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by bduerst 5y ago
>all this traffic would just be re-routed through the app developer's back end If it's any consolation, running a proxy at least increases the baseline cost of using 3P trackers. User telemetry and other data is small, but for
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by bduerst 5y ago
Oh, they wouldn't turn it down, but they would support whatever they could to prevent it from happening. It's a weird form of irrational behavior that falls under economic animosity.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Algolia was the first thing I though about when the post was made yesterday. I commented this elsewhere but I don't think Reddit wants a good search option. Users tend to repost a non-trivial amount of content/questions/etc.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Yeah, much of reddit's content is repetitive, even so much that commenters will complain about "reposts". If reddit ever built a search engine, it would need to build a graph that would cluster all these repetitive posts. Us
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by bduerst 5y ago
>but that Bing and DDG have improved so much that they are now on Par Worth noting that these are essentially the same. DDG scrapes a handful of sites but they lean heavily on Bing's search API (or Yandex, if you search in russian)
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Even if true, what does that have to do with shelf space? Search results do not constitute the internet, and there are many more search engines than just Google.
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I mean, the answer is pretty obvious. HN itself isn't a business, it's an organization's forum for a different type of revenue stream. You could argue that the entire internet (or all media, for that matter) should be run th
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by bduerst 5y ago
That's silly. Everything is limited by the scarcity of human attention spans, not just websites. Shelf space refers to the market with which someone competes, not whether people are thinking of a candy bar or finding a bathroom or a
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by bduerst 5y ago
Sure, but GP's point was that conservatives are accepting of homosexuality, despite the stats otherwise. If you're going to say that older people tend to be conservative and tend to not to use dating apps, then that forces the que
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by bduerst 5y ago
The common cold is interesting in that it's not just one virus, but a moving target of hundreds. I've always wondered if it's their diversity actually prevents any one potentially lethal strain from becoming dominant.
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Yep, there are already classes of therapeutic proteins, the most notorious of which is insulin. With mRNA tech, you unlock even more intracellular proteins that were previous impossible to get through the cell wall.
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>You are presuming conservatives think like progressives - where ideology is paramount - it's NOT and they DON'T. One has only to look at recent events [1][2][3] to see that is not true at all. I think the main difference is t
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by bduerst 5y ago
Not quite. New brands that advertise X feature tend to attract audiences that identify with it, meaning any behavior counter to X feature would alienate them. It's one of the reasons why mainstream dating apps avoid doing such politic
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by bduerst 5y ago
The first HIV mRNA vaccine just started it's phase I trial on humans, only two weeks ago: https://investors.modernatx.com/news/news-details/2022/IAVI-... I have a feeling mRNA tech will be regarded as on
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by bduerst 5y ago
>Chrome is notable for being a memory hog This meme comes from a misunderstanding of how desktop memory works. Chrome will use as much available RAM as you can give it in order to improve web performance, but it doesn't actually re
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by bduerst 5y ago
Doesn't Android-enabled Chrome OS require containers to run properly? I seem to remember there being a pretty high bar (for Chromebooks anyway) of hardware requirements to be able to run android on Chrome OS machines. Even my shitty b
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by bduerst 5y ago
I disagree on the former. Destroying the environment just to get a shitty, inefficient, non-competitive payment system because you don't like the U.S. Federal Reserve isn't a good trade.
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Oh I'm not defending it. It's a garbage way to pay considering the competitive alternatives they allow. It's marketing to a specific niche of tech bro, which is probably a large enough segment of Newegg's customers to j
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by bduerst 5y ago
Half of all U.S. conservatives do not think homosexuality should be accepted by society [1], which presumably includes accepting homosexuality in dating apps. That's a pretty big segment of your target market to alienate. [1] https:&#
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by bduerst 5y ago
Yeah, the phrase they should have used is "influencing the market" rather than the technical economic term. Of course, influencer means something different now too.
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IIRC Newegg is using Bitpay, which costs ~1% and settles to USD daily. It also means no refunds allowed (even in USD) to the customer using it, only store credit.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Rule of thumb is you have to wait ~20 minutes (two blocks) for the verification. That's a long time to hold up the line at the grocery check out.
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Can you give specific examples of these 'things' though?
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by bduerst 5y ago
That article you link is out of date. Global BTC energy consumption is now double[1] what it was in July, meaning the claim that it's somehow getting better spurious. The article also acknowledges that the energy consumption criticism
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by bduerst 5y ago
>I've actually run a couple of single-player games, completely vanilla. I'll have to give it another go then. Do you have any recommended settings for this?
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by bduerst 5y ago
This was my biggest annoyance with Eco. It really does take a community, which is disappointing because you can't scale it down to 1-4 players. Are there any mods for this?
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Yeah, ONI is fantastic in this regard. I find myself struggling with it in late game for precisely this reason - if you don't lay the ground work for things like heat when building your initial setup, it's much harder to rip it u
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by bduerst 5y ago
GP here was not being rude, and addressing the tone is a way to avoid addressing the facts. Your story reads like sour grapes . The company you interviewed at was not dishonest with you, so it doesn't justify being dishonest back wit
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by bduerst 5y ago
Mindustry and Shapez IO (browser) are pretty good.
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Yep, currently playing through DSP myself, as a factorio veteran. DSP is a great successor, even more than Satisfactory . It's amazing how well the DSP devs have figured out how to scale from small factory plots to inter-planetary su

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