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by bentlegen 4y ago
As an individual, I am keenly aware of deposit insurance - it’s much lower where I live, in Canada - and as such it’s common to spread your savings among multiple banking institutions to ensure you are covered (and to remove risk where any
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by bentlegen 4y ago
Garry I have a question (and this is not intended to be snarky). Why should a company, perhaps a slower and more risk-averse company who intentionally chose a different, safer banking institution to do business with, do they not get to bene
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by bentlegen 4y ago
Will those assets still be worth $210B as the days tick by? I'm not a macro financial analyst, but I have to imagine trying to liquidate $210B of bonds, stocks, etc. will cause at least some of that value to fall – that's a big nu
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by bentlegen 4y ago
My Mazda CX-5 has those adaptive cruise features. Nowhere in the manual is it described as “autopilot”. If that’s all autopilot is, why not market it as adaptive cruise control? Search in your heart, I believe you know the answer.
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by bentlegen 4y ago
Aside (and this is not meant as a rebuttal), it’s interesting to me that nobody denies that managerial roles only have so many “slots” (e.g. can’t have 5 CTOs or 7 VPEs, or Directors managing teams of 2 people), and yet, nobody decries the
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by bentlegen 4y ago
Sentry also uses rrweb!
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by bentlegen 4y ago
Right now we just capture network metadata like URL, connection type (fetch, xhr, websocket, etc), status code, filesize, etc. We additionally filter this data at the edge (before anything gets stored) for any known unsafe values like credi
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by bentlegen 4y ago
We launched this last week! Right now it's only available on SaaS (sentry.io), but we've been developing it in public in our main server repository (github.com/getsentry/sentry) and plan to have proper instructions for s
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by bentlegen 4y ago
The creator also works for “Canadian TV” and didn’t think twice about buying voiceovers. It wouldn’t surprise me if they have other industry experience that they drew on here, e.g. seeing the success of paid PR.
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by bentlegen 4y ago
Your comment is being unfairly downvoted, IMO. I spend some time on the Unity subreddit and there are hundreds of folks with similar projects of similar size quality who would kill for this kind of publicity. That being said it is still a g
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by bentlegen 4y ago
I thought this was an interesting, alternative lens at looking at the economic balance between supporting long-tail customers with higher performance needs vs. developer time/cost. I suspect internationalization efforts operate similar
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by bentlegen 4y ago
I would argue “ability to stream a 1+ year old movie repeatedly, on demand” is part of what makes keeping your subscription worthwhile. I think Disney intentionally took a lot of family-oriented films and kept them out of theatres during co
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by bentlegen 4y ago
FWIW, Encanto (Disney Animation, 2021) and Turning Red (Pixar, 2022) were the most streamed movies on any platform for all of 2022 according to Nielsen. Moana (Disney Animation, 2016) was #4. It's debatable whether these films feel lik
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by bentlegen 4y ago
I’m guessing you didn’t read the article because Avatar made in over 2 billion dollars, exceeding even their expectations, becoming the 6th highest grossing film of all time. Or maybe it bombed, beats me.
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by bentlegen 4y ago
“These other products give you cancer! Only use Febreze to mask odours in your home.” viewer goes and tosses out all their presumably-cancer causing products, never purchases Febreze
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by bentlegen 4y ago
I’ll go one further: most people don’t know quality, including most engineers. Is it reasonable for 90% of software engineers to know what a top 10% software engineer resume looks like? I don’t think so. Most people think repeating dozens o
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by bentlegen 4y ago
It’s apparently a felony if you don’t comply. How many jobs carry a risk of committing a felony for faithfully trying to perform your job? Will you trust a judge or jury to acquit you if an inappropriate book found its way onto the shelves
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by bentlegen 4y ago
Listen, I would prefer if the article actually named names or gave examples supporting any of the statements therein, but it doesn't. The author leaves us to guess with the innuendo he's left.
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by bentlegen 4y ago
Naval seems to insinuate with "social scientists who [...] are now in there with nonsense political models" that authors like Nate Silver (of 538 fame) are examples of folks relying on NYT mastheads, and yet, Nate rose to prominen
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by bentlegen 4y ago
Do you have an alternative explanation? It was #2 when I first viewed this thread (with far less points and comments), and a few minutes later it was off the front page entirely. But this question is exactly why I would like illumination. T
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by bentlegen 4y ago
176 points, 100 comments in 1 hour … downvoted by HN mods and off the front page immediately. As a point of feedback, when mods get so obviously involved in suppressing content seemingly-valued by the community it would be nice to understan
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by bentlegen 4y ago
Ok, I think you’ve answered my question. “Bluechecks” is innuendo for liberals, regardless of whether Ben Shapiro or Donald Trump possesses/possessed the same verified badge.
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by bentlegen 4y ago
Do you have an explicit example, or is this going to be continued innuendo?
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by bentlegen 4y ago
Please illuminate me: what did they sow, besides use the platform as was provided to them? Do “bluechecks” here refer to all accounts with blue checkmarks, or are you referring to a specific political class within that group?
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by bentlegen 4y ago
So is Hunter Biden’s private media now banned again? Maybe not, as long as “Twitter” decides it is newsworthy (but in such a way that Elon’s media or location is not)? My head is spinning.
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by bentlegen 4y ago
I think Gamepass is a factor - it affects suppply, no question - but the raw supply of all games seems as high as it’s ever been. One could argue the latter has led to the former; there are so many titles being released regularly now that G
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by bentlegen 4y ago
I always find this take that innovation wouldn’t happen in a non-capitalist society very strange, as if humanity hadn’t produced countless innovations before modern constructs like the corporation existed. I also think its incredulous to fo
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by bentlegen 4y ago
I acknowledged that social media plays some part; read again. You tell me what’s more impactful. Literal data that says the number of international tourists growing 350% over 30 years (from 400 million global international arrivals in 1990
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by bentlegen 4y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/269387/revenue-of-expedi...
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by bentlegen 4y ago
The raw availability of something existing in 1996 (when Expedia launched, a decade before the iPhone) does not mean it was accessible or widespread. How many homes had the internet in 1996? How expensive were the personal computers necessa

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