cbtacy

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by cbtacy 3y ago
That's it. I'm done. Been a Hacker News user since this launched, but have been feeling increasingly like I'm not part of this culture and don't want to be part of this culture anymore. So I'm out. It's sad and
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by cbtacy 3y ago
Bingo
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by cbtacy 3y ago
Reforming "flagging" to make it less open to abuse and brigading is obviously overdue.
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by cbtacy 3y ago
I love that this is being downvoted. Nothing validates my point better.
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by cbtacy 3y ago
sadly, very common. See: anything critical about Elon Musk. See: anything about LGBTQ+ issues.
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by cbtacy 3y ago
I don't know if anyone has done the deep analysis to determine if fraud is more frequent and severe and agree this seems like a doubtful statement, but I suspect it's likely that corporate collapses have in fact become more common
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by cbtacy 3y ago
1) AI is Software. Marc was just a little off on market timing, and the eating starts for real right now. 2) I worked for a large private equity company on contract for a bit. The team I worked on was doing analysis about what the likely im
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by cbtacy 3y ago
This is bad. This should result in more EU fines, and the Consent Decree is obviously in play. SMH.
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by cbtacy 3y ago
Investors include Y Combinator, Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Microsoft, Amazon, Infosys, Tiger Global, Elevation Capital, Bedrock Capital, Wikus Ventures, Social Discovery Ventures, Pre I
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The Problem with Don Norman(fastcompany.com)
5 points by cbtacy 3y ago|3 comments
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Antisemitic tweets soared on Twitter after Musk took over, study finds(washingtonpost.com)
11 points by cbtacy 3y ago|3 comments
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by cbtacy 4y ago
I was talking about how their rejection of this post is a bad look for YC, not about how their lack of support for the entrepreneur is a bad look.
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by cbtacy 4y ago
Definitely not a good look for YC.
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Shutdown: Agora (YC S19)(thecolorinanything.com)
65 points by cbtacy 4y ago|15 comments
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by cbtacy 4y ago
"But if all of your depositors are startups with the same handful of venture capitalists on their boards, and all those venture capitalists are competing with each other to Add Value and Be Influencers and Do The Current Thing by calli
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by cbtacy 4y ago
"My guess is that some continue to feel that Musk’s cruelty reflects his ability to see the world as it “really is”, where useless people like designers and disabled people drain energy from the engineers who really build things."
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by cbtacy 4y ago
"The one remaining site reliability engineer attached to the project"
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A Month Later, Twitter Still Not Sharing Ad Revenue with Creators(theverge.com)
4 points by cbtacy 4y ago|0 comments
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by cbtacy 4y ago
Would developers love open source if personal visibility in open source was comparable to personal visibility in closed source?
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by cbtacy 4y ago
One boarding school has gone as far as to ban smartphones for students AND teachers due to this issue. ABC story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSUrE4-zYzg
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by cbtacy 4y ago
1) they're taking advantage of market conditions to top grade 2) they need to protect partner payouts 3) they will replace these folks over the coming 18 months with cheaper, younger versions (but won't get anywhere near the absur
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by cbtacy 4y ago
The layoffs are honestly less shocking than the demand that engineers "make twitter ad targeting work like Google's.... in a week."
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by cbtacy 4y ago
“He bought the company, made a point of showcasing what he believed was broken and manipulated under previous management, then turns around and manipulates the platform to force engagement on all users to hear only his voice. I think we’re
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Staff, reportedly under threat of firing, break Twitter for Musk(sfgate.com)
40 points by cbtacy 4y ago|14 comments
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Twitter Amplified Elon Musk's Tweets After He Complained(bloomberg.com)
17 points by cbtacy 4y ago|2 comments
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Elon Musk's Tweet View Complaint Solved(techdirt.com)
12 points by cbtacy 4y ago|3 comments
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by cbtacy 4y ago
Nice fan fiction. Well done.
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by cbtacy 4y ago
"One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers..." Says it all.
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by cbtacy 4y ago
Ironically, one of the first things I learned working in software businesses (a long, long time ago now) was the following: Human problems require human solutions. Tooling problems require tooling solutions.
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by cbtacy 4y ago
Yup. Quite the business plan. Makes you wonder about Cianna Capital, WestCap, Alpha Sigma Capital, gumi Cryptos Capital, Fabric Ventures, and all the others who dumped $998M into what is so obviously a criminal enterprise.

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