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by gizmo 2y ago
The problem, essentially, is that you can't rage against the dying of the light all by yourself. If you're an architect and badly want to build great housing your goals are frustrated every step of the way. By people who don'
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by gizmo 2y ago
I broadly agree, except I think the greater moral hazard is in failing to prosecute the plain-as-day cases of fraud (regardless of size). I'm not arguing in favor of abandoning rules but given limited resources you have to prioritize s
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by gizmo 2y ago
Of course there are "reasonable justifications" for the shitty status quo, but that's kind of the point. Things are shitty for reasons but not for good reasons. The author points to Japan to illustrate that you do get measu
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by gizmo 2y ago
1. Naked short selling basically doesn't happen anymore. To the extent that it does happen it's a mere technicality and the borrow is found after a couple of days. 2. There is very little money in shorting. Pumping and dumping by
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by gizmo 2y ago
An amp will wake on hdmi (arc) input, but it won't wake on spdif. Unless you figured out something clever you still have to mess with multiple remotes and turn devices on/off individually.
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by gizmo 2y ago
> On the other hand, there are N97/N100 machines with 12GB of soldered DDR5 RAM, but they are also actively cooled and their smaller blowers are whinier than their bigger cousins. Yes, but like I said there are also mini pcs that me
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by gizmo 2y ago
There are many good options for passively cooled N100s (or even machines with significantly faster chips) roughly the size of a mac mini.
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by gizmo 2y ago
It's not solely about currying favor. Many tech giants hate getting pushed around by politicians and courts around the world demanding censorship. Free speech rights in the US are much stronger than elsewhere in the world, and even bus
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by gizmo 2y ago
It's from the book by Carlsson and Leijonhufvud. Perhaps Spotify uses ML today, but the key insight from the book was that no ML was needed to build a recommender system. You can just show people songs from custom playlists curated by
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by gizmo 2y ago
Previous generations of neural nets were kind of useless. Spotify ended up replacing their machine learning recommender with a simple system that would just recommend tracks that power listeners had already discovered. Machine learning had
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by gizmo 2y ago
The median book about medicine is over 100 years old, written in a language you don't speak, and filled to the brim with quackery. Worse than useless. Maybe you don't realize that bookstores and libraries only carry a minuscule fr
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by gizmo 2y ago
Many terrific books have been published in the past 500 years. The median book is not worth your time, however, and neither is the top 10%. You cannot possibly read everything so you have to be very selective or you will read only dreck. Th
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by gizmo 2y ago
The level of confidence with which people express themselves is a (neutral to me) style choice. I'm indifferent because when I don't know somebody I don't know whether to take their opinions seriously regardless of the level
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by gizmo 2y ago
People who are experts (PhD and 20 years of experience) often have very dumb opinions in their field of expertise. Experts make amateur mistakes too. Look at the books written by expert economists, expert psychologists, expert historians, e
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by gizmo 2y ago
The web solved distribution and that's why the web won. Click on a link see a page. Click on a link open an app. The alternative was downloading a .exe from questionable origin over an unreliable dial-up connection. App stores have bec
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by gizmo 2y ago
It's a false choice in any case. Web browsers can support backward compatibility and at the same time offer a strict mode that benefits correctness and performance. Some real opportunities were missed to clean up JS semantics when Modu
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by gizmo 2y ago
By that measure there also isn't a real dependable/reproducible scalar that measures athleticism. Nonetheless some people are clearly more athletic than others. Also within a single sport we can easily see that some players are be
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by gizmo 2y ago
There is a whole non-corporate world of SMBs that employ 30 or 100 people total. Those businesses have no VPs or corporate cards, but they still have problems and are willing to pay good money for solutions. Family businesses in any industr
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by gizmo 2y ago
The world has changed. Today you can sell software for $5000 or $10000 without any sales process. Not always of course, you have to find the right niche.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Everything is ideology to some extent, but not everything is ideological to the same degree. The beliefs that a level playing field is good and that winning by means of political favoritism is bad are almost universally agreed on. Almost al
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by gizmo 2y ago
> When their product attempts to do this and the operation fails, we end up with the sync getting "stuck", needing manual intervention from the vendor's operator and/or data loss. Since our data is still on Postgres,
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by gizmo 2y ago
Personal data also covers political and religious opinions, sexual orientation and anything else that can be grounds for discrimination. GDPR certainly gives you the the right to demand deletion of personal data like that.
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by gizmo 2y ago
He didn't recognize his daughter for the first 2 years of her life and angrily insisted the child wasn't his because he didn't want the distraction of parenthood. Emotionally developed people don't behave like this.
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by gizmo 2y ago
> I've never seen anyone reach great heights without being in control of their own feelings Steve Jobs wasn't exactly known for being in control of his emotions. Musk, Gates, Ellison and Kalanick also have a reputation for expl
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by gizmo 2y ago
One way to describe reality is to argue that media organizations like Vox can't survive if they don't show ads to their paid subscribers. Another way to describe reality is that people can choose to subscribe to various substacks
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by gizmo 2y ago
> LONDON/FRANKFURT, Nov 6 (Reuters) - BMW (BMWG.DE) on Wednesday reported a 61% drop in its third-quarter profit, missing analyst expectations because of slumping China sales and brake problems and sending its shares to their lowest
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by gizmo 2y ago
Tesla is suffering from Chinese EV competition, but the German car brands are suffering much worse. Just look at this UX disaster: https://x.com/teslaxander/status/1864202319925035083 Is it any wonder that the Ger
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by gizmo 2y ago
This kind of condescending advice doesn't help anybody. Redundant casts, like redundant braces, white space, and a plethora of similar choices are stylistic more than anything else. If you really feel the need to give unsolicited codin
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by gizmo 2y ago
If you enjoy reading business biographies like me you'll find that gangster tactics like deployed by Vivendi against Valve are surprisingly common. The smaller business has essentially no recourse when faced with an opponent like Viven
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by gizmo 2y ago
Russia desperately needs allies. Russia wants China to be their unconditional ally. Unfortunately for Putin, and fortunately for the rest of us, China cares primarily about China.

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