cheriot

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by cheriot 4y ago
> Google Assistant at 81.5 million users, Apple's Siri at 77.6 million, and Alexa at 71.6 million That's a lot of scale before figuring out there's no way to profit!
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Agreed. I wonder if the motivation is competing for resources with Meta paying more attention to costs now.
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Are there companies with a reputation for code quality?
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I'll be the LVT guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
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Specifically, the US was outside the range of WW2 weapons. At the end of the war our factories were the only ones left. Secret sauce of the American economic boom.
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> many consumers without savings are at risk of financial ruin Yes. This is the reason for having a better social safety net. There's no reason a normal business cycle should "ruin" normal people that did not take excessiv
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Yes, although a slightly higher abstraction layer that can be implemented by those things. So one can theoretically describe a complex environment in a way that can be run on prem or by a variety of cloud vendors. (don't @ me just to s
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Does anyone have DAU or MAU numbers for this stuff? I've been convinced that web3 is not going anywhere, but open to being proven wrong.
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Akamai looks at Cloudflare's valuation with envy (and some contempt because Akamai has the larger edge network). Definitely agree Linode was purchased as a growth opportunity.
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I'd wager anyone doing that for 30 years will do quite well. It's when people get impatient and take crazy risks that they get in trouble. > buying whatever Blackrock is dumping The amount of money it would take to move the pri
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> Copilot is like a production team for a movie taking clips from another movie to make a ripoff of that movie and selling it. I can't think of a 5 line snippet I've written or read that makes sense to claim ownership of. They
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> that then reproduces near replica's of my code Copying a few lines is not the same as copying the whole thing. Sharing quotes from a book is not copyright infringement.
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That measure will reflect changing demographics and, specific to our current circumstances, an increase in retirements during covid. Prime age participation is more useful for projecting forward https://fred.stlouisfed.org/s
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It's the runtime and tooling. Personally, I've largely stopped using the JVM ecosystem and it has nothing to do with the languages. Start up delays killed applets and have always limited command line tools. Now the same startup li
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Apple, on the other hand, loves to talk about privacy, but if anyone in the conversation backs up messages to iCloud then the whole thing is sitting on Apple's server unencrypted[1]. WhatsApp is better. [1] https://www.forbe
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by cheriot 4y ago
The "blue collar" approach to functional programming is a fruitful one. Written about Scala, but applies to any language: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/StrategicScalaStylePracticalTyp... In doing this, program
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The moods of a manic personality might not be a good canary.
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I doubt treating that as a non-statement will be the most profitable interpretation. Time spent is one of the most important variables in the value of an ad business.
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1. The speed can be governed 2. Agreed. Crazy to me that people ride these without helmets. There's also foldable helmets for people annoyed by the size of regular ones. Protected bike lanes also improve this. That said, banning scoote
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It's the verified users that make Twitter relevant. Pushing them away won't go well. There's a large number of people using Twitter professionally and all Elon comes up with is... pay for the check mark? The Twitter saga migh
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Appreciate the description. Hopefully the next generation will be on par with modern monitors for text. I'm starting to come around to the idea that VR could be a great monitor setup at the right resolution.
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Hard to sink when it's smaller than their operating profit from FB/IG/WhatsApp.
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> They went whole-hog on the metaverse and their customers rejected it with a resounding "no". If by metaverse you mean the Horizons app, sure. The money is being spent on the hardware, though. VR
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Also doesn't mean that it's not. We're both making assumptions
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I'll buy into VR as a social scene when furries start using it.
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There's a whole industry around tracking these things. I don't know what the methodology is.
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Zuck mentioned gaining share on time spent vs tictok and nobody in the financial press, twitter, or HN is talking about it. This is huge if true.
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I've not seen many people comment on text legibility. How's reading compare to your normal monitor?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33338742
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Agree that those are the acquisitions that needed interference. I don't understand how there's an Animated GIF Trust, though.

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