jahabrewer

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by jahabrewer 2y ago
Exponential's a helluva curve
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by jahabrewer 2y ago
Wasn't Bell Labs a result of ATT's natural, sanctioned monopoly?
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by jahabrewer 2y ago
Yeah that's the vibe I got. More accurate headline: "ATT has been beneficiary of government action. ATT says it won't build new fiber to some dsl customers."
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by jahabrewer 2y ago
GP probably means the 2010s, during which the board milked the company instead of investing.
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by jahabrewer 2y ago
This doesn't smell quite right. For me, it wasn't uncommon to run in to NRE majors at college 15 years ago. (now maybe they all work at NRC, I'll give you that)
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by jahabrewer 2y ago
The slide I see says _revenue_. I think you have to consider cost of revenue too, and these EU fines affect that. So if the EU goes to fines being "% of worldwide turnover"... do the math
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by jahabrewer 2y ago
And when you need to raise capital? Tough sell.
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by jahabrewer 2y ago
and the energy investment is so drastically lower that my brain can afford to finance the pre-revenue charges of rinsing, cutting the ends, and pulling off a paper towel, so I eat way more of them.
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by jahabrewer 2y ago
You're saying meta had ~$14 billion in revenue in 2023? I think you're missing a zero...
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by jahabrewer 2y ago
Ben Thompson and the Air Current guy are two that come to mind
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by jahabrewer 2y ago
I'm a credit union member and... idk I've become disillusioned. Their products and rates are consistently worse than national banks. I won't feel like I'm sharing in anything. The execs seem to get good comp though.
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by jahabrewer 2y ago
Another way to think about this is in terms of how many marginal customers you get from being able to accept payments over the Web. 4% starts sounding less bad
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by jahabrewer 2y ago
> You can’t make a living posting stuff online on your own private website. There are many counterexamples to this.
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by jahabrewer 2y ago
Please let this be from a GT ~grad~ escapee
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by jahabrewer 3y ago
Important clarification from reading tfa for a second: image _editing_. I can't believe Apple would sully their image with actual generation.
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by jahabrewer 3y ago
my toaster doesn't have a blu-ray drive either
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by jahabrewer 3y ago
... you can still buy most stuff outright? Blu-ray exists?
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by jahabrewer 3y ago
I'm no expert, but I think more than these things go into it (and I suspect way more than a 2x IPC bump, but that's guesswork). Also more cache and I'm sure more and faster memory.
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by jahabrewer 3y ago
Isn't it wild how little cultural attention is paid to supermarket tracking?
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Unique solutions for unique problems: 3D printing at home(toypiper.com)
2 points by jahabrewer 3y ago|0 comments
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by jahabrewer 3y ago
> Get off the major cloud providers that charge insane egress fees. And run their own DCs? Cool, they'll just need a lot of upfront capital aaaaaand they're back in the "need money" boat. Except more so.
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by jahabrewer 3y ago
Can't wait to hear why Google should host unfathomable gobs of video for free in perpetuity.
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by jahabrewer 3y ago
You're right--I don't read a specific "here's the onerous parts of Title II" bit in that article. I think his argument is that: 1. The problems that supporters say net neutrality would fix are fictitious (the tweet)
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by jahabrewer 3y ago
Feel pretty jaded about this after reading Ben Thompson on Title II: https://stratechery.com/2017/pro-neutrality-anti-title-ii/ Sidebar: I was 1000% pro-Title II last time this came up in 2015 and went through ht
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by jahabrewer 3y ago
Really? Sure Marvel's in a bit of a hole, but Filoni and live-action Star Wars has turned me back into a fan.
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by jahabrewer 3y ago
(that's the joke)
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by jahabrewer 3y ago
> I told it I wanted to learn about ethnic minorities’ right to political self-determination > > [ERNIE:] [...] Xinjiang is an ethnic autonomous area mainly inhibited by the Uyghur people. Typo or Freudian slip?
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by jahabrewer 3y ago
I'd LOVE if there was a way to select the first Firefox Suggest result immediately instead of having to wade through search suggestions with down arrow. I _think_ Chrome has this?
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by jahabrewer 4y ago
> ... I still don't understand the exception Apple purportedly gets from its tracking rules. As Ben Thompson has been shouting, it's because Apple has a very convenient definition of "tracking".
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by jahabrewer 4y ago
This would be for a ship that stays in space, right? (as in, not using an NTR from ground to orbit)

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