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individual contributor, not management. 6 companies, Europe and US. If you are in a high demand profession, there is no reason to accept mistreatment: we have the luxury of being able to vote with our feet, use it.
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IT is very broad, but if we are talking about people who have the skills to build something themselves, then they’re probably not front-line IT support workers, they’re probably software engineers or some other high-demand profession. There
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centralisation is human: it’s far more plausible that there’ll be multiple centralised systems separated by cultural boundaries — examples already exist, like China — than humans doing some sort radical cross-cultural shift from centralisat
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I doubt you'll find many people arguing that the value of employee output is evenly distributed across all people in a company: regardless of discipline, there's always a minority who are delivering the most value. There's al
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Typeform + Make.com + courier.com. Gluing various services together will take much less time than it would take to find someone to build it for you and it’ll probably have a better outcome — because gluing services together will highlight m
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That's a soundbite that people like Brian Armstrong use, because it's shifting the blame onto The Enemy (the traditional finance system) but it's a hard sell. People engage with cryptocurrency because it offers the sort of un
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My point is that the algorithms used by Twitter did not create the problem of bad tweets having reach. Elon could turn off every piece of engagement-hacking functionality within the Twitter system and it would not solve the problem. The alg
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Are you able to provide a citation for Twitter suppressing retweets?
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That’s how Twitter works already — that’s how the “filter bubble” concept is able to exist, you’re only exposed to things in your self-selected bubble. What Elon is describing (as I understand it based on the limited information provided) i
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That analogy doesn’t really fit with the model of Twitter. If we are using the town/time square example, what Elon is describing is the digital version of putting a noise-cancelling box around the people saying “bad” things so that nob
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Lots of important work does not involve hammering away all hours of the night. For example, any work that interfaces with the outside world will be constrained by the availability of people in the outside world. Are advertising clients work
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There’s an important difference between competing on features and competing on “x but not x”. Zoom (which is over a decade old) is video conferencing software, it’s not “webex but not webex”. Zoom stands alone, it competes on quality of ser
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10% of Twitter’s engineers is much closer to 150 than 700. The majority of twitters employees were not engineers.
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I agree with your core point that Mighty could have succeeded, but specific to your use-case: Mighty is “just” a nice layer on top of well-established remote-desktop technology, what pushed you towards M1 MacBooks instead of remote desktops
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You’re describing what I’d understand as productive time: if someone says they’re not being productive, I interpret it to mean there’s zero value to be derived for their employer from their activities. For example, being asleep or browsing
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Given they've literally just deployed a copy of an open-source website, I'd guess it was a mistake rather than malicious: possibly someone who was testing out vultr's hosting or perhaps someone trying out docosaurus (given yo
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There’s a symbiosis. Elizabeth Holmes was a fantastic story for the time, a self-made billionaire changing the world through healthcare innovations, she was on the front cover of magazines because it was a story people absolutely wanted to
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Media coverage is a reflection, not a conspiracy. SBF pitched himself as virtuous, so the coverage reflected that. Jesse Powell and Brian Armstrong went the opposite direction (to varying degrees) so of course the coverage of them will focu
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I can’t speak to Twitter specifically, but Monzo are a company somewhat famous for their thousands of microservices which they’ve written about, so that might provide some insight to how a company could use so many: https://monzo
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The obligatory Gell-Mann Amnesia reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmn...
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Predicting failure is easy, though, because most things fail: you can predict everything will fail and be right 90%+ of the time. The venture capital model operates on that understanding: most things will fail, but in taking a chance on lot
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I think you might have it the wrong way round, as the product information mentions fresh air as a requirement for manual calibration, not automatic. "If a drift of the CO2 measurements occurs, calibration feature of the device should b
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The companion argument is that neither of those industry changes were unexpected, and thus if the market is behaving intelligently (so much that "of course they're not buying/selling based on tweets!" applies) then they
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intentional or unintentional, he didn’t really have a choice: if he had dumped FTT quietly, people would have noticed and it would have had the same outcome. If he didn’t dump it, he’d have been left with a worthless token. As soon as the A
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Sequoia have removed the article because of how embarrassing it is in hindsight (and at the time but I guess at the time their embarrassment threshold wasn't reached). The title references the article. You can find a copy linked in thi
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You're trying to find rational behaviour in gambling: most gambling is not rational. I don't know of any statistics specific to options, but there's other financial instruments, like CFDs, that have heavy regulations in some
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Crypto.com are not long for this world but I don't think this is their demise, rather, this is specifically the Solana blockchain, which is... well, it's not a traditional blockchain. More a reflection on Solana (and it's vul
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A bigger phone may have a better battery life, but that does not mean that better battery life is why phones are large. iPhones have gotten bigger while battery size has shrunk. There is literally a void inside of the iPhone 14 Pro Max. App
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Hard to say, because we can only speculate on the true state of Alameda. Sam Bankman-Fried owns both Alameda and FTX and so while they’re separate entities, they are co-mingled in many ways. Assuming FTX is a profitable enterprise (a big qu
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3AC was a prop trading firm flush with cash… until the curtain was lifted and it turns out it was just a big fraud. Alameda is a prop firm flush with cash… Why do you assume that Alameda isn’t “packed to the gills” with financial gremlins?

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