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>If a company is sustainably making a profit (i.e. makes more money than it needs to spend to keep running) and will continue to for the foreseeable future, why do they need to grow their revenue even higher? [...], but there's no
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>lines here that should not have been crossed without the authors explicit permission, regardless of the utility of the tool they built. Fyi... Google Books (scanned and OCR'd books) eventually won against the authors filing lawsu
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>You can't discuss anything important and uncertain without running in to politics. I do understand your exact point. This wide umbrella of "everything is politics" is akin to "all roads lead to philosophy&quot
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>Freeform is an all-new app available starting today, included in the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. >A Collaboration Space : Whether a user is working at a desk or on the go, Freeform is incredibly useful for standalon
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>Like .* ? Assuming your question is not a joke... The partner has to email the regex to secret-scanning@github.com for their approval. See the steps at: https://docs.github.com/en/developers/overview/se
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>, I had no idea they had a program called "secret scanning" and that it's actually beneficial. Fyi... this feature was also previously mentioned in the news for public repos: https://techcrunch.com/20
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>That or this will just send everyone back to piracy. I understand you're using "everyone" in a rhetorical sense but just to level-set about the real difficulties of piracy for non-techie viewers: - downloading videos vi
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>"To illustrate the extent to which Rupert Murdoch used to micro-manage his newspapers,..." The 2011 article you linked emphasizes his activity with tabloid newspapers. I'm unfamiliar with those. From what I've rea
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>, but his entire media empire is built around promulgating his (increasingly revanchist) politics. Yes, I understand that and we know that WSJ leans more conservative than New York Times. Murdoch's empire reflects his worldview.
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It's instructive to contrast what other billionaires did with media properties they owned: - Jeff Bezos personally bought Washington Post but he left it alone and let the editors run it. What Jeff did do was invest some money into the
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>Why are we constrained to only discussing how (some, not all) unions are in the US? In general, nobody is constrained to just discussing USA unions but the particular subthread [1] that you're in which was started by gp (Zeyka)
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>It's probably my European brain, but I cannot understand how someone [...] can be against unions... America unions are structured differently from Europe and some can become as distrusted by the workers as the corporation. Your v
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>But theoretically the tech was around and could have been implemented as early as 1996. The USB physical form-factor and electrical signals were 1996 but the protocol for storage devices appears to be later in 1998: Universal Serial
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Fyi ... other related terminology ... "chaos monkeys" engineering from Netflix, designing for "fault tolerance" , etc. See list from : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering#See_also
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>So I'd be interested to generalize this: with things getting more and more digital and disembodied (ahem, ChatGPT), does it produce convenience at the expense of contentment? Hard to generalize because digital-virtual-experience
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This essence of the CVS misbehavior: >According to the complaint, prior to the completion of a customer’s transaction, the checkout screen would prompt the customer with several boxes of pre-selected amounts (and an opt out option) to d
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Some HN/reddit threads recently mentioned Library Genesis so I visited with Chrome desktop web browser on mac and was surprised it caused a deceptive push notification. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/ZXxnM1G EDI
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>, many aspects of managing large, complex systems fall through the cracks because we don’t have a unified perspective. I want to offer one: I call it the knowledge activation perspective. Fyi... 3 previous writings using different te
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> Tabs are just links. Why do you have to keep them open? Can't you just bookmark them ? I use both tabs and bookmarks and they serve different purposes: - tabs are ephemeral and not meant to be saved. Saving them as bookmarks
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>Would not call this a failed product, The "colossal failure" in all the recent headlines means "colossal [financial Return-On-Investment] failure" because customers are not shopping with Alexa voice commands
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He's missing from seemingly any search results about movies when query string is "cast of <MOVIE>" But he's there when searching "Mr Olympia 1970s" : https://www.google.com/search?q=mr
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>He bought it for 44 billion. That was mostly loans. That's not true if media reports about the purchase was accurate. The debt financing was only $13 billion: https://www.google.com/search?q=musk+buys+twitter+%22
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>I’m fed up with “platforms”. Growing a garden on someone else’s land is dumb [...] To top it off, there’s very little upside to you as a user. The "upside" for users who post/write is reaching larger audiences . Simi
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>this is exactly what happended at FTX/Alameda. A bunch of "smart" guys [...] No, they're different situations. The current details trickling out of the FTX scandal is that CEO Samuel Bankman-Fried secretly used cu
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>LTCM lost $4.6B in investor funds. [...] All of these situations are obviously somewhat different, [...] biggest financial frauds/scandals in history. LTCM shouldn't be in that list because that wasn't fraud. That hed
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> What kind of lunatic watches someone's uploads out of chronological order? For some type of channels such as latest technology reviews or news commentary, the sort by "Oldest" isn't as critical because the older
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>Email is run just like this and it has plenty of reach. The "reach" in gp's context is "audience reach". A measure of "audience size" in a broadcast type of medium. It doesn't mean reach in a
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>Which just results in the top content being short-form videos which provide quick-facts, not something I can actually learn with. Youtube also has tons of long-form 1+ hours content. There's a recent machine learning video that&
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>The thoughtfulness and kindness what makes a gift, a gift. That gift is priceless for me from now on. It can be a mug, it can be a pin, it can be a watch, or anything. Have a 75-year old friend that thought exactly like this and b
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>RSS - People put out RSS feeds. People subscribe to RSS feeds. RSS might replace Twitter for your particular use case. However, it doesn't replace Twitter in general case for the public because RSS is one-directional. The phen

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