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by jefb 5y ago
Yesterday free speech was so important that platforms must syndicate all topics equally and fairly. Today these platforms are so extremely dangerous to society that they should be shut down entirely. I’m not a fb apologist by any means, but
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by jefb 5y ago
What's the difference between whispering "fire" in a crowded movie theater vs. yelling it out loud? - is it simply the volume of ones voice? Might some intangible like intent have something to do with it? How do you even go a
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by jefb 5y ago
Netflix is absolutely a tech company. Everyone wants to be "tech" because the valuation multiples are higher due to non-linear revenue potential per unit invested. That's pretty much what a "tech" company means toda
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by jefb 5y ago
It's simple - just pick the best tool for the job. If whatever you're building only needs flat file storage just use flat file storage instead of bemoaning the database as overrated.
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by jefb 5y ago
I don't think there is a single correct answer here, but I'll offer a few insights from personal experience. Firstly, valuable data tends to live in places accessible via web technology. Maybe you need to fetch a bunch of XML file
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by jefb 5y ago
There needs to be an obligatory "but with better UX" attached to the end of every old is new again statement.
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by jefb 5y ago
We don't know the future. Since that's not going to change, we need to stop blaming technical debt on the repercussions of that fact. We want houses before we can save enough money to afford them. We want applications before we kn
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by jefb 6y ago
Juno[1] tried something like this in NYC back in the mid-2010's. They ended up getting acquired by Gett and discontinued their equity share ethos. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(company) Edit: Typo
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by jefb 6y ago
Congrats on your launch! I do believe that there exists some space between Blue Apron and Tock for this, however for me personally, the ease of the restaurant experience is a huge part of it's appeal. I can access high quality food via
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by jefb 6y ago
Self-build can easily meet those specs (minus OS + monitor + peripherals). Example $2333 build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/t4FjZZ
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by jefb 6y ago
This week on "Hacker News after dark"...
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by jefb 6y ago
A craft able to manipulate gravitational fields as a means of propulsion would likely not need to airbrake through the atmosphere to slow down.
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by jefb 6y ago
I'm wondering this myself - and I think it's worth doing the math to sort out. To me, the essential question is "Is it possible to grow produce in a decentralized fashion?" i.e solar panels on the roof of a large apartme
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by jefb 7y ago
I agree, I tend to find myself assuming everything not "clean" is technical debt - putting things in these three buckets has helped (YMMV). 1. If you don't have users, you don't have technical debt (you might have lot&#x
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by jefb 7y ago
Sure, take some pot shots - some are valid criticisms - but OpenAI's Rubic's cube solver being lame does not mean AI needs to be re-evaluated. Sure, AI has its faults; the tantalizing cost savings of automation has created some ne
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by jefb 8y ago
I think we've all been here before: "i've been asked to use Json to call a webservice. I don't modify a JSON object at all. However, when calling JSON returned by the Json object, it fails because the object life isn&#x2
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by jefb 8y ago
As am I. The paper dedicates one sentence to that question: "... another aspect that needs to be studied is whether its extremely low density could be maintained while in the parent system, during its long interstellar journey, and whe
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by jefb 9y ago
These are interesting, but many are tough to really grok without being normalized by DAU's
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by jefb 9y ago
What Is Disruption, Anyway? ... In India, where the average wage remains a fraction of those in the first world, it starts with an affordable car that isn’t a complete piece of junk. 5 Paragraphs later: It would be the same price as the
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by jefb 11y ago
I love it when journalism forces the consideration of both sides by the reader/listener. By the end, opinions will still be had, but they will be defensible. There was a great episode of Radiolab recently called "The Rhino Hunter&
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by jefb 11y ago
My grad school stipend was ~$500 every two weeks pre-tax. I worked like crazy. The football coach made ~250k. I now make over 5 times that.. after taxes. When I left grad school I found many of it's problems present in the corporate wo
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by jefb 11y ago
Number one reason why I haven't switched yet?... print. Admittedly is is the dumbest possible reason, it's irrational; I would never admit it in a face-to-face conversation; I would deflect to "something something third-party
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by jefb 12y ago
for script in soup_obj(["script", "style"]): script.extract() # Only need these two elements from the BS4 object That comment is a bit misleading. soup.extract() will remove those tags from the tre