30 times as many likes as comments, are people upvoting this without reading or do people actually use the delay function?
It’s only 5x now. But also... it’s “big news” but I doubt people have all that much to say about it.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Corporate PR speak is a reflection of the American public's willingness to have corporations put their foot on their neck, and then play for the pleasure of it.
Incendiary statements don't add much to the conversation. You probably like buying groceries, you're typing on a computer and you presumably at least own clothes so you don't have a problem with all corporations. One would also assume you don't want a return to feudal society in which the goods generally available to you were those produced in a 2-mile radius.
Here come the "yet you participate in society...curious!" posters. Also, nice strawman
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#33If I read another piece of American corporate crap --- plastic, formulaic, always-be-selling --- I'm gonna throw up on my keyboard. The write-up is rife with stock phrases, and vapid emotionalism. Somewhere when the rest of us are busy there's a room somewhere where people get the cheat-sheet, fill-in-the-blank training that produces this junk. Look the guy probably had some success and met some great people. So why…
Corporate PR speak is a reflection of the American public's willingness to have corporations put their foot on their neck, and then play for the pleasure of it.
Corporate PR speak is a reflection of the American media's willingness to endlessly mock anything that is outside the accepted norm. PR speak is meaningless because saying something interesting isn't worth the potential blowback.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the article: > That’s why I’m moving on to my next adventure: to support, advise, and invest in the founders and developers who are creating the future with technology and tackling some of the biggest opportunities of our day.
Ergo, I have enough money to retire and play around?
Yes, the SV way of saying that he is retiring because he is obscenely rich.
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#35Reading this and similar other pieces, I wonder what is not at an inflection point?
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Corporate PR speak is a reflection of the American public's willingness to have corporations put their foot on their neck, and then play for the pleasure of it.
Corporate PR speak is a reflection of the American media's willingness to endlessly mock anything that is outside the accepted norm. PR speak is meaningless because saying something interesting isn't worth the potential blowback.
Yeah, any time an executive speaks plainly it blows up in their face
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Corporate PR speak is a reflection of the American public's willingness to have corporations put their foot on their neck, and then play for the pleasure of it.
Incendiary statements don't add much to the conversation. You probably like buying groceries, you're typing on a computer and you presumably at least own clothes so you don't have a problem with all corporations. One would also assume you don't want a return to feudal society in which the goods generally available to you were those produced in a 2-mile radius.
The computer point is fair, but for many growing your own food and making your own clothes is nearly impossible with some kind of corporation involvement.
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#38Good data. We have learned that if your company ever gets bought by Microsoft, you have to wait about three years to be fully vested. (The acquisition was in June 2018, but I guess it must have been finalized on November 3rd ;)
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Corporate PR speak is a reflection of the American public's willingness to have corporations put their foot on their neck, and then play for the pleasure of it.
Incendiary statements don't add much to the conversation. You probably like buying groceries, you're typing on a computer and you presumably at least own clothes so you don't have a problem with all corporations. One would also assume you don't want a return to feudal society in which the goods generally available to you were those produced in a 2-mile radius.
You might be reading the anti-corporate sentiment into that comment.
It seems more directed towards the public space of Twitter and Facebook where corporations have enough rope to hang themselves in the town square.
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#40If I read another piece of American corporate crap --- plastic, formulaic, always-be-selling --- I'm gonna throw up on my keyboard. The write-up is rife with stock phrases, and vapid emotionalism. Somewhere when the rest of us are busy there's a room somewhere where people get the cheat-sheet, fill-in-the-blank training that produces this junk. Look the guy probably had some success and met some great people. So why…
>I will become Chairman Emeritus, which fulfills my lifelong ambition of having a title in Latin. "plastic, formulaic, always-be-selling" Huh?
"..which fulfills my lifelong ambition of..."
OP is probably referring to this tired, cliched turn of phrase (among other examples in the blog).