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by apeace 4y ago
I initially thought this too, but then I remembered: a lot of people on social media care very much about how many followers they get, how many likes they get, etc. Under the new plan, you will get priority in replies, mentions, and search.
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by apeace 4y ago
There are plenty of hard-working people who wouldn't want to budget $8/month for something nonessential like a social media app. There's no need to disparage them.
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by apeace 4y ago
Flume Internet | Senior Software Engineer | FULLTIME ONSITE REMOTE | NYC Our web site: https://www.flumeinternet.com/ Job description: https://flumeinternet.notion.site/Senior-Software-Engineer-3... Flume i
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by apeace 4y ago
I really don’t like that example. I get that it’s just demonstrating mutual recursion and not intended to be practical, but I feel like there could be other ways to demonstrate that concept that aren’t so inefficient. My answer would be the
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by apeace 4y ago
I love this but… what the hell am I reading? Also they really missed an opportunity to reference “Gbps” (goat bites per second).
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by apeace 4y ago
> I was building another product that was released at MacWorld in 2000 (and still exists today)! Wow! What was the product?
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by apeace 4y ago
That's true, but this essay is written with an authoritative voice, not a pondering one. PG tends to write as if he is teaching his audience something profound. So I think it's fair to call out when he is wrong or misguided.
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by apeace 4y ago
I think the reason it's not discussed by consumer ISPs is because the big guys are using a wide range of technologies, from DSL (yes, still) to cable to fiber. They don't want to talk about how their 200Mbps cable customers have s
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by apeace 4y ago
I have been working at startup ISPs for the past several years. Your intuition is correct. Nobody uses 1Gbps. Nobody. Not download, not upload. I did work for an ISP that served a lot of video editing shops, and I could see them potentially
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by apeace 4y ago
Interesting, I didn't know that! I would call that a "sidewalk". To me "pavement" would be anything that's paved. I took it to mean streets because of the context of gig workers.
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by apeace 4y ago
Really? I'm in the U.S. and the only place bikes are explicitly illegal is on the highways. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought bikes could take city streets and follow the rules of the road like everyone else. If there's a bike l
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by apeace 4y ago
This is a good list. I did this at a medium scale once (about 10,000 feeds that needed to be checked once per minute). My favorite thing he mentioned is that various tags can have different meanings. Published, updated, description, content
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by apeace 4y ago
Thanks for that info. So it sounds like the article is just inaccurate wrt Google. But that has some pretty big implications. Blocking Stack Exchange is very different from blocking Google. Snowflake and anything else relying on domain fron
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by apeace 4y ago
I'm confused. The article states that Snowflake uses domain fronting to connect users to forwarding peers. They use Google as an example: > ... domain fronting lets the client make a request that looks like an ordinary web request f
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by apeace 4y ago
I'm not sure it's called for to compare GP to a "Holocaust denier". This Wikipedia article is informative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di... According to the article, t
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by apeace 4y ago
My breakthrough came when I stopped thinking of dancing as a way to impress women, and started thinking of it as a way to have fun with my friends. I don't know if dating is what's on your mind, but I know for many people they see
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by apeace 4y ago
TFA is pointing out that other GPU-based POW chains have become unprofitable. Partly because of the massive influx of GPUs increasing the difficulty of those chains, and partly because those coins are just not worth as much as ETH. If that&
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by apeace 4y ago
We are an internet service provider and we charge a monthly fee for our service. So the real thing I would've been doing was reversing the first month's charge and then cancelling the recurring subscription. Which is exactly what
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by apeace 4y ago
The funny part is, I thought that if I did a bunch of real transactions and then reversed them all, that our account might get flagged! That's in addition to explaining to our investors that we ended our launch day at -$1,000 due to al
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by apeace 4y ago
I had a very similar experience, except it was on our launch day . We hadn't charged a single live customer yet, but we had done plenty of tests using the Stripe testing environment. So we go live with a huge launch event, and we have
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by apeace 4y ago
Aha, thank you! I felt like this change should be visible in some kind of graph somewhere, and you're right, the ETC hashrate has roughly quadrupled in the span of two days: https://minerstat.com/coin/ETC/netw
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by apeace 4y ago
> It's like Finland has suddenly shut off its power grid So, have we observed global energy usage go down by about one Finland? Shouldn't that be observable somehow? Shouldn't there be some power stations reducing their ou
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by apeace 4y ago
> The opposite is happening, JS/HTML/CSS are becoming the standard for desktop apps rather than something else replacing them on the web. Yes, I am predicting that trend will reverse. I'll need to remember to check this co
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by apeace 4y ago
The next big thing in web development: WebAssembly. More specifically: the end of Javascript, HTML, and CSS. I remember when Gmail first came out, there was a major revolution in how webapps were written. All of a sudden it was all about AJ
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by apeace 4y ago
I'm wondering: what exactly is this virus research for anyways? Whether or not this lab leaked the virus and caused the pandemic, I'm wondering why they are interested in engineering new variants of SARS-like viruses in the firs
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by apeace 4y ago
Can I infer from this comment that you disapprove of the Deaf community's stance on this? If so, I suggest reaching out to your local Deaf community and spending some time with them. Maybe take an ASL class. You will find that, indeed,
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by apeace 4y ago
Wow, I had no idea! I work with a lot of unbanked individuals in low-income areas of NYC, so I am familiar with some of their struggles. I can't say I agree with this law, though. There was a store near me robbed at gunpoint not too lo
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by apeace 4y ago
Fair point, and I'd be happy if my coffee lady could get a better deal on card processing. I'm just saying that I don't view it as such a big disaster for card processors to be charging fees in general, given that it does pro
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by apeace 4y ago
I don't doubt that for a second :)
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by apeace 4y ago
Living in New York City, I've noticed that there are a whole lot of businesses that are either cash-only or card-only. I always understood the cash-only ones. If you can get plenty of customers who are willing to pay in cash, why would

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