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Yes, it's a huge sum. But why would you want to limit someone else's income? It's not a taxpayers money. It wasn't obtained by corrupting an official. It was a fair deal between two parties and a process won in a court.

Of course, the excessive complexity of the legal system is one of the reasons why lawyers get compensated so lavishly. But maybe that should be disturbing, rather than someone else's fairly earned income?

>Im not sure why citizens of representative democracies would want to inhibit political discussion.

There is nothing to inhibit. An open political discussion on the internet between the left and the right is no longer possible. That train has left the station.

That's a good point. Having skin in the game and perceived existential threats are the real differentiators between in-groups and out-groups. Unfortunately, it's not so simple:

1. Many people believe that their view of existential threats is universal. They can't believe that the other group may reasonably see other things as existential threats.

2. Party, this skepticism is justified. To make things more complicated, the social/media bubbles do influence people and can make them perceive certain things as threats, while they are actually not so important to them. Of course, nobody admits that their own views could have been heavily influenced by their own social/media bubble. But the other side is, of course, uneducated bigots, or brainwashed clowns, or something similar.

3. I've seen people from both sides who would project values of their tribe when they have no skin in the game, but once they do, their stance reverses to the opposite. A girl I used to know is a staunch leftist and always talks pro-immigration. However, when she had to rent out her apartment, she rejected all candidates who looked/sounded like an immigrant.

This will certainly give boost to the decentralization movement in general and to Mastodon in particular.

It's a turning point. For the 1st time ever the tech giants asserted that their power in the internet is bigger then the government. It was kinda obvious the last few years, but remained implicit. Today the implicit became explicit. I'm sure it will have a profound impact on American democracy in the long run. Interesting times, indeed.

Because Crimea isn't part of Russia for the US and much of the world.

That's true. I would include Shopify and Stripe in the shortlist.

I have no idea. I believe they will start realizing that click-based advertisement is an increasingly unsustainable and flawed revenue model and will look for a ways to start a significant portion of revenue from another source. Assuming that:

1) They don't have time to build it. 2) Since, they will need to buy it, it should be a business that already generates significant revenue, thus the biggest acquisition price tag 3) The longer they stick to click-based ad revenue the lower their chances to diversify and the higher the chance that someone else comes forward with a new revenue model that will irreversibly undermine Google's.

* Facebook will enter a downward spiral and start declining

* A security breach bigger than SolarWinds will be discovered and will severely affect market position of a major cloud provider

* Google will make its biggest acquisition ever

* Inequality, censorship, and polarization will continue to increase

>Most likely due to economic growth.

Growing inequality with near zero interest rates is a sign of wealth re-distribution, not economic growth.

Nirsoft's csvfileview is neat but pretty basic. For advanced filtering and multiple file loading check out my forever free CSViewer (https://csviewer.com).

WASM and WebView2 in .NET Core. It can be a breakthrough for cross-platform desktop applications.

>Why don't just send them a letter and block their debits on your account?

Bell Canada and other big Canadian corporations have direct access to credit report records. If not paid, they will spoil your credit report. A credit report is essential in Canada for things such as credit cards, mortgage, car loan, and sometimes even for renting an apartment or home. With a poor credit report score all this would become more expensive or even unavailable.

Customer service provided by large corporations in Canada is sometimes absurdly poor, but you can't do much about it because there are simply no reasonable alternatives.

>The U.S. National Security Agency issued a rare “cybersecurity advisory” Thursday detailing how certain Microsoft Azure cloud services may have been compromised by hackers

I believe there is common overestimation of security of cloud providers. Microsoft Azure was just breached and that's only what we know. There might be breaches at other cloud providers we're not aware of.

Centralization creates an exponentially growing incentive for bad actors. Decentralization has been given up too soon.

>If your company serves a smaller niche than the giants in the a16z analysis, you probably need top down sales much earlier in the growth journey.

Any suggestions regarding how much earlier?

