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> there's not exactly a US market enthusiastic for "cool" Chinese military propaganda films either.

Hero debuted as #1 in the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_(2002_film)

> However, the outlet said, Vietnam and the Philippines aren't negligible markets, where a Hollywood hit "can earn anywhere from $5 million to over $10 million in each country."

I'm wondering if the firms already calculated that appeasing China brings in more than $10 million.

And where are they now ?

Actually, Runescape one of the most successful MMOs ever was a Java applet. Java is much more effective at complex object-oriented modeling and an MMO is a canonical example of where OOP not only shines but is necessary. Before ES6, there were half a dozen styles of approximating classes in JavaScript, the main one being with closure-returning-functions. Even utilizing these clever tricks to make JavaScript a decent language, the runtime would not have been powerful enough to run a game like Runescape. For a very long time, JavaScript was primitive in even managing media. Flash allowed Youtube to bridge the gap of playing videos in the browser. JavaScript-based web apps to stream music didn't become prominent until the 2010s, a decade and half after JavaScript was invented. Yahoo music, the prominent web-based music player in the 2000s, used a Flash plugin. So Indeed, Flash and Java did some solve a lot of problems that JavaScript did not. JavaScript won out because it was browser-native and now WebAssembly is gaining traction because JavaScript is still not that great. TypeScript is solid, but that took years of development and Microsoft resources to launch.

> I always figured pay was based on market condition for finding employees, not a companies specific profit.

It has parallels to this Doordash delivery person who expected their tip to be based on the price of the customer's house rather than the price of the order.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doordash-driver-curses-...

> Brendan Eich implemented the first prototype for JavaScript in 10 days

And thousands of developer years have been wasted smoothing over pre ES6 JavaScript warts.

> this sounds like a joke… “with no bathtubs”

Maybe from an American POV. This is an article by NHK by a Japanese reporter and likely a spin of a similar story for a Japanese audience. In Japanese culture, being able to bath is up there with being able to eat.

Are people just upvoting based solely on the title, or do people have accounts with this blogging platform? It’s my first time visiting and I’m hit with a paywall

Why does Google and Facebook cost $0 USD per month?

We’ve addressed this before. It’s the Fermi equation

So basically what they did to all their neighboring countries for decades before Hiroshima

Interesting how they pivoted from an app[1] to a market maker. Those are completely different problem spaces in traditional asset classes.

[1] https://www.producthunt.com/products/chainsage

The keyword you just mentioned is dock.

Startups tautological focus on product and do the bare minimum on compliance that they can get away with.

> The app gains nothing by being in google proper.

Or Google gets sued and pays fines that exceed the value of the company. As evidenced in this thread, Google is increasingly losing goodwill and trust from tech people. This product that has good content but seemingly haphazardly rolled out isn't helping.

Maybe the solution is for Google to stop acquiring companies unless they have a streamlined pathway to integration and an environment which those companies thrive.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Sure, developing countries don't have the infrastructure to recycle. The point of criticism here is reduce.

Datapoint: I'm vietnamese and think the use of plastic is unnecessary. It doesn't take much education to understand that plastic is bad, especially when the government has no hesititation to govern people's thought.

> the government controls what the people think (case in point, the helmet "law")

This was a just a cash grab.

I agree in the general case for more complex apps. Firebase for example.

In this case, it seems the content is the real value rather than the app itself. Meaning, the app doesn't have too many roots that can't be uplifted. The main pieces I see are:

  - registering as 1st party app ( a couple months with redtape )
  - used a standard database ( shouldn't use more than a year )
  - used standard auth ( should take less than a year )
  - getting an approved domain name and real estate ( technically it's not a big of a change. it could be political, which brings me back to my original commentary)

In the worst case, it would take 2-3 years even at Google pace to rewrite the app. It's been 7 years.

Google must comply with all sorts of regulations and compliance.

You get a lot out of the box if you used standard tooling. For example, privacy, GDPR and data retention compliance if you used standardized libraries. You also have dedicated teams who can streamline issues. It's the equivalent of registering your company in Delaware.

