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by vinyl7 3y ago
We had hyperinflation of: 1) stock market 2) company valuations 3) startup funding 4) housing Basically the fact that Google, Facebook, Twitter blew up in user growth during the start of QE lead to all the QE money going into startup/
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by vinyl7 3y ago
Price controls is an outdated idea that has been proven time and time again to not work
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That used to be accomplished by the fear of a deity
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by vinyl7 3y ago
> Sometimes I have no confidence that a mature civilization is even possible if it's composed of human beings. It boggles my mind that humans have survived for so long considering how suicidal and self destructive we are as a specie
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by vinyl7 3y ago
Unfortunately Boy Scouts was commandeered by women and now allow girls to participate. So it's no longer a place for boys to be boys.
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The economy is detached from reality
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by vinyl7 3y ago
Soon they'll learn that eventually you run out of other peoples money
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by vinyl7 3y ago
It really seems like all business regulators have been fired and it's just pure anarchy right now.
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I've seen the same story play out time and time again. Alternatives never gain any meaningful traction to overtake what they are trying to replace. In the off chance they do gain traction, they will eventually become the very thing tha
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by vinyl7 3y ago
Its not worth living longer if life sucks. Deadline is early 30s for kids and 50 to buy a house
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by vinyl7 3y ago
I'd prefer see wheel reinvention because it leads to better software. 1) it's debuggable 2) it's fixable 3) it does exactly what you need to do how you want to do it without any extra cruft and nonsense. Libraries or game eng
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by vinyl7 3y ago
The difference now is that we have a lot fewer companies who have captured markets. New players can't come in because the big guys run the show. Walls have been established by big companies to make it too difficult or too expensive to
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by vinyl7 3y ago
Developers have a lot in common with Rube Goldberg
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The west will be there soon as inflation and wealth disparity continues to increase
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Hobbyists have already made their own implementation of Nanite. It's not that complicated.
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by vinyl7 3y ago
The 0% interest rates of the past decade have lead to a misallocation of capital.
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by vinyl7 3y ago
It just depends on what your timeline is. Tech is very ephemeral, so anything that exists today will be gone eventually. So build an app using an api, but i would not rely on it to be a viable product for more than a couple of years. So its
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by vinyl7 3y ago
That's probably why they're scrambling....they missed the peak of the bubble
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I mean society is instituting racism based on past injustices, so it seems par for the course
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Slavery never went away, it just shifted to encompassing the whole work force
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The SEC has been asleep at the wheel for the past two decades. We've seen a huge amount of consolidation across many industries, so it's not surprising that prices start going up once single actors practically own a whole market.
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The market has been detached from reality for quite a while now
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Because its kinda frowned upon for a man to bail and leave the mother and children to fend for themselves.
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by vinyl7 3y ago
I believe businesses like Microsoft, AWS, etc. all make their enterprise stuff super complicated as an excuse to sell support contracts. I remember trying to set up Windows Deployment Server, and the whole thing was very unreasonably compli
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by vinyl7 3y ago
That's just kinda what happens to corporations over time. The first stage is growth and innovation. Once the business reaches market saturation where they are no longer growing, then they bring in the MBAs to number crunch everything.
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Its not good enough to just sell a product. You have to sell a life style, an ecosystem, subscriptions and upgrades. Selling a simple product was a pre-WEF phenomenon
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The oligarchs are allowed to own stuff.
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Maximizing long term profits hasnt been a strategy for at least 15 years now. Its all about infinite growth at any cost
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by vinyl7 3y ago
Its more about marketing and mindshare. What if mcdonalds was on the apps but not carls jr? You'd rather the customer come to you and deny the other business a customer than to not be there at all
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by vinyl7 3y ago
Yea I don't know what happened to the collective conscience but people have totally lost the ability to question things.

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