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by alephnan 3y ago
> “But what are GitHub stars?” This is weird. It’s almost as if this is a sales pitch to non-technical management who gets to make the executive decision on what issue tracker to use. That’s almost antithetical to “by engineers, for engi
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It was offered as a subsidized perk during my days as a Google employee. The social aspect of other people at Google doing it made it feel normal. In hindsight, I drank the Google kool-aid in more ways then one. The sentiment of distrust to
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> If capitalism is so great why is it so incompatible with being a good and honest person? Capitalism was never about that. It was about having acting in their own self-interest as to maximize economic efficiency. That model works great
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I am logging to my 23andme account to confirm my info and name registered there. I forgot my password and did a password reset. They have password requirement of 12 characters minimum. A bunch of security theater just to get hacked anyways
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> If the privacy and security of imessage is compromised by someone building another client, I'd argue that you never had either to begin with That's like saying the internet protocol is neither private and secure because peopl
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Yes, I do. I said there are better brokerages, and that point still stands. Vanguard, for example, didn't. I never said that all other brokerages are better than Robinhood. In fact, there are worst. Just because other brokerages did th
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by alephnan 3y ago
> Why wouldn't they? Because there are better brokerages out there. > in the face of the partners they rely You mean their actual customers. There are brokerages where the incentives are not perversed like this. > did the bes
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by alephnan 3y ago
There was a meme about Spotify replacing the heart symbol to like a song with a ‘+’ sign. No one asked for, it benefits no one, and people proactively want the old version. I’m sure they had countless meetings for this “feature” and how muc
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> thrilling position on some compiler team What’s wrong with compilers?
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I can’t really trust anything else you say with the absoluteness which you claim Meta is better vibes than the rest. Sure, your experience is probably true, but it’s anecdotal and the sweeping generalizations you’re making on limited datapo
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by alephnan 3y ago
You’re presuming technical problem people have superset of skills of nontechnical people, or you that a company only needs technical skills. There are very little businesses where the latter is true. For the former, no one can be good at ev
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It’s like a software bug or backdoor, but in an organic system
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Gathering data so when some PM wants to empire build and justify a project, or when a UX researcher person needs evidence to support their initiatives. All of this is self-serving towards their careers.
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by alephnan 3y ago
> Morale is high and they’re ready to fight for what they believe in. Money.
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by alephnan 3y ago
Spotify wasn’t available for Americans for the longest time. Didn’t mean it wasn’t dominating globally. Same thing with remittance apps like Transferwise or Remitly that was focused on a strategic market.
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by alephnan 3y ago
> What would “academics” be able to provide? Public knowledge. Outdated, not as accurate as the industry people, but better than nothing.
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by alephnan 3y ago
> In possibly the strangest twist on the KitKat trail, Bokksu announced in September that it had acquired Japan Crate. But NYTimes discovered that the acquisition had actually been completed back in June. So Bokksu, through a wholly owne
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by alephnan 3y ago
Sounds like a win-win-win situation for gamers (buyer), developers (seller), and valve (marketplace).
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Do presidents of the United States have to live ethical personal lives?
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by alephnan 3y ago
> a lot of of people that didn't like him. I’m presuming you held this conversation in English, which is correlated with a Japanese person who has more worldly experiences and views, and with that diverges from mainstream Japanese s
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Effective Consequentialism
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People still buy airline stocks
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by alephnan 3y ago
Are we any better at rendering water? Obviously there’s this which pops in every thread on the matter. Rightfully so. https://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/
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by alephnan 3y ago
I just did the Shimanami Kaido, the most famous bike route in Japan, yesterday and used a variation of this. It was designed for cyclists as the bridge entry ramps have low inclines of ~3%, and there are minimal situations where you have to
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by alephnan 3y ago
We need an internet archive but for Google Maps.
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This is why Apple’s walled garden is good.
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Applying this to time series forecasting of stock trading would mean you are doing what the rest of the market is doing. At that point, you could have just bought index funds.
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by alephnan 3y ago
> Cell phones often have 3 rear lenses ranging from 13mm, 24mm and 77mm telephoto, plus a front lens. I’m wondering if this was done by the copywriter or the UI person who needed to add more text so that every section has the same amount
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by alephnan 3y ago
Is this meant as sarcasm? BMWs and German cars are pretty bad for reliability, especially with respect to electronic failure. When it does work, it works great.
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It’s also possible that the cycles of tech employment means programmers are exploring similar topics over time.

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