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by ctvo 4y ago
> Wake me up when there's an EV that is just a car and not an always-connected surveillance device on wheels. This is an easy way to excuse Tesla's behavior. You're implying everyone does it. <shrug> What can ya do,
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by ctvo 4y ago
> What was the end game here? Is there any universe where someone does something like this and gets away with it? The Frank founder went to work for them after this closed. It doesn't look like she thought she did anything wrong he
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by ctvo 4y ago
I know other retailers are already doing this, but Amazon adopting it will force behavior change due to their size. It's possible to game listing details, product titles, brand names, and reviews. It's much harder to game custome
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by ctvo 4y ago
It's naive to think not having equity (if it's even true?) means there's no monetary incentive, which you then build the rest of your reply on.
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by ctvo 4y ago
Devil's advocate: Are these companies doing this to control the new standards or are they doing this because adhering to the web standard (both that you linked, I think?) puts them in a position where they'll be captive to an even
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by ctvo 4y ago
This piece is just outrageous. Sam Altman, who is incredibly handsome, wealthy, and generous, did not take any equity in OpenAI. He's basically doing this work out of the goodness of his heart folks. Very similar to SBF, who also recei
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Have you ever been in a jail cell? Almost every day in the US you see someone who decides to go out with guns blazing rather than go back. ... what? Who are these people going out in a blaze of glory rather than returning to prison? C
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by ctvo 4y ago
Makes sense if you're dropping all AWS dependencies. For us, ECS Anywhere with its logging to CloudWatch and automatic IAM credentials management allowed us to still use the rest of the AWS ecosystem on cheaper and more specialized har
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Hindenberg is accusing Block of committing fraud. I don't think so unless I missed a big accusation? They're accusing Block of enabling fraud, and when Block can no longer enable fraud -- say due to higher regulatory oversi
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by ctvo 4y ago
> The report is extremely long, but having gone through the bullet points, the case seems quite overstated. I've gone through it fully, not just the tl;dr. It's not overblown. They're not saying Block is doing anything il
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by ctvo 4y ago
Can you expand on the limitations of AWS ECS? It seems like... you built a worse version of it. Toss https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/anywhere on your own hardware and let someone else wake up at odd hours to worry about the
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Why in the seven hells would they need 6.5 billion on top of that? Are they building gold-plated toilets at their offices? It’s worth reading the article before commenting: > All proceeds will be used to help Stripe employees cover
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by ctvo 4y ago
> The stock tender is voluntary, with employees eligible to sell as few or as many vested shares as they want (i.e. zero-100%). 100% at any price is interesting let alone whatever they’re getting.
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by ctvo 4y ago
I have. It wasn't great, but it worked, and that was years ago. Is that the reason, though? tRPC generates a nicer client when targeting the browser?
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by ctvo 4y ago
> On versioning: it's 2023 & in most cases, you can solve versioning in other ways than maintaining old API versions indefinitely. For RN there's OTA, for web you just need reload the page or "downgrade" your SPA-
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Stop assuming data is of the type you’re expecting. You know it is, period. > Know when you break compatability with the frontend, before even running it: TypeScript has your back. Do you? Your front-end and back-end, regardless
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by ctvo 4y ago
Can I ask a naive question? What does this get me that gRPC + Protobuf to generate a Typescript client wouldn't? Edit: Ah. I see, you can use Typescript to define the IDL vs. learning Protobuf, Smithy, ... Not sure I would take the tra
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by ctvo 4y ago
There's occupying a foreign territory and decisively winning conventional battles. The US has no issues with the latter, and Taiwan will be the latter, unless you think the US is going to invade China and hold a city or two for two dec
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Risk applies equally to depositors. Share holders are owners in the company. They are rewarded financially when the company does well, and risk losing money when the company does poorly. In what world are customers equally subject to
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Also, they could disallow external links in comments. Bots will now post a link to another YouTube video (internal) while pretending to be the creator. The linked channel will look identical to the creator's channel. The private v
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by ctvo 4y ago
> lol it's nice to see Hacker News is still a bastion of reasoned communication and friendly discourse between tech people. I should really log in more > ... > I'm sure some of the foaming gammons here on HN would be over
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by ctvo 4y ago
The vans are amazing. I do a double take every time I see them on the road. This is a thorough tour, and I want one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CWCqJl0BEs i
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by ctvo 4y ago
Rivian, afaik, already had production delays, and are struggling to meet even Amazon's 100k order. What happens to new vans produced if the clause were to be lifted? Does Amazon get preferential treatment? Do they sell the new vans to
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by ctvo 4y ago
The average credit score in the US was 711[1] in 2020. It is highly unlikely the distribution is different for these 3 million house holds vs. the population that it's even worth discussing as a contributing factor unless you have some
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by ctvo 4y ago
> - There's really nothing wrong with this program, but it just feels like a vim clone, and I don't see the point to move from vim in my case. It's a vim clone that works out of the box with LSP support, telescope, etc. th
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by ctvo 4y ago
> It seems to me, your financial advisor should've had a plan for rolling this cash through CDs or short term bonds and distributing it across multiple institution to decrease your exposure or at the very least increase your FDIC in
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by ctvo 4y ago
Thinking the young people in the USA have the competency, discipline, means, and determination to even organize, let alone threaten “political stability” is a stretch. This has been happening for 20 years.
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by ctvo 4y ago
The Germans need to help us come up with a word for that feeling when you click on a project expecting to use it only to find it's another Electron type application and click back disappointed.
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by ctvo 4y ago
... doesn't this list correlate positively with the most popular apps in America? Yeah, there's a high # of how do I delete Instagram searches, there's a high # of Instagram users.
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by ctvo 4y ago
Unsure why there aren't percentage based fines in the US. Strong lobbying preventing legislation with teeth from passing? We know they're a publicly traded company, we know their revenue, profit, etc. -- why not fine them a percen

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