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The most frustrating part of all of this is the underlying premise that the internet is, has been, or could ever be a credible cultural record is deeply stupid. Or maybe more chari…

I mean I might give it to you for Discord but Facebook is an easy win here. There's so much bot crap on Facebook Meta keeps getting dragged in front of congress over it.

Depends on how long it takes me to find my checkbook but yeah pretty much, and it's a lot less irritating.

Fuck no, I stopped using my phone for anything besides maps and phone stuff before the pandemic. You peddling the idea that that isn't what all of the social platforms are these da…

"Our society is structured around the assumption that you'll have not just a cellphone, but a smartphone." Except it really isn't, it just seems that way when you spend a bunch of …

The really obnoxious part is that with the possible exception of maps all of the other "services" touted as vital parts of a digitally connected existence are so enshittified at th…

Yeah would someone like to explain why there's an octopus in the break room?

Author appears to have concerns about the belts working out of the top of the housing, but is seemingly ignoring the four existing screws that could be used to fasten a top plate t…

I'm with you. If the last 30 years have proven anything it's that enthusiasm for tech industry hype is at best historically illiterate.

Previously on We Bet On Unlimited Growth, the global financial meltdown of 2008. If I was even slightly less cynical I'd honestly wonder how many times they're going to stick a for…

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Roughly a third of the market is digging a $1T-a-year-deep-hole with <5yr amortization schedule on all of it and passing around the same $100B like it's in all of their bank accoun…

Crazy to assume that an individual of vision has so thoroughly dropped the plot simply because their position is at odds with tech industry orthodoxy. If anything that should be an…

I mean yeah, diversify we must but idk anyone who had a retail portfolio that didn't eat shit in 2008 so it isn't real obvious where the bomb shelter is.

So competent sociopaths get their roses on HN? Good to know.

I'd be excited for the show myself if I had any idea how to prevent my portfolio from tanking when this clusterfuck finally unravels.

Your brand loyalty might be clouding your vision here: https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/apple-just-traded-your-privac...

I understand the author's claims that ideas matter and that is a major part of what I'm sneering at. Ideas grow on trees and they're worthless 100% of the time there aren't skilled…

I'm mostly curious about how they managed to get all of the scary looking parts crammed onto that one end and how hairy that process was.

So having established one would have to institute I'm-hiding-from-at-least-two-sovereign-governments-that-are-actively-hunting-me levels of OPSEC to even stand a chance of avoiding…

sigh If data brokerages, Meta, Google, and Palantir are all staring at you how is it possible to claim privacy is even possible? Like, you have to have a thing before it's possible…

Who are we threatening today?

Of course not. But literally any excuse that comes to hand will be deployed if it helps the tech industry continue to avoid meaningful consequences. The same handful of companies t…

I'd be interested to see the Things I Won't Work With author's take on the synthesis given his usual reaction to fluorine chemistry

Replacing "hand over your keys" with "perform detailed inspection of your vehicle, including undercarriage and suspension for damage before leaving" doesn't sound particularly enti…