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by 01284a7e 7d ago
I interpret it similarly, I think - in that you can't totally predict what's going to be the thing that really bites you in the ass.
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by 01284a7e 7d ago
"The problems with which the universe can confront any society are, for practical purposes, infinite in number and endless in variety." - Joseph Tainter AI will really aid the universe in generating more problems. Maybe it's
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by 01284a7e 7d ago
Just Klarna (or shall we say, "Apple Upgrade" [1] now) it. You need to consume. Not want, need . 1: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/07/apple-upgrade-launche...
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by 01284a7e 9d ago
AI is trained on Reddit stooges who run businesses like this.
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by 01284a7e 9d ago
"Storj, the decentralized storage service, is currently in Chap 11 bankruptcy," "Internet Archive could buy Storj" Insanely convoluted solution that only someone with crypto-brain would ever come up with. You are really
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by 01284a7e 10d ago
They are baked in to the libraries, frameworks, and services I have used throughout my 15 year career. In a practical sense, I can diagnose issues and point to them as potential solutions. I would not I really know them in the sense I could
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by 01284a7e 11d ago
They are the reason these companies exist. When it comes to the creation of large for-profit technology companies, they decide what comes about and what doesn't. The blame is on them.
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by 01284a7e 16d ago
If you can make it to Burning Man, then your life is what you make it. And if that's true, then it could be fun.
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by 01284a7e 19d ago
"This is frustrating to admit, because prediction markets can be societally useful: it is important to have good forecasts on federal government shutdowns, landfall of hurricanes in the Southeast, and traffic through the Strait of Horm
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by 01284a7e 22d ago
"There probably aren't infinite good ideas that can be successful at any one time. If you encourage more people to become founders then they aren't going to go into other places where their skills might be better suited.&quot
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by 01284a7e 22d ago
Before you dump it, you have to pump it... In other words, we are to see a media barrage leading up to the IPO to get retail investors to jump on the stock.
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by 01284a7e 23d ago
My university prepared me to be a founder by making me so unemployable that starting a business was my best option.
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by 01284a7e 25d ago
Hitchhiker: You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs? Ted: Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the exercise video. Hitchhiker: Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 7... Minute... Abs. Ted: Right. Yes. OK, al
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by 01284a7e 1mo ago
"Healthcare reform is hard." People tackle hard things for nothing, never mind billions in savings.
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by 01284a7e 1mo ago
Don't tell Elon...
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by 01284a7e 1mo ago
"Public Certificate Transparency logs"... The scam of "everyone should have SSL" right here, ladies and gentlemen.
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by 01284a7e 2mo ago
You should have been straightforward and told them to go fuck themselves. Laying people off by a brief call is for cowards.
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by 01284a7e 2mo ago
Putnam's "Bowling Alone" (2000) is about this, and it is something that has been in decline since the 1950s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone .
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by 01284a7e 2mo ago
"With most of them being VC or high-count angel investors, they can combined push whatever product is being built here into 200+ companies independent of whether it is good or not" Ah, I see you have figured it out the thing that
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by 01284a7e 2mo ago
Same - I wrote on the web for 25 years (2000 to 2025). I can attribute hundreds of thousands of dollars of income to it. I no longer have any websites, as nothing came out of it for a couple years. ~90% of all my traffic ended up bots. And
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by 01284a7e 2mo ago
You will find your answer in DJ Shadow's "Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKf40CLF9MU
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by 01284a7e 2mo ago
It's so cheap that normal people could band together and re-buy democracy. It's the banding together part that is hard.
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by 01284a7e 2mo ago
I see why someone hired you (prestige), I see why someone fired you (terrible communicator, egoistical, lack of professionalism/tactless). The tactlessness is just awful. I would consider deleting that post.
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by 01284a7e 2mo ago
What value does the 'keywords' meta tag even have these days? 77+ KB of crap added to the page weight. Web development is full of idiots.
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by 01284a7e 2mo ago
With a race to win a multi-trillion dollar market, there could be, maybe perhaps, a little propaganda happening.
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by 01284a7e 2mo ago
They are highly seasonal. We have not "thoroughly engineered the seasonality out of them".
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by 01284a7e 2mo ago
If only there was some way to get anomaly detection services [1] inside of AWS... 1: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/anomaly-detection/
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by 01284a7e 2mo ago
No tests? Just mess up some mundane detail [1] and voila! Wake-up calls and heart attacks for 100,000s of administrators? 1: "Oh, well, this is not a mundane detail, Michael!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fGHaV
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by 01284a7e 2mo ago
Yes, I am taking legal action, no doubt.
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by 01284a7e 2mo ago
"Homer was not great literature at the time he his works were written". They were not written at all. No written literature existed in the time of Homer.

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