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by cletus 5y ago
I'm all for providing a social safety net in exactly the way the US doesn't. Housing (aka shelter) is a key part of that but the way the US does this is completely backwards. The government saying you can't evict someone is b
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by cletus 5y ago
I'm not sure you understood my point: I'm arguing against this not for it. "Because children" and "because terrorism" don't trump everything else. If they did we'd have always-on cameras in our homes
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by cletus 5y ago
I really hate this "why won't anyone think of the children?" argument. It's right up there with "because terrorism". I mean the government isn't technically wrong but the same can be said for locking your
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by cletus 5y ago
Back in the early smartphone days one of the last mobile games that I recall that simply cost money and didn't nag you for in-app purchases was Angry Birds. You may be tempted to correct me because modern Angry Birds looks nothing like
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by cletus 5y ago
Who is Microsoft "doing good" for? It's not Microsoft shareholders. Bing is a money pit and poorly executed. Do you know who benefits the most from Bing? Google. Why? Because Bing's (subsidized) existence helps create th
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by cletus 5y ago
Throwing money at Ninja is really an example of poor execution. What makes Twitch successful is not any one streamer. It's an ecosystem. Raiding is huge on Twitch for streamers supporting other streamers. You don't build a forest
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by cletus 5y ago
This is an overly rosy view of Microsoft's moat (and acumen) IMHO. For one, Microsoft completely missed out on the mobile revolution. For another, look at Mixer. This was there attempt to clone Twitch. They threw a bunch of money at it
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by cletus 5y ago
This is too longwinded (and a Twitter thread ugh). I'll repeat an analogy I read somewhere else. Everything in the universe moves at constant speed through (four-dimensional) spacetime. To simplify the analogy we'll just consider
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by cletus 5y ago
IMHO this is just Intel hiding rather than solving its problems. It gives the appearance of management doing something but it's the wrong thing. If we've learned nothing else, the big winners are at the cutting edge and vertically
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by cletus 5y ago
How many managers and executives were fired? My fear is that individual perpetrators have been fired but not the leaders who buried complaints or their own inaction dissuaded victims from complaining. A fish rots from the head.
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by cletus 5y ago
> Regardless of whether or not high rates of change happened in the past, they're not good for stability of life. Let the moving goalposts begin. If the last 10,000 years of relative climate stability is unusual--and it seems to be
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by cletus 5y ago
When I first signed up for Netflix it was (briefly) $8/month. At that stage it had a great catalog of old TV shows, which was (and is) way more interesting to me than movies. I actually figured that anything less than $10/month an
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by cletus 5y ago
Again, to reiterate: I'm not denying human impact on climate change. Let's just get that out of the way. But your claim about rate of change, which is often repeated, is actually wrong [1]: > Unlike the relatively stable climat
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by cletus 5y ago
It's amazing to think of how alien the Earth has been in the past. I think we humans tend to fall victim to this idea that the world we first experienced is how things "are" or "should be" when in reality there&#x27
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by cletus 5y ago
I get why this is happening but it still makes me sad. There's really no better experience than being able to look through the viewfinder, track the target and have a pretty good idea of the composition (the viewfinder is typically 95-
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by cletus 5y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not an academic. I cannot possibly speak to the possible benefits and implications of this from an academic point of view. Like there might only be downside to doing this. I don't know and don't pretend to kno
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by cletus 5y ago
There's two things that go into that IMHO: 1. People like to hate on things and people just because they're popular when there's literally no other reason; and 2. A large number of people will let their personal opinion drive
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by cletus 5y ago
I suspect the only "controversy" in your comment is that you said something positive about SpaceX. I believe the GP is correct: wear and tear on existing components means that fuel won't be the only issue in 20 years. Hubble
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by cletus 5y ago
I'm a fan of PHP and have been for years for several reasons: 1. Low barrier to entry; 2. Hard to leak resources since the model is to tear down everything after a request finishes; 3. Stateless API core which means the efforts of crea
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by cletus 5y ago
I support this. One year seems reasonable. I can't stand scalping. I assume the dealership retains the ability to buy back the truck? That gives someone an out if they really do need to sell in the first year. I'd also like to see
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by cletus 5y ago
From a technical perspective, I love BitTorrent. I remember reading about it years ago and being amazed at the bandwidth efficiency and robustness it had. It still had some centralization (ie trackers) but they themselves could be duplicate
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by cletus 5y ago
> It's an asset that can easily be used as a currency using technology like payment channels or rollups. That's true of any asset. You miss the main point about what makes a currency a currency. Bitcoin, for example, is massive
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by cletus 5y ago
In the early days of crypto, this is what kept me away: the clear use case for illegal purposes (Silk Road anyone?). What I didn't realize was the big early driver was to transfer wealth out of China. China has strict capital controls
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by cletus 5y ago
Potential government action goes beyond chasing a friendly regime and low electricity prices. What if the US passed a law tomorrow that said that financial institutions who traded in crypto in any way lost access to the US financial system?
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by cletus 5y ago
Crypto Andys like to extol the supposed virtues of crypto like being extra-governmental, distributed and robust. A lot of gold bugs have jumped on this, often out of some misunderstanding of what central banks do and that "printing mon
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by cletus 5y ago
> I have taken fair use into consideration. I'm constantly amazed at how many people don't understand what "fair use" actually means. Many seem to think it means "I should be able to do this" or even "I
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by cletus 5y ago
You're looking at desktop. This doesn't exist on iOS Google Chat, for example.
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by cletus 5y ago
There are two important lessons to take from iMessage: 1. Simplicity in product design and UX is key here. You sign in with your AppleID when you setup the phone and then it's basically seamless: it'll use AppleID through Apple&#x
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by cletus 5y ago
I, for one, draw comfort from the fact that generational wealth seems to be relatively uncommon. If this weren't the case, wouldn't the US economy be dominated by Astors, Vanderbilts, Morgans, Rockefellers and Carnegies? While s
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by cletus 5y ago
So we all know at this point how far Intel has fallen. From stories I've read, organizationally, Intel is a complete disaster. Fiefdoms, infighting, failure to deliver on 10nm, etc. Apple's star on the other hand is rising. The M1

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