cmcaleer

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by cmcaleer 3y ago
Ultimately it doesn’t cost that much to serve some links and text. Video hosting (especially live streamed!) can get expensive, but for example HN runs on a single server with a standby[1]. Reddit’s technical moat is negligible. It’s the ne
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Of course, and if you play that card you shouldn’t be surprised if your counterparty gets up from the table and walks away.
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There's also this Tom Scott video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoy_WJ3mE50
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> the platform is basically messing with your posts and comments Wouldn't be the first time, won't be the last time. https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
Here is only one such brutal squeeze: registered security brokers must maintain control of all securities [0]. In practice, this means brokers use custodians[1]. Regulators have been working on making holding crypto harder for custodians [2
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
>make you click on ads accidentally This has been a very frustrating experience with new YouTube which now hides comments in the vertical layout. I used to pay for Premium, so it’s some random recommended video that I constantly accident
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
Voice is incredibly useful for the reasons you outlined. I cannot believe that in an era of 1TB microSD that serious incidents like the Air Canada near miss can happen and the flight crew can escape accountability by allowing the CVR to ove
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Tweetie for iOS
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The majority of sex workers online are not.
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
Cash is not reasonable for internet-based transactions. Payment processors like Stripe and Braintree are better, but they have moralising terms of service and will drop you the moment they find out what you're doing, and good luck gett
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
Most customers weren't willing to enter their CC information online in the late 90s and early 00s. It took horny trailblazers to get us to where we are today, to the overall benefit of e-commerce. Comparatively, putting CC info in to C
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One thing crypto does having going for it is the lack of moralising payment processors. I'm really baffled that sex workers and other groups who provide legal services that payment processors don't like aren't embracing crypt
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Whatever happened to the many hundreds of millions French billionaires said they would donate for it? I know a couple have coughed up, and most of the companies who said they would have but I don't all who promised to do so have.
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My grandfather was wearing one and died. This is clear and thorough proof they don't work (he was hit with flak as a paratrooper).
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All defibs do. The battery and pads need replaced every few years.
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> thinking of having an "easy escape hatch" probably does not do wonders for the relationship I actually totally disagree with this. The difference between “I’m in this relationship because I love this person but also I have to
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This whole saga has been legitimate grievances clouded by lengthy blog posts that could have been so much shorter and less dramatically written. The other blog about this controversy clocked in at over 2000 words!
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
It's bizarre that you're scolding this person for being intolerant while implying such language is to be expected of "anyone autistic or on the spectrum". To me, that is offensive stereotyping.
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Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that adding something like that would make things worse and open the door to wasting your time on pointless issues like "Why are you using this code of conduct instead of $my_pet_code_of_conduct?&quo
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
Interesting study, worth noting that UCL study isn't finding in favour of whole word vs phonics, but rather "[the findings] suggest that a balanced instruction approach is most likely to be successful", which seems reasonable
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There’s a narrative that fits this buck in the trend: the curriculum simply rejected teachings that didn’t work. Highly recommend reading about the ‘whole word’ v ‘phonics’ wars. Generations of children have been and continue to be left be
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by cmcaleer 3y ago
I can’t find the specific study this website cites, but it mentions: > In a 2-year trial among patients with type 2 diabetes and high cardiovascular risk, patients treated with this drug experienced a great incidence of diabetic retinopa
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That IBM website promoting it is the most ridiculously overengineered yet totally unusable website I've used in quite some time on desktop. It's really quite something. Also disappointing that the Github README doesn't includ
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The software company will argue that you made a shrinkwrap agreement (where the term clickwrap actually comes from), where the packaging says by opening the packaging or using the software, you've implicitly agreed to the terms of the
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by cmcaleer 4y ago
Because massive vulns like this are existential threats for these protocols. If Equifax gets breached for 150m peoples' personal information, they just get a slap on the wrist, pay you $15 (if you're lucky), and continue as a goin
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by cmcaleer 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/1357/ I wonder if the people who thought this xkcd was the ultimate rebuttal against those who think that these platforms should be more neutral are rethinking their stance on having a few very wealthy