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m463yesterday at 7:43 PM1 replyview on HN

I agree.

For a normal person, when your day is pop-ups, cookie dialogs, dark patterns, auto-opt-in, <100-pages-of-legalese> + "Accept", subscriptions, smartphone-only ordering and customer service and endless-monetization...

...why use weaker words?

of course, if you're working or starting a tech company, you cannot use strong words. You might alienate your many funding sources.


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therobots927yesterday at 9:16 PM

You’re better off bootstrapping a startup anyway.

Once you take VC money you might as well work in big tech. You’ll still be beholden to morons. I have no interest in making more friends in Silicon Valley than I already have.