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hejja

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    Comment #25573603

    you are right. demonitized means unsuitable for advertisers, which means no ads.

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    Comment #24846719

    true, yet the same can be said of: - any new pharmaceutical - diets (keto, carnivore, etc) - 5g etc point being: modifying behavior due to decade time-horizon unknowns is not reall…

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    Comment #24846698

    ...about anything. not just covid.

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    Comment #24649153

    9 figure deal, 10 figure implications: "Spotify shares dropped 8.8% Wednesday (Sep. 2) morning, shaving as much as $4.81 billion of its value, following a report Joe Rogan's back c…

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    Comment #24639238

    Case and point: employees at Spotify wanting to censor Joe Rogan. Whether or not you agree, you can objectively see how this would jeopardize a presumably 10-figure deal for Spotif…

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    Comment #24639183

    in a perfect world it would. but it doesn't.

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    Comment #24639167

    Libertarian.

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    Comment #23994810

    pair programming, for sure if done right, whiteboarding should be almost the same as pair programming -- an iterative dialogue

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    Comment #23983838

    100%. if properly trained, interviewers ask questions that build without throwing the kitchen sink at you. whiteboard interviews (when done holistically) assess for signal, not bin…

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    Comment #23903909

    the truth is probably more nuanced objectively considering information is further than most people ever get. most people are just out here trying to win arguments so let's assume y…

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    Ask HN: Let's talk gpt-3 hype. overblown or justified?

    I've counted between 3-5 GPT posts on the front page all today and yesterday Not to mention 74% of my twitter feed. Don't get me wrong, I was at peak hype. Top 10% of gpt-3 hypebea…

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    Comment #23886488

    my $0.02: it DOES seem similar to bitcoin in that - the technology is intrinsically interesting - there is a ton of hype - but it seems ultimately commercial viability of projects …

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    Comment #23829186

    Hey Jash, Curious: with your email list, do you send value-giving emails at regular intervals -- ergo a weekly digest Or is it more just for paid offers whenever you have one? Or b…

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    Comment #23777782

    May be a symptom of people sold on "blue ocean strategy" / "zero to one" narrative "just start a monopoly" the literature says... implying every venture that's not would surely be …

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    Comment #23777731

    many of our positions are emotionally-driven, and then backwards-rationalized reality: this is too complex for me rationalization: I didn't think there was market fit reality: It's…

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    Ask HN: I need your help: static vs. dynamic web content?

    Hey web devs, So I'm building a site-building service Basically a user's site like "robert.site.com" will resolve by using the subdomain "robert" as a parameter. Now I'm stuck betw…

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    Comment #23597493

    love the article, upvoted and saved. but the background was absolutely killing my eyes.

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    Comment #23590944

    to me, it feels overly optimistic in 2 ways. 1. it makes the assumption that failure is always positive self improvement dogma: "fail faster, you learn from each failure" peter thi…

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    Comment #23589277

    not op, but i think it's good enough to warrant reposts so new people can find it.

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    Comment #23581042

    I interpreted the "reader app" definition in their policy as: either - app value is content driven (netflix) OR - data-driven (bloomberg) OR - or physical (airbnb, amazon) in cases…

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    Comment #23581006

    this is a salient point, fixed rate would make much more sense

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    Comment #23580985

    what a difficult comment to read

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    Comment #23571288

    imo this is less clear-cut than people are making it out to be. I'm not saying I'm with Apple. In fact I hate platform fees. But if I have a game and say, "my game is subscription …

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    Comment #23569976

    for me it's hard to separate it from reading SICP, which as a self taught developer, I feel brought me to a different level of understanding concepts like immutability, the shortco…