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by femto113 6y ago
Worth noting that TicketMaster also paid $110MM to "acquire" SongKick in order to settle the original (civil) lawsuit.
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by femto113 6y ago
Helluva down round (the $400M in cash is the most telling in my opinion and reminds me of the kickback that IBM had to pay to "sell" its chip foundries [1]). If Uber's new stake is worth $2.5B, then the equity is worth only
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by femto113 6y ago
In my experience maintenance is included only reluctantly. Much like any contract organization the owners of the companies make all their money on the margin between what they charge the customer and what they pay their laborers. For the l
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by femto113 6y ago
Was given this book as a present when I was a kid, its images still occupy a big chunk of my imagination and the Elsons were definitely my favorites. Kind of illustration in reverse--it's a loosely related collection of stories inspir
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by femto113 6y ago
Even deciding what is political or not is political. If you try to limit the definition to something putatively objective like "directly relating to the function of government agencies" a great many topics are immediately ambiguou
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by femto113 6y ago
I remember doing some napkin math back in 2017 and coming out with "driverless won't make Uber any more money, why are they spending so much on this?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15744074
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by femto113 6y ago
I like how they carefully called this demo "in motion", not "driving" or even "road test". It's definitely in motion!
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by femto113 6y ago
I guess I'm not the only one who misses those keyboards, they go for around ~$300 on eBay[1] [1] https://www.ebay.com/b/IBM-Model-F/175690/bn_55189929
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by femto113 6y ago
Version 4 got me through the first couple years of college. My freshman year I actually had a steady stream of people coming into my dorm room to use it on my PS/2. Eventually I switched from English to Math and moved on to vi and th
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by femto113 6y ago
it's not an unusual callout for an Amazon job. Some roles are very technical, you can be heads down working on code or doing data analysis almost all the time and what talking you do is to your teammates. If you need to communicate u
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by femto113 6y ago
Or almost any Cathy strip https://mirabiledictu.org/cathy-ack-2/
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by femto113 6y ago
I do think that something that's enough more than JSON to make it more usable for config (comments, imports, reference env vars, etc) would be great to have, but I don't see the two goals (config and templates) of dnjs as particul
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by femto113 6y ago
Came here to say the same thing. I don't understand why (semi-)reputable outlets are hocking this anti-renewable propaganda. Reminds me of an article[1] earlier this year about the coming "wind turbine waste", which sounds
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by femto113 6y ago
If we're playing CLI golf why not use macros to make it even dryer? int fired_main(int x = fire::arg("-x"), int y = fire::arg("-y")) could just be int fired_main(int fire_arg(x), int fire_arg(y)) w
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by femto113 6y ago
Yes, the time's not the test, it's getting the sample from where its collected to the lab (e.g. a doctors office that may only get collected from once a day), assembling a batch, running it, collating the results and sending them
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by femto113 6y ago
"Because no swabs are required, and no fancy equipment is needed, the tests are less vulnerable to backlogs" That, sadly, is nonsense unless you have thousands of technicians available to process the tests. What we have here is a
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by femto113 6y ago
Do not understand why we still mint them--there are enough pennies in existence to last forever, the problem is they are just sitting in jars on shelves. Instead of minting new ones the treasury (through banks) should just start buying the
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by femto113 6y ago
There's certainly no shortage of "fucks" already on S3, so I'm guessing AWS doesn't give any about them. https://buckets.grayhatwarfare.com/results/fuck/
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by femto113 6y ago
At a minimum it should be possible to up the baud rate to 19,200 via the terminal's setup menu, I seem to recall that's what the "good" labs had going back in college. Beyond that a simple node.js[1] or python[2] script
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by femto113 6y ago
There used to be a program called #1 Club Gold that nominally had an annual fee. A company I worked at in the 90s got free lifetime memberships for all employees as a perk for making Hertz their preferred agency so even after I left that c
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by femto113 6y ago
Interestingly written 3 years after the introduction of a functional language that eventually went on to become the most popular language there is.
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by femto113 6y ago
Even if you believe Telegram was competent and well intentioned the SEC's argument here seems clear and reasonable: Grams are securities because the Initial Purchasers and subsequent investors expect to profit from Telegram’s work ...
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by femto113 6y ago
It's a little more nuanced than just getting paid half as much to mine. Miners earn income form two sources, a per-block "subsidy" (source of the mining analogy, this is simply materialized and given to the miner), and per-t
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by femto113 6y ago
In high school my friends played a lot of "gunboat", where you stay at the board and all negotiations happen in the open. Seasons can be as short as you want, we usually aimed for around 10 minutes. Obviously lacks some of the p
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by femto113 6y ago
I reason this differently in a couple ways: 1) most IoT devices/base stations (though not all) do not expose an interface to the internet, they simply make outbound calls across the internet to some service to report stats, send messag
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by femto113 6y ago
I worked at an ultimately unsuccessful IoT startup a few years ago. Our first product was a wireless leak detector with remote notifications, it was definitely better than the what the market currently had on offer but it only "worked
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by femto113 6y ago
Even further back this echoes some of the goals of MIT's Project Athena started in 1980s.
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by femto113 7y ago
This site has resources oriented towards learning braille while you still have sight: http://www.dotlessbraille.org/
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by femto113 7y ago
Lots of reasons I don't think you can extrapolate meaningful death rates from this yet. One big one is that time from infection to death covers a very wide range: in Wuhan time from hospitalization to death had both a mean and a stand
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by femto113 7y ago
Similar ideas go back quite a ways. Here’s notes from a Perl library based the Skipjack cipher, this wound up inspiring some of my own work and I wound up porting it to node.js. > One example where Crypt::Skip32 has been useful: You have

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