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Code Smell: Making Everything an Object
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People trusted Mt Gox for 4 years and it handled 70% of the world's bitcoin trading until it abruptly shut down and everyone's bitcoin more-or-less disappeared with it.
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> I’m guessing the people who can’t pipe a csv to pandas + scikit People who know how to do that neglect the important steps too. The hardest part about ML is finding practitioners who aren't false positives.
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You've just described Tesla's entire business model. They sell carbon credits to enable polluters to keep polluting.
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They've been doing it for years yeah. A decent source is https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkekmb/free-email-apps-spyin...
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Edison [1] (who was acquired [2] today by a company that sells your data to hedge funds) does precisely this too, except they sell all your data to third parties. Google at least keeps it in-house I guess? Privacy is such an illusion. [1]
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Unlikely. WSB and the like do not possess the necessary mentality to understand that a company may be overvalued. That’s why Left went long-only in the public eye (more accurately known as pump-and-dump though he didn’t explain step #2)
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Etsy
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okay, that'd make a lot more sense. The X1 Carbon was heavily advertised as being thin and lightweight.
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> The third, a giant, heavy Carbon X1 A 2019 Carbon X1 (14") weighs 2.4lbs and the laptop they're drooling over starts at 2.8lbs.
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I remember when HN used to discuss cool technology hacks and not incessant hand-wringing about the plague of internet-connected children at campgrounds or the deluge of fraudulent handwriting in the postal system.
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survivorship bias
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VPN companies make a lot of money selling your browsing activity to governments, fintech, and adtech.
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> I will not be using Clubhouse Nobody uses Clubhouse on any platform. Being forced to listen to long-form narrations of bullshit LinkedIn wall posts is an excruciating form of torture.
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HN is closer to chat than forums. Topics after the first page are effectively closed forever and it’s near impossible to continue a conversation without constantly checking it or relying on some external tools/extensions. The point bas
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If code reviews are centered around style the entire org is fucked.
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Because it's all a sham and the monetary success of a particular drop is contingent upon how well it's advertised. By knowing when and what drops would be featured, that was the information asymmetry he was exploiting. There is no
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> excessive amount of criticism on working code Because it creates technical debt, that's why people get frustrated with shit code. They just aren't properly equipped how to convey/teach/train/fix it without comi
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These aren’t data people. These are people building hype with bullshit terminology on bullshit tech.
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Large NFT purchases are between shills [1]. If you ever find yourself thinking "wow I could make some money" then you are the mark. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-card_Monte
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> How can you fit anything after an exhausting 40 hours of work per week? You must not know any single parents. Humans are extremely capable when it comes to important things.
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The government is utterly terrible at any sort of cross-division or state vs federal information sharing. TSA is a relatively new agency (homeland) and needed to build up that data mostly from scratch.
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It's 100% this. Artificial inconveniences created to convince people to willingly give up all their information past, present, and future for government surveillance. That they additionally convinced us to pay $80 for that is just perf
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I’m so glad the entire decentralized community has rallied around the limitless power and innovation of NFTs.
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A connection isn't just a dest_port, it's the unique combination of 4 components: source_ip:source_port:dest_ip:dest_port
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Broadly speaking people on HN have no clue how to setup a performant httpd/app server and are impressed by abysmal performance/cost metrics like this or the MangaDex post. Everything these days is obscured through multiple layers
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That sounds overbearing and your mobile data bills will skyrocket as nobody wants to use your annoying home setup.
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So the exact same triangulation vulnerability exposed and subsequently fixed in every dating app? How is this not Step #2 after “Build a dating app that Match Group will eventually acquire”
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This is no more exploitative than someone trying to make it big on Youtube, Twitch, or Spotify and gaining zero traction. If the content someone creates on these platforms doesn't capture an audience, the hosting platform doesn't
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Drop the notion of packaging them together and you have a winning idea. There's an optional metadata file that may or may not be present alongside the exact same CSV that we've always had. For systems that implement the metadata t

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