@dang, I believe it has to be unflagged. Not many people know about it. Also, it's a link to Wikipedia. Flagging/banning links to Wikipedia is like burning books.

I don't disagree in general. Although, as a founder, I can tell that in practice providing first-class documentation is less trivial than it sounds. Not everybody has the Apple's or Google's money. Technical writers are not cheap. Also technical writers tend to have problems understanding how a system works, because they lack the knowledge of the system's internal logic. Therefore, developers should be involved in writing documentation too which makes it even more expensive and tedious process. Then software changes and documentation has to be partially rewritten again.

All in all, not every car is a Mercedes and not so many people can afford a Mercedes. Companies frequently don't provide best-in-class API documentation not because they are lazy (although it can happen too), but because it's always a trade-off: should the money be spent on improving documentation, or invested into new features. It's a matter of priorities and balancing between them. For some products API is the top priority, for some isn't.

>documented with awkward English

Sorry, not everybody on Earth has perfect English. The author has a point about APIs being UIs but remarks like that make me think his expectations are a bit too idealistic.

>We need a real, working FOSS search engine, complete with its own crawler.

How would an open-source search engine stand against abusive SEO-optimization? If anyone can understand how the ranking algorithm works then anyone can game it.

That's the problem with Twitter, you can't follow only a subset of tweets of a person that is related to a particular interest of that person. You only can follow everything the person tweets, likes, and retweets (albeit randomly filtered by Twitter's AI logic). Which makes it hard to exclude various nonsense from the feed.

I wish Twitter allowed people to tweet into different personal channels, and I could only subscribe to the personal channels I'm interested in.

Social networks badly need to evolve. What they are currently is quickly eroding the social fabrics.

>It's interesting that left leaning people are worried less about boys in general, but when it comes to their own sons, are more worried about boys.

Apparently, having "skin in the game" changes priorities. Or reveals them.

I suppose we're dealing with a new design trend here, multiple colors are supposed to mean inclusivity. Probably not so coincidentally, Facebook Messenger's icon also became multi-color.

I don't think the second digital divide will happen. At least not around no-code programming. We do a lot of no-code in enterprise (see my profile), and I can say for sure that non-technical Gen Xers and millennials are absolutely comfortable with no-code tools.

Taleb tweeted his response, mentioning also this HN topic: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1320433476345176066

To me your comment promotes edisonlf.com more than the article because after reading the article and before reading your comment I had no idea about edisonlf.com.

I would assume it should be the other way around because of different risk levels.

Doing old things better is relatively low-risk (because the thing already works) and therefore should be funded by debt, not equity.

Doing brand new things is high-risk (nobody did it before), so equity-based funding (maybe after a period of bootstrapping) for it would be more appropriate to the VC model.

In Toronto most new condos come with Ethernet ports in walls. Fiber to apartment is not exotic either. The board of the condo I lived in managed to get from Bell a CAD 25/mo (USD 19/mo) offer for 100Mbs internet for all tenants. Usually it's CAD 80/mo (USD 60/mo).

>I had 100/100 mbit connection, with unlimited data, for $15 USD/mo. Don’t remember having any issues. That was 5 years ago.

A year ago the price for a 100/100 connection in Kiev (Kyiv) was $8/mo. TV (over IP) with 40+ channels included. New condo. RJ45 right in the wall.

>A social platform that makes information more accessible to people is a threat to democracy?

It's not about accessibility. It's about amplification that's gone wrong with Facebook. Facebook amplifies click-baity and emotion-driven content that is usually highly misleading and biased. The growing dominance of misleading and biased content/opinions is a threat to democracy.

Very interesting. As I understand it, IBM consistently avoids high-competition low-margin markets and focuses on low-competition, high-margin markets.

This makes sense to me. Apparently, IBM is not good at high-competition/low-margin markets (and has never been), but they have been a huge R&D powerhouse for decades and probably remain so.

Now I think, the previous CEO should've done this split years ago.