paulddraper

Leans into AI adoption.

> almost only network effect due to

"Only" is a massive amount of lifting in that sentance.

Network effects are among the most durable/effect competitive qualities. And they have that network on both sides.

77% of the U.S. 3rd party food delivery is DoorDash + Instacart.

(Nearly all of the remaining amount is Uber Eats.)

So if not a monopoly, then at least a duopoly.

As a rule, two-sided marketplaces are very difficult to disrupt.

“Overwhelming.” Eich made a modest donation to a ballot initiative, which got majority support by California btw.

But in any case, your point is “it was damaging the company, therefore it makes sense to see them gone.” And there’s your parallel.

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In reality, whether corporate agnosticism is right depends almost exclusively on your feelings of the underlying cause.

Brendan Eich was fired from Mozilla for a $1k political donation.

Corporatist hellhole was your reaction to that too I imagine.

* Technically resigned, but there was significant pressure from Mozilla.

Yeah, there are some strange expectations going into this.

"This is what I would like AOT cache to mean."

Not anymore though.

(In fact, even a stiff fine, which is my point.)

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The idea of the internet is that you can reach it across the world, globally.

> just

> kubernetes

> Every house in the country used to get a giant paperback book every year

If you did that in Europe you'd get fined 4% of annual turnover.

Wild how much basic practices have changed in 2 decades.

The highly technical sites -- StackOverflow, Unix & Linux, MathOverflow -- see little use.

Others like SciFi & Fantasy and Worldbuilding have kept relevance.

Unfortunately, these more niche sites relied on StackOverflow to drive referral traffic, so the whole platform is declining.

> You can buy a very nice 32" monitor and better input devices for less than that.

As with many things, you pay for the atheistics.

I'm not sure of anything that fits the bill. Are you?

A small town would have less data.

So they’re busy.