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by dehrmann 2y ago
The general consensus is Vanguard is amazing for how they revolutionized investing with index funds, its ownership model really does put investors first, but as a brokerage, it has quality-of-life issues with its website and apps. Spending
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by dehrmann 2y ago
STEM people might have been early adopters for crypto as a currency, but are they really the main people speculating, these days?
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Would you like to buy some tulips?
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by dehrmann 2y ago
There are 42 BSL-4 facilities in the world. I'm too lazy to do the math, but I'm curious what percent of the world's population is near one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level#List_of_BSL-4_...
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by dehrmann 2y ago
It guides policy. If it was engineered, it means this is research we really shouldn't be doing. If it was a wild virus being researched, it means we need to take the threat of spillover more seriously.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
There's a greater burden of proof for spillover when there just happens to be a lab doing virus research near the epicenter of the outbreak.
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Someone else makes blanks, right?
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The only options for this sort of backup are tape, HDD, or cloud. Optical media were never really feasible for backups because they were either too small or writers were too expensive. Supposedly AWS Glacier used them at some point, but you
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> On the one hand, even finding a DVD player that still works can be an uphill battle Doesn't every blu-ray player, Xbox Series X, and some of the PS5s play DVDs?
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Not GP, but yes.
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There are tall buildings near some baseball fields that can see onto the field, and some even have bleachers on the roof. There was no contract with MLB if you watch the game from there.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Somewhere I heard that there would have been much less drama around the TikTok ban if the US had framed it as tit-for-tat punishment for not allowing US social media platforms in China.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
There's the "Grindr threat"[1] There are metadata threats around who's connected to whom, where users are, where they go, etc. There can be leaked data in videos posted by military personnel 1: https://www.the
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Ah, yes. The good old "what idiot wrote this?" experience.
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It's not necessarily the use of AI tools (though the license parts are an issue), is that someone submitted code for review without knowing how it works.
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> we always burn investor money to corner the market and then tech usually catches up This is most R&D. You research, build a prototype, bring it to market, and it only hits profitability at volume.
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> Just ask the state of California I've see the labels at Starbucks, by the chocolate at the grocery store, and by the balsamic vinegar.
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The incentive is to produce tasty food that makes as much money as possible. Food is so cheap in the US that I doubt that was the limiting factor. Like, we make cheap candy that is 99% sugar.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
You can always short SONO. It'll probably muddle along for 5+ more years until someone buys it up for the brand name. There just isn't the market for their speakers that there used to be.
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Most things that would have used VMware 15 years ago are using Kubernetes now. The things that aren't are probably looking at Proxmox or just KVM.
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Linux is like an abusive relationship in that way--it's always your fault.
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Are you asking if maintaining a personal blog is worth it or if it's still relevant in building your personal brand, and if now, how to build it?
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I don't know how much I buy the "leveling the playing field" argument. In my computer architecture class, we learned Sparc assembly. Very few people had encountered much assembly, and definitely not Sparc. At first, it was le
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by dehrmann 2y ago
This makes sense. You might not immediately need to design a complex hierarchy, but you'll encounter them pretty early in a lot of languages standard libraries.
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It went weirdly assumed that HN is somehow different. I don't believe in social media addiction, but addicts are known for lying to themselves and making excuses. If you're quitting social media because you don't think it&#x2
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What if I told you Hacker News is social media?
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The big, open question right now is how much of the California wildfires is due to climate change and how much is due to aggressive fire suppression over the pas 50+ years.
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$38 per pound for protein powder?
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Unlike in paint, there isn't an obvious reason for lead to show up in protein powders, so it must be something like bioaccumulation exacerbated by processing. How can we grow plans with less lead?
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by dehrmann 2y ago
This post misses a lot of nuance. Aaron Swartz was an activist who did obviously illegal things and got caught and prosecuted. What OpenAI is doing is in legal gray area because it might be transformative enough to be fair use; we just don&

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