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by qp11 2y ago
PSA: learn to cook. savings skyrocket. no apps required.
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by qp11 2y ago
Worth also pointing out as Rate of Change around the Expert increases they become executionally non excellent, while still being called Experts. So that kind of confuses everyone including the experts. Network growth, trade growth, capital
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by qp11 2y ago
People who beg for power will always be dependent on someone else to hold on to it. If you are begging for it you are on the wrong path. Doesn't matter what the gender is.
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by qp11 2y ago
No need to make them cofounders. Take a loan for N months and pay them (or someone more skilled). Recover the amount when you fund raise. If you get to a decent prototype state, recovering cost of employing 1-2 devs is not too complicated.
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Zuckerberg's year of efficiency has spread to the companys upper ranks(fortune.com)
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Germany sees company bankruptcies soar(dw.com)
74 points by qp11 2y ago|82 comments
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Hacker Theory(e-flux.com)
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by qp11 2y ago
pfft people who want to find a way around what anyone "allows" will do so. To desperate people rules dont matter. There are more than 50 countries right now standing with begging bowls outside the IMF cause their economies have no
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How Guanxi built the Taiwan tech powerhouse(theedgemalaysia.com)
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by qp11 2y ago
Thats exactly how Governments in the rest of the world protect strategic sectors from being swallowed up by Wall Streets massive mountain of capital.
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by qp11 2y ago
Google Sharon Zukin. She wrote a book on loft living and describes the decline-rejuvination cycles in cities. According to her poor artists are the reason for those million dollar valuations. Cycle goes something like this. Factories in par
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by qp11 2y ago
Saying Zuck et al knew what they were doing is misleading, and gives them too much credit. They are no experts in how dopamine works. Tech makes it easy to build things quick. Some things gets popular more by accident than design. Zuck didn
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by qp11 2y ago
The issues have been well understood for decades but the fixes involves dismantling existing power structures so nothing simple about it. Short summary of the issues - https://michael-hudson.com/2023/07/global-econ
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Restaurants are having their biggest year(axios.com)
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by qp11 2y ago
It is scarce in the sense Attention doesn't grow. As in there is an upper limit to how many things you can pay attention too, and how much free time you have to pay attention. But Info is growing all the time. Which also means the numb
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by qp11 2y ago
The problem is not info or misinfo but scarcity of attention. Herbert Simon in 1971 - In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What inf
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by qp11 2y ago
In theory India has sort of done it with UPI. Cost have been distributed across govt/banks/tech firms that make the apps and the end user who pays for the internet and phone. Whether its sustainable or not time will tell.
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by qp11 2y ago
It's not just Greed. Sure there are mindless greedy parasites in any environment that extract more than they input into the system, but you can easily find a whole bunch of execs in American corporate wonderland who are not greedy. And
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by qp11 2y ago
It reveals what the priorities are - https://michael-hudson.com/2023/11/israel-as-a-landed-aircra... Few years back they were furiously crying about afghan girls. We can see how many care about those girls today.
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by qp11 2y ago
More like they don't want to deal with drama when they have a whole lot of other headaches on their plate. Winds can change overnight. Like Churchill hitting peak support and popularity in 1945 but then he goes and looses the elections
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by qp11 2y ago
Its not their fault. They are competing against large roving armies of pure scum at Microsoft, who land up at the door of whichever large corp or govt org that decide to switch, with unmatchable discounts, freebies, bribes, lies and threats
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by qp11 2y ago
And there will be lot of jobs to clean up all the mistakes AI makes (currently being hidden or swept under the carpet to keep valuations up).
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by qp11 2y ago
But you are competing with the National Association of Realtors. One of the largest spenders on lobbying in America - https://www.opensecrets.org/industries?cycle=2022 The US is a FIRE economy - https://en.wikipe
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by qp11 2y ago
Compounding matters is the fact that it has become really easy to roll out half baked shit at ridiculous scales. The marketing mega machine then uses the Scale to pretend its not half baked shit - "hey man just look at how many people
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by qp11 2y ago
These guys dying in the thousands but oligarchs are untouchable. That's what I don't get.
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The Financialization of Nigeria and challenges ahead(tekedia.com)
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by qp11 2y ago
Medical schools need to be running their own finance/biz programmes coming up with their own models of how to run health care. The current system outsources this thinking to b-schools and has become to dependent on unsustainable financ
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by qp11 2y ago
Grades and ratings come from people who Need something from you. From time to time, you have to think about what your Needs are (cause they change with time). Money/Status/Job etc begins to have meaning when its in service of thos
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by qp11 2y ago
They are still doing what Rhodes did today. Its just done differently - Give a loan to the poor African country in dollars. Expect the loan to be repaid in dollars. Where is the poor African country going to get dollars? Here is the (simpli
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What do Students graduating from Elite Colleges this year want?(nytimes.com)
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