thawaya3113

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by thawaya3113 4y ago
You’re right but Elon’s idea of free speech is little more than “speech I like”, and is the opposite of what free speech is. That being said, employees of a company don’t have free speech rights. And hypocrisy is not illegal. Elon is well w
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
How is that bad faith? Isn’t that, for example, exactly what Gitlab does? It would be bad faith if they removed access to the open source code somehow.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
I was wondering the same thing. Also, I’m looking to start reusing VIM (company policies meant that VIM wasn’t available for me to use for a while, but thankfully we are rid of those ridiculous policies) and I’m wondering if I should switch
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
“We believe in free speech and no government interference”. “How dare you leave an anonymous opinion on Glassdoor. Here are our lawyers and the government forcing you to be doxxed and the speech to be removed”.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
“We value diversity of thought”. “But not pronouns. Those are sacred.”
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Also, the PR puff piece basically amounts to: We have 500 roles open for the rest of the year and we will continue to keep those 500 roles open. And also, we have a great transition plan if you want to quit the company, because your values
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Well, even Coinbase was hiring until they were rescinding job offers. A PR puff piece doesn’t tell anyone anything.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
And gold doesn’t need ever increasing energy to be spent so it doesn’t vanish into thin air.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Also, drugs didn’t have a legal competitor. Now that marijuana, for example, is largely being legalized through the U.S., illegal sales of marijuana have completely vaporized. Very few will opt to use crypto if a government has deemed it il
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
It’s special in that it has a special purpose. Just like bread has a special purpose. And the purpose of a currency is to facilitate financial transactions. Which crypto is horrible at, because it cannot maintain a decent value at any point
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Man, the spinning is tremendous. All this stuff is literally what all the crypto people were and still are saying.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
No one’s against the existence of a web app. But most people seem to prefer the desktop versions of chat apps. They really should have both.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Well, so stem cell research is avoiding US laws because of Puritanism. Why is crypto avoiding US laws? Edit: Also, a quick Google of top stem cell research companies show that they are based in the U.S. or Europe, so I’m not sure how correc
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
The closest public info I can find is revenues of about $125mm in the past year. With about 4000 employees, that’s an average of about $30k per employee. That sounds pretty low to make any sort of profit.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
How is crypto any better at doing this than say, Western Union? Ultimately, as someone who finds blockchain technology really cool, what I struggle with is, in which scenarios is blockchain better than Postgres?
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
This entire article does not even attempt to counter the claim being made in the letter it’s so up in arms about. > blockchain technology, specifically so-called “public blockchains”… are not an improvement on existing non-blockchain sol
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
How much of that GDP is actually accessible to western companies? If you’re a tech company, you’re not selling for China too long before they cut you out. India will require you to partner 49% with a local company. And Russia is increasingl
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Of course, that’s not how it works in real life. If mooching is so pleasurable why isn’t everyone doing it? Because being poor in the US is really hard. Getting government benefits in the US is really hard. And the way a lot of government b
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Almost all of these companies have a single business model. Regulation arbitrage. They break laws and regulations and then count on either having those changed in hindsight or having a valuation as a result of breaking those laws and regula
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
I’m pretty sure anyone buying a scooter would also be paying sales tax, plus taxes on fuel and electricity. The only difference is a property tax of 2.5% assessed every year. That being said, I would be surprised if this 2.5% property tax d
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
I don’t understand your point. You appear to be claiming that Netherlands can achieve car free living because it’s tiny and flat, and yet you point to a U.S. city that has made car free living possible despite being nearly half the size of
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Gitlab’s entire history is bait and switch and wrapping existing features into more expensive tiers. It’s a complete disservice to recommend Gitlab to someone if an alternative is available.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
E2E privacy has a lot of uses. Crypto has none. It’s just an enabler and hotbed of a variety of scams. Any use it may have can only possibly reveal itself after the crypto asset bubble/scams die. So even if you’re a crypto enthusiast,
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
7. You’re screwed if you are a mac user who does not use an iPhone.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
There was a time when Apple supporters were huge fans of web apps. When Gmail and the like meant that it was possible to have a decent experience on a Mac as well, because software developers offered web apps. (Let’s not talk about that one
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Tying web browsers to the OS release was a disaster on the Mac and PCs, to the extent that both Apple and Microsoft have stopped doing that. I don’t understand why iOS would be any different.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
The Twitter board isn’t gonna make Elon do anything. They will settle the shareholder lawsuits (and probably make Twitter Inc. and therefore the shareholders themselves, pay for it). Because if they do anything Elon’s gonna threaten to make
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Elon explicitly gave up his right to due diligence.
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Gnome is clearly a lot better for beginners than it ever was. And locking down the theming will make life significantly easier for developers. And it’s still easy for medium/advanced users to sub in their preferred applications instead
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by thawaya3113 4y ago
Of course, the other crime, that requires him to resign is lying to Parliament, except he changed the ministerial code so he wouldn’t have to resign.

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