iepathos

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by iepathos 4y ago
Influencers aren't required to share the amount of compensation they're receiving from sponsors/advertisers. They are required to share if they have a material connection with their sponsors/advertisers though so defini
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Is it admirable if that same captain steered the ship into a rock leading it to go down in the first place? I don't think so.
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For some perspective, twitch generated $2.6 billion in revenue in 2021 and $2.8 billion in 2022. They've seen nothing but increased revenue over time.
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On ycombinator they tend to use the author "Y Combinator" if it's just a general announcement coming from the company that is likely written by HR or marketing. Garry Tan, CEO, wrote this particular announcement. i.e author
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Curious why you think trucking would have a bigger societal impact? As to why Google et al. are aiming for passenger vehicles, there about 4 million semi trucks in the US and over 290 million passenger vehicles.
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Everything seems trivial when you trivialize the problem. Sao Paulo has an extremely high crime and violence rate aside from any dating app kidnappings. The city and country's problems extend far beyond dating apps and redirecting re
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lol this checks out, but justice department cannot assert that companies are suppose to keep all internet conversations indefinitely. No precedence for that so they are just blowing smoke here huffing and puffing because they have zero evi
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They look amazing when you consider 10 years ago bitcoin's price was ~$13/coin and now it's >$20k/coin. No other market or stock with that kind of massive growth.
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Not even sure the US layoffs are really impacting US developers. The US unemployment rate keeps going down month to month despite big tech layoffs. The devs getting laid off are being snagged by other companies almost right away.
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Quite a few successful web3 companies are decentralized anonymous organizations (DAOs) which are essentially co-ops with more automation and anonymity.
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Surprised you mention Cyberpunk as a train wreck since it was massively successful and profitable for projekt red even after refunds from low-end platform users. They've sold over 20 million copies at $60/copy. Edgerunners also
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Thought the same. Ransom Man aka Incompetence Man.
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Never heard "the good employees never get laid off" before but it's naive and not so subtle victim blaming for employees who do get fired without cause. Companies hired too fast during pandemic and are needing to adjust to d
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This is a weird opinion to me, but I reckon you're an ops person who doesn't code a lot so I respect not wanting to have to look at code if you're an ops/admin type. Most programmers would grasp the relevance of moderni
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by iepathos 4y ago
I'm not sure what you're confused about, maybe you missed the point of this being shared on ycombinator news? Just being written in Rust versus C is part of an open source movement to modernize these old tools and the significanc
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by iepathos 4y ago
Just is built in Rust rather than C. Rust is generally nicer to work with and maintain than C libs so huge win there development wise. Feature wise, only see a couple things with Just right now that differentiate it from Make.
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lol they're reinventing the wheel and calling it "ground-breaking"
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The person who really got screwed in all this is poor Charlie, the agent. Here he is managing deals for Julian getting a percentage of those deals and Julian it sounds like is not making much, so Charlie probably isn't making much off
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Reminds me of the silly graphs you can find proving correlation is not causation like the correlation between Nicolas Cage movies coming out and increase in people drowning by falling into pools. If a Nicolas cage movie comes out this year
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by iepathos 4y ago
Hilarious satire of the whole magnus/niemann debacle! Thank you for this, made my day.
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Ok, for some perspective here, that 45 seconds longer is about 50-100 times how long it took to do the one liner in javascript. Extrapolate that to generally 50-100x development time for the development of an entire project and you're
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by iepathos 4y ago
I think if they open sourced Kite from the start rather than as they call it quits that they could've had a ton of free development done on their products by interested developers. Developers not paying for tools is simply not true.
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I've seen posts on HN within last year where Google screwed something up with censorship or app review. Posts get massively upvoted here and within a day or two Google fixes it. Could be coincidental, but highly probable that some Goo
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There is always employee turnover in business, this is normal and employees are never guaranteed lifetime employment or the CEO quits too, that's silly. Standard part of all contracts with US companies is an at will clause stating tha
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Extremely generous compared to typical severance packages
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In practice, the change is they're laying people off and paying them generous severance packages and some other support options to help them transition as well as looking to cut infrastructure expenses. I'm not sure what other ch
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"Number of open source projects that has came out of Meta is unparalleled for number of employees." Minor nit, the unparalleled part doesn't hold true here. Meta has about 600 open source projects which is nice, but Google h
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Oh this wouldn't hold a hope of winning a copyright lawsuit. They are just hoping to bully the indie developer with their corporate lawyer team. Parodies are protected.
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The technology isn't there yet. The resolution needs to be probably 6x what it currently is to be good for reading and productivity purposes. The strain on the eyes and weight on the head/neck from having VR headset on for exten
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I think it comes from british slang where to blast someone means to exclaim annoyance at them. May have heard the exclamation like "oh blast it" when something goes wrong.

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