gabagoo's comments

On: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

[gabagoo]

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

On: My 90s TV: Browse 90s Television

[gabagoo]

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

[techer → gabagoo]

"In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time" Robert Anton Wilson

On: Patreon Raises $90M Series E at $1.2B Valuation

[gabagoo]

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

On: Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Facebook ads

[gabagoo]

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

On: Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus

[gabagoo]

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

On: The unintended consequences of working from home

[gabagoo]

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

[elygre → gabagoo]

The law of comparative advantage disagrees.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage

On: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

[gabagoo]

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

On: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

[gabagoo]

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

On: A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub

[gabagoo]

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.

On: Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Digital Group

[gabagoo]

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.