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1. 11461.▲
   by api 9y ago

   I no longer use libertarian for the same reason I hesitate to use atheist. Head over to the relevant subreddits. Last time I visited /r/libertarian I saw people advocating the flat Earth, and /r/atheism is a hate sub. Li
2. 11462.▲
   by api 9y ago

   Ethernet or raw IP over TCP are slow (without some really creative hacks involving multiple TCP links) due to the double ACK problem. Adding UDP would probably not be hard.
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   by api 9y ago

   The lack of science in business blows me away given the money involved.
4. 11464.▲
   by api 9y ago

   Agile often allows no time for doing it right, leading to high levels of technical debt. In the end it leads to Rube Goldberg machines and the "big ball of mud." It's suitable for prototyping but often fails for producing qua
5. 11465.▲
   by api 9y ago

   Everything gets gamed. You game a centralized system with regulatory capture or control of it's information sources. All financial systems are a Red Queen's race.
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   by api 9y ago

   This is most business writing. Most of it is cargo cultism built from post rationalization of survivorship bias. There are so many factors that go into success or failure that it's very hard to ascribe causality, so superstition and fo
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   by api 9y ago

   These are private sites. That's not censorship. Use a competitor or create your own site if you don't like their policies. Current cloud pricing makes hosting a pretty high volume site cost less than 25 dollars a month.
8. 11468.▲
   by api 9y ago

   Canada apparently has pretty high per capita energy use for the same sorts of reasons: big and in their case insanely cold half the year.
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   by api 9y ago

   There's another possibility. Is there a cultural difference at work here? Does Asian culture have more respect for authority and less patience for things like drug abuse? I feel like if crazy penalties like that were levied in America
10. 11470.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Spy agency has spy tools. I am shocked.
11. 11471.▲
    by api 9y ago

    I think we may be in the "empire strikes back" phase.
12. 11472.▲
    by api 9y ago

    IM type apps seem to all go to shit after a while. Every one starts out good and then becomes feature encrusted bloated junk that barely works.
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    by api 9y ago

    There is a strong circumstantial case for WikiLeaks being either compromised or having caved to threats from someone. Most of the evidence points to Russia but in the intelligence world you can never be sure. Could just as easily be someone
14. 11474.▲
    by api 9y ago

    As I keep saying: investors that only invest in SF/SV should just skip the middle man and cut checks directly to property speculators.
15. 11475.▲
    by api 9y ago

    The unicorn thing is temporary. This will self-correct.
16. 11476.▲
    by api 9y ago

    1X is normal. 3X is nutzo. Tl;dr on this article is that a private valuation is more than a number. The whole picture must be considered. A high valuation with onerous terms might be "lower" than a lower valuation with reasonable
17. 11477.▲
    by api 9y ago

    ... or connecting with SSL to an overseas server under their control ?
18. 11478.▲
    by api 9y ago

    I vote for either Yuggoth or Nibiru.
19. 11479.▲
    by api 9y ago

    You really think 200M people are transferring 20MB/day of gifs? If your numbers really are accurate then it underscores the insanity of the valuation. If the costs are intrinsically high then you'd need a high value advertising ni
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    by api 9y ago

    Java was slow and immature in the 90s but it was a huge step up from PHP, Perl, and ugly more closed platforms like old school ASP, Visual Basic, Powerdynamo, Cold Fusion, etc. Those really really really sucked. With Java you could writ
21. 11481.▲
    by api 9y ago

    How can giphy with its current functionality possibility cost that much to run? I feel like it should be able to run for over a century with the amount that it has in the bank right now. Bandwidth is cheap and it's not exactly compute
22. 11482.▲
    by api 9y ago

    PCs have the advantage of an open hardware platform. Apple won in laptop and mobile where open hardware either doesn't really exist or is very hard and inferior. The shift to smaller portables leveled the playing field. It's also
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    by api 9y ago

    A prediction of mine for the past year: in 2020 mass social media dies. 2016 was the first Internet election and showed the power of "fake news" (disinformation flooding) and data driven micro-targeting in an election. Trump won p
24. 11484.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Looking at human history I do not this this is new.
25. 11485.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Hybrid systems combining different ML techniques were generally in back then. These should be revisited with today's processing power and data set availability.
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    by api 9y ago

    Half finished buildings... As if Shenzhen wasn't already cyberpunk enough.
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    by api 9y ago

    Could you write a smart contract requiring someone to prove that they control enough currency to qualify ?
28. 11488.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Yes, this is insane. I just object to the idea that this insanity validates other kinds of insanity like neo-Nazi ideology. It's all bullshit.
29. 11489.▲
    by api 9y ago

    How does the Constitution allow the establishment of a white ethnostate?
30. 11490.▲
    by api 9y ago

    That's a different branch of the extreme right.