ben_jones

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by ben_jones 3y ago
When Star Citizen is released
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by ben_jones 3y ago
“You can build it, but will hundreds of millions of users come instantaneously in desired markets and earn billions in high margin ways with minimal support costs and in a way that is preferred by the majority shareholder?” Success exists o
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by ben_jones 4y ago
I sympathize a lot with the licensing story of Caddy. /u/mholt has been a very active maintainer and participant in the larger Go community and has every right to create a commercial side to the project and receive compensation fo
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by ben_jones 4y ago
> I'd place this at roughly at 0.01% chance for any major exchange or fund Over 0.01% of major exchanges and funds have been hacked or scammed this month .
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by ben_jones 4y ago
> both via traditional support channels and other escalation methods I wish our industry could just be honest that many meaningful escalations have to happen via discriminatory back-channeling, contacting friends, family, former co-worke
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by ben_jones 4y ago
Just like the Uber credit card. They've removed every benefit and re-issued a vanilla master card. Its a company you can't trust.
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by ben_jones 4y ago
We talk about leading by example but this is actual leadership by example.
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YouTube Runs Ad Offering American Men a Ukrainian Woman(vice.com)
9 points by ben_jones 4y ago|1 comments
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by ben_jones 4y ago
I continue to see these Ads as front-page above-the-fold content on Youtube after turning ad customization settings off. It has been over 3 weeks since the original Vice article.
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by ben_jones 4y ago
Modern libertarianism in a nutshell: I have the right to maximize my short-term gains, but if the consequences catch up to me, I will demand subsidies and bailouts from the same society I totally don't participate in.
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by ben_jones 4y ago
You have to remember that vans drive around these cities collecting and maintaining these scattered scooters. There is a large auto footprint for each scooter that needs to be serviced, as well as for the people servicing them.
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by ben_jones 4y ago
I'd counter its not "committees of experts" but "committees of stakeholders and powerbrokers" with equally misaligned incentives not worth replicating.
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by ben_jones 4y ago
Its really hard to express the business logic of financial institutions. Doesn't matter the language or tooling. Its just really hard. Ultimately these bugs can all be resolved with little to no damage. Oh and nobody really shares thei
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by ben_jones 4y ago
Im sorry I couldn't get past a hypothetical Org allowing a single developer to yolo-yeet bespoke languages, frameworks, tooling, into internal-critical-business-project after internal-critical-business-project. If your Org behaves like
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by ben_jones 4y ago
For all we know the sites have better internationalizations and cater to audiences invisible from a US-based perspective.
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by ben_jones 4y ago
There's two revelations here: * big companies have entire teams (internal and consultants) advising them on large changes in the name of productivity, cost reduction, whatever. These teams contrive metrics, KPI, and correlations, betwe
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by ben_jones 4y ago
> "do it for the lulz" argument seems like one of the last best guesses available Or Musk is, was, and always will be, a financier, and is doing all this because at some point it made sense to his broader financial plans - dump
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by ben_jones 4y ago
> gone to the length Right there. Because typing 20 lines of source code should not be an argument for weakening your model layer. Re-use would be great if types were identical between actions, but in the real-world they're not and
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by ben_jones 4y ago
Am I right to call out most of this problem is caused by incessantly reusing types (because defining an additional type for i.e. CREATE vs PUT actions is soooo hard.
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by ben_jones 4y ago
> configuring vpc What advances in Serverless platforms like AWS Lambda prevent the need for configuring VPCs?
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by ben_jones 4y ago
A lot of these rate limits would have been designed off the rubble of the Cambridge Analytica scandals, and would've been designed to prevent a lot of analysis. I still find it dubious that they couldn't long poll sufficient sampl
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by ben_jones 4y ago
Seems like a manic episode enabled by yes-men.
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by ben_jones 4y ago
You didn't know SQLite cures cancer?
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by ben_jones 5y ago
And that's WITH lockdowns and a way fewer people on the streets in 2020. Of course 2021 would be higher with vaccinations.
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by ben_jones 5y ago
What are some examples of well-written decentralized exchanges?
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by ben_jones 5y ago
"these other people are acting shitty so its totally ok for us to do it" - quick way to identify ass holes. We shouldn't always race to the bottom under the guise of "we have to do it to stay competitive". You don&#
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by ben_jones 5y ago
Normally the cost of cognitive dissonance in tech is $200k/yr. Pay that and you will have a line out your door and around the block of engineers who want to work for you, no matter what you do. Fortunately Facebook pays for the Cogniti
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by ben_jones 5y ago
The system no longer provides FB the same value it previously did. So they're taking it down, now that they've collected billions of images. Will they be deleting the trained models too? All artifacts and inferences? Hell no.
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by ben_jones 5y ago
The whole Meta thing is just a 1-2 year distraction to keep the stock price up while Facebook figures out its real existential problems. Maybe it sells some more VR units great, but it keeps Facebook at the forefront of "hard technical
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by ben_jones 6y ago
My parents took out a home equity loan in 2013 and are still buried by it, any recommendations here for how they can best service or refinance the loan?

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