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by benzible 3y ago
See: https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-sca... > Humbird likened the process of researching the report to encountering an impenetrable “Wall of No”—his term for the barriers in thermodynamics, cell
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by benzible 3y ago
It's also worth reading how he ultimately felt about the acquisition. His original post seems to be gone but this is a good summary... https://www.timesofisrael.com/waze-ceo-noam-bardin-explains-...
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by benzible 3y ago
A straightforward recounting of a negative experience doesn't constitute "lashing out" and I don't see any hyperbolic language or other signs that he's exaggerating. Also - Facebook's offer allowed him to get G
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by benzible 3y ago
Hmm I tried searching "elixir" and found nothing related to the language. HN Algolia gives me exactly what I want. On what basis do you say it's "not helpful"?
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by benzible 3y ago
ElixirConf 2022: "The Launch of Elixir and LiveView at Scale on the New Cars.com" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzAupUHiryg
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by benzible 3y ago
SFGate was originally the online version of the SF Chronicle, starting in the 90's. For whatever reason, they wanted a distinct online brand. Now the online version of the Chronicle is hosted at sfchronicle.com and SFGate continues on
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by benzible 3y ago
Flotato got sherlocked https://flotato.com
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by benzible 3y ago
Check out this recent talk about cars.com moving to LiveView: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzAupUHiryg Seems like most of their issues would not apply to a greenfield project and now that things are stable, they're
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by benzible 3y ago
I've done a lot of greenfield web application projects and my current stack of choice is also Elixir / Phoenix / LiveView. An opinionated stack solves a lot of the issues the author mentions. He also seems to be mixing in pro
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by benzible 3y ago
"Collective" may not be the most accurate way to describe Facebook (er, "Meta"), given that its structure places it on the opposite end of the spectrum: > “Mark Zuckerberg, our founder, chairman and CEO, is able to e
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by benzible 3y ago
Great article going into the details of what it would take to get a system using an LLM for diagnosis approved: https://www.hardianhealth.com/blog/how-to-get-regulatory-app... > [...] a roadmap for how to get a medi
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by benzible 3y ago
Also see https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-sca... > Humbird likened the process of researching the report to encountering an impenetrable “Wall of No”—his term for the barriers in thermodynamics, c
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by benzible 3y ago
This is a viral "feelgood" story that keeps circulating but MySpace was a project within an existing company, eUniverse, later InterMix. Tom and Chris DeWolfe were employees of InterMix, not founders. Intermix was acquired by News
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by benzible 4y ago
Where would you place the probabilities of: * the reporter invented 20 interviews * 20 people all completely forgot what would have been a memorable event * 20 anonymous sources conspired to lie for no apparent gain ...vs. "the guy mak
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by benzible 4y ago
Actually, this is how you know: > The Times spoke with 20 people who worked at the Frito-Lay divisions responsible for new product development 32 years ago, when Flamin’ Hot Cheetos were first extruded into existence. None recalls anythi
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by benzible 4y ago
MySpace was a project within an existing company, eUniverse, later InterMix. Tom and Chris DeWolfe were employees of InterMix, not founders. Intermix was acquired by News Corp. for $580M. Not sure how much equity Tom ended up with but I&#x2
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by benzible 4y ago
There absolutely is: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2020/11/01/americas-press-and... ( https://archive.vn/kF4y5 )
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by benzible 4y ago
Calling out bad-faith investigations that are explicitly designed to game the "both sides" bias of the news media for what they are. See: * https://journa.host/@drvolts/109666474138838264 * https:/&#x2F
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by benzible 4y ago
So, take the massive fraudster at his word when he supports your pre-existing beliefs? Do you also believe that parties interested in supplying billions in funding contacted him just after he signed the bankruptcy paperwork, as he's al
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by benzible 4y ago
The whole concept wasn't feasible and had serious privacy issues. Good summary of why it was rejected at the national level here: https://www.govtech.com/security/us-turns-down-do-not-spam.h... > A registry of
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by benzible 4y ago
Unspam, Prince's company before Cloudflare, which created Project Honeypot, had a slightly unsavory (to me, at least) business model of lobbying state legislatures to pass laws requiring "no-contact" registries with requireme
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by benzible 4y ago
If you're a fan, check out their recently rereleased and remastered recordings under their original name, The Golliwogs [1]. They hadn't found their distinctive swampy sound yet but there are some great songs. [1] https:/&#x
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by benzible 4y ago
VCs aren't in the business of creating profitable companies. Their LPs aren't going to be happy with a negative return on their investment, regardless of whether they helped to create a nice, sustainable small business along the w
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by benzible 5y ago
You're assuming the motive of the commenter, who followed up and clarified that it was asked in earnest. It's a reasonable question for someone who doesn't follow crypto closely to ask
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by benzible 5y ago
This couldn't make the case for a wealth tax any clearer. Leaving the question of which large-scale social projects should be undertaken and how they should be carried out up to the whims of billionaires clearly ain't it.
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by benzible 5y ago
Survival for executives at publicly traded companies has led to a maniacal focus on quarterly results, discouraging R&D without near-term payout and disincentivizing minimization of negative externalities that will eventually impact eve
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Analysis of Walgreens' stated reasoning for closing SF stores(sfgate.com)
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In the case of US Soccer, the women bring in significantly more revenue than the men but are paid far less. https://www.vox.com/2019/7/10/20686692/us-womens-soccer-team...
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by benzible 5y ago
I just needed a service to reliably fetch raw pages that I can process in my own application and so far I've been happy with this: https://promptapi.com/marketplace/description/adv_scraper-ap... $30 / mo
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by benzible 5y ago
Per the Washington Post [1] > "The uber-rich in the United States tend to pay such low tax rates that they have less incentive to seek offshore havens. But their absence from the files also may mean that very wealthy Americans turn

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