leroman

It depends

Whoever is looking to promote content to HN front page or affect opinions of it’s community..

Isn't there a bias built in due to products only launching if there was feasibility to begin with? The researchers had to believe this would be a viable direction as well as the industry.

Hope OP doesn't mind.. this is similar to the free sales battlecards generator we have here: https://cuetap.com/automagical-battlecard

Funny enough our post did not generate as much buzz here

my 2c..

When the economy is pushing you to compete for financial resources and the Neo-liberal narrative for market ethics is pushing the line of each person is responsible for his own actions, or in other words, if you found yourself in a scam that is your fault.. As a business, it's just a question of finding the most legal way to scam people to get more resources..

Cases in point - planned/perceived obsolescence..

doesn't help.. you can "turn" existing users..

The dog meme with the fire around saying “everything is fine”, is really needed here.

Id suggest this is what is fueling the political craziness across the globe, people lost faith in the system and politicians, instead of fixing the issue, use peoples anger to advance some agenda.

I propose to call this kind of attack LAPA ("Legal Analysis Paralysis Attack")

I know the CTO personally, and he still has "laser eyes" & HODL t-shirt in his FB profile..

If this works for ETH, I don't believe there's a real reason why this couldn't work for BTC **

** big asterisk here as I have spent no time trying to understand how they made it work for ETH and how/if this actually applies to BTC..

I suppose they made some money by running these cards.. They stand to get SOME of the initial investment back, unlike BTC ASICs, they are basically worthless outside of BTC mining..

Great!

Unlike BTC the miners can sell their gear so they are not down on their investment.. I imagine BTC miners putting up a good fight if this was on the table and they stand to lose all their asics

Working on a SaaS startup my self, realized marketing is very important, i recommend you read the book “the mom test” it will give you tools to speak with users and get to product market fit

I'm a long time Vegan, few month back I started tacking a multi-vitamin for no special reason.. I do blood tests from time to time and everything looks fine.. No deficiencies. Still, I notices I was getting less tired in specific situations.. I'm not sure what exact ingredient had this effect but hopefully the multi-vitamin is not causing any damage so I keep taking them.

Am I correct to understand that VCs get the same share of the pie, now, that the valuations are lower? So the valuation changes, the amount the VC puts in changed but not the % VCs get from the deal?

This seems that the founders get the short end of the stick, no?

It's unfortunate you see it this way..

Actually, I recommend you do the same. This has helped me to-

- find them more humain when I see these people in family gatherings and other life events

- find that we have some other ideological intersection (vegan, promoting donation to help animals etc..)

It's very easy to de-humanize someone on the internet, this has helped me to understand these are real people, and not "bots" who are paid to say things I find hard to believe anyone could believe in..

The other day I was arguing with anti-vaxer people I know on FB.. Upon checking their FB profiles (as I like to do to try to understand these people better) I saw they were also denying that there is actually a heat wave in Europe and it's actually all a big scam to keep us all scared, apparently it's the next thing for the media after they have used up Covid for this role..

This institutional disdain is all engulfing by this point, and unfortunately being used more and more by politicians and any party that is morally bankrupts enough and finds a way to exploit this.

Is there anything we (as in people who believe in science and still have some institutional belief) should be doing to help science/media/institutions get their shit together?

Like free speech, people abused communication channels, personal gain is OK but people quickly learned that this is done on their expense, be it their work's credit being stolen (or not fairly shared) or un-proportional recognition is being given for something.

As an example, I used to take part of many Hackathons, as a coder-hacker I loved the social aspect, the inventive work, the crunch mode, the competitiveness.. But some years ago, these events became a competition for some "big heads" judges wanting a "startup worthy business idea" which turned these hackathons into a competition of "PowerPoint engineers".. People would not write a single line of code (best case use some one-pager SaaS generator) and win events..

Anyway, this is part of a bigger culture issue, as a developer I came to look down on non-coder "suites" and their credit taking, "center stage" egos..

A while back I was sold on a subscription because I wanted to subscribe on some topics and get a nice digest in my mail every day or so..

But in actuality I started getting - some shitcoin promoters - some wfh scams - click baity topics without much substance..

So I cancelled (which unfortunately only happens some months later..)

Electric cars are coming. The power dynamics in the oil and energy world is changing..

Maybe adaptability needs to mean also a contracting economy? Who said overall profits in a world with more reliable components and less waste, is overall larger? (Say after the electrification transition is mostly said and done)

Anyway, economy as it is structured now cant handle automation, slowing / declining population, more responsible usage of natural resources etc..

Or otherwise how can it rely on keeping borrowing from the future and leveraging future gains, as the economy is structured right now?

The worst thing about DevOps engineers having Dev part of their title is that they started to believe they know better than the devs what needs to be done and how.

Oh you need a queue here.. Nah you don’t need Kafka..

The Author here is right.. first listen to your customer - the developer

Mining & exchanges are the base of Crypto business (as long as they don't lose their pants due to hacks or emblazonment.. as they sometimes do). So they will probably be the last ones to fall.. (if it comes to it..)

Javascript is also a very popular back-end language (Node JS)..

I believe the FBA program exists so that Amazon does not seem like a monopoly, as anybody can sell there.. And so, it would seem they have very little interest in policing it..

I personally got my money back many times when issues came up, so to them it’s probably along the lines of “let sellers do their things and be quick to refund if customers complain..”

is this tradeoff worth it? Hard to say..

If people are afraid for their jobs (or more generally about the economy) they are more likely to do what you say..

WFH.. criticism about Twitter.. all things better discussed when economy recovers.. how convenient..

Employees get what they need and give what they can..

But seriously, I always found it amusing that once you step into a corporate you can get food, drinks & other amnesties for free.. almost like it's a socialist society.. But when said employees step outside, they are the first in-line for the capitalist agenda..

I suppose that is my point, sayings such as "I haven't seen a single start-up failing due to tech" is not possible to defend..

> In 15 years of doing technical due diligence (200+ jobs) I have yet to come across a company where the tech was what eventually killed them.

Not my experience..

What does a “tech failure” look like? Do the servers catch fire? Is the web site down? Maybe people are unable to login to their stations?

Hi-tech business is “Tech”, so the failure of the business is in fact the tech failing. More specifically, the business was unable to direct the tech to solve real problems and solve them well enough.. New hires took too long to onboard.. Engineers were only superficially productive.. Communication between the stake holders and engineers was lacking.. etc.. etc..

Take note that in all scenarios above “work” is being done, “progress” is being made.. ceremonies are everywhere and success is seemingly around the corner.. Or is it?

It’s just very hard to see these issues, they are hidden under layers of meetings, firings, hiring, pivots, milestones with little progress in actual business value.

Maybe each of us reading into this with our own bias, we’re seeing ourselves and what makes us stuck, there is no single answer that applies to everyone