weirdstuff

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1. 91.▲
   by weirdstuff 9y ago

   So, if someone posits that a business venture is frivolous, actual profitability aside, that is anti-female (or anti-male) statement/view? I still don't understand. Can you please elaborate?
2. 92.▲
   by weirdstuff 9y ago

   I think the OP is just skeptical. Where is the anti-female bias?
3. 93.▲
   by weirdstuff 9y ago

   Oh, I take that into account. There's only so much time/effort I can put into HN comments! But there is a lot more to consider besides what I wrote. > Congrats on your degree in econ. Thanks.
4. 94.▲
   by weirdstuff 9y ago

   > Divorce the ad-making money machine, and say goodbye to all the services consumers like that are nowhere near as profitable: gmail, maps, photos, chrome, android, translate, youtube, drive, waze, where do you think the money for this s
5. 95.▲
   by weirdstuff 9y ago

   Right, but how to measure that? For example, do we know a company's customers are happy because the company has grown to be large? Like Comcast. Comcast has a lot of customers, maybe they're happy ones? Otherwise how did Comcast g
6. 96.▲
   by weirdstuff 9y ago

   To my mind, something as subjective as consumer experience is difficult to objectively measure. I'm not sure what would count as valid evidence.
7. 97.▲
   by weirdstuff 9y ago

   If you're going to ask for data, you should have offered some first yourself, upthread, where you made a claim or two.
8. 98.▲
   by weirdstuff 9y ago

   No worries, I'll upvote it. ;) I think he/she is right-ish about the supply-demand calculus on this; looking at history, overextended credit/margins often lead to nasty bubbles because of the distortion effects.
9. 99.▲
   by weirdstuff 9y ago

   I'm watching the EU: https://www.ft.com/content/b2b2b246-b21b-3493-936f-4853f8fa5...
10. 100.▲
    by weirdstuff 9y ago

    I hear these stories all the time, and yet the value of these degrees seem to hold steady, while experience is often discounted.
11. 101.▲
    by weirdstuff 9y ago

    Sure, you can be a highly paid, yet bonded worker. Much different from slavery. MUCH different.
12. 102.▲
    by weirdstuff 9y ago

    Interesting, didn't know that. Yeah, I'm not really invested in some of these less-than-popular sentiments, but it pains me to see against-the-grain comments consistently downvoted in some threads.
13. 103.▲
    by weirdstuff 9y ago

    That line of thought crossed my mind, as well.
14. 104.▲
    by weirdstuff 9y ago

    On these more controversial political threads: How are certain accounts instantaneously downvoted to dead on HN, within single-digit seconds? Seems automated but entirely too hard to tell. For example, l3m0ndr0p (yeah, I'm totally him&