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Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round by alaskamiller on Thursday May 26, 2016 @03:54PM (#11780956)
In a world at the cusp of robots driving cars and trucks, robots cooking your food, where eggs can be made from plants, the internet coverage will reach 100% saturation, where basic income is being trialed, and that saudi arabia is investing two trillion dollars of their assets...

Does it really matter to you that someone got billions of dollars so that 100 million people every single day gets an hour at least of entertainment intermixed with native advertising that snapchat charges $100k a day for?

Does the world really need you, personally, to worry and save them from this?

Does the world really need you, personally, to wander around a museum and remarking on how much a Picasso or Hirst is really worth?

Your ego makes you blind. Your cynicism makes you jaded. Go build something and don't stop until your work is being considered as such.

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Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round by vonklaus on Thursday May 26, 2016 @04:02PM (#11781026)
idk what about my comment seems disingenuous, i was actually really interested in this in case i missed some huge cool trend. i am interested in products and technology for their own sake. i would love to help the world pisitively, but i am sure it is not depending on me. i was just curious for a different perspective as i am contrarian to some extent, so i was asking for an unhoulds boundless guess at what snapchat could be to add more information to my appraisal of the situation.

> go build something.

i mean, i am. but again, i was just legit curious what i was missing. no need to be a dick about it.

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> Brilliant and great insights building on what’s happening now and been happening in the tech industry. Interacting with someone/something that doesn’t judge me opens up a new dimension of conversations. It might normalize honesty in society.

Quote I found interesting.

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