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by akrymski 4y ago
Price comparison sites used to be very popular. But product search is extremely hard to do well. Users want to compare products on their merits, not based on how much the seller is bidding on PPC. And not just product features but also s
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by akrymski 4y ago
It's also a thread about memory allocation in Webkit tho.
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by akrymski 4y ago
> I think that desktop browser users expect that their tabs generally won't get reloaded But they do get reloaded. There's absolutely no guarantee provided, and browser tabs will get swapped out of memory as necessary (eg open
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by akrymski 4y ago
Now if only I could limit the amount of memory a browser would consume! The fact that desktop browsers grind a 16GB machine to a halt, while on mobile devices having 1000s of tabs is a non-issue is plain wrong. Since I can't limit
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by akrymski 4y ago
Alternative take: all protocols die a slow death, being replaced by centralised services. XMPP was replaced by WhatsApp. SMTP is being replaced by Gmail. HTTP will probably get replaced by some binary Chrome protocol, etc. At some point n
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by akrymski 4y ago
Well done for putting it out there! We've worked on this about 3 years ago, plus background removal (realtime alpha-matting still not really done well by anyone), portrait re-lighting (G-Meet is now doing this) and even eye-contact (ad
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by akrymski 4y ago
Let's say you have a hobby or open source website that requires a database backend and isn't making money. $300 / year is quite expensive all of a sudden.
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by akrymski 4y ago
Not trolling, I genuinely think it's a lot of money for a simple database though. Maybe yours isn't, but I don't know any provider that charges less than 300 for a hosted db. Btw Sqlite can go a long way: https://
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by akrymski 4y ago
What a joke, I'm literally reading this while my robot vacuum is cleaning the house.
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by akrymski 4y ago
Paying $300 per year for something that a raspberry pi + sqlite could handle is still very expensive imo.
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by akrymski 4y ago
Have also been considering Paddle. Would love to know what you found it's missing?
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by akrymski 4y ago
I've never owned a better phone than the Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 5G because it's substantially thinner and lighter than any other phone of that size. A smaller screen size may be nice but I've realised how much more I really care
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by akrymski 4y ago
It's not about price increases, it's about the increase in profit margins. Oil prices can go up and down due to supply constraints but profit margins can remain constant.
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by akrymski 4y ago
BP and Shell are vertically integrated and mostly definitely do own a large number of gas stations at least here in Europe. However the owner doesn't really matter in this hypothetical example as long as BP and Shell actually control t
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by akrymski 4y ago
Tax payers are paying for this war in the form of higher energy bills. The oil cartel and major shareholders (Vanguard, BlackRock, Chase etc) are getting the rewards.
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by akrymski 4y ago
I don't buy this argument. Assume the oil has already been dug up and refined. Two gas stations next to each other: Shell & BP should compete on price to the point that minimum profit margins are established. This doesn't
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by akrymski 4y ago
In PoS systems validators can vote for both chains in case of a fork, as there is nothing at stake. It's not about honesty. It's about resources being committed.
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by akrymski 4y ago
Indeed. I fail to see how validators in PoS systems are any different to eg shareholders of Visa.
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by akrymski 5y ago
In Gmail you can choose the FROM address, so it appears to come from your own domain.
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by akrymski 5y ago
I use Gmail with my own domain for free. My domain registrar (namecheap) allows forwarding of email for free. You can add extra email addresses in Gmail itself.
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by akrymski 5y ago
I think the answer depends on the use case. Spreadsheets are for general purpose compute. They are glorified calculators, and aren't meant to replace databases, even though some people seem to use them to store lists of records. Datab
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by akrymski 5y ago
The benefit of this approach is that it's an addition to PageRank, not a replacement. You don't need massive adoption of the social part I think cause you can link to eg HN, which already links to other sites. It's simply e
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by akrymski 5y ago
The only viable alternative to PageRank I know of is social search: show me results that my friends (and friends of friends and so on) liked/bookmarked. Delicious sort of tried it but never executed well on the search side. In a way it
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by akrymski 5y ago
Surely the only viable path to challenging Google is to own the web browser. Most users will use the default search engine.
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by akrymski 5y ago
What we need instead is a DATA-oriented web. The web already largely consists of interlinked databases (anything from Amazon to AirBnB is really just a database exploration tool). Even WordPress blogs are really just databases (with TEXT
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by akrymski 5y ago
Stock exchanges have a central limit order book. Crypto exchanges are like foreign exchange brokers at airports: they act as market makers, earning the majority of their fees from the bid/ask spread rather than some fixed comms afaik.
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by akrymski 5y ago
Stock exchanges have a central limit order book. Crypto exchanges are like foreign exchange brokers at airports: they act as market makers, earning the majority of their fees from the bid/ask spread rather than some fixed comms afaik
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by akrymski 5y ago
Copy-paste of a comment from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfArW6zppYw Here’s the situation and the order of events that led to this invasion: Pro-Russian government was in power pre-2014. Violent coup overthrew the
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by akrymski 5y ago
I'm Russian and yes I am a member of the telegram groups you mention.
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The first casualty of war is truth(youtube.com)
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