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"Burning Man is funky like SouthBy" is probably the most damning condemnation of today's Burning Man I've read.

RIP

It's been over since 1997 when Black Rock City LLC was incorporated.

I wish there were an "upvote this x 1000" button right now. Well said.

"Weaponized selfishness"

A serious question which I hope people will truly consider and not just downvote me for asking....

What is the Venn overlap between web3 promoters and techno-libertarians?

In other words, is web3 first and foremost a political movement driven by political beliefs and values?

> if you would really remember how the old web worked or ever used Altavista or other early search-engines to look for stuff, you'd realise the web is a LOT more accessible today, with a lot more information available.

I would dispute this. At that time, search was not gamed the way it is now, you didn't have to wade through millions of terrible low quality SEO bs to find the nuggets you're looking for.

True. But let's be honest... this is neither the first such outage in US-east-1 nor the last. So I'd argue it's long past time for Amazon to pay the bill and go multi-region.

Because it's terrible and has always been terrible?

After 2017 I'll never use US-east-1 again. Hell... I should have learned that particular lesson in 2011 but it took two catastrophic failures for me to figure it out.

There are numerous threads here on HN covering the topic "why does US-east-1 suck so hard."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756082 is just one example.

It's funny but when I saw "AWS Outage" breaking, my first thought was "I bet it's US-east-1 again."

I know it's cheap but seriously... not worth it. Many of us have the scars to prove this.

I would say first and foremost... decide if you want a PA, or if you want an EA. They are different, require different skillsets, and should be managed differently.

That is simply not true.

The color in the image is misleading. They are very bright red. Honestly, I have no idea how this could have happened without at least two people simply not doing their job, at all.

Given that most people (even here) confuse and conflate "Strategy" and "strategic" it's no shock that people mistake metrics for Strategy.

I got the poly call 48 hours after getting notification of my clearance.

My boss told me, "just assume they know the answer to any question they ask and tell the truth, regardless of what it is."

We started working out of a coffee bar, using our pooled savings along with credit card debt (representing about 7 months runway). We were introduced to a great Angel investor by a former boss who gave us glowing recommendations. This Angel did the seed round along with a small syndicate they brought along with. We subleased a super crappy office in San Mateo. Our MVP was quite successful, and we decided to go out for our Series A (using intros from our lead investor). Over the course of 40 days we pitched pretty much every institutional VC in the Bay Area (and every single one passed on us). Just about when we were ready to give up, the very first VC we pitched called us and asked us to come back and re-pitch. They ended up leading the Series A, and our existing investors took the rest of the round.

Growing up poor and hungry tends to turn some people into hustlers. That's how it worked for me.

Then it was just "right place, right time."

First startup was acquired after Series A by a publicly traded company. Second startup was bootstrapped by the founding team of the first startup and was acquired by a publicly traded company. Third startup was acquired after the Series A by a competitor. Fourth startup was acquired after the Series B by a publicly traded company.

I had incredible co-founders and worked with some amazing teams. I only had one bad investor and was lucky enough to work with some incredible board members. But most of all, I had incredible timing and I embraced the grind.

I founded 4 startups after moving to SF with $600 (and without support from my family).

It's easy to make excuses for why you can't start a company and in fact there are a million great reasons why you should never do so. Starting a company is a terrible decision from a purely rational or financial perspective.

But don't act like it's not possible unless you're rich. That's just not true.

“We believe this technology has the potential to enable positive use cases in the future that maintain privacy, control, and transparency, and it’s an approach we’ll continue to explore as we consider how our future computing platforms and devices can best serve people’s needs"

Thank you. Yes... this is almost certainly happening because of the intersection of the Illinois settlement, the current microscope FB (no, I will not refer to them as M*a) finds themselves under, and the Consent Order that they have almost certainly violated dozens if not hundreds of times in the last few years. They've done the risk assessment, and they're reducing the risk profile in order to decrease potential liabilities and penalties.

From the article... "Facebook was considering new products targeted at children as young as six years old, according to a new document handed over to Congress by whistleblower Frances Haugen."

"Facebook was considering new products targeted at children as young as six years old, according to a new document handed over to Congress by whistleblower Frances Haugen."

"Everybody should keep this firmly in mind – this was not something that they've been thinking about for a long period of time," he said. "This is something they've put together in desperation to try to divert attention from the inevitable pushback that the whistleblower has caused by providing evidence of irresponsible management and potential felonies committed by Facebook in pursuit of profit."

Ouch baby.

Ahhh.... LambdaMOO! You're taking me back.

I'd say no. It doesn't include the spatial computing aspects. You can say it was a precursor to the metaverse, but by the earliest definitions (Snowcrash et al), the metaverse has to be a replacement for the reality around you which encompasses all your senses.

> I actually think in retrospect, those friendships were probably more important than the homework

That might be the saddest thing I've ever read, and perhaps the first time I've ever felt sympathy towards Mark Zuckerberg.

Exactly. You could assume that it's likely that something like 2.75B (out of the est 2.89B) FB users would happily wear (free) physical spyware in this scenario.

> How much would it cost to just send every one of them an Oculus headset for free?

That's the wrong question.

The right question is "how many FB users would accept a free headset that advertisers paid for in exchange for access to your data and exclusive rights to place ads in front of you?"

"Within one week, Smith’s feed was full of groups and pages that had violated Facebook’s own rules, including those against hate speech and disinformation."

“we are printing money in the basement, and we are fine.”

The fear of looking stupid is a profound motivator in many professions. If you want to understand why so many of the stories posted about people using this technique are of more senior folks or people with more authority (bosses, mentors, professors, etc), this is why. Being willing to potentially "look stupid" requires enormous self-confidence.