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by SilasX 3y ago
Prediction: this will become a thread where lots of people will confidently handwave about how Spotify does "so much stuff" that "obviously" they need 8000 people, please jump on this bandwagon, but not provide any actua
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by SilasX 3y ago
Yeah and the stock plummeted in that time.
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by SilasX 3y ago
That sounds like a variant of the Chinese Room problem: if a non-Chinese speaker follows a rule book to text-chat in Chinese with someone on the other side, does s/he, in actuality, “speak Chinese”? https://en.m.wikipedia.or
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by SilasX 3y ago
This. I’ve long thought that you get better users when you filter out the people who both need the site to be pretty and are incapable of tweaking it on their end.
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by SilasX 3y ago
I’m not sure the comparison to SAT is a good one because, in that case, we know of particular “phase transition” regions in which most problems aren’t clearly satisfiable or unsatisfiable. (Specifically, when the ratio of clauses to varia
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by SilasX 3y ago
(Not the OP.) Nope, and I also didn't miss the torrent of HNers saying "what's the problem, you already trust them to provide the software, you should trust anything they want to send along with it."
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by SilasX 3y ago
>Perhaps Mozilla has figured out that you can't corner the market if you focus on nerds with privacy concerns; True, but "cornering the market" is such an outlandish goal at this point, they shouldn't be holding thems
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by SilasX 3y ago
>A single revenue source is incredibly risky and they're foolish if they aim to rely on search sponsorship revenue alone. Correct, but there’s a better way to reduce that dependence: - Stop bleeding money on bullshit unrelated to th
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by SilasX 3y ago
>What irks me about these comment threads is that people hold Mozilla to a standard that nobody holds Google to. Yes, because FF’s only advantage left is that they’ll actually respect your privacy and control of your machine. They have
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by SilasX 3y ago
Coincidentally, there was the recent TV show, Anatomy of a Scandal, about a fictional rape case where the defense tried to argue that “not now” wasn’t sufficient to withdraw consent for sex.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Breaks interoperability -- my addon (Vimium) can't detect clickable elements. Then again, half the internet does that now, so ...
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by SilasX 3y ago
Right, it would make more sense to have a plugin that makes your account automatically downvote any of those users' comments as you encounter them. Or even better, periodically pull up their latest comments and downvote them. Not advo
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by SilasX 3y ago
We're not talking about idiosyncratic special cases here, we're talking about the norm. That's why I provided a citation rather than building a case off of a particular individual's routine. From the link: "Black an
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by SilasX 3y ago
Yep. And anything that makes a website easier to use with a screenreader, also makes it easier to write addons that enhance the UI for everyone.
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by SilasX 3y ago
And if you served them to a guest, right after preparing for yourself, it will be before it’s cooled down enough to drink. That doesn’t make it your fault if they spill it on themselves and fuse their labia. And it doesn’t make the grossnes
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by SilasX 3y ago
Oh. Cool, I didn't think that reductio was going to be that easy!
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by SilasX 3y ago
Do you apply this standard to tea, which is generally prepared and served much hotter than 140 F (with the understanding that you wait until it cools down to drink)? https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/food-fea
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by SilasX 3y ago
Yes, and if you want to advance the argument that finance is too well-regulated for anyone to ever break that separation, no matter what the incentive, that would be a great contribution to the discussion! But that's not what the origi
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by SilasX 3y ago
The general point stands, that we can't just take their word that they're rigorously separated and not sharing info (a point the HN crowd seems to be missing right now).
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by SilasX 3y ago
You're confusing Alameda Capital and FTX. Alameda the hedge fund runs many different strategies, including crypto trading and quantitative high frequency strategies that are generally what people think of when looking at books like you
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by SilasX 3y ago
He wasn't wrong that it has "no wireless" and less space than a Nomad (whatever that is). He was absolutely wrong that it was therefore "lame" i.e. unable to deliver significant value in spite of these limitations.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Wow. I like this much better than Semantle, which seemed to be really bizarre about what was related.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Don’t forget the infamous remark from the Slashdot mod about the first iPod, “No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.” https://slashdot.org/story/21026
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by SilasX 3y ago
Step 5 seems like an uphill battle. I suspect it will be more like, gradual extension of the new standard to support advertiser-beloved features, to the point that the original upsides of the standard are broken, as users have to keep chas
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by SilasX 3y ago
(Replying in the context of Genesis/Gemini since that's what the parent comment was about, not FTX.) >I’m sorry for your loss but I’m really amazed you thought that 7% yield from savings at a time of 0% interest rates was anyth
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by SilasX 3y ago
Did the advisor counsel against expulsion of doctors per se, or against the expulsion of an ethnic group that made up most of the doctors, without mentioning this aspect about them? If the latter, I’ve been in a similar situation, though wi
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by SilasX 3y ago
Right, that’s just citing sources. Even if your source is only one book (the Cliff Notes model).
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by SilasX 3y ago
That was the business model of Joyable, except it charged more and had a human periodically sanity-check your progress on the exercises.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Whoa whoa whoa, I'm the first one to call out perverse incentives in government programs, but even I would assume that dentists had meaningful ethics codes and enforcement that would largely mitigate this kind of abuse. OTOH, if the &q
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by SilasX 3y ago
They removed the home button on iPhones, which was a net loss, since face recognition is much less reliable and easy to use than fingerprint, and requires a visually-disruptive bar overlay to indicate you need to swipe up.

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