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by aylmao 4y ago
IMHO, the title is not deceiving. As of right now it's "Turning Earth Into a Telescope", and he talks about just this from a historic standpoint. If you were hoping for the technicalities of it, then I can see how it's n
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by aylmao 4y ago
I don't doubt billions have been invested in public transport. I also don't doubt those billions have been (and will continue to be) more cost-effective than the billions invested in self-driving cars.
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by aylmao 4y ago
Urban planning in large parts of the USA isn't very conducive of this approach, since housing space tends to be quite segregated from office space. I also can only assume that it plays a role in office real-estate costs too, just like
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by aylmao 4y ago
Doing whatever we want and just hoping AI will eventually fix the mess it is also how we got sub-par public transport but billions invested in self-driving cars.
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> What has semantic HTML ever done for us? For us small things, like enable reader views. For people with disabilities, it lets them effectively use screen readers.
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by aylmao 4y ago
John Bolton has been directly involved with foreign policy at least since he first worked at the State Department (the department responsible for the USAs foreign policy and relations) in 1989. He has openly been a an advocate for military
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by aylmao 4y ago
I hadn't noticed that, but it is interesting yeah. I have to assume cultural differences must play a role here. I don't know Chinese culture; perhaps it's more modest? Perhaps they'd find celebration in mission control u
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by aylmao 4y ago
Conservatism, by definition, opposes change. It disapproves of new ideas and philosophical innovation in favour of tradition. Universities have always been hotbeds for change, research, vanguard and protest against the standard. I'm no
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by aylmao 4y ago
I'm on the side of free speech on this one. We can't have "perfect" security, and policing what people say will be as effective towards ending extremism as the war on drugs has been towards ending drug use. The solution
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by aylmao 4y ago
I'm on H1b. Can I found a startup? Also, what options do I have to grow a project while I work full-time? The fact I can't earn income from alternative work is a huge demotivator from starting anything for me. I won't know if
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by aylmao 4y ago
Nationalism. I think we'll see less enthusiasm of "free trade" around the world, and more countries "fend for themselves" as the balance of power shifts and changes as it moves away from the West. It'll be up t
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by aylmao 4y ago
For the record, this is equivalent to: let x: Record<string, Type> Pun intended.
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I agree, but I don't think the problem is so much "the office", but rather how poorly cities are designed in the USA; - The lack of mixed use zoning makes it just that much more likely that one live so far from their workplac
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by aylmao 4y ago
> Great programmers want to create. They won't be satisfied with just maintaining a successful product. I personally don't think one can generalize like that. I've worked at companies with great programmers who would'
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by aylmao 4y ago
+1, plus I'll add that I think there's organizational factors too. Overall, organizations incentivize complexity, and I'd like to point out three ways in which they do: - One is that new systems tend to be rewarded, because p
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by aylmao 4y ago
The article mentions he's run into armed groups, but it hasn't posed an issue. > Not infrequently, Silva said, he has been stopped at checkpoints manned by cartel gunmen. Once, in Durango, cartel members poured into the hotel w
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by aylmao 4y ago
To be fair, calling Snap, TikTok or Slack a startup is pushing the definition of a "start-up" a bit. This article _was_ written in 2018 when these were all smaller, but even back then these weren't too small. Snapchat has bee
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by aylmao 4y ago
Worth point out; per the chart on the linked article it seems like the iPhone 12 Mini sold about as well as the iPhone 13 Mini, if I'm reading the colors correctly.
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by aylmao 5y ago
I’ve always liked the idea of opening a café too. My thoughts on the matter are related to this; I think the biggest stressor for me would be paying rent so if I ever do I’d like to own the location. I guess that’s hard in the USA where com
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by aylmao 5y ago
I'm Mexican, still spend plenty of time in Mexico, and have also never seen any "cartel activity" except in the news. I know it's a problem, but I also think english media depicts Mexico in a much more bleak light than i
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by aylmao 5y ago
I'm from Mexico. I still spend plenty of time every year and/or have family in states under the "Do Not Travel To" or "Reconsider Travel To" lists. In my experience rather than having "nice tourist locatio
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by aylmao 5y ago
Meta comment: Github Gist seems to be great for blogging. Yeah, the UI is not very blog-specific, but it has all the useful features, and then some: markdown, comments, hosting, an index of all posts, some measure of popularity (stars), a v
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by aylmao 5y ago
Android has more market share but iOS has the users that are most profitable. They're dominant in affluent countries (USA, UK, plenty of countries in Europe, etc) and even in countries where it isn't dominant, it's not rare f
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by aylmao 5y ago
+1, though I imagine the motivation was probably skipping regulation related to handling international payments or something along that line. Riding the blockchain hype couldn't have hurt too (until it did, I guess).
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by aylmao 5y ago
There are plenty of parallels with what happened with Snapchat Stories, but I do wonder if it's the "same thing". Stories are best when created by people you know, and they're easy to create too. They're the type of
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by aylmao 5y ago
I largely agree with you, though I'm also rather skeptical. > Facebook is dying slowly in the developed world, that is true. However it is still growing in emerging markets. +1, though this is a slow and not necessarily viable bet.
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by aylmao 5y ago
I think I agree, though from a more skeptical standpoint. To be fair I haven't used VR much lately, but at first glance I see a lot of parallels between this and the iPad. The iPad is a fantastic device, and it definitely changed the w
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Starlink Premium promises up to 500Mbps for $500 a month, $2500 antenna(theverge.com)
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by aylmao 5y ago
It's an alternative that gives them the updatability of JS. When they describe their original (JS/C++) architecture they mention this as a motivating factor: > This architecture split allows us to deliver new features and bug f
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Amy Klobuchar Leads Her Final Assault on Big Tech’s Power(theverge.com)
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