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by phphphphp 4y ago
Depends on the deal, I’ve been a part of a deal where unvested stock converted as if it had vested: depending on how much is outstanding, and the value of the ongoing relationship between the company and employees, you could expect all outs
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by phphphphp 4y ago
There’s lots of evidence around from people reporting their YouTube revenue falling 80%+. At the time it was colloquially known as the “adpocalypse” so you can find lots of evidence associated with that search term.
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by phphphphp 4y ago
You’re proving the point: following abandonment, YouTube took a hard line against the content and advertisers returned.
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by phphphphp 4y ago
You’re totally naive to how advertising works, just look at how quickly advertisers abandoned YouTube following the wall street journal reporting. From an advertiser perspective, if Twitter allows nazis, advertisers will be funding the dist
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by phphphphp 4y ago
because community is defined by people not content. A person who posts overtly racist content probably also posts about visiting Disney with their kid, or how much they love Spider-Man. You can’t filter out certain aspects of a persons pers
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Sorry, can you explain what you mean here: I play hard mode and I always get the word within 6 guesses — and I’m no savant, I’m an idiot, and I don’t cheat — no looking at the word list. The same is true for my friends who play on hard mode
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by phphphphp 4y ago
People are different. I, personally, find ownership of digital and physical things to “weigh” on me and so deleting something digital or giving something away physical is meaningful to me — it keeps my life simple in this moment, whether I
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by phphphphp 4y ago
You’ve posted when the thread is brand new, so I’m sure if you wait a little longer you’ll get the anti-crypto sentiment you seek. That said, paying out USDC is probably the least offensive way to work in crypto and has little room for conc
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I’m sure costs is part of the equation but I’d imagine the control is far more important. Reselling legacy bank services means you’re limited to what they can do, which is usually not much. Most finance technology is heavily limited by what
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Check out knative, it’s used for Google Cloud Run: https://knative.dev/docs/
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I have no special insight into Netlify, so this is (educated) speculation: there's an important difference between pay-as-you-go compute providers, like AWS, and Netlify: Netlify is a platform, their value is not derived from the workl
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Does that pattern you describe require any considerations when writing code? I’m thinking of applications I’ve worked on where events are triggered by change, and so a database rolling back independent of my application would be a nightmare
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by phphphphp 4y ago
That’s interesting: here in the UK, there’s often major news stories about very punitive actions taken against tourists in Dubai for things like drinking in public or having sex on a beach. I’d guess a lot of people “know” that the system i
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by phphphphp 4y ago
The article is about shareholder value, not profitability. Anyway, that aside, the article was specifically written to address the people writing Elon Musk's off as "...a self-absorbed corporate carnival barker..." which is a
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by phphphphp 4y ago
> He explicitly stated that he does not view it as a money-making opportunity. His goals are altruistic. A few hours ago he tweeted out an article that celebrates Musk as a great person for growing shareholder value: https://t
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by phphphphp 4y ago
He owned <10% at the time so it’s a little bit of a mischaracterisation to say “most” as if it means he lost control because of it. He did not lose a meaningful amount in the context of a conversation about control, he lost a few % of th
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I debate this with myself often. Short of renting a security box and telling people I trust about it, I haven’t come up with a strategy for the master password. At the moment, I’ve resigned myself to the feeling that if I lose my memory, ma
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Does anybody actually type those? They were a neat solution 10 years ago but they’re so common now for even inconsequential actions that I always copy and paste, on complete autopilot.
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by phphphphp 4y ago
turnover at Amazon is so high that nobody* will still be there in 12 months, unionising is zero risk: either the job becomes tolerable or it remains intolerable and they quit as they would have anyway * ok a few
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Everybody within a business should be using the same language and concepts when thinking about the business, because it's important for effective communication: daylight between what people are thinking about is where problems creep in
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I agree very much that DDD is an extension of OOP in many ways, but very much disagree that DDD (or OOP) is synonymous with "lots of code". OOP (like any principle) is easy to misuse/abuse when doing it for the sake of it, an
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I have no problem with mercenary advice, in fact I give it myself often: most relationships with a company are adversarial and it’s fine to operate on that basis… but I felt that the exit interview article was wrong: I’ve personally benefit
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Sure, you're right, it is factually incorrect to say that they're using a cryptocurrency to amass millions of biometrics, because they're actually using the _promise_ of a cryptocurrency to amass 500,000 biometrics. Very impo
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Most creative output is duplicated effort: consider how much code each person on HN has written that has been written before. Consider how, a decade ago, we were all writing html and styling it, element by element, and then Twitter bootstra
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Their business is whatever they’re doing, we can’t give organisations a free pass on bad behaviour because they aspire to be well behaved once they’ve extracted enough value from their bad behaviour. Your comment implies that the article is
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by phphphphp 4y ago
As the saying sort-of goes: choose two, cheap, fast and free from fraud. Governments could have prevented fraud but it would have been at the expense of speed, or it would have come at huge cost. Governments chose fraud as the cost of opera
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Except as the article states based on quotes and leaked presentations, they are collecting the data. The page you linked confirms it. You might be right that their aspiration is to not collect biometric data, but they are collecting it and
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by phphphphp 4y ago
There’s billions upon billions of people, any motivated actor could have access to millions of people (Worldcoin have access to 500,000 and it only cost them 25 WRLD each!). There’s already a black market for this sort of fraud, so this isn
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I’m glad you acknowledge the terrible missteps here, so I won’t focus on them, but I’d like to hear more about why you think this problem can be solved with biometrics. The missteps of Worldcoin highlight exactly why an arbitrary “personhoo
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Valid questions but they’re answers we will likely never know, because either the hack was an inside job and disclosure is bad for them or because they’re too incompetent to ever identify the real cause. Disclosure beyond “we were hacked” i

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