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by wpietri 3y ago
There are some cases where I care about intent. Did somebody step on my toes? My reaction will depend on the extent to which I think they meant it. But for large-scale financial crimes, I think worrying about that too much is not just unkno
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by wpietri 3y ago
One of the things you have to understand about fraud is that much of it isn't rationally planned from the get-go. People get into situations and get caught up in the dynamics of them. Imagine a founder. He has an idea he thinks is bril
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by wpietri 3y ago
The important difference being that Pokemon cards don't meet the Howey test: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/howey-test.asp So yes, if finance were unregulated, then he wouldn't have been violating
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by wpietri 3y ago
Almost every word of that is untrue in practice. But let's focus on the core part, "successful". Let's compare with M-PESA, a money transfer solution that started around the same time. M-PESA has steadily grown, doing 26
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by wpietri 3y ago
Entirely fair questions. I said unintentional because a lot of the same factors were helpful for the tech industry and we as an industry just blithely accepted their continuance. That includes the VC money spigots for sure. But there are pl
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That is legitimate, but that's not the point here. The point is Uber's hubris. A hubris very useful in pumping up its stock price ahead of an IPO. If they had quietly planned to license it from the get-go, nobody would have mentio
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And unfortunately I think the tech industry unintentionally enabled it in a few ways. The internet/mobile boom was a real leap for humanity. (Not an unmixed one, any more than the printing press was. But a real leap nonetheless.) This
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by wpietri 3y ago
Seems like there's a good reason that your four year old account is barely positive in terms of karma.
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To extract one bit from that: I'm a huge fan of separate devices for separate purposes. Work laptop vs personal laptop. Work phone vs personal phone. Games device vs reading device. Social media device vs productivity device. I'm
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I've been using Logseq for the last few months and it's wildly better for me than using things like Evernote for this. I used to be big on having a lot of structure in terms of notebooks and notes, a lot of which contained project
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Agreed. I've been using RoutineFlow to help establish routines and it has been great.
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Many, many Twitter users loved it. I loved it. You can feel weird about that if you want, but that's a choice you're making, and trying to push that on me is the only creepy thing I see here.
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> I'm arguing that it's pretty preposterous for a global decentralized federated social platform to assume some authority (enforced by whom, that'd require a central group of enforcers) over the licensing Why is that not-a
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by wpietri 3y ago
When GMail came out, it was well more than fine; it was a major advance. It had very strong word of mouth. These days it's fine, but that's because email is much less important. It still has a lot of usage for the reason I mention
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by wpietri 3y ago
I already said I don't think there are any plausible buyers. If you are claiming they exist, please name them.
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by wpietri 3y ago
If you see yourself as to the right of not just CNN but Fox News, I hope you can understand that your perspective on what makes for a good platform is not likely to align with not just the median user, but executives who will have billions
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yes, all discussion about the future is speculation, including your claims. Something as big as Twitter is less likely to get thrown away, sure. But it is shrinking, and could well shrink further. There's also a big question of who mig
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by wpietri 3y ago
> So short of attaching licenses to every post you make I think you have this backwards. Full copyright protection is the default for all content not licensed otherwise. Publishing does not put content into a "public domain" st
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by wpietri 3y ago
That is a good rant, but I think it's wildly overstated. E.g., The whole notion of a timetable is an early-railroad-era artifact. By modern standards, it's a terrible interface. Them not being viable is great. I should note that I
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by wpietri 3y ago
There's a very good chance Twitter won't be around. Even Musk has said so. Or it might be around in some negligible way, where it's a backwater that people mainly used to use, as with MySpace. Tumblr survived through a long e
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by wpietri 3y ago
And I'd add there's also a legitimate sense of loss when it comes to Twitter. It meant a lot to me when I was a user of it, but I left early on in the Elon era when it was clear where things were heading. (Here I would link you to
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by wpietri 3y ago
One of my big rules is to mostly listen to product feedback from actual users. Are you using it on a daily basis? What makes it especially good for you? Because "fine" generally doesn't cut it. There are things I use because
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by wpietri 3y ago
> If this is about behavior, then why mix in aspects of gender, age, and profession This is such a good example of why technical degrees need stronger humanities requirements. Why indeed?
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Your example of somebody we could have a constructive dialog with is... Elon Musk? I think that's absurd. The guy obviously does not give two shits about consensus. I think the biggest problem with Elon Musk is a lot of credulous peopl
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I believe the response is appropriate and on target. My preference for respectful dialog in general does not mean I have to put up with politely worded jackassery. Indeed, given that I was specifically challenging what looked to me like bul
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Good thing I didn't do that! Actual people actually report actually feeling overwhelmed. They describe the experiences as I describe them. Blogs give strategies to deal with these specific feelings. Is it possible that learning some pa
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No, that's part of the manual-scheduling paperwork. I get that you're used to it, but we could eliminate it. The dialog would go more like: "I looked at our calendars and put it at a time that seems to work for both of us. Fe
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Honestly, this makes sense to me. One of the reasons people don't tidy is getting overwhelmed. Either at an emotional layer, because they see everything. Or at a visual layer, because they stop seeing anything. If you could trim it bac
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> Many were fired/demoted from that. Did they fire/demote the brain geniuses who kicked this off? Because the corporate stories I know like this generally involve the responsible parties getting promotions for their bravery and
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by wpietri 3y ago
>The point is that it's important to decide these decisions prior to starting the project. It really isn't. Again, that's when the least is known. I think a much better point to set a particular standard is when there&#x27

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