Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> News at 10. No. It's film at 11.
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> Small town businesses cant turn a profit and as such shouldnt be getting a loan. They are barely keeping the lights on. Most startups burn money and aren't turning a profit, so they shouldn't be getting loans and financing by
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Small town businesses cant turn a profit and as such shouldnt be getting a loan. They are barely keeping the lights on. Most startups can't and won't turn a profit, so they shouldn't be getting loans and financing by tha
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Every post about rural America on HN always ends up with at least one of these hostile "f-you, adopt my lifestyle" comments. They're unempathetic, parochial, boring, and certainly not clever.
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> In the print world, it would be like WaPo selling its advertisers on 100K copies circulated to ABC1's, but actually handing a quarter of the papers out for free on Skid Row. Not inconceivable. This past Thanksgiving I got the loc
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I didn't quote him. My comment was just a summary of the podcast synthesized with this post (since it coined a more compact term for the concept).
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Related: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/of-mice-and-men/ It's a podcast from the excellent 99% Invisible that talks about Douglas Engelbert's (of Mother of all Demos fame) vision for computing th
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That's never stopped anyone from taking offense if they want to.
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The problem with wireless is that it's like sharing a single cable with everyone else. Yes, there are a lot of innovations to make that workable, but you're never going to get the same bandwidth and reliability as a cabled system
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I'd guess countries with that kind of sensible regulation also can manage net neutrality regulations...
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> My recollection is that back when you needed a new computer every three years...is that there was a whole lot less vitriol then. Maybe I am misremembering; it has been a long time. Back then I think people saw a lot more noticeable, an
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One thought that I have it to refuse to use any neologism that substitutes for an already-existing word or phrase. The problem I have is that business BS has been going on for longer than I've been alive, so I don't have a good s
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Some "innovation" is a waste of resources. Specifically, the innovation required to work around broken policy.
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That's easy to say, but there's the well-known last mine problem. How many separate companies will be willing to run cabling to your home just to compete bitterly with an incumbent? And even if that may happen in your neighborho
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I think this needs more clarification. As far as I can tell, this post only states that these printers merely used the BSAFE library, which used a likely-backdoored PRNG. It's not news that something used a library, unless that thing
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> History has shown us that, at some point, a leaner, more innovative company will surpass Facebook. Facebook has learned the same lesson, and is explicitly trying to keep it from ever happening again. See https://www.nytimes.
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> Is the reason it hasn't caught on solely because the big ISPs are against the idea? While I like the idea, it seems like it would be hard to get the same consistent QOS as you do with a network built using fixed infrastructure.
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They were, but back then, that stuff seemed much more marginal, now it's seems front and center with even major players engaging in some bad behaviors.
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> Are there enough Chinese companies doing mapping related things for this to be relevant? The sanctions wouldn't have need to be in the exact same area, just ones that would cause equivalent pain.
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> but one billion people have drastically worse maps. This is something that the Chinese government demonstrably does not care about. They even mandate that an obfuscated coordinate system be used by GPS units and maps in China.
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tl;dr: their grant money dried up, and they've been limping along trying to find support. If you like them, it looks like they sell subscriptions here: http://shop.nautil.us/
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> Apple’s iMac Pro is a love letter to developers What BS. Isn't it literally an apology letter ? Apple: "Sorry we neglected and ignored you, but to make it up we didn't really listen to you, but got you a nice dinner of
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> That's crazy! I'd have cancelled and swapped ISPs after a week. Guess people didn't really care? Lucky you, having a no-contract plan and alternatives that don't have worse policies.
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I think you're misunderstanding the context. IIRC, this isn't a collection of all tweets, etc (though the Library of Congress is already doing that ), it's a curated collection of tweets, many important enough that some
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Tons of valuable books and records have been burnt because someone thought they weren't valuable or didn't have the money to house them. It's true, it's more likely they were just thrown on a trash heap and left to ro
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> As far as I know, mostly news sites used it to capture online opinion about a topic without having a big number of separate embedded tweets, Instagram posts, etc. So, will a lot of these stories break (unless a lot of effort is taken t
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
The GOP has been captured by corporate special interests and is also caught up in a mindless "repeal all the regulations" hysteria. This is total speculation, but I'm guessing that the rank-and-file of that party might have a
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> Spammers, etc. all want a cheap easy payday, that's the entire point (money for minimal time). I'm under the impression that spamming isn't as easy as it once was, and a fair amount of effort needs to be devoted to bypas
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> Because evidence has shown when you waste the time of people doing this, they move on. I'm not convinced of this. At best, shadow-banning wastes a little bit of their time and delays slightly their inevitable creation of a new ac
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> Machines writing code under human direction Plus, that human direction is essentially what programmers do now .

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