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by fossuser 6y ago
"Just get them to create an account, they can suffer through our horrible software after."
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by fossuser 6y ago
Agreed - there's so much I find frustrating about how companies manage passwords in addition to mandatory changing. - Maximum length requirements (often secret until you try to put a password in) - Requiring some symbols, but not other
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by fossuser 6y ago
It’s not just ad revenue - substack has taken the best writers too. The quality of writing on substack is magnitudes better than what’s available on NYT. I’m not sure if NYT was always this bad and the internet just revealed them or if they
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yep - that was the other one, thanks!
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by fossuser 6y ago
Agreed - not just materials either, Carbon printers are fast and for mass production. Making shoes via form printers at scale is not viable (form is nice for prototyping though and small scale stuff).
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by fossuser 6y ago
I've always loved these - this company makes one that looks great, but isn't open source (there is an API that has yet to be released): https://www.vestaboard.com It's also quite expensive, but has a clever design
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think the soles for this are done by Carbon in Redwood City. They've done some other cool stuff with their 3d printed lattice like the midsole of an Adidas shoe that's already out and some bike saddles (I think for Specialized a
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by fossuser 6y ago
I wish there was some way to fix the incentives so people valued growth properly. Currently the incentives are broken. If you buy in you’re incentivized to limit any future growth to capitalize your ownership of restricted supply. This take
549.
by fossuser 6y ago
s/can’t/shouldn’t
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah, but your example is a little different than the OP's - I think part of this though is that the company is using the 'bonus' effectively as salary but with the idea that they don't have to guarantee its future. The
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by fossuser 6y ago
FB also already proposed one where users can report encrypted messages and send an unencrypted log to them from their client device. Since most existing child abuse imagery is reported by users that see it somehow - this seems like a reason
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by fossuser 6y ago
That's not even the proposal they're talking about, this is: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/interim-reg... Also as the other comments said, even in the one you link they're discuss
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah - this linked article is total bullshit, at best it's misleading political spin arguing in bad faith. This is the actual proposal: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/interim-reg... https:&
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by fossuser 6y ago
After reading the source material, this HN post sounds like political spin bullshit that's arguing in bad faith - but it would take more time than I have right now to figure out the truth. Edit: Here's the actual regulation in que
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by fossuser 6y ago
I'm happy to pay annually if the product is good and the 2 months off makes it worth it. Without 2 months off I'd pay monthly because canceling is easier. With 2 months off the reasoning is I like the product and can save some and
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by fossuser 6y ago
The Apple Watch health stuff kind of sucks (the health app itself that can take in/track other data is okay). It sounds like Apple is just blocking Peloton from their fitness competitor bootcamp stuff, but Peloton can still integrate d
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by fossuser 6y ago
If you're doing a capital raise privately before the public offering then you can set the terms you think are fair, but this isn't really required for a direct listing unless you need to raise money. You can list and put up shares
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by fossuser 6y ago
Also Palantir and Roblox - I think it's the way forward for most companies. Spotify was the first and the others have had slight variation to terms, but the core idea is good.
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah - it's not anonymous, the shill people didn't understand the technology and are wrong. Every transaction is part of the public ledger. If you ever want to get money in or out from fiat you need some point that is going to req
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by fossuser 6y ago
Banks rip off companies in IPOs by underpricing the stock so their investors get a kickback. That's the least charitable way to write it, but it's somewhat close to the truth (the other part of the truth is that pricing is hard wh
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by fossuser 6y ago
This comment above does a better job than I did at explaining why the staking incentive is somewhat flawed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26810686
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by fossuser 6y ago
I remain cautiously optimistic about the underlying idea and core technology (even if there's a lot of pyramid scheme snake oil surrounding it). Interesting applications do exist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24
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by fossuser 6y ago
This is the best (and also approachable well-written) book on the topic that I've found: https://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/ My (possibly incorrect) understanding is that POW is computationally expensive because that
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by fossuser 6y ago
I don't know what BTC will do, but this is a banality and mostly wrong in any way that's important. "The number has gone up" for Google almost since it has gone public. If you bought BTC at $1 and it went to $10 - is $10
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by fossuser 6y ago
I'm skeptical of proof-of-stake, proof-of-work seems like the main innovation of cryptocurrencies that differentiates them from the standard financial industry? If you swap out POW for POS (or worse clearing house type trust orgs like
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by fossuser 6y ago
The Apple M1 chips make it worth coming back for that alone. They are so good. I have the M1 Macbook Air - I can't wait to see what the more powerful machines are like, but even the Air (without a fan) is a noticeably huge leap.
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by fossuser 6y ago
> How’s culture, storytelling, arguing, etc. working for us so far? Pretty well really (despite many obvious problems) - humanity has done and is doing great things. We also have a huge advantage though that the alignment has a shared ev
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by fossuser 6y ago
You do align people all the time - what is culture, story telling, arguing over what's good and bad, law? Discussion and changing people's minds? Persuasion and sharing ideas? > "All of these lesswrong posts sound so tec
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah - and people are famously bad about predicting these events: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BEtzRE2M5m9YEAQpX/there-s-no... If it is something that's a hundred plus years out then we'll probably ne
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think this is objectively wrong even on a human level. I could see some part of it if you're using empathy in a general enough sense to only mean modeling other minds without caring about their goals except as a way to pursue your ow

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