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ryanmerket
791karma·353submissions·May 31, 2008
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it's called astroturfing and has been around since the dawn of the internet
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Sure you can. You just need enough land and money to start basic things like a post office, city hall, courthouse, roads, and a way to get power to the whole thing. See Starbase, Texas
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Cool. I was actually just searching for something like this that was quick to get started. Do you support social url for data query?
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"The VCs didn't fund us for this, we pivoted. (shhh don't tell them)" - yikes
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Sure, but once this starts to materially affect FB's revenue, they have the war chest and the lawyers to keep this startup in court until it is exhausted.
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Man I love this, but this isn't a business. Facebook, Reddit, et al will almost certainly C&D you and eventually sue you for violating their policies. "Facebook does not have a specific …
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or maybe they have spent time with some really brilliant people and they know they are not brilliant, but they also know they are not as dumb as the person they are talking to? they don't have to…
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my whole life in a nutshell. except for when i worked at fb and reddit in the early days. and to some extent AWS in the early days.
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Really diggin this. Can't wait to try it out.
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It's really not hard to say "make it in my voice" especially if it's an LLM with extensive memory of your writing.
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Lions man + cordyceps combo
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Nice! I'll give it whirl. For those with terrible eyesight, do you offer accessibility options? EFNet for life!
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Bud, your LinkedIn of you and your wife say you are founders of a bootcamp.
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do you think maybe they could have kept it up if they didn't layoff 80% of their staff because of your modding? reddit is essentially google results at this point, don't act coy.
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Altman is an investor in OKLO. I'm expecting an announcement with companies like that where they can federal dollars to speed up R&D.
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i wrote a book about hacking and startups. to make it fun, i built a small crackme. if you solve it, you’ll get a coupon code for a free hardcover copy.
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July 9th? Wrong date or is this a month old?
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Unless you're a cell, this study isn't super relevant to you. * It does not show human harm, only cellular disruption. * It uses an unnatural exposure method. * It builds on epidemiological …
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my charity donations are capped with the IRS. But my cap gains (and losses) live forever.
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A few here: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/halle-tecco
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the blog post could have been a lot shorter: "I quit angel investing because I'm not very good at it."
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Massive congrats! Good to see the dream is still alive and well!
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Who knew the textbox for "text" just created a comment? I didn't. https://imgur.com/a/1DhXNyD - assumed it was like reddit.…
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"When I was a freshman in high school I stopped attending school regularly. I thought learning assembly and writing keygens were way more fun than geometry. I put the high school’s outbound numbe…
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Very cool. Thank you for creating this!