The reporting on this study is conflating sentiment with plot structure, which misrepresents the study.
See for example, Frankenstein. The sentiment rises slightly during the Creature’s narration to Victor of his circumstances - likely the narration of the French family he was “living”/stowing away with - but that’s certainly not a “rise” in the sense Oedipus rises to noble status. It’s hard to interpret Frankenstein as anything other than the protagonist’s consistent and tragic downfall (riches to rags in this analysis).
Not sure if that’s fundamentally a problem trying to extrapolate plot beats from sentiment alone, or a bit of less than accurate journalism.
> Programmers will purposely subtly sabotage key utility functions, methods, or systems to prevent their bonus competitors
This seems like a potentially self-destructive way to accomplish this. Not sure what company he is referring to, but at all I have worked at, this would be filed as a bug report and a quick git blame tells you all you need to know. Over time, if your name keeps coming up in that commit log, you'll get a bad reputation and your code in particular will acquire a smell ("Oh Bob, wrote this code... better be careful here," etc.)
> “Enterprise applications should be able to be used over the public internet.”
Isn’t exposing your internal domains and systems outside VPN-gated access a risk? My understanding is this means internaltool.faang.com should now be publicly accessible.
Push for content-addressing over URLs. To be honest, I don’t know if this would hamper the development of the internet or be a good thing at all, but I would love to see what people would come up with and how it would change the web.
It’s pretty disingenuous to say that Thiel’s investments just happened to be “in the top 0.0001%” like he’s some 90s wunderkind. He bought non-public shares for $0.001 per share - a price that no one except a PayPal founder would have access to - years before PayPal went public and then watched it balloon after IPO and onwards. This is not the same thing as the average American making wise investments and to paint it like that is missing the point entirely. I certainly don’t agree that Thiel is “stealing” or being sinister here, but I also don’t see any other comments in this thread purporting he is. It seems the general consensus is this is just another “hack” of the system (purchasing shares of your own company before IPO with a triple tax benefit account) out of reach to 99% of people - which is true.