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anon808 commented on A Former Tesla Staffer Became an Internet Millionaire in His Spare Time bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/pdog

komali2 · 8 years ago

You can hate both. I'm challenging your values. I'm saying they're misdirected.

I also don't like snake oil, but I don't blame agents for acting in a fit manner.

anon808 · 8 years ago

Sounds more like I'm challenging your values . . . how can you not blame agents (people) for acting to further something you don't like? Those people have a choice, and they're choosing to further something you don't like, how is it not logical to blame the people for making that choice?

What you're saying is what's usually said about animals, "don't blame the bear for eating you if it's hungry and you're there". Only difference is that animals are pure instinct, whereas people aren't.

anon808 commented on A Former Tesla Staffer Became an Internet Millionaire in His Spare Time bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/pdog

komali2 · 8 years ago

Because it's capitalism and that's how capitalism works.

I don't like capitalism but I like games, and this guy played the game very well. If we don't like the constraints/rules why are we blaming the people who followed those constraints when establishing their algorithms, especially when culture tells them to do so?

Basically, don't hate the player, hate the game.

(Also let's go ahead and get post scarcity asap please starting to get tired of capitalism)

anon808 · 8 years ago

"don't hate the player, hate the game."

Why can't I hate both? That's how values work, I don't value his methods, and I don't value the person that chooses the methods I don't value.

anon808 commented on Over time, leaders lose mental capacities theatlantic.com/magazine/... · Posted by u/prostoalex

d33 · 9 years ago

That's a really cool theory, but you're also stirring up the hornets' nest by bringing it up anywhere in tech environment, which got really feministic recently. BTW, one thing doesn't seem to stick: they don't label themselves as less powerful - in fact, their misandric agenda keeps trying to repeat the opposite.

I personally believe that the "mysterious creature" concept stems from women being more emotional and thus more difficult to analyse - we seem to have more scientific grounds for logic, whereas we still hadn't even agreed what an emotion is.

anon808 · 9 years ago

'I personally believe that the "mysterious creature" concept stems from women being more emotional'

Why do you think women (as a gender) are more emotional?

anon808 commented on Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down techcrunch.com/2015/06/11... · Posted by u/brandonlipman

austenallred · 11 years ago

>The line about 'no severance package' seems highly unusual and would lead me to assume that this was a forceful 'push' to step down.

It's rather normal for people to not get severance packages when they quit.

Costolo is remaining on the board, and got a ton of stock when he became CEO. Considering that he grew the company's valuation from $3 Billion to $23 Billion (7.6x for those doing the math), I can assure you he doesn't really need a severance package anyway.

anon808 · 11 years ago

and he's also getting a nice return on his angel investment in tellapart . . . which twitter acquired a month ago for $.5 Billion.

anon808 commented on Welcoming TellApart to Twitter blog.twitter.com/2015/acc... · Posted by u/gwintrob

anon808 · 11 years ago

Congrats to Dick Costolo for being an angel investor in TellApart. Nice win!

anon808 commented on Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn animalnewyork.com/2015/th... · Posted by u/jdi626

rglover · 11 years ago

Good question. Actually, I'd love to see what happens if someone takes the same exact concept but instead of Snowden or a political figure, they take the bust of Mickey Mouse.

Bonus points for a Vine of them covering it up while kids cry in the background.

anon808 · 11 years ago

Or how about an illegal bust of George Washington.

anon808 commented on Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn animalnewyork.com/2015/th... · Posted by u/jdi626

hullo · 11 years ago

If you'd done the same thing with a bust of your mother 10 years ago, they'd have covered it up as well. Try the same thing (with Snowden, or your mother) in France or China, and see what happens. Just because they parks department is doing their job doesn't mean democracy is ebbing.

anon808 · 11 years ago

Or maybe they would've removed it, and until they did left it uncovered. Neither of us know what they would've done.

Not sure what China or France doing things has to do with how we do things in the US.

anon808 commented on SeatGeek Raises $62M blogs.wsj.com/venturecapi... · Posted by u/barryhappy

mbesto · 11 years ago

> Ticketmaster was last sold for $400MM in 2009

It was not sold. It merged with LYV to be valued at 50% of a $2.5bil company. It's now a $5bil company.

anon808 · 11 years ago

(Reuters) - The world's largest concert promoter, Live Nation Inc, plans to buy Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc for about $400 million in stock, aiming to create a company with dominant holdings in concert promotion and ticket sales.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/02/10/us-ticketmaster-li...

2.5b enterprise value inlcuding debt. not 2.5b equity.

anon808 commented on SeatGeek Raises $62M blogs.wsj.com/venturecapi... · Posted by u/barryhappy

rdxm · 11 years ago

as someone who lived through/participated in phase one of the "ticket disruption" to include secondary markets, i'm skeptical this is relevant and really i think the vc dudes just flushed a bunch of money down the toilet. TM owns this market and frankly, the issue has nothing to do with tech, and everything to do with the way professional sports and concert marketing works from a biz perspective. then there's the whole regulatory issue.

wish them good luck, but this is one of those domains that just sucks...

anon808 · 11 years ago

seatgeek has an amazing ui, maybe the best ui for finding tickets. That alone is very valuable. The problem is that with this round total raised is $100M. VC's expect to double or triple their money, as par. That sets a simplified expected exit valuation of $300M for this to be a success. Ticketmaster was last sold for $400MM in 2009. The bar for success is now extremely high. Anything below the high expectations generally means that this fantastic product will be considered a failure and most likely sold for scrap. What a horrible situation, why create these artificial expectations?

anon808 commented on Tell Sam Altman: I will take your bet · Posted by u/mdlm

Disruptive_Dave · 11 years ago

What's the point of having money and (mini) fame if you can't toss it around and have some innocent fun with it every now and then? Only one life on this planet...

anon808 · 11 years ago

I think that's the problem, that this is considered fun. Some people also like to measure their dicks . . .