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When I joined my first startup, they said if you didn't have a good plan for going public or getting acquired by series C, then the D in series D stood for death. Uber et al raised…

Probably safer to assume that they always had someone serving in this position and they recently left.

A rebuttal would spend some time trying to make a case, this is a petulant complaint.

it sounds more like they can choose not to work with you just like in America, but maybe the reasons are allowed to be more spurious

It's hilarious how much this post reads as drafted by an LLM. The emdash, "it's not X, it's Y" framing, incredible.

hugged to death

Was malice.sh taken?

Ah, it really wouldn't be HN without baselessly accusing other posters you disagree with.

Some of the most profitable ventures this century have been objectively illegal, but when you know you won't go to prison for violating the law, why would you care to follow it?

Looks like they did literally nothing in 2024?

Itanium sales projections vibes

MVNOs are like second or third-tier citizens on mobile carriers, why would Apple hand a lever like that to, say, AT&T?

Sure, but why post a tutorial of how to spin this up in GCP instead of...productizing it in GCP?

The "it" in question is this website's certificate?

It seems utterly absurd to me that anybody should be able to issue a copyright claim on a collection of colors and fonts. Copyrights are issued to logos and slogans, not design sys…

No questions, but a heartfelt thank you. I've used wire for years and plan to continue doing so. :)

They don't "have" to be any of those things. People are not consistently rational actors, as evidenced by your continued advocacy for Emacs.

Bold of you to think the red states are capable of learning.

I would genuinely be buying one today if the memory upgrades were half as much and I could go to 128GB or even 96.

The author (and myself, coincidentally) used to work at WP Engine. I still have friends there, I could still describe their infrastructure if I had to. How am I not to interpret my…

This is a ludicrous paranoid screed that, thanks to the nature of Mastodon, will not be on the live internet in a decade's time.

It started the conversation by asking if I'd ever heard of the television show Cheers. Every subsequent interaction lead to it telling me more about Cheers.

I think other languages cause folks to understand JSON responses as a big bag of keys and values, which have many convenient ways of being represented in those languages. When you …

Does FB's list of unbannable accounts include a list of slurs they're allowed to say on the platform?

Anybody who is surprised by this has not been paying attention to how the recent acquirer of Twitter has stewarded it thus far.