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by fsckboy 5mo ago
an article about a new app is an article about a new app, even if self promotional. an article that spends most of its time talking about the sunshine and roses of purchasing domains from a domain squatter, even if you are a domain squatter
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> "we don't need to read it" [here] many people here don't read the articles, and that's not going to change. (on today's internet, jumping from the site you want to be on to a site with unknown UX patterns
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
the question isn't whether the user is trusting Plaid with too much access, the question is whether Plaid is trusting these apps with too much.
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> LLM-assisted coding is $100/mo. It looks very commoditized when most houses in developed world pay more for electricity than that. this is a small nit, but you still have to pay your electric bill, the $100/mo is on top of t
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
Poe's Law whoosh
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
it's a blatant double standard if you have evidence of people "doing it and getting away with it", but you don't, you just suspect it. and it's scapegoating if blame is centered on a person or group to explain away
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> Rural kids are put into situations where they are expected to rely fully on themselves, with life-or-death consequences, from a young age. come to the city, farm boy, and we'll give you a corner you can sling the brown from and w
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
it did not make me wish to engage in political or ideological battle, i found it an interesting reflection of a complicated person's thought process. So, any battling is on you (you no doubt have a lot of company: "don't you
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
reading TFA gave me a complicated perspective on OSC, and reading this comment gave me a more complicated persepctive on OSC, so I'm glad I read both, and I'm glad the long battle scenes were left out of both.
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
this list of potential victims is from some of the press about this. there are a bunch of articles about this, I may update the list if it's straightforward [ok, i'm updating, filling in details from https://www.newswe
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Michio Kaku "number of dead/missing American scientists "cause for natl concern"(newsweek.com)
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> lower margins (more middlemen taking fees) middlemen taking fees is not the measure for comparison, the question is whether you could run your own ad business for your own platform and keep your costs lower than established players wh
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
reagan was not remotely neoliberal (though he was a disillusioned former socialist and union leader) but he did knock liberalism off its perch. it was clinton who delivered the democrats to wall street and vice versa
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
in another comment you just said "When was the last time you kept a phone longer than 2-3 years?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834195#47842655 how do you square that position with your stance here on e-w
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> - Invasion of Grenada (Grenadian Military) > - Rating: Poor > - Note: A very small force with limited heavy weaponry and minimal organizational depth. > - Gulf War (Iraq) > - Rating: Competent (on paper) / Incompe
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> America hasn’t faced a peer-level, modern military since the Korean War. For seventy years, it has specialized in "wars of choice" against overmatched opponents America has not faced any wars in its own "theater",
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> China followed with massive, highly disciplined infantry waves that effectively fought the UN coalition to a stalemate. just to clarify what "effectively fought" means, the Chinese entered the war when the ROK+US+UN forces h
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
Russian stated nuclear doctrine has been treated by the Russians as an existential threat to Russia if followed through on.
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
you have not discovered the ur-comment, you have discovered the ruins of the pedagogy that was Ur. "look on my works, ye mighty, and despair"
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
in the world there should only be one debate and one summary about programming languages, and everybody should read that as a starting point before they enter the fray. for example, I would say what i was taught, that lisp is lists made out
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
i could have used lemons and lemonade stands to explain supply and demand, the lesson is still the same. letting the market set prices ensures that the chips go to the critical markets and uses. less critical uses will not allocate funds fo
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
if a shortage lasts years, it's not a shortage. "The market clearing price of RAM in the face of expected sustained healthy demand should lead to a stable market for years." even if gaming is and will remain very popular for
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
mmmm it's equally likely that mitochondria's precursors were self interested parasites or predators, whose negative effects were competitively neutralized by defensive host adaptations that exploititively colonialized them. No int
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
how about the whole thing was written by an AI as satire, mocking human "coding retreat"
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by fsckboy 6mo ago
> a bunch of progressive legal experts poring over that contract looking for holes all attorneys represent their clients; your attorney does not have to share your opinion of the law or public policy, they can still interpret what the l
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by fsckboy 6mo ago
> the home row (don't know if that's how that row of buttons is called) the "home row" is where your fingers start out if you know how to type by touch, and it come from the days of typewriters instead of keyboards.
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by fsckboy 6mo ago
> Anything that decants below 78.4C do you mean distills? decanting is just pouring carefully
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by fsckboy 6mo ago
> Why should they impose a limit at all? Your hardware is a natural limit because imposing an artificial limit keeps them from exposing how low the natural limits turn out to be? Apple Silicon need always to be spoken with reverence, ye
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by fsckboy 6mo ago
if the kickstarter campaign met its goals, but then their outgoing emails ended up in the spam folders, why does that say cancel? They cite "momentum", but doesn't the fundraising success sustain the momentum of the project a
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by fsckboy 6mo ago
> Git was built because the commercial license of BitKeeper became unworkable for the Linux kernel community. BitKeeper was free to linux kernel developers with a "but no reverse engineering" clause, but Tridgell went explorin

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