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> We have volunteer fire fighters, volunteer paramedics, volunteer librarians, volunteer social workers None of these positions are with a private business ope
by falsedan 7y ago
> We have volunteer fire fighters, volunteer paramedics, volunteer librarians, volunteer social workers
None of these positions are with a private business operating for profit.
- vorpalhex 7y agoSE does not profit from its community websites (eg the ones we all read) aside from a vague "getting traffic to its enterprise product" which is probably not worth what they spend on hosting.
- wool_gather 7y agoThey have always had ads, and they have started serving, um, new varieties of ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21051472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21051472
- falsedan 7y ago> SE does not profit from its community websites I don’t see how it’s my problem that their business model isn’t profitable. The board & C-suite still draw a salary, and the company value is built on unpaid labour.
- johannes1234321 7y agoAnd now we are contributing for free to Y Combinator! (True - there's not much direct revenue from this comment I'm typing here, but this is Hacker News, the place where the imorotantninfirmationnos and YC is in the center of it, don't you see how cool they are?)
- falsedan 7y agouh HN is not the 'business' of YC. get back to work
- johannes1234321 7y agoIt certainly is not the core business. But it is part of the business.
- falsedan 7y agolook, I get that you're not used to being called out on being hopelessly wrong. rephrasing the statement to be an empty tautology so you can be right is a waste of both of our times and only serves to protect your ego
- dang 7y agoWhoa, please don't break the site guidelines like that! https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html