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by alfl 5y ago
Canada has a huge money laundering problem (source: my company makes anti money laundering tech). Interesting how the article shows how this translates to destruction of capital assets and, eventually, people. That’s not necessarily clear o
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by alfl 5y ago
Depends on workload. I have found that my workloads are more accelerated by processing core count, but I build multi-service cloud applications and want to run them locally. If, for example, you run a bunch of Electron apps (Slack, VS Code,
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by alfl 5y ago
Apple’s brand lets them command a higher price per performance ratio. You’re seeing one of the mechanisms of that pricing power. Your thought, “I almost feel like I have to get at least the 1TB model so I get the 16GB of RAM” is why their m
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by alfl 5y ago
Same experience here. Eventually it just happens. Felt really sudden to me: one day I was a lone wolf, next I had a pack.
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by alfl 5y ago
Google has never paid a dividend. “Double taxation” refers to taxation post distribution not prior (source: I was a corporate tax accountant). Finally, “evasion” is illegal. “Avoidance” is a legal tax strategy.
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by alfl 5y ago
For example, given that Google successfully litigated the Oracle Java API copyright case in the public court system, it seems that it gains advantages from public institutions. Simple reciprocity indicates that they should support instituti
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by alfl 5y ago
You asked our permission so unfortunately this experiment is not comparable with Facebook’s.
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by alfl 5y ago
Is it unethical to create an automated system that maximizes global unhappiness for profit?
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by alfl 5y ago
When they announced that they had this capability a couple of years ago I deleted my account.
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by alfl 5y ago
I would usually recommend OpenMedia.ca but they seem not to have a position paper up on this yet. Still, I am bugging them about this and assuming they’ll take action.
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by alfl 5y ago
With compassion: you seem paranoid. Lots of talk about security and hackers and spies. Your submission history is telling. Have you thought about getting therapy? I get the feeling from your writing that you are conflating social signalling
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by alfl 5y ago
Scanning the data in the linked article [0], most trades are reported within a week, usually only a few days, some same day. [0]: https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/data
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by alfl 6y ago
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by alfl 6y ago
Physical keyboards have interesting usage modalities. One of my colleagues told me she missed physical keyboards because touchscreens are harder to use with acrylic nails. They can be used without turning the screen on, etc. I wonder to wha
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by alfl 6y ago
The collapse of Arecibo made me sad, like our space infra is in decay. Space X is a bright light and, I hope, represents a change in direction towards positive growth.
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by alfl 6y ago
I really like how the press release talks about multiple value props instead of the robotics tech. As a techie business owner who spends most of my time in sales this is something I need to constantly remind myself about. People want the &q
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by alfl 6y ago
I met Bert in the StrongLoop days after the IBM acquisition. Good guy and good luck to him. We were consultants scaling node to production for a major international bank, circa 2016. Love the security improvements in deno, will have to give
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by alfl 6y ago
When your technical debt becomes a human rights complaint...
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by alfl 6y ago
Reading fiction builds empathy.
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by alfl 6y ago
Never gonna happen, because gridlock politics, but I hope it does. Source: am local.
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by alfl 6y ago
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by alfl 6y ago
La Quadrature du Net [0] is a collective of privacy advocates, like the EFF for the EU. They run an active Mastodon node at mamot.fr. [0]: https://www.laquadrature.net/
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by alfl 6y ago
cf. our discussion of the NYT's ridiculous "Safe Space" article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26122924 .
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Media trust hits new low(axios.com)
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by alfl 6y ago
With the NYT in its death throes ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26122924 ) it's time for the Valley's answer to new media journalism.
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by alfl 6y ago
I have back-of-the-napkin tried to scale mass conversion. The gotchas are (very) nice-to-have things like power steering that rely on engine pressure. Actual drivetrain is solved.
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by alfl 6y ago
I think bitcoin is a classic "worse is better" disruptive innovation. There are arguably better blockchain/blockdag implementations now, but it has a huge first-mover advantage and name recognition, which are important econom
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by alfl 6y ago
Also to soak up all of that mining hardware -- oops, I mean the FSD ASICs -- and solar panels he has lying around :D
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by alfl 6y ago
Tesla's not trying to reduce the number of cars, it's trying to replace the existing fleet with electric. This will likely increase consumption of electricity. Wider adoption of bitcoin will likewise increase the consumption of el
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by alfl 6y ago
I directly call that out: less consumption causes less production, so will reduce investment in production. If we're talking about emissions of bitcoin we're already talking about second and third order effects, so let's foll

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