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Ask HN: Can you be a naive scientist AND a ruthless businessman?
2 points by __jambo 2y ago|0 comments
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by __jambo 2y ago
in 1950 in the book "the human use of human beings", the famous mathematician Norbert Weiner pointed out your exact sentiment. Complaining that instead of solving problems, or doing anything new or interesting, people were using t
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by __jambo 3y ago
I think this calls for a government funded national un-enshittification Laboratory to study the social dynamics of enshittification and develop hygiene practices. Work must be done quickly before enshittification research becomes enshittifi
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by __jambo 3y ago
Nah this tech will poison the web. People don't know what it is and take it too seriously.
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by __jambo 3y ago
I think the problem is then you eventually get SEOification. I suppose you can just reset every now and again. Maybe like give a training program to get SEO people real jobs.
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Ask HN: Could we just re-invent original Google?
24 points by __jambo 3y ago|37 comments
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by __jambo 3y ago
> Hollywood has.. hard power Um, what??
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by __jambo 3y ago
This is a clearly false collection of arbitrary useless and arrogant opinions. See any famous reclusive intellectual or writer for counterexamples.
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by __jambo 3y ago
Because this is so depressing I am going to try think of positive aspects: The flip side to this is the government had power because these activities required enormous resources. Perhaps it will go the other direction, if there is less of a
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by __jambo 3y ago
Great idea.
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Ask HN: Why was Elon Musk forced to buy Twitter?
12 points by __jambo 3y ago|20 comments
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Ask HN: How many are using LLMs for messaging friends?
2 points by __jambo 3y ago|1 comments
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by __jambo 3y ago
Sam's sad face in the NYT article is pretty priceless.
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by __jambo 3y ago
"...Google and tech industry allies responded with a massive lobbying campaign... convince lawmakers banning targeted ads would hurt the global economy. The gambit worked, and the draft law no longer threatens Google’s advertising.&quo
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by __jambo 3y ago
agreed lol
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Ask HN: Looking for tech founder thoughts on the “startup coaching” industry
2 points by __jambo 3y ago|0 comments
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by __jambo 3y ago
But few to none can survive across the breadth of environments humans can with the aid of sometimes highly advanced clothing.
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by __jambo 3y ago
super cool idea! thankyou
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by __jambo 3y ago
>Well run software companies with tidy, well architected software need far fewer devs than the ones with nasty bloat and a lot of legacy problems this is a good point I can relate with!
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by __jambo 3y ago
> you can work that manual labor job and still have mental energy afterwards to work on your SaaS. It's much harder doing mental tech work after already doing mentally taxing work at your job. this is exactly what I was thinking.
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by __jambo 3y ago
proton has an easy transfer process that I just did. They have to give the govt details they have in case of legal issues like squatting or whatever some bureaucrat makes up, but they can only see your devices and whatever you give them, no
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Ask HN: Any freelancers here? I need burnout advice
62 points by __jambo 3y ago|76 comments
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Ask HN: What happens to new versions of acqui-killed startups?
5 points by __jambo 3y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Can panopticon automation requirements be computed?
1 points by __jambo 3y ago|0 comments
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by __jambo 3y ago
What is the advantage of microwaves over sunlight? Seems like it would be better to just make better solar panels, sunlight is already pretty high-wattage.
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Ask HN: Does anyone here track their projects? What systems have you used?
2 points by __jambo 3y ago|1 comments
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by __jambo 3y ago
Good luck! Maybe you can sell "how to leave tech and become a carpenter" videos once chatgpt takes all the jobs. You can probably just use chatgpt to generate the videos, but probably not cut the wood.
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by __jambo 3y ago
are you becoming a farmer or a carpenter.
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by __jambo 3y ago
bahah love it.
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by __jambo 3y ago
Yeah, lol, the OOP thing is a bit dated. Maybe I should have said blockchain.

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