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by gberger 3y ago
"string together strings of characters" = "manipulate symbols", no?
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by gberger 3y ago
I can't believe it has been almost 10 years since Twitch Plays Pokémon.
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by gberger 3y ago
I disagree. $95 glasses are not a luxury good. I think this might have more to do with the relative saturation of the glasses market at each price point, where there was not enough offer for a midrange product before Warby Parker stepped in
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by gberger 3y ago
Owning actual cryptocurrency is a huge hassle with concerns about key storage, hot vs cold wallets, etc. Investors are much more likely to already have the infrastructure in place to hold an asset like an ETF, so offering bitcoin wrapped in
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by gberger 3y ago
There is no moat.
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by gberger 3y ago
Why is that?
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by gberger 3y ago
Wow, that is odd. Shouldn't it have been the other way around? Anyone can create a diet (everyone has _a_ diet!), but you need to study nutrition to understand it.
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by gberger 3y ago
Reddit says "typical app user" but Apollo claims that its users make more API requests than is typical for other apps, in part due to higher usage, and in part due to inefficiencies in how Apollo structures its queries.
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by gberger 3y ago
The reason is that those captchas were helping to OCR-transcribe books. The first word would be known to the system and serve as the actual verification, and the second word would be unknown and serve as you performing free MTurk work.
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by gberger 3y ago
There is no moat, according to Google https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322
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by gberger 3y ago
Jack's Flight Club is the UK equivalent.
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by gberger 3y ago
Wait, did you actually find overpriced water in Greece? I ask because they have a law regulating the price of bottled water: https://greeklandscapes.com/prices-in-greece/#:~:text=BOTTLE... ). In my experience, I was abl
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by gberger 4y ago
That doesn't check out, your timeline is not quite correct. Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, not 2023. That's before OP even started the application.
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by gberger 4y ago
> This just devalues cover letters. They already are very low signal. > we will end up that you have to attend an in person interview at some intermediary So like a recruiting agency that does pre-screening? That is a thing already.
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by gberger 4y ago
"Peppercorn" made it to the front page twice today. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35134648 is #21 at time of writing
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by gberger 4y ago
Do you mind explaining why? I'm not familiar with hard vs soft money.
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by gberger 4y ago
Could it also recommend a corresponding wall plug that would allow for fast charging USB C to C?
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by gberger 4y ago
This article doesn't really explain _why_ eating earlier is supposedly better. The only explanation it gives is related to weight-loss. Conflating health and weight-loss is an unhealthy (pun intended) obsession of the media and society
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by gberger 4y ago
And with ChatGPT, it would be really easy to generate...
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by gberger 4y ago
It would take me longer to properly iron just one shirt than to drop them all off at the cleaner.
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by gberger 4y ago
That is a keyboard, for anyone curious.
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by gberger 4y ago
Access to entertainment and culture is not a luxury.
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by gberger 4y ago
> Yeah but I would assume the same attack is not going to be successfully against the same target a second time. That's a bold assumption
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by gberger 4y ago
You would have sold at $100 ;)
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by gberger 4y ago
You are mostly correct, but a bit misinformed in two topics. One, the favourite in all the credible polls is Lula. Second, the impeachment of Dilma was due to irregular monetary policy, while Lula was investigated for unrelated corruption c
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by gberger 4y ago
Helsing https://helsing.ai/ is gearing up to be the Palantir of Europe - at least in the military AI field. One of its cofounders was a software architect at Palantir.
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by gberger 4y ago
(For context, this thread originally linked to https://blog.google/products/stadia/message-on-stadia-stream... "A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy")
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by gberger 4y ago
RCE As A Service, what's not to like?
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by gberger 4y ago
Does anyone have a TLDR of major changes or fixes?
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by gberger 4y ago
Helicopter noise pollution in central London is insane, especially during weekends when there often are protests, demonstrations and special events.

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