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by nullbio 23 days ago
Someone has to know.

Would be nice if an insider would drop some hints so that the open-source space could make some good progress.

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Nobody has to actually know the secret of their own success, especially not relative success to equally-secretive near-peers.

Same as with rich person autobiographies: even when they tell you what they think it is, they can't see the path not travelled.

> Same as with rich person autobiographies: even when they tell you what they think it is, they can't see the path not travelled.

Yup, there's a lot of survivorship bias in those. And humans want to attribute success to some skill somehow. You cannot just have been lucky.

I'm purely talking about the technology - not their business strategy. I actually think their business strategy is blatantly obvious and atrocious.