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Do you remember how bad things were before CloudFlare? You’d get attacked constantly if you ran a large website.

Im sorry but your epistemics are very wrong. Providing a free service with no strings attached to nearly every website in the world adds a ton of value, possibly more than Cloudflare’s market cap. And the fact that a free product can lead to profits, when other companies make the choice to pay more, does not remove that worldly contribution.

I can give you a quick and infallible test, but it has to be done live. How do I reach out?

I’m not saying social media is good for children.

I’m just saying that some companies might release more information if the reaction wasn’t always adversarial. It’s not just meta. There’s a constant demand for outrage against big companies.

You don’t like it when they release research, you don’t like it when research leaks, you don’t like it when research is suppressed. Hard for Meta to do anything right on this topic.

So what do you want to do about it? It can’t be stopped.

I’m always surprised by how many people on HN have a distaste of free markets. I’ve always associated tech with capitalism-positive vibes.

It’s not because it’s important. It’s because canvas will try to render react so it has to be in a specific format for it to work.

Capitalism is the relentless pursuit of efficiency. It will work out.

Bad place to build successful companies compared to America.

Are you bothered by the fact that software engineers might be easier to automate?

Are you unionized?

That’s fitting because hierarchies would not work if those 52% wanted to be managers.

It’s not about whether an argument can be made where becoming a for profit aligns with goals. The more general issue is whether one should be able to raise money with the pretext of a non-profit, pay no taxes, and later decide to take it all private.

In that case, why shouldn’t original funders be retroactively converted to investors and be given a large part of the ownership?

But it’s also not illegal to get fed up and go above and beyond to automate everyone.