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by bflesch 2y ago
Meanwhile jet fuel for private jets is (and remains) not taxed at all, even in the EU.
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by bflesch 2y ago
Thanks for sharing, it looks very good. Unfortunately on my system it has very low fps due to software rendering.
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by bflesch 2y ago
IMO industrial policy is the way to mitigate risks of war or extortion vis-a-vis a specific trading partner. Only once this safety criteria is fulfilled, politicians can think about tackling other issues with industrial policy - and unfortu
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by bflesch 2y ago
Amazing find, thanks for sharing. Them showcasing the Eglin access numbers as some sort of positive metric highlights how ignorant social media companies have been to the whole issue.
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by bflesch 2y ago
IMO your logic is all wrong. Comparative Advantage ist just applied "opportunity cost" of time. Humans and resources are unique, everyone has their theoretically "optimal" use of time in terms of economic output. The inv
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by bflesch 2y ago
With the onslaught of Javascript-parsing bots and crawlers, how useful are A/B testing results any more?
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by bflesch 2y ago
Would be nice if you use your experience and financial stability of a Google job in order to build a better open-source protocol. Just like when ZX2C4 decided he's fed up with OpenVPN and went to create Wireguard this might be your mom
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by bflesch 2y ago
This is an extremely important point, and first time I see it mentioned with regards to software copyright. Remember the days where companies got sued for including GPL'd code in their proprietary products?
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by bflesch 2y ago
Kagi is a very good alternative to google. When you're actually doing some research and have an exhaustive look at search results, kagi provides much more detailed results than google. I'd rank kagi > chatgpt > google any da
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by bflesch 2y ago
Can you explain a bit how working with JPG format was different than working on PNG format? How did you achieve significant savings for both formats, given that many clever people have worked on this before?
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by bflesch 2y ago
Not sure if you're joking, but volunteer work is quite different than having to stand at the checkout line packing backs in a commercial setting.
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by bflesch 2y ago
Sounds like "geoguesser" players who learn to recognize google street view pictures from a specific country by looking at the color of the google street view car or a specific piece of dirt on the camera lens.
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by bflesch 2y ago
Clever attack indeed - wouldn't have expected for this to be possible. I trusted the claims of Webauthn / Passkey being "phishing proof" without much consideration, because these claims came from highly respected compani
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by bflesch 2y ago
I totally agree with you. That's why claiming your technology is "phishing proof" reflects badly on the people involved who are all supposedly experts in their field, and well-compensated on top.
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by bflesch 2y ago
The involved engineers are most likely running around with a blushed-red face to this day, claiming "phishing resistance" in all the marketing materials but then having such a bug. I'd say the cover-your-ass (CYA) reflex was
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by bflesch 2y ago
Nice find. To me it seems that WebauthN/PassKey was a significant project where all of the clever and highly paid engineers from the big corporations took part. How can they overlook such an attack vector? Especially when the main sell
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by bflesch 2y ago
They advertise "Unified visibility and security across code, CI/CD, and cloud environments" - maybe it's google's way to siphon off proprietary code from private Azure and AWS environments in order to train their AI
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by bflesch 2y ago
Or it makes dumb people become developers ;)
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by bflesch 2y ago
Sounds like Xerox. They have everything, some employees will become multi-billionaires within 10 yrs after they leave the company and create their own startup. But I have zero conviction this corporate moloch will be the one to productize a
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by bflesch 2y ago
Thankful for this nice community. Also thankful for demonstrating that investors are just lucky humans and there is no secret sauce to all of this. 20 years of YC, nearly the same time frame as the low interest rate policy (started at 2008)
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by bflesch 2y ago
The interaction between programmers and AI feels like the kind of interaction as between non-IT-managers and IT personell: Non-IT-Managers don't know how stuff works but throw around expletives to get what they imagine in their brain w
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by bflesch 2y ago
They make more money from selling you all the add-on dongles
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by bflesch 2y ago
interesting. I've been thinking about building something like this to provide a structured framework for social media discussions and argument chains.
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only because we let them
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one should operate under the assumption that all phone conversations are being recorded and will be stored eternally. with today's technology they are automatically converted to text, and some palantir-rebranded chatGPT model ranks it
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by bflesch 2y ago
Yeah, the strategic direction of flutter feels like the famous "embrace, extend, extinguish" approach. All the big companies prefer walled gardens.
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by bflesch 2y ago
You're correct. It's about distinction between code and data. You should simply discern between HTML elements (code) and HTML text nodes (data). Same with prepared statements: Clear distinction between SQL code vs SQL data. You ju
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by bflesch 2y ago
Good point. I just noticed that RTF really looks a lot like LaTeX syntax - LaTeX was clearly inspired by it.
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Feels a bit like binary encoding with + and - instead of 0 and 1
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by bflesch 2y ago
So where does your "scientific authority" come from, which is needed before criticizing someone according to your own logic? You're not even using your real name here. Nobody knows if you have any scientific qualifications, o

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