Technically speaking, this is a 3rd party app. Evidence is the "sign in with Google" saying the app is owned by Qwiklabs.

It took a bit of dig but they were acquired by Google. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/qwiklabs. Strange that they haven't fully assimilated their stack / org into Google / GCP proper.

Edit: seems like they were acquired in 2016. On the one hand, it seems unacceptable that this team is going rogue and autonomous in 2023. Disclaimer: I worked at Google acquiree and worked on projects to integrate into Google proper. On the other hand, they must be frustrated with all the redtape of GCP. Disclaimer: I worked on GCP and also worked with the docs org there. The GCP docs org was the most toxic, incompetent and difficult people to work with during my time at Google. It would not surprise me if they were gatekeeping and blocking on this initiative. They ignored user feedback, and also shutdown any feedback from GCP developers and people who actually used and understood the product.

In that case, if houses are so correlated to the swings of the job market, maybe they aren’t such good investments after all.

If houses in hot markets truly had economic / inherent value, for example the quality of life improvement / job opportunities, then that can’t really be lost.

I was locked out PayPal and funds this week. I’ve been outside the country for over year, so my Google Fi access got cut off. I migrated my number from Google Fi to Google Voice, then discovered that PayPal won’t allow Google Voice numbers. Unfortunately, that phone number migration can’t be reversed. I spent hours on the phone with PayPal customer support but they said they can’t override the automated system. They also said they don’t have an escalation path to corporate. I am very skeptical about the current state of PayPal corporate and employees, and whether anyone even has ownership about these systems anymore. Venmo is an equal state of dire.

You’re conflating floating point numbers with decimals.

> 100 million copies combined and three feature films whose box-office receipts approach $1 billion, everybody not living under a proverbial rock has heard of Lara Croft.

Meh, that’s only a small percentage of the world population. There’s a lot of first world Western bias here.

> it cuts the major drawdowns by 50% and saves a lot of money, pain and anxiety!

You can also cut major drawdowns by 100% by staying in cash. What matters is the risk:reward and sharpe.

> but with approximately one portfolio change per year,

Even Vanguard and Berkshire Hathaway is not this passive. You probably don't need to be applying to accelerators if you've devised such a powerful financial instrument.

> you will have access to the internal investment fund reserved for employees/family (similar to the Renaissance Technologies Medallion Fund)

That's a very bold comparison when you intend on applying to YC, where you are receiving $125k for 7%.

In addition to the other comments, this has so many red flags and dodgy. There's so many typos I'm wondering if this is an intentional Nigerian prince email. This is also not the thread for finding a co-founder, unless you intend on paying that co-founder a salary.

> The backend is fully build and been tested for many years, but the front end/website is new and in a very early version

Are you actually and legally a SEC-registered ETF? What kind of "backend" are you talking about? An excel spreadsheet?

How do you reconcile the low management cost structures of ETF when you intend on taking VC money?

Do employees get a slice of that equity?

What asset class are you trading?

Say what you will about BDFL development, but if the alternatives was so great, Unix and Go wouldn't have remained the de facto implementations.

> are there places that index a bit more on "aesthetic taste?"

Startups, especially the ones that have well designed products since that shows the founding team understands. I remember the early days of Yelp having all these "delightful" experiences such as showing a rocket when you scrolled the page. Corporations like Google are too risk averse and Easter Eggs like that have a lot of red-tape.

Also, this pullback in the labor market is probably a good thing for people who are passionate, as it will hopefully prune alot of the competition who have stellar resumes, but only on paper, that was just there for money.

Apple is great. Heck, even Microsoft. There is this defunct blog about industrial design called Minimally Minimal and the person who wrote that got hired to design the Xbox One. That reflects that Microsoft's talent acquisition team has some sense. Meanwhile, Google gets all philosophical and grandiose about the Material "design system". At the end of the day, it doesn't look good and boring. Netflix was good in the beginning, but I also observed they started hiring those Career Designers and it's been mediocre since. Google's Hardware design was pretty original before, but that was only because those people came from HTC. The new Google hardware is the equivalent of Material. Nowadays, the flat and minimalist design isn't an enlightment but just lazy and unimaginative.