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by crmd 4y ago
The legal rights of a corporation should rapidly decrease as it gains market power. My neighborhood bar should be allowed to 86 me for just about anything, but Madison Square Garden Entertainment, Ticketmaster, and Live Nation should not. S
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by crmd 4y ago
Whether it’s Twitter or the US Supreme Court, I’m amused how the group out of power argues earnestly for restraint of power until the millisecond they gain power and immediately adopt their opponent’s previous position for the free exercise
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by crmd 4y ago
In 20 years some of us are going to be telling stories like this at the dinner table as our grandkids are turning pale and absolutely mortified that grandpa just referred to another human being as “a BIPOC”.
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by crmd 4y ago
The folks on this side of the argument believe that money is speech. Therefore using money to suppress opponent’s speech is itself an expression of free speech. I don’t agree; this is a steelman argument
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by crmd 4y ago
I was extremely impressed by Uniqlo’s self checkout recently in New York City. You dump all your stuff into a bin and it displays the total price. You then pay and leave. I assume this means every item has a serialized RFID tag embedded som
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by crmd 4y ago
…or not raise prices. I think the root cause of our broken economy is that way too much of gross margin has been flowing to owners/capital instead of workers.
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by crmd 4y ago
This is painful to read because I'm guilty of it. I left an SGI Onyx, a Sun Ultra 80, a Sun Ultra 1E, and a Sun A1000 JBOD in the basement of a house I was renting in 2003 because I couldn't be bothered to hump the gear up a fligh
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by crmd 4y ago
Can you elaborate? I installed my nest years ago without a common wire and it…seems to work but I have horrendous gas bills and the system cycles often, but I attributed both of these to the poor insulation of my 120 year old building.
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by crmd 4y ago
Let’s see if his ‘I’m baby’ defense works in court.
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by crmd 4y ago
The ‘I’m baby’ defense. We’ll see if it works here.
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by crmd 4y ago
> Developers and power plant owners plan to significantly increase utility-scale battery storage capacity in the United States over the next three years, reaching 30.0 gigawatts (GW) by the end of 2025 Can someone explain how/why th
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by crmd 4y ago
I love how Trust and Safety are the go-to watchwords for every tech platform’s self-serving business model-protecting content policy decisions.
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by crmd 4y ago
I wonder who owns the alfalfa farms because doing business in Utah is wild. There is absolutely no separation between business, government, and the church. It's like a single, hyper-efficient, hybrid organization. I spent a week there
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by crmd 4y ago
Good. Law enforcement is supposed to be hard.
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by crmd 4y ago
This is a great high school-level question to test basic understanding of selection bias. A is the only answer to demonstrate that responses to web surveys are have inevitable self-selection bias.
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by crmd 4y ago
One of the most un-intuitive rules of leadership is that you have to make yourself replaceable. My bosses all know because I always tell them, “if I get hit by a bus, put A in charge of X, promote B to Y, give C to Z”. On every major projec
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by crmd 4y ago
We used to run demos on a local hardware cluster, but we found that prospective customers were reacting negatively to demos that were not on the same platform they would be running in production (AWS).
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by crmd 4y ago
I need big m4n instances with 100gbe for product demos, and spinning them up lately is like trying to get Taylor Swift tickets on Ticketmaster. We end up wasting money running them for days at a time instead of on demand because we’re afrai
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by crmd 4y ago
Hey, I totally rewrote my comment after reading your response. Thanks for engaging - hearing from the project author made me realize I was acting like a cynical asshole. Congrats on Hermit and thanks for supporting free software.
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by crmd 4y ago
It’s great how much open source infrastructure software has come out of FAANG in the past decade. Between Kubernetes, react, Kafka, etc it’s wild how much of my tech stack is open source software developed by people at large tech companies.
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by crmd 4y ago
Many of us are familiar with the “unhelpful valley” where an incompetent assistant is way more of a drain on your time than having no assistant and simply doing everything yourself. We are decades away from when a computer algorithm can do
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by crmd 4y ago
Can someone explain why the rumor of cracked pipes and delayed restart of a terminal would cause the futures price to go down? I would think that news of a supply constraint would cause the price to go up. TIA
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by crmd 4y ago
>80% of GDP is spent on wants. And if people want a clean environment more than they want the latest consumer crap I don’t know where you’re based, but pigs will fly before taxpayers in the United States agree to an 80% environmental inc
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by crmd 4y ago
Elon Musk is a lead rocket designer like Donald Trump is a real estate magnate.
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by crmd 4y ago
The first time I ever took MDMA was in Fabric many years ago. John Digweed was playing. I will never forget the sound and the feeling of that dance floor.
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by crmd 4y ago
> Nobody in Elon-space seems to be bothered that there’s no undo on alienating a social network’s user base. Where are they going to go? I don’t see journalists like Nikole Hannah-Jones moving their personal brands to Facebook.
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by crmd 4y ago
These functions are mission critical, but if you can’t show how you’ve automated / created programmatic solutions in these domains then you are probably part of the problem.
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by crmd 4y ago
Bubbles by definition don’t exit unless the majority of market players temporarily believe that the current trajectory is the new normal and not an anomaly.
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by crmd 4y ago
Every square inch of the tech sector has been inflated by the past 14 years of almost free capital.
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by crmd 4y ago
The most valuable information for the average HN reader, especially younger colleagues who have only been in the workforce for the last decade, is that the ~70% gross margins of the hyperscalers, and by extension the $300k+ salaries for ear

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