Woof. Nate. Not cool man. He ends the chapter with a 6-page sidebar, what he learned betting $1.8 million on the NBA. Notice the footnote below the graph? He paused the gambling when ABC announced it was laying off most of 538’s workers. He was gambling $10K per day while still running 538!

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There was a period where all of the criticism seemed to be working, they did actually make efforts and I think everyone let their guard down a bit. 2020 and the VC money spigot undid all that and then some. But remember them saying they might open source Windows, etc? arstechnica.com/information-...

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“There is a black hole at the heart of that company, and no minor gains that Windows claws back will ever make up for the inescapable gravity of Microsoft products getting shittier over time” Microsoft is like a vicious, corpulent prehistoric leviathan that can still thrash around and hurt people.

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“Microsoft as a company, minus many of the good gaming companies it bought and the employees at the margins allowed to make tiny useful pieces of software, is a rot plaguing the world” When hackers stopped talking like this the vibes got immeasurably worse.

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you can almost see the point where everyone lets down their guard a bit and then the infinite money spigot turns on after ~2020 and then it just goes crazy and they're like "ah, we don't need good will anymore, so long suckers".

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