malthaus

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by malthaus 3d ago
sure, as long things go up, smart. when things no longer go up, they will take the whole economy down with them akin to the banking crisis in 2008 or the dotcom bubble before that (which both had far less circular incestuous activity going
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by malthaus 4d ago
"our burn rate is insane, let's all calm down collectively, fortify our moat so we can do regulatory capture & rent-seeking for the next 50 years" fear is still the best tool to get masses to agree with whatever plan you
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by malthaus 22d ago
the story really comes full circle for me now. i've read the book in the 90s and recently listened to hess's POV via a ccc talk ( https://youtu.be/USDNMWZsR5o auto subbed/dubbed video here) great nostalgia for
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by malthaus 22d ago
it's time for a worldwide reset on tipping culture / assumptions. america was always weird - the tipping practice leads to over-the-top fake service, is abusive to staff and only benefits restaurant owners. and they turned all tha
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by malthaus 2mo ago
over the last few years there was a huge demand for analog synthesizers again after them being mostly replaced by digital synths since the mid 90s for 2.5 decades with users demanding from the traditional companies to re-issue the classics
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by malthaus 2mo ago
wasn't that always the reaction historically whenever people felt like their livelihood was threatened by new technology?
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by malthaus 2mo ago
now back your claim with money and bet accordingly on betting sites to see if you uncovered some actual alpha here
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by malthaus 2mo ago
i'd say having "invented" the internet is a bigger claim to have influenced people rather than looking good in a bikini. so fair game to cash in on that legacy.
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by malthaus 4mo ago
nice, that's another 4 years of spacex data center usage runway!
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by malthaus 5mo ago
yorck unlimited made living in berlin 10x as exciting but you could always be sure that the old lady loudly crunching on every.single.crisp. was there in the showing as well
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by malthaus 5mo ago
i'm swiss and also own property in central berlin. while i was having insanely fast internet in all the places i lived in switzerland since the year 2000 (first cable, then fiber), german telekom has still not been able to connect my f
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by malthaus 6mo ago
"that gets you on", ie. the kind of personality that literally pays & hustles to be featured on such a list to fuel their own ego? colour me surprised people still seem to think that forbes scouts the world for the best talent
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by malthaus 6mo ago
hackernews as a whole has the same issue software engineers have - overestimating one's wisdom and overapplying it with confidence to everything, resulting in horrible takes that might look like signals but are mostly noise
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by malthaus 6mo ago
your trauma is my happy memory - being a lotus notes admin/dev consultant during my studies made me live a very comfortable life as a student!
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by malthaus 6mo ago
very hard to feel sorry of you when countless professions experienced the same in the past - only that they were poor / working class and not overpaid software engineers at FAANG. also very egocentric & pessimist way to look at thi
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by malthaus 7mo ago
it's a tough pill to swallow for developers, but nobody cares about your ability to write code. people care about you shipping something people want. i can easily hire 100 sweatshop coders to finetune your code once i have a product th
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by malthaus 7mo ago
so something that is a horrible store of value, has monumental transaction fees, non-instant confirmation and is associated by laypersons mostly with speculation, fraud & illegal transactions will solve those?
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by malthaus 7mo ago
... where they come with their own idiosyncratic mental/moral flaws you gotta treat communities like newspapers - acknowledge their bias and diversify
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by malthaus 10mo ago
going off my example - chatgpt knows everything about me including desires, goals and issues im struggling with. combine this with the fact that i have disposable income. i can't fathom how much advertisers are willing to pay to put th
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by malthaus 11mo ago
... and it will turn into a "technically true" rat race between the main players on what the definition is exactly while you can ask any person on the street with no skin in the game who will tell you that this is nowhere near the
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by malthaus 11mo ago
from my experience in the corporate world, i'd trust an excel generated / checked by an LLM more than i would one that has been organically grown over years in a big corporation where nobody ever checks or even can check anything
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by malthaus 11mo ago
... until reality catches up with a software engineer's inability to see outside of the narrow engineering field of view, neglecting most things that the end-users will care about, millions if not billions are wasted and leadership see
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by malthaus 1y ago
if only they could also anticipate what will happen once the tide is falling
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by malthaus 1y ago
i have aphantasia and extensive experience with psychedelics for me, as long as my consciousness is still in control, i have no closed-eye visuals akin to what others see. the more i lose control/consciousness, the more visuals i get b
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by malthaus 1y ago
leaving the use case aside (i don't think it's needed, sensible or succesful) - i have to say i'm admiring how stripe manages to be forward thinking and takes a smart strategic position on every new wave that appears. never f
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by malthaus 1y ago
sorry, but while it definitely looks better than it did in the 90s, it's neither a professional level design nor better than mac os. and you don't need to be a designer to see it. those misleading hype statements are the reason wh
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by malthaus 1y ago
maybe i'm too cynical but to me this looks more like an orchestrated "win" story for the eu ecosystem with some backroom dealing/incentives and some ex-post rationalisation sprinkled on rather than a strategic invest by
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by malthaus 1y ago
personal trauma & anecdata from working in corporate innovation for many years
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by malthaus 1y ago
95% of any pilots at corporates fail, probably even more than that, you don't need ai for that
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by malthaus 1y ago
what do you mean "even at YC companies" - they are the first to jump on any bandwagon hype train VC's are on.

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