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by gizmo 3y ago
Because people have gotten life sentences for petty crimes like stealing a pair of socks. You have to compare Holmes’ case with how other people get crushed by the criminal justice system, and then you can’t help but notice the double stand
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by gizmo 3y ago
> Time value of money, optionality, non-arbitrage. Another big one is "opacity". A financial product that is convoluted and needlessly complicated allows the most sophisticated financial players to consistently take advantage o
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by gizmo 3y ago
The "sustainable" and "environment friendly" choice for headphones are wired headphones that are built like a brick. A good pair will last basically forever. Of course that isn't the market these headphones are in,
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by gizmo 3y ago
This is a myth that refuses to go away. A business can go in whatever direction it chooses, even if it hurts shareholders, employees, or other stakeholders by doing so. Anything short of directly looting the company coffers by directors is
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by gizmo 3y ago
Not according to SpaceX engineers. Musk is hands-on. Always has been (for good and bad).
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by gizmo 3y ago
Because this way you get amazing IDE support with code navigation, refactoring, and (with strict mode) warnings about likely bugs and missing null checks.
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by gizmo 3y ago
I agree with all your observations. Enforcement actions will slowly nudge businesses into compliance, but this will easily take another decade. It takes a long time for the law to solidify in the courts.
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by gizmo 3y ago
And those defaults must be changed. GDPR rightly forces businesses to reconsider hoarding data because it “might be useful sometime in the future”.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Making companies liable for the data they collect is a very good thing. Before GDPR logging everything was the default. Now, every business has to think about what data they collect, what purpose it serves, which parties the data is shared
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by gizmo 3y ago
How about Abdulrahman al-Awlaki? 16 year old American, vaporized by intentional US drone strike. For the crime of being the son of an alleged terrorist.
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by gizmo 3y ago
I think your attitude exemplifies the difference in values that was brought to the surface during covid. When you embrace extremist claims that "the bases of civilization [were] at risk" you can justify anything. There is no moral
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by gizmo 3y ago
What's most surprising to me is how willing journalists are to completely suspend their disbelief. During covid the authorities loudly proclaimed that vaccines were 99% effective, provided durable immunity (years!), and that vaccinated
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by gizmo 4y ago
For services like these, whether it's Google One or Dropbox, R&D is the major expense. Not hard drive space. In order to recoup the R&D cost you have to segment customers by their willingness to pay. When you charge per GB you
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by gizmo 4y ago
Syncthing is not end-to-end encrypted. It's peer to peer TLS encrypted. With end-to-end encryption you can transfer data with an untrusted server as intermediary, which syncthing doesn't support.
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by gizmo 4y ago
I never understand this kind of moralistic thinking about pricing. If you get more storage than you need for a price you're willing to pay you should be happy. You get the storage you need and then some. I pay for Netflix and I watch l
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by gizmo 4y ago
The issue is that there is no need for software to be incredibly slow by default. This used not to be the case. Back in the day you just wrote straightforward code in C (or C++) and you got good performance for free. It makes sense that peo
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by gizmo 4y ago
Okay so Musk loudly proclaims that buying a Tesla is the best financial investment on the planet, that buying anything else is pure insanity, on the basis of the car turning into a fully autonomous taxi via a future over the air update. Bol
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by gizmo 4y ago
Bed Bath followed the email scammer strategy of making their scam so obvious only the most financially illiterate people could fall for it. Hard to pull of, but once you've got an investor base that's willing to believe anything y
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by gizmo 4y ago
If your social game is not on iOS you won't lose out on that 50% of the market, you lose period. Even single player apps that need to go viral must be on iOS, because network effects are intrinsically social. It doesn't matter whe
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by gizmo 4y ago
Nikola Motor went from a 34bn market cap to near bankruptcy in 2 years. Their tech was a sham and the founder got prosecuted and convicted for defrauding investors. Lordstown Motors. Faked their order book. Blatant securities fraud. There a
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by gizmo 4y ago
40% of the US workforce has a 401k It's like giving 40% of the adult population a chainsaw that they have to use if they want to retire at a reasonable age. The outcome is predictable and they would be wise to invest in a prosthetics c
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by gizmo 4y ago
SPACs are basically an incorporated bag of money, so yes, while they technically have the same disclosure requirements as any other public company the disclosures won't tell you anything. There is no Form S-1 for SPAC acquisition targe
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by gizmo 4y ago
Should publicly listed companies should publish their financial results every quarter? Do they have to use GAAP or can they make up their own financial metrics? What do you think would happen if we removed the regulations surrounding financ
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by gizmo 4y ago
ChatGPT can automate the most basic programming tasks. It will help you find the right command line parameters or the right API calls, or help you with simple code manipulation. But when you're doing actual programming what use is Chat
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by gizmo 4y ago
I'm not sure what your argument is. Sophisticated investors don't invest in obvious scams. That's tautologically true. Does that mean we should just watch and do nothing while people get scammed? The thing is, nobody is born
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by gizmo 4y ago
We’ve seen pre-revenue companies that promised flying cars and other obvious scams go public via SPACs. If you don’t consider that SPAC abuse your bar is a lot lower than mine. These are companies that had no chance of surviving the more se
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by gizmo 4y ago
His book was pretty good, and I very much agree about the importance of good interfaces. It's the essence of computing, because file formats, data types, and protocols are just interfaces by another name.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Who do you think you’re kidding with this rationalization? It doesn’t matter whether your goal is to mislead people, it’s still deception to call something gpt4 when it absolutely isn’t. And your poor responses to this criticism speaks volu
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by gizmo 4y ago
Because it's an artificial constraint that makes code worse. You end up with a whole bunch of functions that have only a single call-site and half a dozen parameters that don't make much sense. If you can only understand what a fu
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by gizmo 4y ago
You mean fixed point numbers presumably, because at the time using integers that use a variable amount of memory was totally out of the question. Today it’s still terrible for performance because you can’t use caches and simd effectively wh

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