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by gizmo 5y ago
That's so uncharitable. Somebody who makes their living off iOS apps obviously doesn't care about the $100 annual developer fee. This isn't just about the contractual dispute, this is also -- as the post clearly explains -- a
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by gizmo 5y ago
If you consider the market a casino there is no difference. Buy low sell high. But if you approach the market like an investor you try to estimate the intrinsic value of the assets and liabilities of a company, their cash flows, their growt
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by gizmo 5y ago
I think pyramid scheme would be a better description if people had different incentives depending on when they got in. With a pyramid scheme people who invite many others personally benefit, and those who join but don't invite others d
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by gizmo 5y ago
This mania might have one last leg up, but that's it. The main thing to remember with markets that have ponzi characteristics is that there are tons of latecomers and few early adopters. While the early adopters might HODL in the fac
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by gizmo 5y ago
That’s retribution, not justice. There is no payment or compensation for lives lost that makes people whole. Many problems can’t be fixed through punishment, and this is one of them. Instead ask “why” until you hit the root cause, and addre
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by gizmo 5y ago
Youtube should ban cheating channels altogether. You can make over a million, get caught cheating, face no punishment, and can continue to rake it in. Fix the incentive.
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by gizmo 5y ago
No evidence was provided for that claim, and I don't think it's a coincidence they decided to blow up a building that had the offices of journalists critical of Israeli foreign policy.
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by gizmo 5y ago
If the United States wanted to bring this conflict to an end this would be the perfect pretext to use, because the AP is an American non-profit and it's easy to argue that Israel crossed a line with this completely unprovoked attack on
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by gizmo 5y ago
You misunderstand what's going on here. Greenwald is making fun of people who consider themselves journalists but who spend their days trawling through social media to find things to create outrage drama posts about, instead of doing r
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by gizmo 5y ago
I'll concede that they occasionally do real journalism, but they also publish falsehoods and they either don't retract/correct at all or quietly edit published articles. Their fact-checking is awful, and you can just see on t
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by gizmo 5y ago
The Guardian has in 200 years only won one Pulitzer, for Glenn Greenwald's reporting on intelligence agency wiretapping and other malfeasance. And what does the Guardian do? They repeatedly malign Greenwald and publish falsehoods about
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by gizmo 5y ago
There is no such thing as flushing a TCP socket which is why that function jumped out at me. curl would have confirmed the server isn't misbehaving. Googling flushHeaders shows it's a node implementation specific thing and the doc
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by gizmo 5y ago
Pretty fun puzzle, but this kind of debugging is alien to me. Without going into too much detail, it's pretty easy to see something suspect is going on, and this hunch can be easily tested. This debugging tour takes you to strace, wire
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by gizmo 6y ago
Because all parties already acknowledge that the "funny names" list is inappropriate. The issue isn't contended. The list is bad and they got rid of it. Now Basecamp leadership wants to move on while many employees want to li
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by gizmo 6y ago
Doing good journalism is hard. Yes, the NYT sucks, but they do good reporting too. And this article is very good, so if you want to complain about how bad the NYT is maybe reserve that criticism for those times when a bad article from the N
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by gizmo 6y ago
Clearly the people running these sites are true scumbags. However, the article doesn't mention that the only reason these sites making false claims have any value is because google directs traffic to them! If somebody slanders me on a
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by gizmo 6y ago
Waymo has cars outfitted with 100k in sensors, HD maps, and their cars are geofenced to a few neighborhoods with excellent visibility. What Waymo is doing is way easier than solving the general problem of self-driving, where cars have to fi
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by gizmo 6y ago
> You can go in a bus or car with mask if people don't talk and introduce air from the outside. Don't talk don't breathe wear two masks don't leave the house we're all gonna die. In reality kids are not an at-ris
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by gizmo 6y ago
There is a lesson here about the way we go about sharing memory between threads that is implicit and fundamentally broken. Adding extra threading in order to improve performance is clearly the wrong tradeoff when you're in an environme
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by gizmo 6y ago
164 states have already signed an anti-personnel mine treaty, and more countries will join in the coming years. 48 million land mines have already been destroyed because of this Ottawa treaty, and this is a moral good. There is a strong mov
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by gizmo 6y ago
"wartime mistakes" is a nice euphemism. And I'm sure that people will continue be held to account. For instance when somebody whoopsies and dronestrikes a wedding party in Jemen.
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by gizmo 6y ago
There is no ethical dilemma here at all, because these automated killing machines aren't necessary. Borders are defended all over the world by conventional means. Execution by robot is another step towards dystopia, and we should absol
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by gizmo 6y ago
Ironically, persistently trying to communicate in a way that the other party doesn't understand is exactly the kind of counterproductive behavior that this article talks about.
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by gizmo 6y ago
Naturally people who are designing these systems believe they're doing the right thing. Despite the overwhelming evidence that messing with touch screens while driving is distracting and dangerous.
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by gizmo 6y ago
Excellent growth, fair margins. Probably worth about $3bn. If it IPOs at less than $5bn it's probably worth picking up. Long term digitalocean will struggle to maintain its margins when competing with Azure and AWS on one side, and Clo
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by gizmo 6y ago
Consensus is foreign equities (but not China), commodities, smaller high growth tech stocks, plenty of cash (with some gold, silver, btc if you're so inclined).
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by gizmo 6y ago
The FED strategy is to do enough to keep the recovery going, but not so much that it overheats. GDP growth will over time make the debt burden bearable as interest rates tick higher. With 10 million unemployed and 44% of households being be
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by gizmo 6y ago
Sign in with Apple is pretty good and it doesn't ask you for a password, and you confirm with the power button/faceid if I'm not mistaken. It's very hard to spoof.
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by gizmo 6y ago
There is more high quality investigative journalism than in any other time in history. There is also a more rapid and sensationalistic news cycle, with non-stop coverage of “breaking news” and talking heads who contribute nothing. By analog
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by gizmo 6y ago
This is a great article, and I agree with the core point about defaults and opportunity cost, but with the main example of China's handling of covid it asserts that the draconian lockdown is the reason mortality in China is lower. It e

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