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by hailwren 4y ago
We used Citrix at an old corporate job. It was an all-in-one corporate networking solution. We had 2fA keys and logins and citrix was the entire IP(Intellectual Property)-protection networking + vpn layer.
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by hailwren 4y ago
I admitted that my original comment was factually incorrect. It was wrong. I said that. However, the point has always been about the comparison between Google and Apple. Given that their total revenues are of different size, how can we reas
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by hailwren 4y ago
TIL percentages are “silly games” and not a common way to measure how much a portion of something contributes to the whole.
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by hailwren 4y ago
I was factually incorrect Apple generates about 1% of their annual revenue from ads [1]. Google generates 81% of their annual revenue from ads [2]. 1 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330127/apple-ad-revenue..
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by hailwren 4y ago
One of these companies profits by the proliferation of ads and the other does not.
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by hailwren 4y ago
> Imagine working at Google and thinking you're actually doing something good for the world.
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by hailwren 4y ago
What are you doing now? Did you shut the project down entirely?
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by hailwren 4y ago
It's just the peak market cap. Not the amount of $ invested.
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by hailwren 4y ago
It's more like the web is a model and you pay someone to curate a personal view of it for you. Instead of going to different news/social websites, it is filtered by someone and streamed directly to you.
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by hailwren 4y ago
Ha, whoops -- this is a very HN moment (and I'm glad for it).
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by hailwren 4y ago
In Reamde, Neal Stephenson posits a future where we pay individuals/services to filter and prioritize the unordered deluge of data from the web. It seems like this ruling pushes us along that path.
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by hailwren 4y ago
That was the point of the second sentence. The trick is getting there.
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by hailwren 4y ago
Language choice doesn’t matter when you have a correct and fast program. The trick is getting there.
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by hailwren 4y ago
Ok, but it hasn't been so long since presidents in El Salvador were siphoning public funds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_El_Salvador#Corrupt...
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by hailwren 4y ago
> But El Salvador is not Argentina though. El Salvador had never been affected by unstable currencies or unfavorable exchange rates set by their governments. You're conflating two things. Inflation has little do with how well a remi
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by hailwren 4y ago
> Even so, this scheme only makes a little sense. A better approach might have been for the government to have set up a USD-based remittance program of its own. This is just not true. Crypto as foreign remittance has been proven and is w
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by hailwren 4y ago
This is the unfortunate nature of _all_ privacy preserving technologies. Signal, whole disk encryption, the password to a user's iphone backup -- these are _all_ more beneficial to criminals than to the layperson. It so happens that, u
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by hailwren 4y ago
> The question is: what would the market cap of crypto be if a bunch of novice investors weren't lured in by .. Umm ... what? Why is that the question? Because you have an agenda? Sure ok, but you haven't provided any informati
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by hailwren 4y ago
Your other points were good, but > And as with cocaine, blockchain will be forever slimed by association with this ponzi scheme fad and its devastating impact on millions and millions of families and fortunes. Maybe you missed the irony
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by hailwren 4y ago
Yeah, if I wanted to do a license-plate scanning startup -- I would just use an off-the-shelf dash cam and a laptop. No need at all for special optical equipment.
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by hailwren 4y ago
Oh, this is great info. Thank you. I use optimus-manager and it's 100% not, so I thought I was just SoL.
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by hailwren 4y ago
An unfortunate huge one is any way to interact w/ Intel Optimus. I can't be the only dev that wants to eat my gpu cake and have my battery life optimization cake too. Bumblebee and optimus-manager both solve this in the aur.
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by hailwren 4y ago
Yeah, I'm not arguing they don't do that. This is one of those cases where arguing the negative without clearly stating your argument makes things easy but not particularly useful. What argument are you presenting instead? Because
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by hailwren 4y ago
Well, when they indict on the remaining 18 then we can update our models. Until then, the SEC is only alleging that 7 were securities.
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by hailwren 4y ago
If you read the actual SEC filing, you'll note that they're only filing for 7 of the alleged 25 coins that he traded. [1] Even the SEC agrees that this was not insider trading in all 25 instances. "Throughout the relevant per
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by hailwren 4y ago
The whole 3AC story hasn't come out yet, but the rumor is that they were able to use the same collateral with different lenders. On top of that, they offered to "manage" portions of their vc investment treasuries. So, a scam.
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by hailwren 4y ago
Absolutely it has a relation to its price. A domicile's value in any setting is determined by it's speculative value + a discounted income model. This model wildly decreases the discounted income value without addressing the specu
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by hailwren 4y ago
I think, fundamentally, the problem is that there is a highly speculative market (real-estate) attached to a basic needs market (housing). I think of myself as right-of-center, but think George was more or less spot on w.r.t. land. I wonder
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by hailwren 4y ago
I really love the irony of your intended lesson vs the fact that you're posting this on HN in 2022.
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by hailwren 4y ago
No, your math is very wrong here. If you're trying to adjust the global rate for America being an outlier in tv consumption, you don't get to multiply by their representation in the global supply. That's just flat wrong. Fur

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