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by hx8 5mo ago
My engagement with adblocking technology is such that I actually have little insights into how much marketing ebay does. Don't they do TV commercials, engage with creators on ebay live, and have normal Adsense type ads?
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by hx8 5mo ago
Book shops are actually one of the few physical stores I still want to visit
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by hx8 5mo ago
Who wants to go to a physical store in 2026?
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by hx8 5mo ago
I agree. eBay has a strong brand, one of the oldest web brands. It should just continue doing what it's doing.
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by hx8 5mo ago
I don't fully understand how this isn't a monopoly on violence.
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by hx8 5mo ago
Yeah that's expensive. So many signs and letterheads.
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by hx8 5mo ago
Who is "they"? Yes the US Government owns .gov. No it isn't owned by the Department of War/Department of Defense/War Department. It's owned by the Department of Homeland Security.
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by hx8 5mo ago
Why would it cost millions? I've switched domains for just a couple bucks before. 1. Have both domains point to the same IP address. 2. Make sure both domains are working and DNS has fully propagated. 3. Make your old domain a 301 red
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by hx8 5mo ago
There's plenty of reasons to set a unique identifier before database save, or to want a unique identifier that doesn't have a 1-to-1 relationship with your object. For example, in the idempotent kafka consumer pattern we set a uni
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by hx8 5mo ago
Historically last generation hardware is sold at steep discounts compared to original MSRP. The insanity is we live in a world where manufacturing 9 year old hardware has increasing manufacturing and shipping cost, where this was not the c
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by hx8 5mo ago
I came back to this comment 12+ hrs later hoping to find someone make a great argument for some platform in the 70s that I didn't know enough about, or maybe a modern open hardware movement that is building niche support. I guess it re
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by hx8 5mo ago
I'm specifically trying to make the point that identity is not just a personal experience -- the experience of how you see yourself. Identity is also a label that can be placed upon you. Parent Comment was trying to reject the persona
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by hx8 5mo ago
Great take, but if the market is expanding for capable PCs why are motherboard sales decreasing?
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by hx8 5mo ago
Ziply Fiber is offering 50 gbps home internet connections in some US locations. You cannot utilize that type of speed with a Mac Mini. Even the modest 8-10gbps connections offered by T-Mobile and Google probably require more.
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by hx8 5mo ago
The entire activity of going to buy a few things for around the house during the weekend is something that is performed by a consumer. This guy is exactly talking about you, but you aren't seeing it because your own internal identity i
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by hx8 5mo ago
You're right, I may have significantly over-estimated the percentage of people on hn that have dealt with server hardware. It's expensive, big, loud, power hungry and temperature sensitive.
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by hx8 5mo ago
Isn't 4-6 weeks about normal conditions? It feels like a large amount of slack for a modern JIT logistical system. Anymore enters strategic reserves territory.
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by hx8 5mo ago
I think it's possible (10-15%) that the AI bubble pops and we all live without 50M token/day OpenClaw installs and running Opus to do things that should have been done by a shell script to the point that it causes a dip in total c
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by hx8 5mo ago
PC is the last major open platform. While other platforms like Android and becoming less open, PC in general is becoming more open than it's been in a long time as heavy MacOS/Android/iOS competition is creating a focus on o
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by hx8 5mo ago
> presumably at a huge loss Why do you say that? I was under the impression that everyone in the datacenter business was printing money.
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by hx8 5mo ago
I'm sure this is true for thousands and thousands of companies.
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by hx8 5mo ago
There's a lot I could unpack here, but I'm just going to pull on the string I find most interesting. "Why do we have people doing bullshit jobs rather than something else?" There honestly isn't that much else left
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by hx8 5mo ago
Microsoft is causing Github incidents when Azure data-centers are too hot and they need to make room for Palantir's workload.
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by hx8 5mo ago
This comment is so patronizing because it's 2008 angst against the financial sector wrapped up in the assumption that the people participating in the financial sector aren't aware of that angst. We're deep in a hacker news c
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by hx8 5mo ago
I am unfamiliar with working with such signal-to-noise ratios. * I only had the example trades in the news as 100% confirmed positive trades. * There are hundreds of millions of dollars in trades a day in Polymarket. * In Polymarket you can
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by hx8 5mo ago
I had a thesis two months ago that you could detect predictors with insider knowledge and ride their coat tails and spent some amount of time staring at the data and running some ML algos to detect them. I learned some things about the mar
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by hx8 6mo ago
My new projects do not use GitHub, and will not use GitHub as anything more than a mirror. Two nines of reliability isn't enough for devtools. GitHub is in a tight space right now. The pace of software development is increasing and t
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by hx8 6mo ago
We cannot blame December 2019 uptime on covid-19.
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by hx8 6mo ago
Do the investments make sense if AGI is not less than 10 years away?
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by hx8 6mo ago
First they came for the blue button pressers, and I did not speak out. Red button pressing is killing people that didn't think/act like them. You don't need to feel guilty about it, because this type of thing happens all the

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