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by jahewson 4y ago
Oh but they do https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558516/ai-art-copyright...
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by jahewson 4y ago
Next week, Twitter is starting to charge for their API https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/cash-strapped-tw... Could be related? Even if they’re just crawling the public pages I could certainly imagin
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by jahewson 4y ago
I like to start with a failing unit test by deliberately looking for the keys somewhere I know they’re not.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Fighter jets are the only planes even remotely close to capable of flying to 65,000ft. It’s physically impossible to send any other type of aircraft, there’s simply not enough air up there.
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by jahewson 4y ago
It’s not less lucrative, it’s non-lucrative. Labor, materials and land in California all cost a small fortune.
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by jahewson 4y ago
They’re going to be some crazy expensive apartments.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Looks like Bloomberg has invented a new reason why Amazon is selling this property. It's not RTO after all! who knew!? The title is now "Amazon to Sell Bay Area Office Complex as Sales Growth Cools".
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by jahewson 4y ago
> you could achieve a fully "optimized" economy with literally everything being owned by a handful of people. Wait, no. That would only be true if all the other people were unable to perform any valuable work. Otherwise it woul
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by jahewson 4y ago
This begs the question, what is it that my country wants to do, and who decides that?
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by jahewson 4y ago
Kind of ironic that you’re trying to shame him for being judgemental. Username checks out.
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by jahewson 4y ago
It’s not victimless. Frequent exposure to environmental noise can cause stress, anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, heart disease, and mental health issues.
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by jahewson 4y ago
> While Amazon did not disclose the operating income generated from their ad business, it is almost certainly bigger than the income generated by AWS Not exactly making a strong case.
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by jahewson 4y ago
One must consider what he spent the previous 22 years doing.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Who’s going to pay to repurpose the land? There’s zero economic value for anyone involved. Plus the workforce is half what it was, they have other things to do. That’s assuming they’re not already broke from spending 20 years supporting ret
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by jahewson 4y ago
I… don’t believe this. Reviews of the day were preoccupied with drooling over the graphics capabilities, given that it’s a mostly-objective thing to compare and were often the only visible thing that changed in an OS release. If you look at
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by jahewson 4y ago
I think that setting out to build something using “first principles of interaction design” on top of existing open source software that was not created using those principles is only ever going to be an exercise in futility.
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by jahewson 4y ago
It’s true, though most UI/UX people are not experts in their field. Often they’re less useful to listen to than people who actually use the software. Now an expert - that’s a different matter. An expert will transform your entire sense
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by jahewson 4y ago
As we’ve just seen the easiest way to achieve profitability is layoffs. Probably not what you had in mind.
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by jahewson 4y ago
From a VC’s point of view startup VPs are disposable peasants too. And to a pension fund, VCs are disposable peasants. As someone choosing which pension fund to invest in, I’m going to chase the best return, so they’re disposable peasants t
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by jahewson 4y ago
Stock price is not a measure of product success.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Pre-IPO, so surely it was options and not a stock grant? Very different risk/reward profile.
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by jahewson 4y ago
I don’t think it makes sense to compare options with RSUs. The former is worthless in a company that doesn’t grow and it’s necessary to stay with the company until IPO. It’s a huge risk. The latter is closer to cash, bubbles notwithstanding
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by jahewson 4y ago
For context if you live in Palo Alto it just buys you a house.
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by jahewson 4y ago
This is not true.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Surely they should be functions?
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by jahewson 4y ago
If a banana ripens in a forest and nobody is around to see it, does its ASIN change?
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by jahewson 4y ago
Sounds neat. Tell me more.
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by jahewson 4y ago
> carefully thought-out code Let’s be honest, it’s not.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Indeed it does not.
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by jahewson 4y ago
> MS creates their papers in Word I used to collaborate with MSR and never saw anything but LaTeX being used. If you look at the level of sophistication in many of their papers it’s not something Word can even begin to achieve.

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