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by ztratar 6y ago
They did not have "years to adjust their businesses" to a changing landscape of demands, the worst-case scenario of which literally destroys their innovation/business. "You had years to plan for us removing 95% of your b
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by ztratar 6y ago
They just said they could operate, if you wanted to destroy jobs and the entire innovation of dynamic schedules/hours. Why do you think they couldn't operate?
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by ztratar 6y ago
Agreed that Woz U has been quite the failure. That being said, what online education institution hasn't had a huge amount of blowback, either due to poor instruction or lying about results? Not saying two wrongs make a right. Just sayi
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by ztratar 6y ago
It's always been clear that Woz's integrity is off the charts. Just a good human all around, wanting to build things for fun and help people because that's what people with power do. A true icon who encompasses many of the th
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by ztratar 6y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted, so plz have an upvote!
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by ztratar 6y ago
This is frigin' awesome.
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by ztratar 6y ago
Also curious what all this is getting at. "This has little integrity" isn't useful for the conversation, but it has the potential to be an interesting topic if you just back up the assertion. I hope you will do so.
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by ztratar 6y ago
Article picks the worst possible dates and stretching the truth. Bad reporting.
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by ztratar 6y ago
What would you like to see different?
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by ztratar 6y ago
Great feedback! Will take this to heart as I ponder the next iteration.
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by ztratar 6y ago
Author & creator here. My co-worker (without telling me, hah) posted the actual billionaire board website 5 hours ago. 100 comments within the first 2 hours, then it was taken down. I had no idea any of this was happening. So here'
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Billionaire Board(zachtratar.com)
8 points by ztratar 6y ago|1 comments
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by ztratar 6y ago
Not sure why this post was flagged or taken down. It follows the guidelines and is something I made. Feeling quite bad about this situation.
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by ztratar 6y ago
Creator here. It's all arbitrary, IMO. Idk if they're "siphoning off profits", since most of their value is in equity and Amazon, for example, isn't historically very profitable. Getting richer every year in equity
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by ztratar 6y ago
Thoughtful perspective! This is the v1 of the site and I'm looking to improve it. - How can I make it more neutral? - Is it sometimes worthwhile to simply accelerate the deployment of capital? Can you combine the two incentives? My min
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by ztratar 6y ago
Creator here - didn't know this was posted! Was going to launch tomorrow lol. Anyways, here's the launch blog post: https://www.zachtratar.com/introducing-billionaire-board.htm...
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by ztratar 6y ago
Do you have real data on that? I see that argument everywhere, but haven't found substantial proof.
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by ztratar 6y ago
What would make it feel less like that? I was at first making it a lifetime-oriented ranking, but that felt like "shame these specific people!" I think there's a middle-ground between celebration and shame that I'm tryin
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by ztratar 6y ago
I didn't want to make a site centered around shaming / punishment / anger. I think it's a valid thing to make that data public though. Lmk if you build the site.
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by ztratar 6y ago
Creator here. Joke is indeed A+ funny.
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by ztratar 6y ago
Good feedback. I'm going to make the pledges into funds count for less, and make it more obvious which $ has been pledged vs deployed.
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by ztratar 6y ago
I'm the designer. And engineer, etc. :P Sorry, which are the three titles? I see "billionaire board" and "Top donors this month" as two, but what's the third? Will put the caps in sync!
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by ztratar 6y ago
Admittedly the scoring just highly multiplies donations for this month. It still gives some weight to donations and giving before hand, but less so.
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by ztratar 6y ago
Creator here -- didn't know I was posted to HN! I was planning on doing a Show HN tomorrow. Oof. - Totally agree. I have all the data on doing percentages. The "score" actually normalizes across their percentage. Will add thi
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by ztratar 6y ago
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by ztratar 7y ago
No information in the link.
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by ztratar 7y ago
Why is this, even though it was so prevalent in China as a key signal for testing?
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by ztratar 7y ago
The US exports a massive amount of crops to China, not vice versa. US Agriculture Exports to China = $25B US Agriculture Imports from China = $5B Source: https://www.mda.state.mn.us/sites/default/files/inline-
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by ztratar 7y ago
If it was, the US would have declared war on China a decade ago. Non-violent theft is a common geopolitical strategy.
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by ztratar 7y ago
No $529BN fine would ever actually happen. That would be considered economic warfare and the US wouldn't allow it.

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