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by Traster 4y ago
>If Bitcoin’s ecosystem collapses, funds can’t be returned to holders because its price going to zero means there’s nothing to recover. To be more precise, if Bitcoin's price goes to zero, there's no reward for mining so the bl
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by Traster 4y ago
What on earth is this from a business perspective? Take a social media company that's more successful than twitter and start producing commodity consumer electronics. Yeah, fuck scale, screw network effects, let's get into that
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by Traster 4y ago
>Most companies don’t do this because of the mountain of complexities with taxes, payroll, and time zone availability, but I hope we can open-source a solution so other companies can offer this flexibility as well. I had a little chortle
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by Traster 4y ago
I think an important thing to point out in the comparison to Walmart is that Facebook have actively said to the market "We don't think this revenue stream is going to last, and we're going to plough billions into a completely
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by Traster 4y ago
Honestly, the best guidance is just "put more than 2 seconds effort into your commits". No one really believes "More code" is a good commit message, it's just laziness. So yeah, put a little effort in, it's lit
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by Traster 4y ago
"People" don't buy office. Corporations buy office, and Google docs doesn't get you anywhere near 99% of the way towards what corporations need from Office. There are entire workflows built around janky plugins to explor
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by Traster 4y ago
Go on then, what do you estimate the complexity of the algorithm to be. Because I'm going to ball park it and say to fully understand the algorithm behind twitter's feed, you probably need to open source twitter's entire prod
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by Traster 4y ago
I'm not talking about whether it's accountable or not, I'm saying that to actually share the algorithm you're basically saying that you're going to open source Twitter's entire code base. Oh and when you do t
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by Traster 4y ago
Ok, so once users discover 1990s leetspeak what happens then? Better mind than yours have chosen to solve this problem, they work at facebook and twitter and it's been a disaster! Twitter has been impotent, and facebook have been a p
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by Traster 4y ago
I don't think that's right, her tweet was saying "This is the standard you set, where are you ". She's not endorsing it, she's saying you* endorse this standard, you defend it.
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by Traster 4y ago
The average person on twitter isn't a software engineer. They won't know what python is. They don't know what an algorithm is. So let's be clear about what the baseline is here. There's no point talking to them abou
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by Traster 4y ago
At the time of posting, Will Norris (the open source lead at twitter, admin of their github account presumably) posted this. It has 44 retweets, 193 likes, 17 quote tweets, on github it has 1.6k stars. That seems... bizarre to me?
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by Traster 4y ago
The only change is that people with resource would stop guessing how to game the system, and start employing people to ensure they systematically game the system.
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by Traster 4y ago
It's so difficult as someone who works in technology to tolerate this idea that there is "an algorithm". Maybe this will get flagged on HN but the overwhelming feeling is to just scream "don't be such a fucking idio
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by Traster 4y ago
You’re arguing about a 12 year trend from 1 years data
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by Traster 4y ago
I read that tweet as "People on this platform say that Twitter shouldn't remove hateful content because of the first amendment, but here's people literally breaking first amendment and you all seem to be quiet". She&#x
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by Traster 4y ago
Ok so he doesn't have to manage it himself, he could employ a team. Great, so how much is Stephen going to be paying to this team to moderate the content of his 12.4 million followers? A dozen people? A hundred maybe? It sounds like an
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by Traster 4y ago
That's not a 180. To show a 180 you need to show Ellen Pao also saying that “it’s a private company, they can do what they want”. I don't think that was ever Ellen Pao's position. What you've done is taken two groups o
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by Traster 4y ago
Why on earth would Stephen Fry want to spend his time operating and moderating a social media site?
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by Traster 4y ago
To claim asylum in the UK you must be physically present in the UK. Which means that functionally, there are no "proper channels" through which the vast majority of these asylum seekers could apply they have to cross the UK border
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by Traster 4y ago
The real story here is that over the last 12 years of UK government, austerity policies have cut back all public services to the point where they don't actually exist. Criminal Barristers are currently on strike because the legal aid s
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by Traster 4y ago
The valuation for Twitter seems to be basically fair, so it wouldn't be surprising to see this deal eventually close. I think it's fair to say most people's view was that the biggest barrier to closing the deal was Musk actu
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by Traster 4y ago
It's also just a very strange stance to take, since if you listen to most people working in start ups in technology their pitch is almost always expressly political. Whether it's the libertarian principles of some developing the
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by Traster 4y ago
The ridiculous thing is that with these prices, I physically struggle to board a train if I get on on a Tuesday, but I'll get a set with a spare seat to put my backpack on if I get on a train on Friday. Yet it's an identical time
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by Traster 4y ago
It's not only that, Jeff Zucker, who ran CNN was forced out in February, so the big executive sponsor of this project disappeared. That's quite likely to have had a big impact too.
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by Traster 4y ago
Commuting is very expensive, and obvious it's going to be a shock after we've been working from home for the last couple of years but there's one thing that really pushes things over the top for me. I live in a suburb outside
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by Traster 4y ago
I'm not sure what in that article you're arguing he got wrong. He seems to suggest a number of options for CNN, he dismisses the paywall option, and mentions consolidation - which is basically what has happened with WB Disco. The
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by Traster 4y ago
It's a strictly good deal for everyone except Musk. The price of the new shares are 50% of the price of the current shares and the dilution is 85% (not 100%) . So keeping everything else equal, if before the acquisition there were 100
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by Traster 4y ago
I could be wrong about this, but you, as a third party should be indifferent to holding it vs cash. J&J shouldn't - if they owned this it would change the cost structure of selling the product. Let's say they buy it, they&#x27
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by Traster 4y ago
I don't think your interpreting the sentence correctly, I think it's more correct to read it as: > We don't [only] need [the formal discipline of mathematics known as] statistics to learn about the world. Sure, there are t

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