lennixm

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by lennixm 2y ago
So making agricultural markets orders of magnitudes more efficient is destroying it in your view?
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by lennixm 2y ago
People need to stop using this stat. It's completely useless. There are literally people making top percentile incomes saying they're living paycheck to paycheck in these surveys because they interpret the survey questions wildly
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by lennixm 3y ago
I take issue with pretty much every single one of your statements here. > culmination of their life's work is to get people to buy more crap rather than making the world better in any measurable way Advertising makes the world bette
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by lennixm 3y ago
Your definition of "tech company" is so restrictive that it's effectively meaningless.
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by lennixm 3y ago
1. I'm not saying he doesn't still have control over governance at Amazon. As executive chair he most certainly does. Operational decision like these are not subject to the board of directors though. He also couldn't "ea
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by lennixm 3y ago
1. Jeff Bezos no longer controls Amazon operations. 2. He doesn't own the company either, he owns a minority stake. 3. In what universe does Amazon come even remotely close to having a "quasi-monopoly" over the internet? This
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by lennixm 3y ago
I think you're being completely disingenuous here. Using an ad-blocker is free-riding and nothing less. We consume a service provided by Google through server capacity, monetization enginea, and improved discovery and by the creators t
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by lennixm 3y ago
Unfortunately you overestimate Apple's board compensation by at least 5 orders of magnitude...
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by lennixm 3y ago
It's probably less than 1% of users that care about these changes at all. An even smaller number will actually dial down their reddit usage as a result of this. The only consequence Reddit will suffer from this is an increase in ad rev
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by lennixm 3y ago
Unfortunately your theory falls apart once you read literally a single book on macroeconomics.
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by lennixm 3y ago
You win. Worst take of the day.
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by lennixm 3y ago
Why would they search of a reason if they see their employees being more productive WFH and they can save a significant share of their capex by getting rid of their real estate footprints? HackerNews needs to stop with the motivated reasoni
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by lennixm 4y ago
Hydrogen is a pipe dream because it's both a worse user experience and less efficient than EVs. If we could we would electrify planes too but the unfortunately the energy density of electric battery is way too small for large planes me
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by lennixm 4y ago
> Companies don't want the financial hit of large HQs staying empty because of some specific arbitrary regulations/requirements. This argument needs to stop. The financial hit of paying for office properties is orders of magnit
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by lennixm 4y ago
I've never heard of that happening.