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  • pay walled
    by xdavidliu
  • > He’s not the only one for whom fringe projects come with high expectations. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is snaking out in multiple directions too, to fund his long-term hope of colonising Mars. The difference is that Musk has done multiple things rather well, from making cars to launching rockets. Zuckerberg’s extracurricular record — think of the failed Metaverse — is less persuasive.

    How does this make Zuckerberg the king of the side quest, exactly? It sounds like all of his side quests are failures.

    by pavel_lishin
  • Exactly. If one panned out there would be no more.
    by karmakaze
  • https://archive.is/l7X2m

    More like he’s a loser, and if it weren’t for FB -which was literally funded by stealing his colleagues’ information and built on the same business model, only worse- no one would have known him.

    If you want it sharper, more formal, or more casual, I can adjust the tone.

    by tamimio
  • There are court documents/settlements/NDA-so-I-can't-talk-about-this (not me; I mean the people involved) so I'm sure one can find any number of things about ConnectU/houseSYSTEM (the latter being Aaron Greenspan/thinkcomp's project) - or others - however even aside from the Zuckerberg-hacked-Crimson-reporters-story (never refuted, I think) you can tell it's more than a he said she said story because of how he acts

    Revoking all his messages https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16770818 or copying Snapchat into every single one of his products when they declined the acquisition

    You don't 'use Facebook'. You use everybody's project because it for years has been a 'why not?' tacking on of features. Moving goalposts. Stealing prior art so nobody uses the prior art and instead uses his product (and network effects)

    by alex1138
  • No, that award will forever be bestowed to Snoop Dogg, at least in my book
    by xprnio
  • Why's this not the top comment?
    by merelydev
  • D-oh-double-G! No seeds, no stems, no sticks
    by sghiassy