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Anyone else tired of all of these reddit stories? There's like 2-3 a day at the top of HN with minimal new information, pretty annoying

this is a well known fact that he trumpets all the time. founders getting out of touch with their products isn't anything new.

Interesting just how similar his reaction is to what Ballmer's was when asked about the iPhone. "We like our strategy," comments about how it's so expensive (in fact giving almost precisely the same comparison; $99 vs. $500 back then is quite close to the $500 vs. $3500 with VR!), and mentioning that they're selling "millions of phones per year" while Apple is selling zero.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U

It's sort of like the Chinese government vs. Chinese people. I can hate what the government does without any malice towards a Chinese person. Same thing going on here -- the content that is produced by Reddit users is still just as valuable even if the leadership are bozos. Nobody is claiming that Reddit content itself has somehow instantly gotten worse.

Reddit doesn't care if the niches leave, they don't drive $ anyway

I don't even think it's true. Mods are cheaply replaceable, it's just an expedient dependency right now but not a necessity for them.

> Popular

> 357 users / month

Reddit can pay mods, just like every other social network does. Not rocket science, and if they did it just for the top ones, wouldn't cost that much.

On the same order of magnitude, but not quite. Plus, the second figure is from four months ago.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/alphabet-google/cash-on-hand/....

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2023-02-...

> PM at google

> couldn't afford living in SF

Not even close to the top 50 https://www.myheen.com/reddit/most-followed-subreddits-world

I started using it in my native language. The second sentence I spoke, it detected the first part correctly, but the second part it wrote in Chinese. The app told me sorry, I don't speak Chinese.

same antisocial outcome but shittier subjective experience

it doesn't require it, the model could ask you for more specifics as follow up question. the fact that it doesn't and just assumes all this info for "better" is the problem.

They probably don't care about that long tail. While valuable to individual users, I'm sure their business is an 80-20 like any other. For monetization, they just need to make sure the default subreddits stay moderated. Which they can with hired guns if required. This is how every other social network works after all.

How does anyone have any claim to 'their share' of resources without any input? Just by being in existence, they deserve to consume natural resources / technology? I don't see how that makes sense.

> a fresh linux system with fresh wallet software connected to the internet only when you make the transaction

wow, what a practical way to be able to store and use money!

be careful with Zelle, if you send to the wrong person / get scammed, there's no way you're getting that money back. With Venmo / PayPal, you have a much better shot.

https://www.aura.com/learn/zelle-scams / https://assets-global.website-files.com/6082ee0e95eb6459d78f...

how is it a con if it's a useful contribution? it's not my job to filter bot accounts used for starring repos. if a PR improves my project I'll accept it.

this is valuing a humans time of filtering through good and not good changes at 0. Imagine if you had to receive all email and judge each individual one for spam / not spam.

i mean, in a sufficiently large organization, this is essentially unavoidable

300k/year is only 1/3 of the way towards being in the to top 1% for the Bay Area -- https://sf.curbed.com/2016/9/26/13062348/top-one-percent-bay...

>the average one percent household in the larger San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City region makes a whopping $3.5 million plus.

even if the CEO makes 10,000x more? if you annualize zucks net worth that's where he's sitting, and that ratio actually is pretty comparable to what it was during the lord/serf days.

sorry to hear about the overwork. 18 hours a day is likely a pretty big exaggeration, though (hopefully?) not purposeful. interesting graph for this -- https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/study-p...

as for working on a farm, I'd actually say that's making my point. we should be trying to automate this work away so that folks don't have to grind it out like it's the 1200s. probably not too stressful tho

route planning / fleet management i think is a huge optimization problem. perhaps you can cut it for MVP but it would require having a big multiple of drivers to provide the same service

another big deal is gps accuracy in cities, which is a pretty non trivial problem but at this point a consumer expectation https://www.uber.com/blog/rethinking-gps/

with those resources, you can give me the Uber app from 2010.

consumer expectations are much higher than 13 years ago and that's not going to cut it.

VCs aren't risking their own money. But yes, on the whole active investors must make less than passive ones if fees are included.

CEOs are hardly the only ones with health issues from their jobs. Hell Amazon specifically is so insanely bad about this that Bernie has basically been taking just about them in regards to an exploitive employer that leaves people disabled.

Maybe we shouldn't be normalizing unsustainable work that creates health problems for people, whether at the CEO or the regular worker level.

Unfortunately, knowledge decays over time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve

what's the problem with bare minimum? i get paid the bare minimum my company is willing to give me. it cuts both ways.

to claim "you can get much better than 7%" and then refuse to provide a single example is a fascinating approach to the conversation