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by ethbr0 3y ago
The problem with laissez faire economic allocation has been timescales. It's an extremely efficient allocator... on a certain timescale, itself determined by the market. It's an incompetent allocation on different timescales, typi
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Engineers dancing around the fundamental constraints of reality deserve a bit more respect than folks complaining about learning the latest JS-of-the-month, all of which follow basic comp sci patterns.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
To me, GraphQL is a great base model for what logs should be. The producer declares all possible data. The consumer requests the specific data it wants, at runtime. Because fundamentally, there's a mismatch of knowledge. Log consumers
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by ethbr0 3y ago
There's the possibility of utopian corporate nationality too. Being an employee at a lot of corporations is nicer than being a citizen of a lot of counties. But corporate benevolence mostly demands on human capital supply and demand ba
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Money is also a second order effect. It stems from human tax base (after we mostly eliminated direct government capital ownership when we did away with monarchies). And human tax base ultimately stems from... the ability to count. Which is
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> With [_____] however, the overall trend would be you don't need the masses as much, so you don't need to placate most of them. They stop being useful. {mechanical looms,mechanized farming,factory mass production,computerize
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Only if there's motion. Something can be bent and also secured.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The problem with logging since time immemorial seems to be log producers throught about it as 'How do we put records from one SQL table into strings?' IMHO, that's not even the right mental model, because it assumes a const
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom [...] license and all other rights required or necessary to [...] create derivative works [...] > [...] for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality as
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by ethbr0 3y ago
As with all crypto ideas, I believe this starts with "If we wanted to take government out of the picture..."
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by ethbr0 3y ago
It's a decent proxy for peak utility when enthusiast motherboards last came without lights. Miss those days.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I'd hazard no, because 'at scale'. You could mechanical turk puzzle them trivially, but the realistic threat model is tens of thousands of credentials, tried against high value login prompts.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Think you might have missed a not in there, if I'm reading sentiment correctly. "...found that it's that great..."
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Good point. No. (Slurps more coffee)
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I get it from Zoom's perspective: it's a core differentiator and strategic future advantage for them. I think it's going to lose them more customers than make them money... but we'll see. MS is a more interesting case, b
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by ethbr0 3y ago
There are two impenetrable versions of English for me: Australian and cricket. I've consigned myself to never reaching proficiency in either.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
And I'm curious what Team's current terms are too.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Iterate a pre/suffix number? I've never had a site do any substring historical matching.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
That's a use case for the good 'ole iterated number! Eventually you roll off the end of the history check, and can reuse the original on the next iteration. In my practical experience, I've never had a site where this happens
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Algorithmically generated passwords for different sites was a mind-blower. There are so many differentiation algorithms that are trivially runnable in your head. If most sites are salting and hashing passwords correctly (this is 2023...), t
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Because it's not a dumpster. It's a casino with flashing lights, exciting noise, and free cocktails.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
And I think this is one of the things modern games have missed for a lot of BG-era players -- discovery and delight. AAA production costs make it difficult: you can't just spread the game's budget equally into niche content most w
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by ethbr0 3y ago
BBC News has some video: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66368733
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I'm rethinking this after puzzling over it for a minute. Since it's the average... total sea area shouldn't matter. Land heats up faster than sea, but likely doesn't transfer much of that heat into the ocean, so the sea:
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by ethbr0 3y ago
... dinosaur eats man. Woman inherits the earth. (Best line delivery in the movie)
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by ethbr0 3y ago
This is the "daily average sea surface temperature between 60°N and 60°S". And southern latitudes have more exposed ocean than northern ones. See 60° to 60° on "Land Mass at Each Latitude" https://www.ecoclima
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I was so disappointed when the first season of Survivor years ago was not this. "You're giving them food? And they aren't allowed to hunt? Wtf!?" Lately, I've really enjoyed Alone , specifically because it focuse
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Don't fully disagree, but feel a counterpoint needs to be said. > created so many insanely big problems through greed, and unbridled technological progress in the name of profits Capitalism is an allocation algorithm that scales
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Ocean Heat Record Broken(bbc.com)
255 points by ethbr0 3y ago|275 comments
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Is 90% of Canada more or less valuable than the other 10% of Canada?

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