gohrt

Product Development, Sales and Marketing, and General/Administrative

Is it long-term good to make a something no one wants to make well?

Remember what happened to Star Wars? Lucas pumped out a prequel trilogy that made a ton of short-term money, but then put a 15 year delay to wash away the filthy taste, before Disney took over and started self-perpetuation engine pumping out enjoyable and massively profitable movies

That's awful. So they train people to never ask for clarification or refresh if they misunderstand or forget, so instead they go on to make a far worse mistake acting on incorrect information.

> Doesn't Google do this? If you leak something to press, you're fired, then a company email goes out "Hey we canned dude for running his mouth..."

I've never heard of this happening. I've heard of people fired for taking photographs (or stealing prototypes!) of confidential products and handing them to journalists.

Open source is a red herring, as you say. Closed binary is the problem.

I need a way to verify that binary I am installing is the same as the binary that has been thoroughly vetted by security researches. In the modern mobile app ecosystem, on a major OS, running a major app, I can't carefully pick and choose which binary version to install. I get whatever the OS company's server pushes to me, and I can't downgrade to a known good version.

There's a difference between " shouting down contrarian or critical viewpoints when a discussion could be initiated" and "shouting down people who are rehashing tired old arguments that looks exactly the same as the arguments put forth by people who are already known to be operating in bad faith"

It curbs privacy and the ability to explore controversial ideas. As Facebook shows, there are more than plenty non-anonymous trolls.

It curbs privacy and the ability to explore controversial ideas.

The startup ecosystem is still majority vindictively anti-diversity? That's sad.

but those who have children also know (more than people without children) that having children didn't stop them from achieving their success

Obama has spent 8 years not caring about the 4th Amendment.

It's only a Twitter alternative if people I care about will read what I write, or I can read what people I care about write.

Until most of the publishers are dual-publishing (or migrated), or most of the readers are dual-reading (or migrating), it's not an alternative.

GAB is a niche Twitter alternative.

Jews have funerals (and 1-year anniversary gatherings: unveiling). and Shiva is very similar to a wake

Not everyone has read every 15 year-old article.