me > basic instructions without the fake history and 17 ads if this were ever to be truly commercialized as a mainstream source of information, do you think that whoever runs this will forego
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by twelve40 4y ago
> DAO, ICO, NFT that's a great list to keep in mind, the same people who were foaming at the mouth when these acronyms first popped up would probably be embarrassed now or pretend like they've never heard of these. I'd say
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by twelve40 4y ago
He's not claiming anything about product, there is something to be said for fiscal discipline and paying for 200,000 people with an unclear purpose (direct Pichai quote: "hired for a different economic reality", aka "una
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by twelve40 4y ago
seems quite addressable if that was the case? just don't let humans disable tracking, what's a sane use case for that anyway?
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by twelve40 4y ago
yeah, like, where was that same guy a year ago? cheering on as they went on a hiring spree?
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by twelve40 4y ago
if you read the letter, it says the layoff was the right first step and calls for more cuts up to 50k people total

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