ergodicity001

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   by ergodicity001 6y ago

   Crocodile tears, and a lot of cheap virtue signaling. I have some friends who have worked at MSFT for a long time, about 20 years or so. There was a time when they used to talk about open source as if it was cancer (~2011). When MSFT starte
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   by ergodicity001 6y ago

   The link only talks about economic uncertainty. Clearly, there is more to it. For example, I would say every single person is routinely perplexed by 50% of the rest of the planet (aka the opposite gender). That is a constant source of uncer
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   by ergodicity001 6y ago

   I read that small businesses' ad spending account for over 90% of Facebook revenue. If there is one thing you don't want to be right now, it is a small business owner fighting to bring employees back to work in an unsafe environme
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   by ergodicity001 6y ago

   I saw a video recently where someone was discussing Facebook's "moat". Essentially, among Big Tech, it has the least defensible moat, which I think is true. https://youtu.be/4SrxqfKn9Bw?t=1605 I think Faceboo
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   by ergodicity001 6y ago

   What do you think of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's claim that Piketty basically has his math all wrong? https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d... >>with not only capital in general but the st