Cornbilly

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by Cornbilly 3y ago
This just reads as the typical HN veneration of arrogance.
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by Cornbilly 3y ago
I just find all of this hilarious. On one hand, we have a bunch of goofs that want to use AI as some arbiter of truth and get mad that it won't spit out "facts" about such-and-such race being inferior. On the other, we have a
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by Cornbilly 3y ago
Going to take your idea and take a step further. Random Cannibal Corpse lyrics in my email signature. Can't wait to be blameless for the lyrics for Necropedophile showing up in an email to the CEO.
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by Cornbilly 3y ago
That’s a neat feature. Sometimes I struggle with using professional language (hard to shake my rural blue-collar background) and this would help me a lot.
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by Cornbilly 3y ago
Sometimes it seems like “techbro” or “startup” culture is just a series of personality cults.
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by Cornbilly 3y ago
I agree -Dresses like a slob -Went to MIT -Is from the Valley -Has ties to Stanford -Upper class background Their VC brains didn’t stand a chance of sniffing this out.
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by Cornbilly 3y ago
Thankfully, that would require changing the constitution, something that is probably impossible in his lifetime.
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by Cornbilly 3y ago
They may be referring to the version of Dark Alliance that was released a couple of years ago. It was pretty much a dud.
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by Cornbilly 3y ago
That would be a better comparison (with bundling a game and DLC into single binary) if Netflix insisted that you keep those files on disk past your subscription period. If they did that, yes. But since they don't, no.
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by Cornbilly 3y ago
Yes. You've already distributed the binary to their machine and are using their resources to store it. In my view, it belongs to them and they should have full access.
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by Cornbilly 3y ago
Yeah, ESG data is kinda crap at the moment. At least in the US, there isn't enough regulation to force companies to provide the data needed for an accurate ESG score. The scoring agencies are essentially just guesstimating based on wha
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by Cornbilly 3y ago
Tech workers (with their inflated view of their own intelligence) are almost always hilarious. It's half the reason I keep coming back to HN. If they spent the same amount of time doing research as they do on concocting inane conspirac
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by Cornbilly 3y ago
Fierce nerds don't see the need to properly configure certificates.
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by Cornbilly 3y ago
If I remember correctly, it was an issue with the code and not being able to detect/prevent fraudulent transactions. I’ll have to go through the book(s) and check out the explanation again.
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Eich backed Prop 8 (the gay marriage ban) in California.
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by Cornbilly 3y ago
>Identifying inefficiencies in an existing technical solution I'm not sure that's true considering why he was (or the public story of why he was) pushed out of PayPal. IIRC: He forced a port/rewrite of their platform to Wi