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by gizmo 4y ago
You'll have an absolute blast reading Red Notice by Browder. It's about a hedge fund guy that ends up in Russia during the privatization period, quickly realizes the country is getting looted and wants a big slice for himself. It&
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by gizmo 4y ago
Well, twitter did: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/twitter-admits-it-used-two...
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by gizmo 4y ago
Twitter locks accounts for verification and then turns around and sells the phone number used to verify the account to advertisers. This kind of behavior can only happen in thoroughly rotten companies.
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by gizmo 4y ago
This response is nothing more than a smear towards Mudge, backed up with exactly nothing. Content free CEO-speak like this only makes Mudge's whistleblower statements more credible, not less.
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by gizmo 4y ago
The big downside of making unoriginal products is that you can only gain traction by relentless marketing. And that's how you end up A/B testing twitter thread titles like this guy. But who wants to waste their time writing clickb
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by gizmo 4y ago
That's not true. Nuclear waste is so minimal in volume nuclear power plants can just sweep it under the carpet. Or more specifically, just store it on-site. Modern nuclear reactors can even use the waste of old reactors as fuel and red
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by gizmo 4y ago
The pretext for banning Windows is comically bad. Paying extra for Mac hardware is perfectly fine (no, encouraged!), but paying $100 or so to upgrade Windows Home to Windows Professional is prohibitively expensive? That's such a joke.
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by gizmo 4y ago
This guy puts a LOT of effort in marketing. Much more than the typical software engineer is willing to do. Twitter, substack, blog, youtube, SEO content, ads, he does it all. Of course you'll be successful if you spend years marketing
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by gizmo 4y ago
The VC model is to blame, I think. The default VC calculation goes something like this. $100 million fund invested in 20 companies at $5 each. 18 or so go bust, break-even, get acquihired. The remaining two return maybe $100m each after 10
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by gizmo 4y ago
You can do everything you describe with a regular function call. Introducing an unnecessary service for something as trivial as config management is even worse than the broken Registry status quo.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Germany is unusual because they are enormous net exporters. Not every country can be a net exporter. When you have an aging population the ratio of working people to elderly people will shift radically. Healthcare expenses ratchet up every
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by gizmo 4y ago
Reports like these are written for clueless people who want to sound smart and "with it". When you're the CEO of a company that manufactures bathroom tiles still you're expected to have opinions about the future of big d
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by gizmo 4y ago
No, because there is a big difference between information being technically out there on the internet and that information being harvested and sold to advertisers and other scummy organizations. If I post my email address here that doesn’t
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by gizmo 4y ago
I dislike this product because its main selling point is that it helps people with violating the terms of service of a site by rotating IP addresses and defeating captchas while crawling. Not cool.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Articles like these are to me indistinguishable from subtle trolling. The person the article leads with just bought a house, a duplex, an 8 unit apartment complex, has a good sized stock portfolio, and has a good job to boot. How is this pe
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by gizmo 4y ago
One of the primary ways of fighting organized crime is by going after the money. If you can stop people from enjoying the spoils of their crime you win. It’s a constant battle. If illicit funds are funneled through shell companies and a doz
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by gizmo 4y ago
A bar can prove that fairly easily. Show expenses, show receipts. Show auditors that the place is packed every weekend. This isn’t about honest businesspeople having to meet some impossible burden of proof. This is about selling 10 million
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by gizmo 4y ago
As a business you have to issue invoices and you also have a responsibility to stop obviously criminal behavior. A car dealership can’t sell somebody a Lamborghini if they want to pay with crumpled $20 notes. An art dealer can’t buy a Mondr
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by gizmo 4y ago
I haven't read the entirety of the page, but I think I got the main points. The artist claims he's in the clear because he paid taxes on his income he made by selling NFT artpieces created by him. However, he gives no indication (
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by gizmo 4y ago
Nuclear waste is somewhat dangerous, but deep inside mountains it won't do any harm barring some kind of black swan event. Compare the risks of living near a nuclear waste storage facility and living downstream of a hydroelectric dam.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Pollution limits aren't authoritarianism. Toxic fumes and noise are both significant and harmful externalities, and the "free market" is really bad at curtailing externalities like these. This might be dull and boring to you,
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by gizmo 5y ago
I don't think this is a situation where you can't figure out what you need to do. If you sit down and think for 5 minutes you'll know. Maybe you're asking because you want a quick fix, when the reality is that changing b
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by gizmo 5y ago
620m at a 6.8bn valuation is staggering. If they IPO at 10bn in a year they need a plan by then to grow towards a 30bn valuation, otherwise doing an IPO makes no sense. That is unbelievably ambitious for a password app. The founders are cle
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by gizmo 5y ago
Presumably you’re talking about a loan against an NFT or other crypto asset. But taking a loan against a financial asset is already really easy. Does loaning against a house, car or stock portfolio get any easier with crypto? I don’t see ho
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by gizmo 5y ago
It’s also pretty bold to sell “full self driving”, claim that teslas increase in value because they’ll become robo-taxis and you’d be insane not to buy one, and claim that teslas can drive coast to coast autonomously, when the reality is th
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by gizmo 5y ago
The quantity of programmers has exploded. Programming was a lot harder and more frustrating before stackoverflow and other online resources. If you wanted to learn to program you had to struggle your way through. And those who did would end
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by gizmo 5y ago
You have every right to be annoyed that you’re stuck at the bottom, because losing sucks. Maybe it helps to remember the good things you have in your life (health/relationships). Also the tides can turn quickly. You might catch a lucky
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by gizmo 5y ago
Yes, that's called "prejudice" and not the word you're thinking of.
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by gizmo 5y ago
You state govt keeps inflation low by manipulating how it's calculated in order to keep the fed rate low, which insidiously keeps stocks up. And this happens, apparently, because the Fed really cares about news headlines? Does the ECB
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by gizmo 5y ago
I also run a business. I’m a customer of Mailgun as well. As a business it’s not hard to enforce boundaries without going for the nuclear option. Everybody has bad days sometimes, and just as we want customers to be understanding when we ha

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