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by infofarmer 5y ago
It's not just any single person.
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by infofarmer 5y ago
> You can’t take a company private and keep shareholders around I don't know how customary, but technically it's possible to keep up to hundreds of shareholders around when going private.
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by infofarmer 5y ago
Pleasant to see Apple has made some progress on their metadata guidelines (it used to be abhorrent for a company saved by the iPod). Looks like a useful one-pager to get a quick overview of the challenges without getting into any of them. F
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by infofarmer 5y ago
There's a reason why MusicBrainz SQL schema looks like what it looks like, after years of careful simplification to achieve an optimum approximation of reality. https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database&#x2F
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by infofarmer 5y ago
MTProto2 has no published audits nor even overviews that any trusted security researcher has found serious. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24832256 WhatsApp stores credentials in iCloud Keychain on iOS which is proper
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by infofarmer 5y ago
I would highly recommend Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson. He draws heavily on Neumann, Jung, and dozens of other giants to explore information and culture. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQAT-0aSPq-O...
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by infofarmer 5y ago
Counter-examples: Harry Potter, Marvel, etc. High bandwidth, low latency (often days or less), unlimited scale (most of the planet), high retention. Nuance will be pruned at scale if inessential. It’s a feature, not a bug. The popular stori
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by infofarmer 5y ago
Do I have news for you about the device you typed this on…
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by infofarmer 5y ago
Doesn’t have to be that way. For a much smaller, but relevant example - see MusicBrainz / MetaBrainz https://metabrainz.org/supporters/account-type Wikimedia is simply productizing commercial access to make it eas
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by infofarmer 5y ago
Same here, I’m in Shenzhen using Shadowsocks VPNs and many of my faster exit IPs were being blocked in recent months. Other times there are 5xx errors and when it does work, it’s significantly slower than Google and even DDG, especially on
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by infofarmer 5y ago
As opposed to what? Sixteen pages of boilerplate Java/Python?
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by infofarmer 5y ago
Semi-private under-the-radar solutions are reliable, affordable, and readily available, to anyone who cares to Google for a few minutes. Including Gigabit-size holes and very low [added] latency to Japan, HK, Singapore, and other places.
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by infofarmer 5y ago
The load is probably fine, millions of people look at tiny screens for the majority of their waking time, the worst effects are on the neck/spine. The cognitive changes are more interesting to think about. It's been documented peo
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by infofarmer 5y ago
Regarding reliability, in China you can pay with just your face with Alipay in many convenience stores, supermarkets, and vending machines. End-to-end transaction fees are usually within 0.1%, which puts a ceiling on the failure rate. http
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by infofarmer 5y ago
Your username adds an especially eerie context to your comment.
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by infofarmer 5y ago
Google Sheets seems to be by far the #1 endpoint on Zapier. Lean automation is asking to grow a little fat at the middle so that it’s easier to view and control data flows.
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by infofarmer 5y ago
https://archive.is/1F9uj
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by infofarmer 5y ago
It's really not either-or, but «following your heart» and «doing what you love» seems to be a better predictor of success, happiness, and major breakthroughs. You'll still do tons of things on the way that you don't particula
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by infofarmer 5y ago
Ah, they joy of holding two conflicting thoughts at the same time! Like, Apple does not sell user data to third parties and Apple is sending all search traffic to Google by default for $15b a year.
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by infofarmer 5y ago
Dreamt of building this type of automation back in my FreeBSD ports committer days. 90% of package maintenance is repetitive routine. Glad now that GitHub has a much bigger share of the market, people are making more progress. Oversight and
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by infofarmer 5y ago
They didn't say infinitely large in every direction. If you're on a Mac now, try quickly hitting the menu bar items (at the very top edge of the screen) vs the tabs (below the menu bar, not quite at the edge). I find the differenc
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by infofarmer 5y ago
50 thousand people are born in China every day. It's not like the world is static.
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by infofarmer 5y ago
No extra rate limiting required. With ~1.7 billion active iOS devices, the infra must be under a bit of a strain to deliver even a relatively tiny 50 Mb delta. For this particular update, my iPhone downloaded over 100 Mb and MacBook over 1
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by infofarmer 5y ago
> I love you all, so please use this font as much as you like for free. However, I would like to make sure you provide others the same liberty in creep's new incarnations. Therefore creep is licensed under the MIT License. Happy it’
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by infofarmer 5y ago
It seems to violate various competition laws depending on jurisdiction.
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by infofarmer 5y ago
I have a surprise for you if you think AliExpress sellers are not middlemen. Even the local Taobao, JD, and Pinduoduo are mostly professional sellers. D2C is on the rise, but still relatively rare in China. Ecommerce is extremely competitiv
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by infofarmer 5y ago
Sweat. Beads of sweat on everyone. They were invisible at 720p and in cinematic projection, but 1080p and especially 4K remasters at close range at home reveal more about human skin than I cared to know.
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by infofarmer 5y ago
Should be trivial to thwart all three with slight changes in firmware.
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by infofarmer 6y ago
Hmmm… those oscillations in your brain, did they feel perpetual ? We need some more data to see if we can harvest their energy for motion.
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by infofarmer 6y ago
In a usual medium-to-large cloud configuration where 3-5 redundant copies of each chunk/file/object are randomly and thinly spread across hundreds or thousands of drives, a loss of a single 18TB drive would result in a few minutes

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