skizm

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by skizm 4d ago
You know how I feel about catgirls, Carl.
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by skizm 13d ago
Died at 2 of dysentery. What is this, the Oregon trail?
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by skizm 16d ago
Isn’t the idea that over time chrome will limit what ubo lite blocks? It will phase out all of its own ad networks so they’re not blocked first, but it’s possible they also start allowing third party ads through for a price.
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by skizm 19d ago
It sucks being in an apartment complex because there are always a bunch of unsecured networks floating around that the TV, or whatever, can connect to even if you don't manually do it.
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by skizm 21d ago
The other big tech companies were able to keep their settlement amounts private, since they settled before this case went to court. I wonder how their settlements compare. I bet they were much smaller given Meta took an actual L in court, t
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by skizm 2mo ago
Totally fair! I think it is more of a reminder that making impact at large companies can be hard even for competent people.
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by skizm 2mo ago
The only thing I will now remember this guy for is when he volunteered to work for Twitter/X after Elon took over. He failed to get twitter code building locally for about 4 weeks when attempting to change some placeholder text in the
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by skizm 3mo ago
It wasn't leadership doing this though. Any meta IC can generate internal apps and dashboards. This was unofficial and unsupported. Some random IC just made it for fun. Management is usually pretty lax with stuff like this (plenty of g
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by skizm 3mo ago
To the same point I also don't want the index itself picking and choosing which companies to apply which rules to.
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by skizm 3mo ago
Their advertising revenue grew 33% YoY last earnings call. They're literally making so much money they don't know what to do with it so they plow it into each new fad as to not miss out if this one happens to be a new billion user
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by skizm 3mo ago
What if these existed, but Facebook sold them?
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by skizm 4mo ago
At a bare bare minimum accounts over a certain size of follower count should be excluded from this flow. They should basically have account managers anyway.
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by skizm 4mo ago
I mean paying for deepseek is sending money to China, and any company in China is pretty much an extension of the CCP (or can become one at the snap of their fingers). I don't think this is much better or worse than the American AI com
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by skizm 4mo ago
NYC was the complete opposite. Our company did a scavenger hunt and people were so annoyed at us for interacting with them when they realized we needed more than just directions. If others overheard they’d start edging away or making themse
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by skizm 5mo ago
Weren't there reports of Anthropic's stock trading on secondary markets at $1T valuation recently? Now Google invests at a $350B valuation. I get valuations are often times just smoke and mirrors, but this seems like a pretty big
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by skizm 5mo ago
In general is there any practical way to fix the issue of "Every rewrite was someone's promotion project"? There doesn't seem to be any incentive for employees to care about projects long term. Keeping something running
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by skizm 5mo ago
If college is considered a glorified high school diploma, then not having one is like not having a high school diploma.
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by skizm 5mo ago
> How is it that a handful of companies are taking off like a spaceship, and the rest, including Google, are mired in inaction? Which companies? Not counting companies directly benefiting from selling AI.
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by skizm 5mo ago
I always thought the comparison to real life falls a bit flat. In the movie there’s a scene where Camacho has a town hall and the audience yells something about everything bad. Camacho fires his gun in the air for silence and acknowledges t
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by skizm 6mo ago
Hopefully I didn’t come off as dismissive. Love the hustle here. It’s always been a dream of mine to quit big tech and do something local like this. Glad to see others have made the jump successfully.
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by skizm 6mo ago
> We have an acquisition of a small residential operator lined up, which we'll build the tooling for and grow a platform around once we’ve proven the model works and can scale. This is the exact process private equity tries to do at
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by skizm 6mo ago
I think the bigger precedent is that he has already blanket pardoned all J6ers.
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by skizm 7mo ago
I remember a long time ago on Reddit I saw a post saying (paraphrasing) "AMA: PayPal locked up $600,000 of my money because my video game is selling so quickly they think it is a scam." Turns out this was Notch selling early alpha
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by skizm 7mo ago
Venmo is owned by PayPal
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by skizm 7mo ago
My first reaction to this was: Matt Levine will need to cut his vacation short. Again.
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by skizm 7mo ago
> The plaintiff is a 20-year-old California woman identified as K.G.M. because she was a minor at the time of her alleged personal injury. I didn't realize this was literally a single person claiming they were personally injured by
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by skizm 7mo ago
He’s getting old, but not over 40 yet.
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by skizm 7mo ago
All of these things they're saying are unethical, but not illegal, right?
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by skizm 8mo ago
Facebook is PHP ironically.
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by skizm 8mo ago
> You might fear that people will start arriving at 1:07pm, but I have seen the opposite. They respect the new time. They arrive by 1:05pm, ready to work. We do the :05 thing and this is exactly what happens every meeting: all of them en

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