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New comment by gabagoo in "Suez canal blocked by a massive ship"

gabagoo — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 23:53:42 +0000

experts have said a lot of things this year...

New comment by gabagoo in "My 90s TV: Browse 90s Television"

gabagoo — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 05:32:58 +0000

very insightful. the secret is that everything just gets worse every decade

New comment by gabagoo in "Patreon Raises $90M Series E at $1.2B Valuation"

gabagoo — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 05:44:01 +0000

Does this mean cum town is about to get a netflix show?

New comment by gabagoo in "Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Facebook ads"

gabagoo — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 22:18:31 +0000

markets are organisms, and nature knows nothing of 'morality'- everyone who tries to trade on righteousness vastly underperforms the market

Ask HN: Is UBI a valid solution to the current situation?

gabagoo — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:26:38 +0000

Given the current heated debates about inequality, healthcare, debt, unemployment and urban unrest, do you think UBI (let's say the common current refrain of a flat $2k/mo) would help or hurt the situation?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23418648

Points: 1

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New comment by gabagoo in "Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus"

gabagoo — Fri, 22 May 2020 05:32:03 +0000

Ironic that a company so eager to do this still does not have any legitimate customer support staff.

New comment by gabagoo in "The unintended consequences of working from home"

gabagoo — Fri, 22 May 2020 05:30:20 +0000

If someone can do your job better than you, they should have your job.

New comment by gabagoo in "Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?"

gabagoo — Sun, 17 May 2020 21:10:54 +0000

I was just going to ask if anyone knew of a modernized version of Stumbleupon. Thanks, had no idea this existed.

New comment by gabagoo in "Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?"

gabagoo — Sun, 17 May 2020 21:06:26 +0000

Longform.org is a good resource for longer reads, if you get paywalled just pass them through Instapaper first.

Also Arts And Letters Daily

Naked Capitalism daily linkdumps (morning + water cooler at 2pm) have plenty of auxiliary reading material in them

Slate Star Codex comment section is always popping off, some discussions are more interesting than others depending on what you're into

New comment by gabagoo in "A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub"

gabagoo — Sat, 16 May 2020 04:04:54 +0000

Why do these gig companies have to function like racketeers? I don't understand why everyone from Grubhub to Uber to Airbnb feels the need to "take a piece of the action" in the way they do. There are smarter profitability models, it's just so lazy.

New comment by gabagoo in "Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Digital Group"

gabagoo — Fri, 15 May 2020 17:14:45 +0000

The hard magazine was distributed for free at every American Apparel (and numerous other places) for a few years. When hipster retail consumerism was at its peak the advertisements and content in those magazines definitely had a cultural influence, albeit short lived.

New comment by gabagoo in "Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever"

gabagoo — Fri, 15 May 2020 17:06:28 +0000

Push past the initial hurdle, after 2-3 years when you completely break with reality you will dematerialize into a ball of light and become a God.

New comment by gabagoo in "Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M"

gabagoo — Fri, 15 May 2020 17:05:01 +0000

It's important to have hard data on how many people like The Office

New comment by gabagoo in "Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Digital Group"

gabagoo — Fri, 15 May 2020 17:02:51 +0000

Worked there back in the day, some companies truly were never meant to scale.