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idop commented on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X nytimes.com/2025/07/09/te... · Posted by u/donohoe

Good for her. Got paid a ton of money to be the fall guy and no one ever believed anything that went wrong with the company was her fault. That's a clean getaway in my book. Hopefully she can move on to something that isn't building Nazi chat bots.

idop · 2 months ago

> to be the fall guy

People keep saying that, but what did she take the fall for?

idop commented on Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening seven39.com... · Posted by u/mklyons

jsfunfun · 6 months ago

i hate this idea. 3hrs a day? go live in a 3rd country and spin this as a benefit cool idea

idop · 6 months ago

> i hate this idea

lol

> 3rd country

lol

> benefit cool idea

lol

idop commented on Cybertrucks Are Deadlier Than Infamous Ford Pintos motherjones.com/politics/... · Posted by u/laurex

codingwagie · 7 months ago

People dont know it, but tesla model Y was best selling car in 2023. This company is so far ahead, despite the hate

idop · 7 months ago

How can we not know it? It's every second sentence out of every Tesla fanboy's keyboard. Thankfully, people wised up to the scam and it's no longer the case.

idop commented on DOGE Takeover of USDS Allows Them to Surveil the US Government from the Inside wired.com/story/doge-elon... · Posted by u/mmooss

thiht · 7 months ago

I'm of the opinion that articles relaying how the US government is sinking FAST into a dictatorship should not get flagged again and again.

But what do I know, maybe HN is just more pro-Trump than I imagine.

idop · 7 months ago

It's Musk, not Trump. Musk can do no wrong in the eyes of 20 year old programmers who believe a tablet on wheels is going to make them rich one day.

idop commented on Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience · Posted by u/blakeashleyjr

squigz · 8 months ago

It seems a bit shortsighted to think that CloudFlare only does this for 'shitty websites written by AIs'

idop · 8 months ago

I thought it was obvious I was being facetious.

idop commented on Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience · Posted by u/blakeashleyjr

idop · 8 months ago

Yes. I wrote about this on my blog six months ago [1].

CloudFlare has positioned itself as the doorman of the Internet, deciding who gets to visit shitty websites written by AIs and who doesn't. Every time I try to visit a website and get blocked by this company and its unnecessary services, I congratulate myself for avoiding yet another terrible website and move on with my life.

[1] https://ido50.net/content/what-chafes-my-groin-9.html

idop commented on Cybertruck's Many Recalls wired.com/story/cybertruc... · Posted by u/thm

martindbp · 9 months ago

In other news, my phone has a recall every month

idop · 9 months ago

Has your phone tried to kill you yet?

idop commented on Cybertruck's Many Recalls wired.com/story/cybertruc... · Posted by u/thm

comboy · 9 months ago

Why there is always so much fuss about labels? Across so many different domains. Cars needed OTA update to be driven safely. Why is it important whether we call it a recall or not?

I am not trying to make a point here. Clearly some people care about that. I'm legitimately curious why.

idop · 9 months ago

> Clearly some people care about that. I'm legitimately curious why.

Because it hurts the feelings of Tesla owners who not only own at least one Tesla vehicle, they also own at least one $TSLA share and they think it's some conspiracy to destroy their share value.

idop commented on VCs don't care if you're nice, they want founders who take risks businessinsider.com/start... · Posted by u/robg

ghufran_syed · a year ago

Do you have any data to support that claim? What proportion of a VC firm’s returns come from a later round’s investors if a firm never has a liquidity event? (IPO or acquisition) And if the firm fails before then, how does the vc firm get paid?

A ponzi scheme is a way of stealing from investors, but it only works if the perpetrator can actually take cash out - in vc, I’ve never heard of a vc firm being able to take cash “off the table” in a later financing round, other than what is meant to be the terminal event for a vc investment, IPO / acquisition.

idop · a year ago

It's called a "secondary"[1] and it's extremely common. It's how both investors and founders make millions on startups long before an acquisition or IPO, often before the startups are profitable.

As for my take on VCs in general, of course I don't have any actual data to support my rant, it's purely anecdotal based of my personal experiences and should be treated as such.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private-equity_secondary_mar...

idop commented on VCs don't care if you're nice, they want founders who take risks businessinsider.com/start... · Posted by u/robg

idop · a year ago

VCs want founders who are willing to play the game and can do it well: lying to (potential) customers, making insane promises, presenting fake demos as if they were real products and using fancy accounting tricks to make the business look profitable, when in fact it is bleeding their money, all so that they can easily find _other_ investors to bail them out. VCs have perfected legal Ponzi schemes.