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by akrymski 4y ago
Archive.today is exceptional at bypassing paywalls (any idea how?) This doesn't seem to work on Bloomberg articles for example.
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MicroStrategy whistleblower offers up fascinating details about Michael Saylor(fortune.com)
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What's your LinkedIn profile? I don't get any offers on mine.
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All of these are CRUD apps. Can we not standardize a universal interface for such apps? Something like Norton Commander for the web? I can imagine using the same UI to browse HN/Twitter/GitHub ...
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by akrymski 4y ago
In the UK it's £10 to register a company online in minutes. Direct debit instructions require nothing beyond a name and account number.
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Crypto’s Real Value Was Never $3T(bloomberg.com)
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1. It's easy to setup a company 2. There's no validation that the direct debit is being setup by the account owner
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by akrymski 4y ago
A gun to ones head is one universal way to drain any bank account or bitcoin wallet. AFAIK none of the banks will reverse this activity, since technically you've authorised this transaction.
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by akrymski 4y ago
Trademarks are incredibly easy and cheap to get. Spammers already pay for domains and servers. Adding the cost of a trademark doesn't make things much more difficult I'm afraid. Also which country's trademark office would b
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by akrymski 4y ago
Funnily enough the web would have looked better if we'd stick to pay-per-minute phone lines as a business model.
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Ask HN: REST or SDKs?
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Ask HN: Native mobile app or web app?
2 points by akrymski 4y ago|1 comments
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by akrymski 4y ago
I do the same, but search really sucks. I miss Delicious, and tag based org.
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by akrymski 4y ago
I use Google for this. It's really annoyingly good at finding previously visited pages.
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1. I'm interested in the economics of this vs helicopters. Why would someone buy one? Is it cheaper? Faster? More energy efficient per mile? 2. Hydrogen fuel cells drive an electric motor, no combustion needed. Battery weight seems t
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by akrymski 4y ago
Leveraged unhedged trading, especially when done by unprofessional investors, leads to financial ruin sooner or later.
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MicroStrategy risks margin call on BTC(bloomberg.com)
2 points by akrymski 4y ago|1 comments
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A scam or a true reflection of UK's economy?
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American sweet shops on Oxford Street under investigation over alleged tax scam(standard.co.uk)
6 points by akrymski 4y ago|3 comments
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1. We already have VTOLs - helicopters. How do the economics of this compares to helicopters? 2. Surely hydrogen is a better fuel source for VTOL?
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UK Exports Billions of Litres of Petrol to US Despite Local Record Pump Prices(bloomberg.com)
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This will finally make me seriously consider moving back to iPhones. I'm simply not willing to give up being able to charge my Android phone, M1 laptop, headphones, vape, shaver, oculus, etc with the same cable. I travel with 1 cable
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by akrymski 4y ago
I don't recall owning a computer that was too slow to run Photoshop. 4k video editing - I admit is a valid use case, not something I've ever had to do. But I doubt most people buying these are video editors.
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by akrymski 4y ago
Someone please explain to me why I need so much power. Can't even run ML on these. More browser tabs? I miss my 100Mhz IBM PC with 16 MBs of RAM & Visual Studio.
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by akrymski 4y ago
You are right, to be precise it was 1997 and I believe my 100 Mhz IBM PC was the 340 model which actually has 16 MBs of RAM. Running Windows 95/98, Visual Studio, 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, Cubase, etc. Point still stands, you don&#x27
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by akrymski 4y ago
Last time I used Eclipse, it took 8GBs of RAM. Have things changed?
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by akrymski 4y ago
Amazon is now a collection of businesses, including: - AWS - Amazon Ads - FBA - Marketplace This is in order of profitability. It seems that Amazon doesn't care much about the Marketplace itself.
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It's hard to imagine that 20 years ago Delphi and Visual Basic had far superior IDEs and debugging experience running on my 100 MHz IBM PC with 512MB of RAM. I'm not sure where the ecosystem went wrong, but it's strangely rel
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Elon Musk Says Tesla May Have ‘Optimus’ Robot Prototype Within Months(bloomberg.com)
3 points by akrymski 4y ago|5 comments
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by akrymski 4y ago
As far as I know search ranking on Google is largely driven by AI these days, which requires a LOT of historical click data (query + answer pairs). Because Google has more historical data than anyone it has better results. I don't se

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