yetanotherforg

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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
After my first burn-out, I spent a year building bikes, going to frame welding classes. Then went back to software.
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Are you saying there is a moral equivalence equivalence between killing terrorists in military operations .. and going to another country to behead a journalist who said mean things about you?
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Yes, and between the terroristic birth of communism, and 9/11, protection from russia's annexation of dozens of countries and their sociopathic disregard for life was as the primary motivation of Europe and America's defense
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
That's the thing. In the middle-east there are no repercussions or consequences for the 1%. They can literally cut off the arms of house cleaners who quit, or behead journalists, without anything more than harsh words by b-rate America
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Fear of russian aggression gave us the internet, nuclear weaponry, jet engines and the space program. russia's genocide in Ukraine is proving to be a huge catalyst for green energy and drone technology. Those of us whose ancestry inclu
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
This is how it's done in the third world. They do this in Turkiey a lot. First they build, then they pay a fine. Sometimes they have to knock down the entire building, or take 3-4 floors off, if they don't' offer to pay a fin
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
This is Hacker News, a social network for people who fetishize Ayn Rand, after all.
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Not surprising at all. mohammed bin salman personally ordered a journalist beheaded in the Istanbul consulate a few years ago. Why not poison a journalist at the World Cup? royal families can commit genocide, and still have no legal financ
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
I feel like you're making fun of Riak :)
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
> Do not equate all forms of work to progress. People will pay good money for women to fart on their faces. Depends entirely upon the quality of the fart.
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
It's just business in the USA, that's all.
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
> Not sure I understand you. Why do post-acquisition wealth need an justification at all? Did you read the tweets, or just the headline? > You have worked for a startup. Well, you was aware of the risks. But I'm pretty sure the f
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Many of my friends and colleagues became wealthy thanks to winning the YC lottery, some as founders some as employees. The way they changed afterwards drove me away from the pursuit of money entirely. I'm sure the me in this timeline w
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Wasn't his work funded by the government?
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
This assumes that there is no financial intent in the work. My favorite example of this is that many thousands of Google's engineers used an app (Homebrew I think), but Google wouldn't hire him, thus letting him share in wealth pa
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Have you ever copied and pasted anything from StackOverflow? Did you ask them if they copied it, if they had permission to copy it, or where it was copied from so you could attribute properly? If so, my hat is off to you Sir. I did have a d
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Corporations seem to do a good job of avoiding taxes in a way that people cannot replicate. The ultra-rich founders also do a great job of making sure they pay a lower tax rate than the rest of us. I think Keynes said "The worst form o
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Where do you think all of that automation comes from? I promise you, every single start-up you know of is violating somebody's copyrights on their open source. I've seen this in every company I've worked with for the past 30
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Can you explain how Founders are employees in this context? I read this as pg being focused on justifying post-acquisition wealth. It seemed to be a justification for the founders receiving 100s if not 1,000s of times the level of compensat
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Yep. Absolute suckers for giving out their work for free I guess.
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Thank you. Nobody ever seems to mention how much founders get to stand on the heads of engineers and scientists who were paid with tax dollars. Kind of how the libertarian musk fans ignore how much aid his companies have gotten from the t t
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
His whole point is: There is a lot of great free open source software being exploited by small technical teams to run faster. This means the people doing the integration deserve less $$ because they can do the same amount with less. Founde
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Based on his argument: Fewer people are doing a lot more thanks to being good at automation. It's the automation that's making it possible to be successful, not the engineers doing the automation. The past three years, the YC cro
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Very good point. Know your limits, and do things like only keep your hotel room key, phone, and a half empty wallet (keep money in your pocket as well as your wallet).. but don't let fear get in the way. We only live once.
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by yetanotherforg 4y ago
Personally two things come to mind: Hedonistic or Noble Hedonistic: Fly to Amsterdam one way, buy a few doses of truffles, smoke some weed, see some boobs or whatever floats your boat I dunno. Then go to centraal station, buy the first tra