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Thanks GDPR!
Thanks marketing people that decided to double down despite the clear distaste of the general public at their relentless tracking.
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The money at FAANG is really hard to beat on a risk adjusted basis (though that risk factor is increasing with the layoff spree). From a financial perspective it is much more probable to become a millionaire through a FAANG than a startup right now.
It is also much more probable to become a multi millionaire through a startup than a FAANG
Crush it at FAANG for a few years and don’t spend like crazy and you’ll be a multimillionaire.
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My company immediately sues anyone who leave to join a competitor, and even more viciously attacks I would assume if someone were to actually start a competing business.
So do Elon's companies: https://www.engadget.com/tesla-sues-engineer-dojo-trade-secr... https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-lawsuit-supercomputer-... https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/20/tesla-sues-former-employee... --- I think the key is that these startups aren't competing with SpaceX, but are rather SpaceX-adjacent. There is also a uniqueness to the industry that SpaceX operates in, in that everyone is basically t…
What is up with that site giving me three seperate popups warning me that the site uses cookies
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
I wish it was more like this at existing companies. Why everyone isn't leaving Adobe, Meta, and Google to found their own AI / generative media startups astounds me. If you work in our incredibly lucrative field, you may be able to afford a few quarters of leaning into risk. Startups are like a brush fire. Old incumbents have so much legacy code and cruft that nimble upstarts killing them is healthy . The "SpaceX dia…
As long as regulators won't do anything about that, the next startup challenging an incumbent is just poised to be bought("congratulation on your exit!") and killed. Figma is the latest example of this.
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Thanks marketing people that decided to double down despite the clear distaste of the general public at their relentless tracking.
Browsers like Firefox could hypothetically kill cookies in their browser tomorrow but doesn't. Or at least make a big stink about it. Do you think they should? Do you think we'd be better off as a society?
The distinction is legal, not technical; so it has to be enforced by legal, not technical means.
I wish it was more like this at existing companies. Why everyone isn't leaving Adobe, Meta, and Google to found their own AI / generative media startups astounds me. If you work in our incredibly lucrative field, you may be able to afford a few quarters of leaning into risk. Startups are like a brush fire. Old incumbents have so much legacy code and cruft that nimble upstarts killing them is healthy . The "SpaceX dia…
Googler here. If you work at a big tech company you can improve the products used by millions if not billions of people. I find that very rewarding.