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by Cpoll 4y ago
This doesn't ring true to me. Reddit has clearly demonstrated a desire/mandate to monetize, even at the expense of its users. If they thought they had a viable Google competitor they wouldn't look that gift horse in the mouth
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> Microsoft has a long and storied history of claiming superior business acumen when it suits their narrative, and then incompetence when that does. Not to say that they don't play dirty, but this isn't actually a contradiction
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by Cpoll 4y ago
Terasic still sells them. The price is much worse than when MiSTer was taking off, but my gut feeling is the project's picked up enough inertia that it doesn't matter. See: https://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/p
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> invasive technique It wouldn't be so bad if it were a browser feature, i.e. a website can use an "Eye Tracking" API instead of the Camera API (with permission granted), and get limited data.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
Earlier the author talked about Slack, so I take that to mean "public channel" or some other in-company "public." Then "private" in this context may also be a description of a feature of the conversation, not n
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by Cpoll 4y ago
Well, what else do you do with it? Insects aren't pandas, there's no world where killing one will have an ecological effect.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> I emailed my MP I think that's your problem. You're more likely to have success if you send a letter. Bonus points if it's registered mail. More bonus points if it's hand-written. (Any staffers who can comment, btw?
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> What if someone proposes "we should rewrite X in Y language," Yes, if 50% of our development team is proficient in Y, X is a bottleneck or EOL, rewrite will solve significant problems. > we should use Z database instead. Y
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by Cpoll 4y ago
Mostly startups use GSuite, big traditional companies and banks still run their own. But that wasn't really my point. My point is that there are a lot of bots looking for low-hanging fruit.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
I have no evidence for this, but my feeling was always that the highest-volume exploits were just having a bot run yesterday's Day-0 on every IP listening on a port. You can't get that kind of volume by calling people and asking f
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> so obviously wrong that the terabytes of existing POSIX-compatible code is broken, or limited, or something? You could say the same thing about the terabytes of existing Javascript code, and most people will agree that Javascript has m
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by Cpoll 4y ago
The price at which the stock was purchased shouldn't really affect decisions about the portfolio, should it? As I understand it, from the perspective of a rational investor, inheriting a stock and not selling it is the same as inheriti
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by Cpoll 4y ago
Phishing _can_ be more or less "sophisticated" (obviously some of this is a semantic argument) attack, it depends on the details. For example, if you select a target and collect information in order to tailor the attack, or you us
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by Cpoll 4y ago
I don't have the science to back this up, but I think it's plausible, if we make some assumptions. It's basically 3.5lbs/month. - 2lbs/month is reasonable for beginner gains [citation needed, but sounds right to me]
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by Cpoll 4y ago
It's much older. Here's an HN thread from 2015 about this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8976451
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by Cpoll 4y ago
I can't think of a sentence that can't be rephrased to avoid "and" (usually resulting in something that sounds less elegant, admittedly). For lists, it's helpful but optional. Sometimes you can make do with "
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by Cpoll 4y ago
I can think of another reasonable reason, not that I agree with them delisting it: Reducing consumer confusion. You don't want people buying the wrong one by accident.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
I looked up why Costco has that policy, and their stated reason is to be a second factor checking that the cashier correctly counted all items. They say they don't want to overcharge customers, but it probably goes both ways. It'd
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> On April 1, a Navy EP-3 electronic spy plane, operated by the National Security Agency and on patrol along the Chinese coast, was forced to make an emergency landing on China's Hainan Island. After evacuating the crew, Chinese int
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> if you take the most well-meaning person, leave them holding a piece of trash, then deprive them of anywhere to dispose of it, where do you think it's going to go? Counterpoint: In Japan, I often had to haul my garbage quite a bit
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by Cpoll 4y ago
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation might be a better fit.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> all of the things this product wants to solved would be better served by removing cars from our cities. So... the product should pivot to that? Not disagreeing with the sentiment, but in most cities this doesn't seem like a pragma
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by Cpoll 4y ago
If so, better do it now, otherwise your next of kin will have to deal with it when you die and the website gets shut off.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
> "Dart Throwers at Work: Stories of Plushy Hunters' Early Days" is a play on "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance" It missed this one, it's likely Founders at Work. > "The Lean Plushy Hunter
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by Cpoll 4y ago
FYI N has some console and PC updated versions. One being N++ https://store.steampowered.com/app/230270/N_NPLUSPLUS/
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by Cpoll 4y ago
I agree. People: clean your moka pots! If you believe the patina improves your coffee, test your theory: Brew a batch with just water, and give it a taste.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
It's hard to evaluate what impact this will have without knowing how many Gumroad sellers are in the $100k+ tiers that are getting hit the hardest (essentially a +10% cut increase if I'm reading it correctly). I can't see &qu
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by Cpoll 4y ago
Why don't they put canopies over the stairs?
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by Cpoll 4y ago
I was thinking that too, but there's possibly a distinction between repairing a ship and buying a new ship and naming it after the old one.
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by Cpoll 4y ago
I won't debate that it's dangerous, I know motivated amateurs with serious road hours who have been in accidents. I know someone whose constant frustration is that he'll never get to his pre-accident performance. But I questi

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