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gtop3 commented on Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates   theverge.com/23758492/pri... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
iancmceachern · 3 years ago
Money. It takes hundreds of thousands to do so, you gotta borrow that. Then it takes 10 or 20 years to pay that back. Then to get your retirement paid for you sell it to a private equity company.
gtop3 · 3 years ago
Then the private equity fires your former employees. They borrow money to create their own clinic. They sell in their 60s to a private equity company.
gtop3 commented on Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates   theverge.com/23758492/pri... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
vecter · 3 years ago
That sounds bad for the customer, but how does that play out for the owners? Does this sort of behavior end up working out better for them financially? If so, despite how bad it sounds, it does seem like they end up with more efficient economics (assuming it's sustainable). If not, then surely the PE firms will suffer too right?
gtop3 · 3 years ago
Some thoughts on how this would playout:

* Reduced staff costs.

* Reduced potential peak. If you're at capacity during peak it might be worth the extra staff costs to capture the revenue.

* Reduced staffing flexibility. Things like vacations, parental leave, etc become tighter.

* Reduced customer satisfaction. I've stopped going to places when they lose my favorite staff member, and places a lot less consequential than a vet. This might translate to loss customers in the mid term, but you might not notice until their next vet visit in ~12 months. This might translate to bad yelp reviews.

* Presumably most of those vets let go are going to continue to be vets. It's a high skill job that pays well and people get into it for passion. That means your competition just gained access to a resource. Or maybe those vets become your new competition.

gtop3 commented on Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates   theverge.com/23758492/pri... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
tiffanyh · 3 years ago
My favorite title bump is “Head of X”.

Because rarely the person is ever the actual head.

gtop3 · 3 years ago
Declaring someone "head of X" is hedging your bet. If X goes well, then you had the foresight and leadership to expand X. If X fails, then you have a scapegoat picked out.
gtop3 commented on Who needs the Metaverse? Meet the people still living on Second Life   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/antiviral
jasonjamerson · 3 years ago
This is essentially Tim Sweeney's plan to evolve Fortnite into the metaverse.
gtop3 · 3 years ago
It's also the described metaverse evolution in Ready Player One, which is six years older than Fornite. It felt like an obvious and pre-existing idea when Ready Player One was published, so I wouldn't be surprised to hear about older incarnations.
gtop3 commented on Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California   theregister.com/2023/06/0... · Posted by u/belter
atyppo · 3 years ago
As someone who feels the same way, I’ve lost all hope for the US in this regard. SUV/truck sales have continued increasing with absolutely zero mainstream discussion about preventing pedestrian deaths. It’s legal to have push bars and tow hitches (thus inhibiting crumple zones) with no purpose other than “protecting” your vehicle at the expense of lives.

Even ostensibly pedestrian friendly cities don’t have sufficient political willpower to hand street space over to other modes of transit at anything resembling a fast enough rate. Everything needs to sit in a “pilot” for two years before action is taken.

gtop3 · 3 years ago
Excuse me, tow hitches are commonly used for practical purposes. I'm really interested in the case for making tow hitches illegal.
gtop3 commented on Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA   techcrunch.com/2023/06/09... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
wvenable · 3 years ago
Being profit-driven is a fine model for a business. However, it doesn't make business sense to alienate developers and users in service of that goal.

Reddit has always struck me as a company with no creativity. They have this huge diverse community and can't seem to find a way to monetize it in any way other than the most basic advertising model.

They always seem to do things in conflict with the community rather than in concert with them.

gtop3 · 3 years ago
> Reddit has always struck me as a company with no creativity

I thought reddit was really clever for the first ~7 years of operations. They replaced forums, fostered communities, gained a reputation as a place to get real people's takes, and attracted people willing to have interesting conversations. The upvote/downvote system that is now so common was made popular from reddit. They brought awareness to important political topics surrounding net neutrality. They were leaders in early Web2.0, where each user saw content that appealed to them, because everyone could choose which subreddits were in their homepage. It was highly social and highly engaging.

After a certain point in 201X the dark patterns began to appear. I was almost fully disengaged by the start of 2013. I can't remember the details, but I remember being increasing disappointed with reddit every time I returned for a brief visit.

gtop3 commented on Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone (2007)   marketwatch.com/story/app... · Posted by u/shadowtree
gtop3 · 3 years ago
> Now compare that effort and overlay the mobile handset business. This is not an emerging business. In fact it's gone so far that it's in the process of consolidation with probably two players dominating everything, Nokia Corp and Motorola

I've never seen someone be so right and so wrong at the same time.

gtop3 commented on Manjaro is a free and open source Linux operating system that emphasizes privacy   manjaro.org/... · Posted by u/doener
gtop3 · 3 years ago
This headline is misleading. It doesn't point to a blogpost or anything, just manjaro's website.

There's nothing about Manjaro that makes it significantly more free than the other top Linux distributions (as an aggregate).

There's nothing about Manjaro that makes it significantly more open source than the other top Linux distributions (as an aggregate).

There's nothing about Manjaro that makes it significantly more private than the other top Linux distributions (as an aggregate).

gtop3 commented on Manjaro is a free and open source Linux operating system that emphasizes privacy   manjaro.org/... · Posted by u/doener
constantcrying · 3 years ago
Installing Arch isn't hard if you have any kind of familiarity with Linux/Unix and you get far more flexible system by doing that.
gtop3 · 3 years ago
Establishing a full DE on Arch is just a bit easier than on Gentoo, which is just a bit easier than compiling everything with make files.

I've done all three. Arch isn't on the same level as Ubuntu, Fedora, or Manjaro on level of ease for instillation.

gtop3 commented on Manjaro is a free and open source Linux operating system that emphasizes privacy   manjaro.org/... · Posted by u/doener
fb03 · 3 years ago
I've been more and more disheartened with Ubuntu, but don't want to go away from the `.deb` ecosystem, as it's pretty good for work, dockerfiles, etc.

What are you guys using these days? Is Linux Mint any good?

gtop3 · 3 years ago
Why do you want to stay within the .deb ecosystem?

The difference between .deb and other common packages (rpm, pacman) are minimal. Almost all desktop distros will handle dockerfiles just as well as Ubuntu.

u/gtop3

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