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by gizmo 3y ago
A 10 person startup without a business model? And all the tech got thrown out. Clearly an acquihire.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Quite the opposite. Apple's high prices are pro-competitive. After all, high prices allow competitors to enter the market and eke out a profit at a much lower volume. It's unsustainably low prices that are anti-competitive. Think
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by gizmo 3y ago
Our Macs/PCs allow us to do our -- incredibly well compensated -- jobs. I can't believe that modern computers cost less than a car. I pay maybe $3000 for a computer and $30,000 for a car. When I compare how much value I get from b
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by gizmo 3y ago
No look, the point is that people widely lampooned Peter Thiel for encouraging smart and ambitious students to drop out. So many people predicted this was guaranteed to fail. And the Thiel Fellowships have been a resounding success. I was o
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by gizmo 3y ago
Wikipedia does not corroborate the hysterical claims from the times article.
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by gizmo 3y ago
I don't agree. I know what the previous comment said. Modern C++ codebases that make extensive use of templates, inheritance, exceptions, type coercion, closures are considered clean by many because the code looks nice. But code like t
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by gizmo 3y ago
I really doubt there is any such consensus. Some people really care about superficial code quality (good variable names; short functions; consistent formatting and documentation; compiles without warnings). Other programmers care mostly abo
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by gizmo 3y ago
When everybody uses E2EE it's a neutral technology. When people homebrew encryption over an insecure channel it's automatically suspect. Encrypted traffic will stick out like a sore thumb and the courts will force users of E2EE to
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by gizmo 3y ago
Although E2EE is great I'm not sure I follow the logic of this argument. Yes, it's easy to implement E2EE on top of an plain communication channel, but why is that relevant? It's also easy to make a machete from plate steel f
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by gizmo 3y ago
If a company tanks right after being listed on the public markets -- that is, right after insiders got an opportunity to dump their shares on less informed investors -- most likely a serious financial crime has taken place. A real business
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by gizmo 3y ago
The big underreported story here is how involved the Stanford Law School professor parents of SBF were and still are. They had the connections to VCs, they helped set up shell companies, they even picked the perfect FTX compliance officer:
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by gizmo 3y ago
I think you're right that there is definitional question here. I think it's right to state that adults are responsible because children are physiologically incapable of taking responsibility for themselves. I think it's right
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by gizmo 3y ago
If the adults aren't responsible, then who is??
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by gizmo 3y ago
> I’m now writing this in an attempt to start letting go of that spite. Just like I was during school, those teachers too were probably doing their best, and making mistakes, as we all do. Instead, I thank them for trying, I thank them f
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by gizmo 3y ago
The internet will also collapse when everything has turned into ad-optimized clickbait. There is no shortage of brilliant people who are happy to share their creative work for free. Remember blogs and RSS? They were great. Static pages don&
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by gizmo 3y ago
> [Effective Altruism] is self-righteous in the most literal sense. Effective altruism as distinct from what? Well, all of the rest of us, presumably—the ineffective and un-altruistic, we who either do not care about other human beings o
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by gizmo 3y ago
Serializing json is pretty expensive at scale. I would be shocked if restaurant and menu json doesn't get cached aggressively.
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by gizmo 3y ago
That's fair but that also suggests most actions hit the main database directly instead of caching layers. Possible, but somewhat unusual at this scale.
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by gizmo 3y ago
DoorDash has about 35 million users, and there is zero interaction between users. The median user uses doordash maybe once a week. So 5 million sessions a day, all happening in the same 3 hour window. That's 2 million sessions per hour
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by gizmo 3y ago
I get what you're saying but it's plainly false. Just look at the statistics: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/population-profiles/marital-... In broad strokes: married people tend to be way wealthie
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by gizmo 3y ago
The mother would be not as poor as before marriage but way poorer, because now she's older, she's been out of the workforce for a long time, and still has to take care of the kid(s) after the divorce. The father, by contrast, has
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by gizmo 3y ago
Water is very effective at stopping bullets, so I would assume so.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Even the GDPR makes this distinction. Access logs (with IP addresses) are fine if you use them for technical purposes (monitor for 404, 500 errors) but if you use access logs for marketing purposes you need users to opt-in, because IP addre
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by gizmo 3y ago
It's rude to tell people how they feel and it's rude to assert a post makes "absolutely no sense" while at the same time demanding a response. One difference is intent. When you build an analytics system you have an obli
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by gizmo 3y ago
We all know that tracking is ubiquitous on the web. This blogpost however discusses technology that specifically helps with tracking people who don't want to be tracked. I responded that an alternative approach is to just not. That&#x2
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by gizmo 3y ago
No matter how bad the web gets, it can still get worse. Things can always get worse. That's why I'm not a cynic. Even when the fight is hopeless --and I don't believe it is-- delaying the inevitable is still worthwhile.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Going out of your way to specifically track people who indicate they don't want to be tracked is worse.
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by gizmo 3y ago
If it was just about a simple count the host could just `wc -l access.log`. Clearly website hosts are not satisfied with that, and so they ignore DO_NOT_TRACK and disrespectfully try to circumvent privacy extensions.
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by gizmo 3y ago
> Even Fathom and Plausible analytics struggle with logging activity on adblocked browsers. The simple solution is to respect the basic wishes of those who do not want to be tracked. This is a "struggle" only because website op
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by gizmo 3y ago
Reform requires political will. And political will typically materializes when reform (a) benefits the politicians directly, (b) is made beneficial by lobbyists, (c) the public loudly demands it. For (c) the question is: how to get the publ

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