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by cbsmith 2y ago
The evaporation is the thing you want to avoid.
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Drip irrigation is kind of a thing out here in the desert...
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> Outside of swaps and other derivatives financial instruments and other properties don't magically switch from being an asset to being a liability based on random external factors. I wasn't saying they switch ; I'm sayin
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> Like, it's not a good excuse, don't get me wrong, but as much as I try, I simply cannot keep up with the entire state of the art of computer science. I wish I could, and a younger me without a family and responsibilities actu
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Why limit it to third world surgery? Sounds like it's a problem with a lot of first world medicine as well.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
While all that is true... the other part is that it's not like non-medical professionals are particularly good at knowing what they are talking about or acting in their own best interest either. In many cases, the institutional care is
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by cbsmith 2y ago
This article always bugged me, because it needlessly makes things seem complicated. There are times when you are trying to represent a moment in time, and then there are times when you are trying to represent a moment in a calendar (which i
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by cbsmith 2y ago
No, it's just the two things: naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Not open source is a liability too, with added problems of code licensing conflicts, supply chain attacks, zero-day vulnerabilities, relying on maintainers that don't work for you, etc... ;-)
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> Please stop misusing accounting concepts. Assets can also be liabilities. The mortgages in a mortgage backed security is both an asset and a liability, as was only too well demonstrated in 2008... It's an asset in the security por
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> So Netflix expects open source community to pick up the maintenance tab ? In fairness, the very nature of open source is that the community is only going to pick up the maintenance tab if the value they're getting out of it is wor
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by cbsmith 2y ago
It's a "tiny" part of a services business with a billion subscribers, that generates $20B of revenue in a quarter . $20B in production costs over 4.5 years works out to less than $5B/year in costs, against competitors l
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by cbsmith 2y ago
A lot of the 80's adoption of the PC meant that people did the same presentations but they looked better. ;-) In fairness, it's not just mindset. It takes a while to understand technology and figuring out how it can be effective
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by cbsmith 2y ago
This seems like an odd spin/reeks of PR and politics more than the reality. $20B spend is just fine if you have the revenue to justify it. They've just struggled with the revenue. Killers of the Flower Moon brought in $157 million
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by cbsmith 2y ago
The first comment I saw nailed it for me: in the 80's and 90's there was lots of investment in computers as the PC revolution took off, and the productivity gains were minimal. As with all new technologies, it takes a while for th
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by cbsmith 2y ago
My best guess is that my blood pressure dropped precipitously. I would get light headed if I stood up. It would happen roughly 15 minutes after taking the medication.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
This stuff knocked me on my ass when I took it. I literally had to lie down on numerous occasions. I'm just an anecdotal case, but it unfortunately did not work for me at all.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
So, if I'm reading this right, it's saying, "COVID-19 doesn't make you more likely to get stupid, but stupid does make you more likely to get COVID-19".
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by cbsmith 2y ago
I mean, that's kind of what KeyWhiz does, no?
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by cbsmith 2y ago
The stub secrets client is just a key->value API, so the value of a proxy is pretty limited. It's not a hard enough problem that anyone is interested in having a separate product for it.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> It's disturbing that it's illegal to scalp a single ticket in person outside an event, but if someone does it online with hundreds of tickets then they're a "ticket broker" and that's legal (in California
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Yes, I misunderstood what you wrote. There are plenty of scalpers who sell tickets outside of TicketMaster, despite their best efforts. Do you think the $50/ticket fee that you paid would have been lower if you'd done your transac
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> I think you can probably re-read and understand that their entire post is about the fact that Ticketmaster hosts, processes, and charges fees on resale tickets. Yup. I misread the comment.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> Does anyone knows how Ticketmaster works, really? For the most part, no. I'm actually shocked by how much understanding you are demonstrating in this post. I did not expect to find that on Hacker News.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Yeah, except NO. A lot of people think live event ticketing is the same problem as airplane tickets, but they really aren't. As an example, there are rules about requiring identification for commercial flight. There are rules against
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> The way this is already being exploited in the wild is that a scalper/scammer buys 1 ticket, then resells the same ticket multiple times. Multiple people believe they have a valid ticket, show up at the event, but only the 1st tic
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> Scalping aside, TicketMaster is taking massive fees each time the same ticket is sold. For example, I went to an event last year and the fee was $50 on each ticket, and these were reseller tickets so TicketMaster had already taken a fe
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by cbsmith 2y ago
It's about 60% of large venues. The 80% is Ticketmaster's share of the ticketing marketplace.
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Sooo good.
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Yup. Our doctor recommended "homeopathic" medicine that was actually pretty standard treatment.

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