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by Yhippa 4y ago
> what exogenous factors would stop this process The only thing I can think of is violent revolution but with the way things are going, the wealthy elite will have a monopoly on violence too.
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by Yhippa 4y ago
> It's the obvious outcome of letting a too-powerful monopoly run amok. I feel like as soon as a legitimately better search engine popped up, I would start using it. But there hasn't yet for me. Are there regulatory or other mo
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by Yhippa 4y ago
I go through the front page and right click open new tab the link to the comments section for all the stories that seem interesting. Then I go through each tab, see if the comments are interesting, and only then do I click on the article.
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Mathematical theorem used to crack US Government encryption algorithm(phys.org)
3 points by Yhippa 4y ago|1 comments
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by Yhippa 4y ago
You are correct, he did mention (a) as his intent in buying Twitter. Makes me think that he acquired Twitter for the users and wants to introduce those super-app features ASAP.
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by Yhippa 4y ago
The reason that's valuable IMO is that once you get into the Real World, you are going to run into these complex social situations and need to be able to navigate them with grace. Especially in the business world.
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by Yhippa 4y ago
To be completely honest, what he describes seems to be what I've run into at nearly every stop I've been at as a consultant. I honestly never thought of it as hell, but I've also never been in a much better, tech tooling-frie
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by Yhippa 4y ago
This is interesting. It sounds like Facebook is potentially looking under the couches, so-to-speak, for spare change by doing this. I also wonder if other comms apps are going to be doing this too?
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by Yhippa 4y ago
I took a graduate-level cryptography class years ago. The material was advanced for me, so I had to do serious catch-up on the maths that underlie the basics. The main concepts too, to be honest. I looked at many resources online but the Kh
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by Yhippa 4y ago
If I hired someone and they made the value of the company go down 73% in one year, I would probably fire them.
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by Yhippa 4y ago
Is he doing this to prop up his stock price for himself?
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by Yhippa 4y ago
They do have to be concerned about where the money is going to come from to pay their mortgages when severance runs out. They got laid off into an environment where layoffs at companies they might have worked at before are reducing headcoun
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by Yhippa 4y ago
I want to hear both. "The macro environment is bad, and we never baked that into any of our forecasts, which we should have. I take full responsibility for not doing that."
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by Yhippa 4y ago
Inefficient allocation of capital doesn't sound like a good thing to me.
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by Yhippa 4y ago
Think about it this way. If I, for example, did a series of activities that led to 13% of my division's business being impacted adversely, I'm almost assuredly getting fired. When you go higher up the food chain, the same thing ha
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by Yhippa 4y ago
> when I was interviewing developers I would give specifically vague requirements I did this for a while and realized that it typically panicked the people we were interviewing, especially if they were on the junior/mid side of thin
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by Yhippa 4y ago
I don't want a holiday party, extraneous dinners, random gifts, or any kind of thing where the employer thinks "yeah, that will make them happy or improve morale". I just want the money. Take all that money and redistribute i
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by Yhippa 4y ago
Interestingly, Musk wants to turn Twitter into WeChat for the West. It'll be interesting to see if he can pull it off and eat Facebook's lunch while they're distracted.
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I miss those days. The books weren't perfect but I feel like enough quality was put into a lot of them because it was hard to errata a print run. Of course there is a lot more information out there for free nowadays but it's harde
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by Yhippa 4y ago
Why can't modern low-code tools be this good?
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by Yhippa 4y ago
> 5. The only good Powerpoint slide is evergreen. If it's not, it's already obsolete. What does this mean? That it sticks to high-level, timeless concepts?
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by Yhippa 4y ago
This is one of the finest comments I've ever read on HN.
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by Yhippa 4y ago
This is very far down the list of things for me to be outraged about.
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by Yhippa 4y ago
I'd be willing to pay for news from organizations like the AP or Reuters. Trad newspapers like NYT/WSJ seem to just cater to their bases. Cable companies are more entertainment and are beholden to their advertisers. I felt things
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by Yhippa 4y ago
> When the USA starts issuing it's own crypto they might solve this problem by requiring KYC to get the coins, but then of course you loose the anonymity aspect. In my mind the advantage for a US Government-backed crypto is the viol
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by Yhippa 4y ago
Google Notebook was the last notebook tool that I adored. I've tried so many tools and systems since then and I end up reverting back to plain text files.
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> How can good content be monetized in a way that allows it to remain independent and not succumb to warping its content to feed that monetization? How can it be audience driven instead? Is such a thing even possible? Right now good mone
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by Yhippa 4y ago
I wish they'd refund my Stadia Pro monthly subscription fees.
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I should have known when they cancelled the Pixelbook that this was next.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time I believe the old Sega Dreamcast used this as its standard time in the menu system. Maybe that was for the online service. I would love to move to something like tha

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