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by ethbro 6y ago
I'm surprised no one brought up revenue sharing. I was under the impression there was a revenue-allocation problem that Amazon needed to solve (Kindle Unlimited subscriptions?), that depended on reliable reading statistics. E.g. How ma
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by ethbro 6y ago
ToS are effectively useless for this purpose. If the industry moved to a standardized disclosure form (e.g. something like the HUD-1 [1] in real estate sales), people would stop complaining about this. [1] https://www.hud.gov&#x2
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by ethbro 6y ago
People who don't understand things, call them some variant on magic. People who do, use their true names. Clarke's linguistic corollary has probably been true for as long as there's been technology.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Captain Bryant toka, me ni omae-yo.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Not to (surprisingly) knock Oracle, but at this point halo cloud customers are "Which provider is willing to cut their own throat on pricing to be able to say they host us?"
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by ethbro 6y ago
It's likely not smaller. But the market for expensive, short term loans, from people who can access and use the internet and/or apps is smaller. I don't imagine a payday loan customer is thinking about that new financial se
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by ethbro 6y ago
Thought occurred to me, but I imagine heat dispersion would be cost-prohibitive vs terrestrial options. I suppose {sat -> orbital DC -> sat} (latency) or {sat -> orbital DC processing -> ground} (transmission bandwidth) are the
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by ethbro 6y ago
Ah, I remember the olden days of HN well. When the front page rang with shouts of "HERE YE, HERE YE, THINGS YE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT EQUITY DILUTION!"
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by ethbro 6y ago
T-minus X: "Starlink: offering free transit to Azure & GCP."
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by ethbro 6y ago
This. My mind was blown when I heard the 2013 remaster of The Eagle's "Taking It Easy". Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ZZHNRHA2g&t=1m36s Remaster: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by ethbro 6y ago
That's a use case I haven't encountered, nor considered! Most of my work is making known transitions (e.g. page1 to page2) work reliably, so I have the benefit of knowing the landing page structure. If you're crawling patholo
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by ethbro 6y ago
It's something of a UX question too. One could design a page that visually loaded, then jumped to a redirect after 10 seconds on the page. But who would? The primary approach is always event-based, because most pages do that sanely.
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by ethbro 6y ago
I think we have a very different definition of basic tools.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Let's not pretend we live in some Stone Age where only our hardlined desktops are able to access the internet.
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by ethbro 6y ago
> So removing the browser may leave a user unable to bootstrap another browser onto the system (at least once IE is actually gone) without outside help or another machine. Invoke-WebRequest 'https://download.mozilla.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Command economies are nation-scale examples of Goodhart's law.
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by ethbro 6y ago
I think people ascribe motive to a lot of Chinese behavior, where it's probably more an issue of perspective. In China, as near as I can tell, 2-3 generations have been raised with the understanding that truth is always subordinate t
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by ethbro 6y ago
Why doesn't my browser compile and store my viewing habits, then construct searches for me? Searches which Google then executes? Centralized services have built personalization systems in which they operate the personalization algorith
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by ethbro 6y ago
As someone who remembers the web before personalization, the product experience was better. It may be true that Google has over-invested in personalization-driven features, and under-invested in user-neutral features. Personalization belong
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by ethbro 6y ago
> We Alpha-Centaurians have have the worst neighbors in the known universe. Just wait until they see what we're like when we get there.
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by ethbro 6y ago
It's enforced through visibility / rankings in Google Search results. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/about-amp Isn't there a term for using dominance in one market to compel b
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by ethbro 6y ago
I only tangentially follow the news (original backer for the $35-whatever-tier), but last I checked, there was a reality check ~1 year ago. They actually hired and empowered a PM to ride herd over the project (including Chris Roberts), and
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by ethbro 6y ago
It still feels fairly pyramid-schemey. "Purchase now, with expectation of return if others purchase in the future"
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by ethbro 6y ago
The designer (Chris Roberts) landed way too much money, and used it to justify a seemingly unbounded project scope. As one might imagine, an unbounded project takes infinite time to deliver. And they seem to be keeping to that schedule. tl;
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by ethbro 6y ago
Interesting point I'd never considered until this thread... Why not tip the freezer / fridge onto its back? So that doors open "up"? Aware they're typically not perfectly flat on the rear face, but close enough you
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by ethbro 6y ago
With proper precautions in an outdoor format, risk seems manageable. There's nothing about grilling that really requires close physical proximity.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Opening the freezer would have substantially decreased the frozen time, with each opening. Specifically as OP seemed to specify an upright freezer. Chest freezer would have had less of an impact, but still noticeable.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Depending on bandwidth, you could probably stream an over-rendered viewport (e.g. 3D skybox) that allows for local-device-magnitude latency for critical functions (perspective change & location translation), while being backed by stream
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by ethbro 6y ago
I think this has been borne out for most network technologies: the fundamental benefit is not {human doing old thing over new network} but {machine agent doing old thing for human over new network}. But the genesis is always a bit counter-i
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by ethbro 6y ago
Group buy? I feel like finding 20 people who know how to use a VPN and are trustworthy would be feasible.

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