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by fnord77 5y ago
was there some way to have prevented or mitigated this?
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by fnord77 5y ago
isn't libreoffice/star office written in java? so now we have come full circle with a jvm (via wasm) in browsers again
873.
by fnord77 5y ago
great, now how about container virtualization
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by fnord77 5y ago
IIRC, the possibility was raised in SEC filings
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by fnord77 5y ago
that bluff failed spectacularly. How out of touch does management have to be to not realize FB needs europe a lot more than europe needs facebook? the reaction in my circles has been almost universally "don't let the door hit you
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by fnord77 5y ago
or public utilities
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by fnord77 5y ago
This chart doesn't take into account inflation. Anyway, someone described twitter as a "honeypot for assholes". If your platform is dominated by trolls or other malicious people, I can't see it having a good valuation
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by fnord77 5y ago
as the article states, this was suspected or known for at least 15 years. Has anything actionable (treatment-wise) come of it?
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by fnord77 5y ago
for digital nomads, what's the advantage of this over the standard 90-day tourist visa? At least for me, 90 days in any one place is more than enough.
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by fnord77 5y ago
scrolljacking is one of the most user-hostile things a site can do
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by fnord77 5y ago
Nice article. btw, ML has gotten $3.5B in funding! https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap
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by fnord77 5y ago
another example: Ford and GM accountants making engineering decisions in the 70s and 80s. Poor quality and deaths were the result.
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by fnord77 5y ago
in the 20 years I'm surprised that some company that makes both sources and headsets (sony, apple) haven't made their own proprietary protocol in parallel
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by fnord77 5y ago
I've heard this called the "california roll" because it is so pervasive here. I guess someone at Tesla confused "done by everyone" with "legal"
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by fnord77 5y ago
> A big part of the population are complete morons I've seen smart people be super destructive. Shooting at power transformers and what not. They knew what was going to happen. It is more like personal issues and boredom rathe
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by fnord77 5y ago
feels like this is part of a larger pattern of corruption up and down institutions in western civilization. everything is gamified, monetized and rigged.
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by fnord77 5y ago
a tanker truck of Rustoleum and industrial sump pumps seriously, though I expect the rebar to be compromised by moisture intrusion
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by fnord77 5y ago
Is this a consequence of demand, or is this a consequence of private equity buying up rental units and manipulating pricing?
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by fnord77 5y ago
my point is $20-30k/m for an AWS database can actually be a bargain
890.
by fnord77 5y ago
When considering the cost of having a secure server room, a commercial internet line, electricity, cooling and hardware - plus the cost of my time (or someone else's on the team), AWS gets more and more attractive. The business side
891.
by fnord77 5y ago
I'm too busy to tend to the care and feeding of a database server. I'll gladly pay amazon to do it for me.
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by fnord77 5y ago
so, styrofoam is not technology?
893.
by fnord77 5y ago
in the description of the PR, there's almost 1000 words of text describing in detail what is being done. I don't see the problem.
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by fnord77 5y ago
just curious - has this ever shown up on employer background checks?
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by fnord77 5y ago
the risks of owning a sailboat > The Evelyn Roberts, a Hans Christian 42, almost directly opposite to me decides to sink. The owner is stuck in the USA and is not allowed through Malaysia's closed border. He has no insurance! >
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by fnord77 5y ago
that chart shows the price of TVs as basically approaching free over time, but that doesn't include cable or internet, which in earlier times were not necessary to have a functioning TV
897.
by fnord77 5y ago
this looks like a rendering. how is it "here" ?
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by fnord77 5y ago
> innovative, potentially competing enterprises I feel like there hasn't been many of these recently. And the few that have been around get massive financing rounds that dilute options into nothing and never go ipo
899.
by fnord77 5y ago
but still some things will never amount to anything. Capital expended on, say perpetual motion machines is not a risk, it is pure waste
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by fnord77 5y ago
> This ruling stems from a decision made in 2020 by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that stated that cloud services hosted in the US are incapable of complying with the GDPR and EU privacy laws. So why can't google

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