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by fontain 5mo ago
Every single 3 and 4 letter .com domain has been registered for at least 20 years, not a single one is available to register. Domains aren’t the reason for names like “wiro” and “tubi”.
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by fontain 5mo ago
I’m 50. All startup news looks like this: “Payments via Zoosha? K-smog and Batboy launch new startup.”
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by fontain 5mo ago
They do run their own metal. That’s their entire ethos. Railway is their own cloud.
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by fontain 5mo ago
I’m very sympathetic and understand that decisions are easy to criticize in hindsight but leaving your database in GCP while moving everything else to your own data centres seems so backwards I can’t even begin to imagine how that could hap
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Polymarket Isn't a Prediction Market for the Real World(reticulating.substack.com)
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by fontain 5mo ago
Why did you follow a strict carnivore diet? Health? Accident? Aside from the constipation did it benefit your health?
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by fontain 5mo ago
it is far more valuable to know the type of boring things boring people buy in their boring daily lives
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by fontain 5mo ago
The story is confusing some people. Claude found a file on the computer that the wallet owner had not found. Claude didn't crack a password or do anything magic, it just searched for a file that the wallet owner had not thought to sear
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by fontain 5mo ago
10x of nothing is nothing.
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by fontain 5mo ago
I’m finding this a little difficult to square. If things are radically changing within the company and they’re rearchitecting how the company works, wouldn’t they start with a transition period? Letting 1k people go, many of whom will be im
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by fontain 5mo ago
> In 2025, lag bolts were by far the biggest problem. They anchor tents, art pieces, and other infrastructure into the ground, and can easily disappear beneath the dust. I thought of a few potential solutions but then clicked through to
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by fontain 5mo ago
Complete and utter nonsense. Domain registration is already API driven and has been for decades. The most sophisticated domain name investors (or "domain farms") go as far as to own registrars directly so they have instant access
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by fontain 5mo ago
Cohen is already rich rich, his GameStop compensation doesn’t really matter much. The eBay acquisition could be a strategy to juice his compensation but I think it is much more likely he does believe that he can achieve his stated aims, whi
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by fontain 5mo ago
Only violate one proverb at a time. If you shit where you eat, don't rob the cradle. If you rob the cradle, don't shit where you eat.
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by fontain 5mo ago
I agree with your message but maybe don’t have sex with young co-workers.
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by fontain 5mo ago
but that’s not science, right? Dawkins and his ilk cling to science as a cure for religion yet if we are to believe that our absence of understanding of consciousness means computers can be conscious then our absence of understanding of the
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by fontain 5mo ago
They're an anthropomorphic avatar of everything that is wrong with the business of technology. They're the broken promises of technology with a face. The promise of technology that we've all bought into is a better world, a w
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by fontain 5mo ago
Never meet your heros, or the modern version: never let your heros meet an LLM.
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by fontain 5mo ago
We haven’t seen widespread adoption because they can’t hope to compete with human delivery drivers on cost. The cost to DoorDash and Uber Eats of a delivery driver is nothing upfront and a few dollars per delivery. The cost of a delivery ro
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by fontain 5mo ago
Deliveries use hands because humans have hands, not because hands are a prerequisite for deliveries. Last mile is already “solved” with the little robots that drive around cities, no need for hands. Humans are useful because of our brains,
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by fontain 5mo ago
School meal funding would not cost more than $55bn or even close to $55bn. California’s program, subtracting initial implementation cost, was close to $1bn to feed ~10% of U.S. public school students 2 free meals per day. $55bn couldn’t fun
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by fontain 5mo ago
Almost every high volume service on the internet is write a little, read a lot, and when there are writes, they're relatively small, a few bytes into a database that can fan out. GitHub is very different: constant writes, large files,
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by fontain 5mo ago
Personally, I’m sympathetic. We know that GitHub did a huge amount of work over the last decade to make Git scale, which has benefited us all. These new scaling challenges are real challenges, 30x growth would be a nightmare for any system
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by fontain 5mo ago
All of those features are supported by GitHub in some form, e.g: Organizations can now belong to Enterprises.
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by fontain 6mo ago
I can’t believe someone with so little life experience would speak so confidently. You don’t know any successful drug users?
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by fontain 6mo ago
You must not be living in the U.K. then. https://theweek.com/health/britains-cocaine-habit-use-of-the...
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by fontain 6mo ago
Your perception of drug users is woefully out of date. The most “valuable” members of society by your metric (contributing tax dollars) are using a lot of drugs. The U.K. upper middle class are snorting so much coke.
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by fontain 6mo ago
Society is by definition “forcing” people to carry the burden of other’s choices. You’re drawing an entirely arbitrary line at direct taxation. Why is it “fair”? Because society isn’t zero sum. We each give and take in different ways.
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by fontain 6mo ago
I assume you’re being sarcastic but just in case: the goal of single payer healthcare isn’t to spend the least amount of money on healthcare. The goal of single payer healthcare is to guarantee everyone a minimum quality of life. You can be
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by fontain 6mo ago
I like cigarettes. Cigarettes aren’t addictive. I’m pro drug decriminalisation and pro banning cigarettes. They’re not mutually exclusive.

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