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jollofricepeas • today at 6:47 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

“you have to accept that when your usage conflicts with their interests, you are at very high risk they will cut you out.”

I thought…

we learned this Facebook.

We learned this with Google.

We learned this with Apple and the App Store.

We learned this with Twitter.

We learned this with Heroku.

Unfortunately humans as a society dont learn from history.

They learn from personal lived experiences that have occurred only recently within their lifetimes. (Ie. Mass unemployment, death, famine and war)


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js8 • today at 7:08 AM

I thought we have learnt from Microsoft, and my father thought we learnt from IBM, my grandfather thought we learnt from AT&T, my grandgrandfather thought we learnt from Standard Oil..