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by jdashg 6y ago
Small-time embezzlers are just normal people too! Loan sharks, shady mechanics, and bail bondsmen are also extractive everymen. Landlords extract the marginal difference between what people can buy and what people can rent. By participating
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Don't forget: It's size of oceans times age of life times the untold number of worlds where life's had a chance to form but just didn't get lucky ! It's a galactic survivorship bias where only the luckiest of plane
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by jdashg 6y ago
One charitable explanation is initially trust, but verify on your own time. This allows for cooperation and growth of real trust, but lets you, well, verify that you're not being had, just asynchronously.
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Firefox engineers do literally the same jobs as their counterparts at Google. Indeed, most of my ex-colleagues and ex-execs have gone to Google, Facebook, and Apple. (in roughly that order) It's no secret that they appreciate the i
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Fortunately, Mozilla has been doing #1 for years, as they mention in their public financial statements. #2 is a matter of opinion in a couple ways. Work on the browser for the betterment of users has never stopped. Intent has always been th
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This whole second paragraph is FUD, as should be obvious from the phasing "irrevocable harm to their bodies". Dismissal as a "social phenomenon" is naive in the extreme, as is the author's revealed ignorance of main
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One tantalizing improvement would be if legal fees were pooled and split evenly between sides, so long as the initial case had reasonable standing.
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For many users it's not qualitatively faster, as most workloads (booting, web browsing, even most video game load times) are small-to-medium random reads dominated by processing overhead. Image/video editing, bulk file transfer, a
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Democrats do not desire Hispanic immigration because they're likely to vote democrat. It's convenient but not all convenient things are causal. By and large Democrats prioritize the most disadvantaged first, and that's poor i
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Most in-person social interaction is ingenuine in the same ways, but it's easier to be less genuine (more fake) over low bandwidth media like text. (And actually it's much harder to be genuine at low bandwidth, too)
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Servo was never actually the heir-apparent to Gecko.
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"Anything can happen in infinity" only holds if anything can indeed happen, but "doesn't" due to vanishingly small probabilities. Infinite trials still have bounded results. I'm not sure there's a theoreti
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We don't even need to be that frugal! 100% of the net increase to VHCOL compensation can go into VHCOL housing expense increases with plenty of room to spare. If we would pay 33% of your income in LCOL housing, and move to someplace th
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It's both: People are upset but they lack agency, so they deal.
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No one asking for an edit feature wants the strawman version, and it's intellectually disrespectful to even bring up such a well-trodden point.
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This is a 34 minute video with 500 views and no description, and no transcript.
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Fortunately, we don't actually need to make housing more affordable to the whole market, just the ones for whom it matters: the poor.
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by jdashg 6y ago
Haha, speculative market cap machine goes "brrrrrr". The red pill here is that people think they'll be able to sell non-dividend stocks, e.g. TSLA, to yet-greater-fools (at fundamental price of "it's worth what peop
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by jdashg 6y ago
Pretty much! However, as such it's really only second in simple present and preterite statements, which are actually sort of rare outside of really simple sentences. In light of that, the default German construction is effectively ve
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For perf, one generally uses memcpy unless memmove's semantics are needed. I think you have confused memcpy vs -move with copy vs move ctors. Certainly your last sentence is not correct for any reasonably written code. Check the docs y
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Not rideshare per se, but cheap, quality taxis. We'll see if competitors flourish in the absence of giant incumbents.
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California's one of the top economies in the world, they aren't leaving. California has a ton of power. Do auto makers even make "49 state" cars anymore?
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You overestimate the number of issues that Rust would solve, versus the actual sec issues browsers have.
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Give the state the requisite number of shares in-kind. Or pay cash, since you own 10% of a unicorn, and if you can't extract enough cash from that, you might as well burn your shares.
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If you can drive higher volume due to better margins, of course you would! The curve changes.
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The foundation can totally fund the corporation at their leisure, so I'm not sure where this idea is coming from. Money is fungible, and if the foundation thinks the best use is funding e.g. dev-tools, they can either direct money to t
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by jdashg 6y ago
It's a big difference! People on HN have really come out of the woodwork in a panic with plans to rehost them under the assumption it's getting shut down. Paying for good dedicated writers is unfortunately expensive, but merely ho
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Worth noting this is not an effect of the recent layoffs, being from July 7.
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And who's to object to that! Speech is free and visible, and no information is withheld, it's just not passively amplified without reasonable vetting.
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"entire MDN writers team" is a really important distinction, given the misunderstandings in comments here and elsewhere. It's tragic, but it doesn't mean MDN is going away.

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