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While yes, these black boxes that are created with unknown methods and biases is worrisome, letting a CEO of a major company provide regulations to prevent competition in the space never seems to workout well.

Love how these big tech companies are using congress fears to basically let them define rules for anyone to compete with them.

I used to love chess as a teenager. Chess club and playing Battle Chess on my early computer.

I started picking it up now and the resources to find games are great with Chess.com and Lichess but have found myself trying to relearn the skills and reading after losing 100 straight games.

Oh boy. Can’t wait to see the gun “experts” chime in here with this type of article on Hacker News for something that states already passed.

They really haven’t had a run on the pyramid to deal with issues. Each broken exchange has been bought by the next bigger one. Most big crypto money has cashed and just holding so I feel they haven’t seen the bankrun to break them where funds need to redeem Tether for real currency.

Are there any metrics how much an average Spotify user generates for profit and where they turn as a loss?

With a fixed monthly fee, how much listening each month does it take before your customers are unprofitable for you similar to the Netflix problem.

Too much of anything ruins lives.

There are plenty of people who use moderate amounts of enjoyable things like alcohol, gambling, unhealthy foods, and drugs. There will always be outliers who can’t control their consumption and have lives ruined by it.

Fractional reserves exist in finance and are held in various assets that can be hedged and also redeemed. Based on the liabilities that FTX revealed like funding Alameda for their investments in un-hegable bets like “Donald Trump losing” is not normal where they could never get those funds back if there was a bank run.

You won’t get anymore interviews if you don’t sign it. Make sure to read it, but most are pretty standard and just cover if you are exposed to non-public information that you need to keep it quiet especially if they are public.

Tried it a few years ago with the concept of having a picture blurred and profile information required. As you messaged back and forth the pictures became unblurred gradually to spawn more conversations. Hinge kinda had a more conversation based concept and exploded so gave up the dev on it.

Wish Google would have something similar. AWS has been a huge help but there are a few services Google just kills it at.

Have mine set to not renew anymore. Their products have been falling apart too.

More delays and returns than ever, slow shipping, and if you ever need support, it has turned into a black hole where you can’t get anyone to help. Had a gift card they confirmed wasn’t activated and bought through them directly and has been a struggle to get any refund or answer.

Working in the industry, lots of companies rely on outsourced work through Business Process Outsourcers. Basically you are calling Target or another company and in their internal system probably run by Avaya or Cisco on ancient hardware and only can process limited inputs like DTMF/Touch and a tree format. When you transfer to a person, that agent works in a different region/office/company and on a different system. Since they transfer through a phone number, no data passes so they have no idea who you are and chances are have a different system that sees a limited set of information to handle your call.

Telephony is a cost center for most companies and the work to build clean experiences for callers is not a priority so a lot of companies have these broken systems and spending money maintenance to keep them running instead of understanding how a proper experience for someone helps their business and brand.

YCs startup school has a founder match section you can put what you want and looking for as well as filter out by hours willing to commit. There is a lot of people looking for developers but also a good chunk that has some off shore investment and MVP going and pretty exciting to see.

I always liked VOX for simple music playing. Even without premium seems actually usable without a ton of ads.

Was interviewing with a few startups in the Series A and B phases. They had come back and held all hiring.

Their time to zero is in the 2-3 year range but a lot of companies are dealing with a people issue to make sure staff is aware of the state and has confidence they aren’t going to get laid off.

Most seem to have held for 3-4 weeks. Will see at that point how many are paused indefinitely or are back to normal.

If a company is near the end of the runway, they maybe in damage control and would be concerning.