orangesite

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by orangesite 2y ago
Don't tie your future to the new (but transient) economic opportunities that will open up.
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by orangesite 2y ago
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by orangesite 2y ago
Hilarity ensues.
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by orangesite 2y ago
If the big players would stick to the RFC's it wouldn't be a problem.
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by orangesite 2y ago
How to tell the difference between someone who's been burnt a few times too many and someone you probably don't want to work with in one easy conversation. Hiring is a hard problem of computer science, maybe even harder than namin
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by orangesite 2y ago
That would be golden!
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by orangesite 2y ago
Will you still like it enough that you're willing to pay a 30% premium as more and more services start passing the Apple Tax on to the consumer? This is why I love capitalism!
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by orangesite 2y ago
Massive investments in AI and Crypto, both of which will face less regulatory oversight and more opportunities to centralize both wealth and power under a Trump presidency.
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by orangesite 2y ago
I really hope the other 2/3 are with me when I say that having either Apple or Google integrated with my vehicle is a deal-breaker.
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by orangesite 2y ago
Only if we also make a case for criminalizing managerial misconduct using an equivalent metric to the author's proposed QALY measure.
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by orangesite 2y ago
Hard to swallow pills: - When the goal of medicine is profit instead of helping patients the outcomes will be poor. - When the goal of education is profit instead of teaching students the outcomes will be poor. - When the goal of politics i
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by orangesite 2y ago
Figure out what you'd be doing if you didn't have to earn a salary, spend six months doing a side-project and/or contributing to a related libre-software project in this area. Chances are you'll make new friends in the p
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by orangesite 2y ago
Listening is indeed the hardest thing to do if your organization's metrics places immense pressure on you to be (or at least appear to be) the smartest person in the room. Luckily there are other organizations out there that encourage
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by orangesite 2y ago
I think you underestimate the size of the silent insufferable minority.
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by orangesite 2y ago
Mate, sometimes your starting point is so wrong that it is impossible to formulate an answer to the question inherent in your response.
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by orangesite 2y ago
I think you're right but I'd add another choice: 1. Psychiatric care 2. Rehab 3. Jail The mayhem created by deinstitutionalisation is vastly under-appreciated.
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by orangesite 2y ago
Whomever is downvoting you clearly has an interest in one or more startups.
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by orangesite 2y ago
I find private equity's enthusiasm adorable but the temporary hiatus on anti-trust enforcement that first gained momentum during the Reagan era is no longer in effect. Some expensive lessons are about to be learnt. (assuming democratic
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by orangesite 2y ago
Treating everyone as if they were engaging in good faith is equally not a good approach to discourse. I get where you're coming from but the system you're proposing creates a situation where it's cheaper to pollute the discou
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by orangesite 2y ago
Yes well… I can see where the confusion would arise if we believed keeping foreign policy unchanged and just calling it globalization would somehow align the values.
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by orangesite 2y ago
Super useful work. Thank you!
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by orangesite 2y ago
It may be cheaper thank you think. Ask one of the many people who know today!
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by orangesite 2y ago
I can't help but think of Apple's "think different" campaign and then contrasting their past and present behaviour against the actual message those great minds spent their lives transmitting. Think the same is: Screw eve
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by orangesite 2y ago
It's always sad to watch a wildly profitable company that thinks it's still too poor to refrain from engaging in the worst kinds of bottom-feeding behaviour. Daddy issues maybe? The true measure of success and character is not the
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by orangesite 2y ago
This article should be forwarded to the US gov antitrust division. I suspect it would be of great interest given their current activities.
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by orangesite 2y ago
There is a way but no one ever likes it when I bring it up: Build a search index that excludes anything with ads on it. Yes, that excludes a lot of content and no, I really don't care if it does. We'll always have Google for that.
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by orangesite 2y ago
The point you're missing entirely is that risk is an independent variable which is not related to any factor under control of the participants.
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by orangesite 2y ago
Income security 101. Great article.
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by orangesite 2y ago
There's an inverse relationship between how good folk think they are vs. how good they actually are. Anyone who's spent time in musician communities will be intimately familiar with the phenomenon. Anyone who's spent time in
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by orangesite 2y ago
This is the nub of the matter. I could have saved myself a decade. The only thing from YC that survived our relationship was the incorporation of the company. I still think there's a massive gap in the market for an ergodic startup com

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