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bilbopotter··on The Death of Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior
Exactly this. It's all we care then if it impacts your work - boom you're out.
bilbopotter··on The Death of Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior
Wait what are you kidding!? Drinking DURING the day was encouraged? So the famed company culture is to let everyone get drunk as long as they're all hitting targets? Recipe for disaster for anyone who stays a significant amount of time. It seems cool when you're young then after 10 years people start getting serious problems like alcoholic neuropathy. Very sad situation all round.
bilbopotter··on Tony Hsieh has died
Life is short. Rest in peace.
bilbopotter··on Should Remote Compensation Be Tied to Location?
Exactly. If companies tried to do this then people could just get a virtual address in an expensive city say New York and go and live somewhere cheap, say Guatemala. Also let's say out of 10 big software companies 8 offer same pay wherever you are, 2 location based. Which one are you gonna work for?
bilbopotter··on Y Combinator Failed Startups
"Sponsored by" didn't do it for you
bilbopotter··on Dark web market Empire down for days from DDoS attack
Actually admins ran off with the money in escrow
bilbopotter··on Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK
Also he's up to about 900k now the video referred to is old.
bilbopotter··on Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online
If it takes that length of explanation then you've got an issue. Also I won't remember that to tell a friend. Teachify on the hand is a gift
bilbopotter··on Launch HN: Epihub (YC S20) – Shopify for teaching online
Yep Epipens was where I went too
bilbopotter··on Loose project deadlines are driving my anxiety to the wall
Terrible management. All he has to do is tell then let me speak to the team and get back to you
bilbopotter··on Ask HN: Yelp has blocked 90% (n20) of our legit 5 star reviews. What do we do?
The dreaded algorithm. Sorry to hear this.
bilbopotter··on Free GPT-3 based content filter AI
I like this very neat. How did you build it?
bilbopotter··on Use of AI to select Superstars in sports
It was written by a machine
bilbopotter··on Use of AI to select Superstars in sports
Yes exactly this is not written by a human. It doesn't make sense.
bilbopotter··on Response to Google open letter
Google obviously. F2f
bilbopotter··on An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
+ the text isn't joined up.
bilbopotter··on Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack
Obviously what they did is wrong but the kid is 17. To me this is a prime example of where a short sentence or community service should be used. Don't ruin his life - he could be a useful employee for a tech company.
bilbopotter··on Show HN: Breathe – Peripheral Breath Trainer
If it works for you at forty I wouldn't worry. It's generally for people who get anxiety that they say slow the breath down. It's to do with things like cortisol release and heart rate. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

I assume you're able to do decent amounts of exercise and don't find yourself out of breath when doing regular things like going for a walk or going upstairs?

bilbopotter··on Yandex Image Search is better than Google with “fuzzy” images
Google image search is now terrible. Literally will just give you other examples of 'dogs'or 'man'
bilbopotter··on Ask HN: Would a marketing YouTube channel analyzing SaaS apps interest you?
Yeah anything that can help growth will be well received. I think the key is not just rehashing the well known stories- Dropbox etc
bilbopotter··on Show HN: Tired of reading NerdWallet to see the best credit card? I automated it
This is great! But how do you get away with giving general credit advice without a license!? Have you confirmed you don't need one as I'd be very surprised?
bilbopotter··on Ask HN: I am at a startup for 7 years. What's next for me?
Don't undersell yourself. You are leading the engineering team. To be clear management is not rocket science
bilbopotter··on Launch HN: Sidekick (YC S20) – A hardware device to connect remote teams
The key criticisms throughout the comments seem to fall into these quite legitimate categories:

1. Privacy concerns of an always on device in the home.

2. Removing the benefits of remote working such as flexibility.

3. Increased company/management control over employee actions and movement.

4. Overcharging for an existing device plus an app and calling it "new hardware".

Not sure why any of these are not valid criticisms. In fact it seems you are the one taking an extreme position simply because you don't like the criticisms.

bilbopotter··on The next German tech sensation struggles in a post-Wirecard world
$10m in revenue $1bn valuation - something very strange going on here.
bilbopotter··on Dark Web Price Index 2020
Online reputation is very easy to build. These people are scammers they're hardly going to worry about giving themselves good reviews. It's done all over amazon, trip advisor etc yet somehow the darkweb has a full proof online reputation system - don't make me laugh.
bilbopotter··on Dark Web Price Index 2020
Exactly the author didn't buy a single thing. Honeypot scams all the way.
bilbopotter··on Dark Web Price Index 2020
Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. This wired article explains how these offerings are all scams.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kill-list-dark-web-hitmen

bilbopotter··on Dark Web Price Index 2020
Let's say I decide to pay $800 for ddos attack. Provider pockets the $800 and doesn't carry out the attack. What's my recourse? Contact customer service? Nope. Contact the police? Hmm. You see the whole thing is a scam. There are plenty of articles online about it.
bilbopotter··on Soup.io Will Be Discontinued
I think they've confused 6m users with 6m sign ups. Very different things. 6m active users to 1.5k revenue doesn't compute on a site with ads.

The analytics for their site are 632.67K total visits in June. Interestingly 30% from Poland.

Those aren't the figures of a site with 6m active users.