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by _jal 4y ago
My use of Youtube is really limited to following links in, but they're getting obnoxious enough that I prefer a command line UI. youtube-dl www.youtube.com/whatever has yet to annoy me, aside from "adult" videos that req
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by _jal 4y ago
This is the result the "crypto community" asked for. They may not have wanted it, but they asked for it. A combination casino/money laundry/ponzi breeding ground also comes with intelligent crooks who are capable of runn
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by _jal 4y ago
More or less similar to my view of where he is, although I think I'm a bit less charitably inclined. Given his priors and the fact that he doesn't understand social media, free speech, moderation or advertising, the only question
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by _jal 4y ago
Really only criticizing a particular corner of SV investor culture. The old school, Sand Hill-style tradition of greed, pettiness, backbiting and double-crosses continues unchanged.
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"The lack of mathematically perfect guarantees in this life means nothing means anything."
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> continues to operate exactly as expected Yep: as a set of primitives on which to build sorting mechanisms for fools and money.
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> They also claim to use custom technology Can I get them with a protective undercoating and extended warranty?
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Ah, thanks for the correction.
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No. The $13B debt he saddled Twitter with did not exist during the due diligence phase, which he also waived. Word was prior to the takeover, their debt was on the order of $200M.
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This is a real-time history rewrite. "Once he got access to the company’s finances, the Tesla boss realized it was losing millions of dollars every day [...]" He knew it would be losing $millions/day because he forced the sit
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by _jal 4y ago
Contact tracing in the Covid context has worked horribly everywhere in the US, as far as I know, outside of more or less defined communities where penalties could attach. And even there is mostly failed when they didn't. Did I miss an
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How British spooks have verified video: http://hummingbirdclock.info/about "The UK national electrical grid delivers power across the country. This mains power supply makes a constant humming sound, yet there are tiny
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> Cool that the new free speech-haven twitter doesn't allow advertising extensions internally or cartoons See his recent complaint that advertisers are bailing after his Paul Pelosi bullshit. He at least asserts the belief that he&#
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> How does that affect other employment? You should tell your new employer what's going on - they'll almost certainly run a background check and see it. But absent some specific odd situation, they aren't going to care. &g
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3500*300000=1050000000 I have no idea what average salary was there, but it looks to me like the layoffs don't even cover that.
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I'm quite certain they're aware of the law. I also know Musk has violated it before. You seem to be implying that's irrational behavior, and therefore won't happen. I agree that it is irrational.
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> In that case, Musk sounds very much like every government, business, politician... If you mean that in the sense that everyone, no matter how powerful, needs to be subject to oversight, I agree with you. If instead you mean that in the
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by _jal 4y ago
> Pretending he is championing the little guy Are you just noticing this? Step two is whining endlessly and loudly. Step three he figures out a way to game government subsidies while whining about government.
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I think it is fair to say that left to its own devices (that is, pretend the last year of disruption and then this hadn't happened), Twitter could have become profitable enough to muddle on. Everyone knew they had too many employees, a
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Like owing $1B/year in interest?
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Security is an obvious use. In the normal case, you send a heartbeat once per (interval calibrated to threat model). Should be plenty of packets left to encode "send lawyers, guns and money" when necessary.
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by _jal 4y ago
I do the same personally, and used to with my fleet at work. But Ubuntu Advantage is unfortunately a snap, so if you need any of those features, you're stuck. And we do. And then engineers started installing snaps on their dev instance
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I wouldn't say "intrinsically better". I have no idea what the One True Distribution Format looks like. I'd say at this point OS-level packaging provides more options and integrates better with the wider software ecosys
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Why would a high performer put up with being treated like shit because the new guy regrets his stoned impulse buy? If I worked there, I'd walk.
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by _jal 4y ago
There's a generation of people who appear to treat docker images as a combined packaging/distribution mechanism. Instead of learning to create a .deb or .rpm, they write a dockerfile. I tend not to use that sort of thing, but not
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by _jal 4y ago
No, but I can establish context in about 10 seconds, and then it doesn't matter. And you won't remember what WhizzyBadBug refers to in 5 years, you'll have to look it up. It'll only take you 10 seconds or so.
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Only for major problems, and even then it seems iffy. I have trouble remembering which specific issue Meltdown actually refers to a couple years on. Personally, I'm totally fine with CVEs. (And if people to stop acting like QIDs are in
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Could be most any of this activity: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/06/on-nsa/
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We'll have to see. When it was "exclusive" and indicated some degree of notability, yeah, people who couldn't get it wanted it. Now it signifies you're willing to pay $250/year for a virtual hood ornament. A ni
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They'll have to come from the landed gentry. For those whose parents won't be paying the indenture, college has been priced to the point where ROI on the degree has to be the primary consideration for most of those going. And the

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