Spivak

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by Spivak 1y ago
Not at all the same caliber but one of the Dispatch editors left to go make The Clintonville Spotlight and other local neighborhood papers if you want some actually local news.
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by Spivak 1y ago
where do you live where transportation is "rapidly" turning into private multi-person transportation? because i don't think i can name a single city i've been in where cars are noticeably diminishing to any degree.
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by Spivak 1y ago
You and me both. On some level I'm happy that governments push back so hard because it makes protests "work" but it seems like it would be way more effective for a government to simply ignore the protesters. It would be the u
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean you're not wrong. Tether is effectively operating as a weird kind of bank and is susceptible to the same failure modes if people go on a bank run. You just don't get to run to the FDIC if it happens. USDT does have some nic
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by Spivak 1y ago
Beautiful, I yearn for a Google Search that has to make a good product from the perspective of the people searching instead of pumping their advertising arm. Even Google's response to the ruling talks about advertisers instead of users
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by Spivak 1y ago
But your so called "no-code" system runs on code. Checkmate atheists. There becomes a point where being mad that the specific flavor of PaaS termed serverless achtually has severs is just finding a thing to be mad at.
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by Spivak 1y ago
I think ultimately you're trying to tell a river that it's going the wrong way. Programs have had required options for decades at this point. I think they can make sense as alternatives to heterogeneously typed positional argument
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by Spivak 1y ago
I think the stronger point of what you're saying is if you can set yourself to avoid addiction—you have a time limited dose, you have no means of acquiring more—then opiate painkillers are the safest option in terms of potential damage
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by Spivak 1y ago
I feel like there must be some shame/stigma among leadership types to say that your decisions aren't "data driven" even though we've all experienced that most decisions are based on some executive's intuition.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Facebook but for product discovery would be amazing. Their algorithm is scary good, let me sit in the driver's seat when I'm shopping around and I'll have no complaints. It's the "every surface your eyes will ever t
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by Spivak 1y ago
It feels like companies aren't being petty enough when it comes to governments mucking in their operations. "You're right, we don't want to appear to be participating in favoritism, our policy going forward will be to bl
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by Spivak 1y ago
Looking around for sources from before the world ended I can find quite a few reputable studies that show the correlation. The effect size is small ~0.4% in absolute risk but statistically detectable. Like okay, sure. Doctors already tell p
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by Spivak 1y ago
Which is what? Lots of this admin's actions have made sense once you know the underlying agenda—thanks project 2025 for spelling a lot of it out—but this one has me baffled. Taking on the woke… tylenol industry?
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by Spivak 1y ago
Well yeah but that's all literary devices and stories would be more realistic but also worse without them. Authors are telegraphing you information constantly over the course of any work. It's what makes twists satisfying rather t
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by Spivak 1y ago
There's just one problem with your model. There's no royalty difference between a Spotify subscriber playing one song vs 1000 songs if it's just % of subscriber's listening time. Someone who gets more plays by absolute n
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by Spivak 1y ago
Thank you, jesus. Finally someone who understands the dynamics involved here. If you want to build up / protect your domestic industry then there are way to do that, but methods which don't involve also snapping goods sold well be
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by Spivak 1y ago
Arc I think graduated from wrapper status, it was a really interesting and unique browser while it lasted.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Yes, what do you think snitching is? There's an automated security company called tattletale. That's what they do. The fact that there's so many social norms about not snitching is a beautiful illustration of how disconnected
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by Spivak 1y ago
You could organize an economy around labor-as-value, at least in terms of how workers are paid and goods are priced, but you have to be extremely diligent that you're directing work towards useful endeavors. You can't escape that
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by Spivak 1y ago
I agree, this seems more complicated than just defining your template in JS. You have to use JS to interact with them anyway and it's basically a mapping between some well-known strings and a factory to create a DOM node except less fl
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by Spivak 1y ago
The parent is pointing out that the labor theory of value is nonsense. How much something is worth is totally unrelated to how hard or how long someone worked on it.
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean the first line of the article. > A murder investigation has been launched at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada after a man was found "lying in a pool of blood" on Saturday night, police say. I have no id
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by Spivak 1y ago
We can't on-shore manufacturing because labor is expensive and automation is a pipedream. But also China and India are automating their manufacturing?
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean in this specific case we're not talking about AWS or any other large company. We're talking about someone wanting to offer Bear.app hosting in the vein of managed Wordpress. This is good for Open Source. Having multiple c
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by Spivak 1y ago
Why the scare quotes, the first freedom of both Open Source and Free Software is the right to run the software for any purpose . It's not some little unimportant detail. It's arguably the most important property of Open Source.
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by Spivak 1y ago
For tv and movies you're basically hoping they had a DVD release. All the options options to "buy" are essentially one time fees to stream it on various services or when you get a download it will have HDCP drm on it. I can u
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by Spivak 1y ago
Well you can't run your own OS on iPhone hardware without jailbreaking but that's beside the point. You don't own your Xbox not because you can't run Playstation games on it but because the manufacturer put a digital loc
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by Spivak 1y ago
The problem is that "work smart not hard" for software devs is counterintuitive because using your brain is the hard work. Einstein works too hard and creates code that's hard to reason about, Most doesn't work hard enou
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by Spivak 1y ago
I want to know where you have found a workplace staffed entirely by androids. What you're advocating for would fall apart the moment it had contact with humans. It's why diplomacy is both necessary and difficult. It seems it is a
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean the dream for these deployments is that a bank of humans that can handle the ordering for every store but if that worked you could just do that right now. An autonomous system that can handle easy orders is just a nice bonus.

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